Last reviewed 2026-08-16
Prop firms that pay in crypto
Most firms advertising crypto payouts are describing the last hop. The firm decides you are owed money, an operator approves it, and instead of a bank transfer they send USDT. Everything upstream of the send is unchanged: same private ledger, same approval queue, same person who can pause it.
That is worth something. Crypto settles on a weekend, it does not bounce because a correspondent bank does not like the country you live in, and it arrives in minutes rather than in five business days. If your problem was the rail, it fixes your problem.
It does not fix the queue. A payout that needs a human to click approve can sit in that queue for any reason or none, and the crypto rail at the end tells you nothing about how long the wait was.
Solana devnet, in test SOL — read from the settlement record at the last deploy, and every figure resolves to a transaction on the paying firm's page. Mainnet opens September 2026.
Crypto as a payout method, versus settlement on-chain
| Crypto payout method | Settled on-chain | |
|---|---|---|
| What lives on-chain | The final transfer. | The account's terms, the evaluation result, the payout request and the transfer. |
| Who can delay it | Whoever approves payouts. | Nobody, once it is enqueued. Delivery is an instruction, not an approval. |
| Can you check the firm has the money | No. The balance is internal. | Yes. The treasury is a PDA at a public address. |
| Proof you were paid | A dashboard row, and a transaction hash if they give you one. | A signature published on the firm's public page, openable on any explorer. |
| What happens if the firm runs dry | You join a queue and hope. | The waterfall moves to the token reserve, then the staked backstop, then the protocol-wide pool. |
| Currency | Usually USDT or USDC. | SOL. Figures are displayed in USD, and the on-chain amount is SOL. |
How to tell which one you are looking at
Ask for the address. A firm settling on-chain can give you the treasury address its payouts leave from, and you can read the balance yourself before you buy an evaluation. A firm using crypto as a payout method cannot, because there is no such address; the money is in a company account and the wallet it sends from is a hot wallet topped up as needed.
The second tell is whether past payouts are published. Not a testimonial, not a screenshot of a dashboard: a list of transaction signatures. On this protocol every firm's completed payouts are listed with theirs, including the firms that have paid nobody, which is the case where a testimonial would be doing all the work.
Why SOL rather than a stablecoin
The protocol settles in SOL end to end. Evaluations are bought in it, treasuries hold it, and payouts are denominated and delivered in it. That means one asset moves through the waterfall with no bridge, no wrapper and no issuer who can freeze an account.
The cost of that choice is price movement between the moment a payout is requested and the moment it lands. The request records the USD figure and the SOL amount, so what you are owed and what arrives are both on the record, and a payout requested at one SOL price does not silently become a different amount.
Check a firm before you pay it anything
Three minutes, no account needed, and it works on any firm on the protocol.
- Read the treasury balanceEach firm page shows its treasury address and current SOL. Open it in an explorer and compare.
- Open its settled payoutsEvery payout with a signature is listed. A firm with none says so rather than hiding the section.
- Check what stands behind the treasuryThe payout waterfall and what funds each tier of it.
Questions
- How long does a payout take?
- Delivery is a keeper job, not a review. The protocol publishes the median request-to-delivery time across every verified payout, and it is shown live on the homepage and on the firm directory rather than quoted here, so it cannot go stale.
- Do I need a crypto wallet?
- Yes. A Solana wallet is the account. It is how you buy an evaluation, how you sign in, and where a payout lands. There is no email and password login.
- Are there payout fees?
- The Solana network fee, which is a fraction of a cent, and the protocol fee legs documented in the fee schedule. No withdrawal fee is charged for choosing crypto, because there is no other option to charge a premium against.