How we verify every payout
The prop trading world runs on screenshots, and screenshots lie. A funded payout is easy to fake and almost impossible for a trader to check. TraderPayout exists to remove the guesswork. Where a firm pays its traders on a public blockchain, we read those payments directly from the chain and show you the raw record, not a marketing number.
Where the numbers come from
Most modern prop firms settle trader payouts through Rise, whose RISEPAY token lives on the Arbitrum network. Each time one of these firms pays a funded trader, it moves RISEPAY from its payout wallet to the trader's wallet, and that transfer is recorded permanently on a public ledger anyone can inspect. We read those transfers straight from Arbitrum. Nothing here is self-reported by a firm or estimated by us. Every figure traces back to a transaction you can open on Arbiscan and confirm yourself.
What counts as a payout
A firm's wallet moves money for more than one reason. It tops up its float, shifts funds between its own accounts, and occasionally burns tokens. None of that is money in a trader's pocket, so none of it counts here. We include only transfers that leave a firm's payout wallet and land with a trader, and we strip out burns and transfers between known firm wallets. The totals you see are net to traders, the amount that actually reached the people who earned it.
The reliability score
Volume is the number every tracker leads with, and it is the least useful one for a trader deciding where to get funded. A firm can pay out millions and still leave you waiting three weeks. What matters is whether a firm pays consistently and recently, so that is what we score.
The score runs from 0 to 100 and rests on two things. Sixty percent comes from cadence: how many of the last thirty days the firm actually paid traders. A firm that pays on twenty-eight of thirty days is behaving very differently from one that paid everything in a single burst, even if their totals match. The other forty percent comes from recency, how recently the last payout landed, measured on a two-week curve. Size plays no part by design, because a steady mid-sized firm deserves to outrank a large one that pays erratically.
We only score a firm once it has at least ten payouts in the window. Below that the sample is too thin to mean anything, so it reads as New rather than carrying a misleading rating. Scores above 80 read as Excellent, 60 to 79 as Strong, 40 to 59 as Fair, and anything lower as Sparse.
Why some firms show no numbers
On-chain reading has one honest limit. It can only see firms that pay through Rise. A large part of the futures industry, Apex Trader Funding and Topstep among them, pays by bank transfer, ACH, or wire. Those payments are private and leave no public trail, so there is nothing on the chain to read. Rather than invent a figure or pretend the data exists, we mark these firms as Verifying and cover them through our separate verified payout archive, built from official records and documented trader evidence. A firm can also sit in Verifying simply because we have not yet confirmed its on-chain wallet with certainty. We would rather show nothing than attach a real dollar amount to the wrong firm.
What we will not do
We never publish a payout figure we cannot prove, and we never put a firm's name on numbers we are not certain belong to it. Where we are confident, you see the data. Where we are not, you see an honest blank. The data refreshes every morning, so the picture stays current without anyone retyping a number.
Trust is not a claim you make. It is a record you let people check.