SHUT DOWN JANUARY 2026
The firm strategically refocused.
Your challenge fee didn't.
FundingTicks' January 2026 shutdown stranded challenge accounts mid-evaluation — a small entry in the 80–100-firm prop collapse of 2024–25. The structural fix isn't a safer firm; it's no firm: your own EventTrader balance, withdrawable on-chain, with no counterparty who can 'refocus'.
Zero custody fees, ever
Your balance is never charged for sitting still — no monthly holding fee, no wind-down clock.
Open your account →Withdrawals you can verify
Every withdrawal settles on-chain and hands you the transaction hash. No discretionary manual-review black box.
See your transactions →Eight chains in, minutes to trading
Deposits on Ethereum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism and Solana are detected and credited automatically.
Open your account →Why people look beyond FundingTicks
- Shutdown announced January 2026; challenge accounts orphaned
- Funds tied up through the wind-down window
- Part of the 80–100 prop-firm closure wave of 2024–25
The broader prop-payout story is on /prop-traders.
What you'd actually be trading here
EventTrader is a prediction exchange: perpetual prediction markets on crypto, stocks and macro moves with no expiry, live central-limit order books, event markets on real-world outcomes, and a marketplace of trading bots you can clone instead of coding. Position risk is capped at what you put in — no liquidation engine, no margin calls. Server-side alerts and free webhook auto-execution come with every account.
- Free means free. No card required. Nothing auto-converts into a paid plan.
- We are not a general crypto exchange. No leveraged swaps, no thousand-altcoin spot list — if you need 100x, we're not your venue.
- No predictions sold. Markets are markets; we make no performance claims.
- Leave in one click. Withdraw on-chain any time, with a tx hash you can verify.
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