The prop firm graveyard
The crypto prop firm graveyard
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tracked crypto prop firms have gone dark since June 2026 · last verified
8 active · 1 at risk · 1 relaunching · 0 dead
Prop firms die quietly. Of the 10 crypto prop firms we track by name, 1 has gone dark since June 2026 — GT Funded, no statement, no wind-down plan for its funded traders — and every check here carries its date: DNS resolution, HTTP status, manual page read. For context, third-party censuses put the wider industry toll at roughly 72 of 302 tracked firms gone inactive. This page is the crypto register, and the pattern that puts firms here.
The register: 10 firms checked on 1 October 2026
Every row below was verified by DNS resolution, HTTP response and a manual read of the page, on the date it carries. We never mark a firm dead on hearsay and we never silently edit a past verdict.
Status of every firm we track
Each row was verified on 1 October 2026 by resolving the firm's domains, reading the HTTP response, and opening the live page to tell a working platform from a landing page. We don't mark a firm dead on hearsay, and we never silently edit a past verdict.
Tracked
10
Active
8
At risk
1
Relaunching
1
| Firm | Status | DNS | HTTP |
|---|---|---|---|
| GT Fundedgtfunded.com → gtfunded.xyz | Relaunching (waitlist) | no record | gtfunded.com: no DNS (10 Aug) · gtfunded.xyz: 307 → 200 (15 Sep) |
| FundedPolyfundedpoly.com | At risk | resolving | Vercel 'Deployment Paused' page (15 Sep) · 402 DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED (25 Jul, 10 Aug) |
| Proprpropr.xyz | Active | resolving | 308 → 200 |
| Hypernovahypernova.xyz | Active | resolving | 200 |
| Solana Fundedsolanafunded.com | Active | resolving | 200 |
| Carrot Fundingcarrotfunding.io | Active | resolving | 200 (www.carrotfunding.io) |
| HyperPNLhyperpnl.com | Active | resolving | 200 |
| PropMarketprop.market | Active | resolving | 200 |
| PolyFundedpolyfunded.xyz | Active | resolving | 307 → 200 |
| Breakoutbreakout.trade | Active | resolving | no response to automated request · www.breakoutprop.com: 200 (15 Sep) |
GT Funded — Relaunching (waitlist)
The original domain has had no DNS record since June 2026 and never returned. A new site now runs on gtfunded.xyz under an 'AI-DeFi' positioning — but it is a waitlist landing page, not a working platform: the only call to action is 'Join Waitlist', there is no dashboard, and the page contradicts itself on maximum funding ($250K in the hero, $500K in the how-it-works section). It also advertises a '100% profit split' tier, which leaves no stated revenue model. Nothing on the site explains what happened to traders funded before the shutdown. Treat as unproven, not as a returning firm. Re-read 15 September 2026: still the same waitlist page ('Join 2,400+ traders on the waitlist'), counters rendered at 0. Re-read 26 September 2026: www.gtfunded.xyz answers 307 → 200 and the page's own metadata now advertises 'funded up to $500K', 'keep up to 90% of profits' and 'no KYC, no middlemen' — a larger promise than the $250K hero of eleven days earlier, on a page that still shows no platform. Its Open Graph URL and preview image still resolve to gtfunded.vercel.app. The body renders client-side and returned no content to our reader that day, so the call to action was NOT confirmed on 26 September; the last confirmed read of a waitlist-only page remains 15 September 2026.
FundedPoly — At risk
The domain resolves but the site returns HTTP 402 'Payment Required' with Vercel's DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED error — the hosting is suspended, typically for non-payment. The firm was still advertising funded Polymarket accounts with an 80% split and up to 3x leverage. Status unclear: this may be a billing lapse or the first stage of a shutdown. The same 402 was returned on 25 July and again on 10 August — the longer it lasts, the less it looks like a billing accident. Do not buy an evaluation until it is back up. Re-read 15 September 2026: the domain now serves Vercel's 'This deployment is temporarily paused' page, title 'Deployment Paused' — no product visible, seven weeks after the first 402. Re-checked 26 September 2026: HTTP 402 again on the automated sweep, and a direct read of fundedpoly.com returned an empty body — sixty-three days after the first 402 of 25 July 2026. A two-month suspension is no longer readable as a billing accident, but we do not mark a firm dead on hosting alone: it stays at risk.
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GT Funded
⚠️ Shut down, unproven relaunch (waitlist)
What it promised
Advertised the highest headline split in the on-chain category.
How it died
The lesson: the biggest advertised number is not a safety rating. A 92% split you never reach is worth less than an 80% split that actually pays.
What happened to GT Funded
GT Funded advertised a 92% profit split and up to $300,000 in funded capital. In June 2026 its domain stopped resolving — no statement, no wind-down plan, nothing for the traders it had already funded. A site later reappeared on a different domain, and it is still a waitlist rather than a platform. Here is the whole sequence, with the date of every check.
Before June 2026
The offer
GT Funded sold itself on the biggest number in the on-chain category: a 92% split and up to $300,000 in funded capital. None of it was verifiable — no public treasury, no payout wallet, no named operator, no dated proof of a single payout.
June 2026
The domain stops resolving
gtfunded.com loses its DNS record. No announcement, no wind-down, no instructions for funded traders; the socials go quiet. This is the standard shape of a prop firm death — nothing is ever said, and the evidence disappears with the site.
25 July 2026
Entered in the register as dead
We open the registry with ten crypto prop firms under dated DNS and HTTP monitoring. GT Funded goes in as dead on one fact we could check ourselves: every domain it used had stopped resolving, with no statement.
10 August 2026
A new site, on a new domain
A site appears on gtfunded.xyz under an 'AI-DeFi' positioning. It is a landing page, not a platform: the only call to action is 'Join Waitlist', there is no dashboard, and its own figures contradict each other — $250K in the hero against $500K further down, plus a '100% profit split' tier that leaves no stated revenue model. Nothing on it addresses the accounts funded before the shutdown. We reclassify dead → relaunching (unproven), which still counts as having gone dark: the platform that took traders' money no longer exists.
15 September 2026
The same page, five weeks later
Read by hand in a browser: still the waitlist, now advertising 'Join 2,400+ traders on the waitlist', with the page's own counters rendering at zero.
26 September 2026
The copy grows, the proof does not
www.gtfunded.xyz answers 307 → 200. Its metadata now advertises funding up to $500K, up to 90% of profits and 'no KYC, no middlemen' — a bigger promise than the page carried eleven days earlier. The Open Graph URL and preview image still resolve to gtfunded.vercel.app. The body renders client-side and returned nothing to our reader that day, so we did not confirm the call to action on 26 September; the last confirmed read of a waitlist-only page stands at 15 September. Classification unchanged: relaunching, unproven.
The lesson is not that GT Funded lied about 92%. It is that nobody could ever check. A split is a claim. A payout wallet on a block explorer is a fact. Prefer firms where the second kind of thing exists — and the first kind stops mattering quite so much.
Why prop firms end up here
The 'highest split' trap
Firms buy attention with a number few traders ever hit ("up to 92%"), then can't fund the payouts when people do.
No verifiable proof
If payouts aren't on-chain, you're trusting a dashboard. When the domain dies, so does your evidence.
Anonymous team, no treasury
No public wallet to check, no named operator to hold accountable — nothing stops a quiet exit.
Sudden domain death
The classic tell: DNS stops resolving overnight, socials go silent, and there's no refund or payout plan.
How we decide a firm has gone dark
Four signals, applied in this order. None of them is hearsay, and each is written down with the date we observed it, so anyone can re-run the same check and get the same answer.
1. DNS first, because it cannot be spun
We resolve every domain a firm is known to use. A name that stops resolving is not an opinion. GT Funded's original domain has had no DNS record since June 2026 — that single reading is what put it in the register.
2. Then the HTTP answer, kept verbatim
A status code carries more than 'up' or 'down'. fundedpoly.com has returned HTTP 402 with Vercel's DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED since 25 July 2026 — sixty-three days as of our check on 26 September. That is suspended hosting, which is why FundedPoly sits at risk and not dead.
3. Then a human reads the page
No status code tells a working platform from a landing page: a waitlist that answers 200 is still not a product. This step is also where the unannounced changes surface — a ceiling quietly halved, a tier removed, a headline split rewritten between two checks.
4. And a verdict names the exact domain
On 10 August 2026 we called Carrot Funding dead on the strength of carrotfunding.com — a parked domain that is not their site. The firm operates on carrotfunding.io and was never down. We corrected it publicly on 15 August, and the rule entered the methodology: a death verdict names the domain checked, and we search a firm's socials and docs for other official domains before issuing one.
Firms we track but do not score
Eight entities we have a dated reading on and no Trust Score. They are not in the grid because we have not tested them, and in several cases because what they sell is not a funded account at all. Each line says what we read and when.
- DojiFunded — site now publishes account types $1K–$100K on Arbitrum, venues GMX and Ostium; not scored, read 15 Sep 2026
- PropMarket — Active · prop.market · 200 — checked 1 October 2026
- PolyFunded — Active · polyfunded.xyz · 307 → 200 — checked 1 October 2026
- Vanta Trading — simulated platform, 100 % reward split, tickets $9–$599; not a funded account, read 15 Sep 2026
- Hyperstack — Vanta-powered simulated challenge on Hyperliquid, $74 for 5K, 90 % rewards split; not a funded account, read 15 Sep 2026
- DecentralProp — Solana launchpad on devnet, test SOL only, mainnet announced for September 2026; read 15 Sep 2026
- FUNDED by Foxify — deposit-based funding ($100 → $500 entry) on Kodiak, what.exchange and PERPTools, no evaluation, 80 % split; Hyperliquid “coming Q3 2026”; read 15 Sep 2026
- FundedPoly — At risk · fundedpoly.com · Vercel 'Deployment Paused' page (15 Sep) · 402 DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED (25 Jul, 10 Aug) — checked 1 October 2026
How not to get buried with them
Pick firms whose payouts settle on-chain, so you can verify the treasury and the payout wallet yourself — on an explorer, without asking anyone's permission. That single test rules out most graveyard candidates before you ever pay a fee.
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How many prop firms have shut down?+
In crypto — our register: 1 of the 10 firms we track by name has gone dark (GT Funded, June 2026), with every check dated and its method published (DNS resolution, HTTP status, manual page read) and our corrections logged publicly. Across the wider forex/futures industry, third-party censuses count roughly 72 of 302 tracked firms inactive and public trackers list 80+ closures since 2020 — the crypto category is younger but already burying its first names.
Why do prop firms disappear?+
Usually a mix of over-promising (headline splits they can't fund), no verifiable on-chain proof, an anonymous team and thin capital. When payouts outrun the treasury, the domain quietly goes dark.
Is my money safe if a prop firm dies?+
With most centralized firms, no — your fee and any funded balance are gone. With on-chain firms, your payouts settle to your own wallet as you earn, so a shutdown can't claw back what's already been paid.
Which crypto prop firms are still alive?+
As of our last full check on 1 October 2026, the register lists 8 of 10 tracked firms as active: Propr, Hypernova, Solana Funded, Carrot Funding, HyperPNL, PropMarket, PolyFunded, Breakout. 1 at risk (FundedPoly), 1 relaunching (GT Funded). Compare them on our prop firms page — and prefer the ones you can verify on-chain.
What happened to GT Funded?+
Its domain stopped resolving in June 2026, with no statement and no wind-down plan for funded traders. A separate site later appeared on gtfunded.xyz, but as of our reading on 26 September 2026 it is still a waitlist page rather than a working platform — its metadata now advertises up to $500K and up to a 90% split, while nothing on it addresses the accounts that existed before the shutdown. We classify it relaunching (unproven), which still counts as having gone dark.
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