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George Town, Grand Cayman

Tbilisi, Samgori District, Besarion Chichinadze Street 12, Apartment No. 55, Georgia

Anar Bayramov

Kutay Aktaş

Cayman Islands

Georgia

2025

2024

Hypernova proprietary engine using Hyperliquid market data. Simulated trading; orders are not routed to Hyperliquid.

No platform fee. Hypernova sponsors gas for USDC payouts on Arbitrum.

On demand, 24/7, with no waiting period. Close positions and orders before requesting a payout; settlement in seconds.

Bybit Instant Pro & Cleo challenges: Daily on-demand withdrawals. Payouts processed in 4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours).

Bybit One Step & Two Step: Every 3-4 days due to Stability Rule.

No minimum; the account must be in profit.

4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours)

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Up to 1:100 for most tradeable coins on Bybit.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): BTC and ETH up to 1:5, all other assets up to 1:2.

Hourly funding on open positions, using Hyperliquid rates.

Crypto markets are swap-free by nature.

Scaling programme announced, not yet available. Nova Score is informational during beta.

Instant Pro only: make 10% profit on account balance, forfeit 50% of your profit share, and your account size doubles. Scaling up to $2M.

Static floor based on starting balance. Enforced in real time on equity, including open positions. Touching the limit permanently closes the account.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 6% to 10%.

Bybit Instant Pro
Two drawdown types available (3-8%):

• Smart Drawdown (6%): Trails upward with equity gains. Once account reaches +3% profit, drawdown locks permanently at -3% of starting balance.
• Trailing Drawdown (8%): Trails the High Water Mark (highest of balance or equity). After first payout, resets to 4% trailing from the new balance.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 3% to 8%. One Step: 5% default. Flex: 3% default.

Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from the balance at that time and enforced on equity. Payouts adjust the daily loss budget so withdrawals do not count as trading losses.

Bybit challenges: Daily maximum loss is half of the total loss limit. Calculated from starting balance at 12:05 AM UTC and does not change during the day until next daily reset.

Cleo challenges: Daily drawdown varies by selected plan and configuration (3-4%).

Up to 2 ongoing assessments. Assessments and funded accounts share the capital limit; demos are excluded.

No time limit, subject to the inactivity rule

No time limit. Trade at your own pace.

No minimum

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step): 3-4 minimum trading days due to Stability Rule.

Bybit Instant Pro: 3 trading days with at least 0.5% profit each (for payout eligibility).

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No minimum trading days required. Pass the challenge at your own pace.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Self-built bots and strategies on a single account; no third-party signals or off-the-shelf evaluation strategies.

VPN use to bypass jurisdiction restrictions is prohibited.

Permitted within the same account in hedge mode. Hedging across Hypernova accounts or with other firms is prohibited.

All trades must be held for more than 50 seconds. Tick scalping is prohibited.

Per-symbol leverage and notional position-size caps, published in Markets and the terminal.

Account freeze after 3 months without trades.

Bybit API access period is 90 days. Reminder emails are sent starting 10 days before expiration. If not renewed within that period, the account will be restricted and cannot be reactivated.

Stability Score (Bybit challenges only): No single trading day's profit can be equal to or greater than the stability threshold of total profits.

• Bybit Two Step: 45% stability score
• Bybit One Step: 30% stability score
• Bybit Instant Pro: No stability score

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No Stability Rule.

Violating the rule does not breach the account. The trader must continue trading until the best day's profit falls below the threshold.

Prohibited: cross-account arbitrage or hedging; third-party signals and copy trading; off-the-shelf evaluation strategies; account sharing or multiple accounts from one household, device or IP without approval; exploiting errors, latency or pricing; identity fraud; insider trading and front-running; materially switching strategy after funding; strategies that cannot be replicated in live markets or exploit simulation; conduct creating legal risk or breaching provider terms.

• Arbitrage trading
• Latency trading
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Hedging between accounts
• Tick scalping
• Holding trades less than 50 seconds
• Spamming the order book
• Group trading
• Exploiting the demo environment
• Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading systems
• Copy trading (even between own accounts)
• Front-running price feeds
• Exploiting unrealistic prices or mispricing