Tradeify Crypto, 2026
What a 50K costs at Tradeify, depending on whether you buy futures or crypto. Same company, same team, very different product.
Here are the four funding paths, the rules that differ, and the ones nobody explains.
Want same-day payouts and a real live account? Here is Phidias Express to Live. First, how Tradeify Crypto works.
Update, October 2026: new Tradeify Crypto accounts can no longer be bought. Tradeify closed purchases of new Tradeify 247 accounts (formerly Tradeify Crypto) and announced Tradeify Perps as its new brand, with an early access waitlist at tradeifyperps.co. Existing accounts keep trading and requesting payouts under the same rules, the ones this guide describes. Want a funded account you can buy today? See the Phidias accounts.
What is Tradeify Crypto?
Tradeify Crypto is the crypto arm of Tradeify, run by the same company and team as the futures business but sold as a separate program. It runs on DXTrade, offers 100+ crypto pairs with 5:1 leverage on BTC, ETH and PAXG, and pays a default 80% profit split. There are four funding paths: a 2-Step and a 1-Step evaluation, Instant Funding, and APE-X, a pay-after-pass model where most of the cost is charged only once you qualify.
From the Tradeify Crypto help center and tradeifycrypto.co, checked August 2026. List prices before promotional discounts. The default split is 80/20 on every path.
Their code carries a stated expiry rather than rolling forever, so the figure you find quoted elsewhere may already be stale. We keep the current one in our guide to the Tradeify discount code.
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Which Tradeify Crypto path fits you?
Tradeify Crypto in 30 seconds
Same firm, separate program: Tradeify states the crypto and futures businesses come from the same company and team, sold as different products under different contracting entities.
Different economics: a 50K costs $350 to $580 against $145 for a 50K Growth on futures, and the split starts at 80% with a paid upgrade to 95%.
Different risk model: percentage drawdowns, and every breach check runs against live equity, so an open losing trade can end the account.
Our verdict (William G.)
The product is competently built and APE-X is a genuinely good idea: paying most of the fee only after you pass is rare and trader-friendly. My caution is about assumptions. Traders who know the futures firm arrive expecting the same rulebook, and it is not: the drawdowns are percentages, the breach test runs on live equity rather than closing balances, and three of the four paths tighten your floor to breakeven the moment you take a payout.
Is Tradeify Crypto the same company as Tradeify futures?
This is the first thing most people want to know, and Tradeify answers it directly. Its crypto help center says the two businesses are “from the same company and team, led by founder and CEO Brett Simberkoff”, and describes them as “separate programs from the same company”.
The contracting entities do differ. The crypto Terms of Use name Tradeify Ventures LTD, while the futures side contracts through Tradeify Holdings, Corp., with brokerage handled by Tradeify Brokerage LLC. Payments on the crypto side run through a third party: “Novaflame LTD… acts as a payment agent processing funds on behalf of Tradeify Ventures LTD”, registered in Limassol, Cyprus.
One inconsistency worth knowing about, stated plainly. The crypto Terms of Use describe Tradeify Ventures LTD as “a Florida limited liability company”, while the site footer gives a registered address in Saint Lucia. Those two statements do not sit easily together, and Tradeify does not reconcile them anywhere we could find.
What is unambiguous is the dispute forum: the terms are “governed by the laws of the State of Florida”, with arbitration in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Two further points from the same terms. Trading is explicitly simulated: “all trading activity conducted as part of an evaluation uses notional capital and simulated execution and does not involve live trading”. And the company states that “Tradeify does not operate as a broker, dealer, futures commission merchant”, which is standard for prop firms but worth reading before you assume otherwise.
Every Tradeify Crypto breach check runs on live equity
If you are coming from the futures side, this is the rule change that matters most, and it applies to all four paths rather than just one.
On futures, the drawdown limit only updates at the end of each trading day, so a profitable session does not immediately tighten your floor. Tradeify is clear that the limit is still enforced in real time: touching it during the session fails the account. The benefit is the ratchet, not immunity from intraday moves.
On crypto, the same real-time enforcement applies, and the firm spells out what that means for an open position:
The breach check “uses live equity, so an open losing trade can breach the account before you close it. You do NOT need to close the trade for the breach to trigger.”
Tradeify applies that test to the 3% daily limit and the 6% maximum drawdown on every crypto account, and restates it for APE-X’s 4% Max Loss Limit. In practical terms, unrealised losses count. A position that dips and recovers within the session can still end your account on the way down.
Worth being precise about the daily limit, because Tradeify labels it EOD: the 3% is baselined on the end-of-day snapshot, then enforced against live equity through the session. The end-of-day part sets where the line sits. It does not delay when the line bites.
What the Tradeify Crypto payout lock really does
Three of the four paths carry a mechanic called the Payout Lock, and it is easy to read as a benefit.
Here is what it does: when you request your first payout, your drawdown floor locks permanently at your starting balance. Tradeify Crypto describes it as ensuring “your account remains stable while you withdraw profits”.
That is fair as far as it goes. The trailing floor on Instant Funding is already “capped at your starting balance”, so locking it there is the best outcome that model allows. But it is worth comparing with the futures side, where the equivalent lock lands at $100 above your starting balance. On crypto, the best floor you can ever hold is breakeven.
The exception worth knowing
2-Step is the only funded path without a payout lock. It keeps the static 6% maximum drawdown from the evaluation, and Tradeify Crypto states the floor is fixed at your starting balance minus 6% and never moves, so requesting a payout does not change it. On a 50K that floor sits at $47,000 permanently. On every other path, taking a payout tightens your floor to breakeven. For anyone planning repeated withdrawals, 2-Step is the most trader-friendly structure of the four.
The paid add-ons nobody mentions
The headline rules are not the whole product. At checkout, Tradeify Crypto sells three upgrades that change the economics substantially, and they are available on all four paths.
The 95% upgrade is the one that reframes the whole comparison. It costs a quarter more up front and it takes the crypto split above the 90% paid on Tradeify’s simulated funded futures accounts. Anyone dismissing the crypto product on the split alone is reading only the default.
One hard constraint: add-ons can only be purchased at checkout and cannot be added or removed later. Combined with the rule that you cannot change account type after buying, that makes the crypto checkout page a series of one-way doors.
What Tradeify Crypto costs against the futures side
A 50K on the crypto side lists at 2.4 to 4 times the futures price. Crypto prop firms generally do price above futures, so this is not an outlier for the sector, but the shared brand invites people to expect futures pricing and find something else.
APE-X changes that calculation, and it is the reason to take it seriously. You pay a small evaluation fee at checkout, and the activation fee is paid only after you pass, never charged if you do not. On a 50K that is $99 to attempt and $199 more only on success. Fail, and you are out $99 rather than $350 or $580. Very few prop firms of any kind structure risk that way.
The rest of the rules worth knowing
You cannot change path after buying. Tradeify Crypto’s answer is flat: “No, once you purchase an account type, you cannot change it.”
Overnight and weekend holding is allowed, with one condition: if you carry a position into the next trading day, the original position size must remain fully intact.
Instant Funding halves your leverage on the majors, 2:1 instead of 5:1, and requires a 20% consistency score for payouts. Altcoins are 2:1 on every path.
APE-X funded accounts carry a 40% consistency rule, checked when you request a payout.
DXTrade is the only platform. Tradeify Crypto states that MetaTrader 4 and 5 and other third-party platforms are not available.
On payout speed, expect a range rather than the headline. The site promises “lightning fast 1 hour payouts” and reports an average processing time of 22 hours 4 minutes, while also saying it pays “within 24h”. The help center is more conservative again: payouts are “typically processed within 1-2 business days”. All of those are quick by industry standards. Plan around the slower ones.
If speed is what you actually came for
6 hours 18 minutes.
That is the Phidias record from buying the evaluation to receiving a payout. With Express to Live the whole cycle, buy, pass, get funded, get paid and convert to a real LIVE account, can complete the same day.
An honest caveat first: Phidias is a futures prop firm. If you specifically want to trade spot crypto and altcoins, we are not the alternative and this section is not for you.
But plenty of traders reach crypto prop firms for reasons that have nothing to do with the asset: they want speed, fewer rules and money out quickly. If that is what brought you here, the comparison is worth making. On Phidias Express to Live the evaluation carries no consistency rule and no minimum trading days, the drawdown is static so it never trails, $500 on the 25K, and your first payout converts the account into a real LIVE account where withdrawals are daily and uncapped. The fastest recorded run from evaluation purchase to payout received is 6 hours 18 minutes.
Frequently asked questions
Is Tradeify Crypto the same as Tradeify futures?
Tradeify says they are “separate programs from the same company”, run by the same team under founder and CEO Brett Simberkoff. The contracting entities differ: crypto is sold by Tradeify Ventures LTD, futures by Tradeify Holdings, Corp. The rules, pricing and platform are not the same.
What is the Tradeify Crypto profit split?
80/20 by default on all four paths. A checkout add-on raises it to 95% for the life of the account, priced at +25% on the base account price. The add-on cannot be added later.
What is Tradeify APE-X?
A pay-after-pass evaluation. You pay a small evaluation fee upfront, clear a single 6% profit target, then pay the activation fee only on success, never if you fail. On a 50K that is $99 upfront and $199 after. It uses one 4% Max Loss Limit instead of separate daily and maximum drawdowns.
Can an open trade fail a Tradeify Crypto account?
Yes. Tradeify states the breach check “uses live equity, so an open losing trade can breach the account before you close it”, and that you do not need to close the trade for the breach to trigger. It applies to the 3% daily limit and the 6% maximum drawdown on every path.
What is the Tradeify Crypto payout lock?
Requesting your first payout locks your drawdown floor at your starting balance, permanently. It applies to 1-Step funded, Instant Funding and APE-X. 2-Step is the only path without it and keeps a 6% buffer below the starting balance instead.
Which Tradeify Crypto account is cheapest?
By upfront cost, APE-X: $99 to start a 50K evaluation, with $199 due only if you pass. By total cost if you pass first time, 2-Step at $350 is close, and it is the only funded path without a payout lock.
Can you change your Tradeify Crypto account type after buying?
No. Tradeify Crypto states: “once you purchase an account type, you cannot change it.” The same applies to add-ons, which can only be bought at checkout. Decide before you pay.
Useful resources
Tradeify Crypto: Choosing Your Account Type, the official comparison of the four paths.
Tradeify Crypto: FAQ, the source for the relationship with the futures business.
Tradeify Crypto: Account Add-Ons, the 95% split, Daily Soft Breach and Double Leverage upgrades.
Phidias Express to Live, the same-day path from evaluation to a real LIVE account.
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Tradeify Growth vs Select vs Lightning 2026, which of the three futures accounts to actually buy.
Tradeify Payout Rules 2026, every payout condition on the futures side.
About the author
William G.
William G. is a futures trader and prop firm analyst at Phidias Propfirm. He tests competitor rule sets against their own published documentation, and writes about what actually happens between passing an evaluation and being paid. Every figure in this guide is taken from Tradeify Crypto’s own help center, pricing pages and terms of use, checked in August 2026.
