A $7,285 Topstep Payout, Cleared in Six Minutes via Aeropay

Trader @TradeDadLog posted on X that he requested a $7,285 payout from Topstep using the firm's new Aeropay system, reporting that funds were dispatched six minutes after submission and landed in his bank account seconds later.

The proof consists of a public X post dated Wednesday, June 17, with an attached image and a stated payout figure of $7,285. The trader names Topstep as the funding firm and Aeropay as the disbursement rail, and frames the post around processing speed rather than strategy or returns. No account size, instrument, or trade history is disclosed in the post.

Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, routes traders into CME Group futures markets and is one of the longest-running firms in the funded-futures category. The firm reports a 90/10 profit split, with accounts opened before January 2026 grandfathered into keeping 100% of their first $10,000 in profits. Against that backdrop, a $7,285 withdrawal is a single, dated data point on payout execution rather than a measure of account performance.

“From the moment I hit submit to funds being sent: only 6 minutes.”— @TradeDadLog on X

What the proof does establish is narrow and useful: the dollar amount, the platform, the date of the post, and the trader's account of how quickly Aeropay moved money from request to bank. What it does not establish is also worth naming. The post does not identify the account tier, the products traded, the holding period that produced the balance, or whether this payout sits inside the firm's per-request cap structure, which Topstep reports at $6,000 per request on certain new no-fee combines.

For readers evaluating Topstep on operational reliability rather than marketing, the value of a post like this is the timestamped receipt and the named payment rail. It is one verified instance, not a pattern, and it should be weighed alongside other proofs and the firm's published payout rules.