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George Town, Grand Cayman

Prague

Anar Bayramov

Peter Andreas

Cayman Islands

Czech Republic

2025

2024

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

ByBit

After first payout, only 2-Step

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

No payout fees.

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

One-Step and Two-Step: first payout on demand once eligible; subsequent payouts 14 days after the previous payout is completed. Instant Funding: first payout after 14 days from the first trade and reaching 5% profit; subsequent payouts every 14 days.

No minimum; the account must be in profit.

Instant Funding: USD 35. One-Step and Two-Step: USD 50.

Each request is capped at 5% of the account size. Remaining profit carries over to future requests.

Hourly funding on open positions, using Hyperliquid rates.

A paid reset may be offered for failed evaluations, subject to the options available in the dashboard. It restarts the evaluation and all trading-day counters. A Two-Step reset from Phase 2 returns the trader to Phase 1. Reset fees are non-refundable.

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

• Instant Funding: after achieving 10% profit within 120 days, 5% is paid to the trader and 5% is used to double the account. Scaling is requested on demand and can reach $1,000,000.
• One-Step and Two-Step: after achieving 10% cumulative profit within 90 days, the account grows by 25%, up to twice its starting size.

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

• Instant Funding: 10% Smart Drawdown. After reaching 5% profit, the loss floor locks at 5% below the milestone balance.
• One-Step: 6% standard; 8% with the Extra 2% Drawdown Room add-on.
• Two-Step: 8% standard; 10% with the Extra 2% Drawdown Room add-on.

$100,000 free trial lasting 7 days. It has a 5% profit target, 5% daily drawdown, 10% maximum drawdown and 2 minimum trading days. Successful completion provides a 20% discount on a paid challenge.

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.

• Instant Funding: Smart Drawdown applies instead of a separately published fixed daily percentage.
• One-Step: 4%.
• Two-Step: 5%.
  The daily limit is measured using equity and resets at midnight UTC.

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

Unlimited evaluation accounts may be purchased and operated simultaneously. Accounts that exceed the applicable total funded allocation are paused until allocation becomes available.

No time limit, subject to the inactivity rule

No maximum time limit to complete the evaluation.

No minimum

• Instant Funding: no minimum trading days.
• One-Step: 10 trading days.
• Two-Step: 10 trading days in Phase 1 and 3 trading days in Phase 2.
  A day counts when the absolute closed PnL movement exceeds 0.25% of the initial balance.

• Instant Funding: increase the profit split from 70% to 80% (+20% fee).
• One-Step: increase the profit split from 80% to 90% (+20%) and add 2% maximum drawdown (+20%).
• Two-Step: increase the profit split from 80% to 90% (+20%), reduce the Phase 1 target from 10% to 8% (+20%), add 2% maximum drawdown (+20%), or remove minimum trading days (+10%).

• Instant Funding: 70% standard; 80% with the profit-split add-on.
• One-Step: 80% standard; up to 90% through performance progression or the add-on.
• Two-Step: 80% standard; up to 90% through performance progression or the add-on.

Payouts can be converted into Mubite Points for use within the platform.

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

Self-developed bots and EAs are allowed when the trader can prove ownership of the strategy. Public or third-party bots are prohibited. Cleo does not currently support external bots, although its built-in semi-assisted tools may be used.

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.

Recommended. During the funded stage, consistently trading without stop losses may be considered poor risk management.

Tick scalping performed with manipulative intent or to exploit execution conditions is prohibited.

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

Each trade must keep its realized loss below 3% of account equity at the time it was opened, both per partial close and cumulatively. In the funded stage, individual positions are capped at 1x account balance on Instant Funding and 2x on One-Step/Two-Step; cumulative exposure is capped at 2x and 3x respectively. The first position-size or exposure violation receives one five-minute correction window.

Copying or mirroring trades from other accounts, platforms, signal services or third parties is prohibited during both evaluation and funded stages.

News trading is allowed. Daily and maximum drawdown limits and all other risk rules remain active during volatile events.

Account freeze after 3 months without trades.

Deactivation after 30 days without trading. Email warning after 14 days of inactivity.

Funded stage only. The best day must account for less than 25% of total profit on Instant Funding, 30% on One-Step and 40% on Two-Step. Exceeding the threshold delays payouts until compliance; it does not close the account.

Positions may be held overnight, through weekends and for as long as the strategy requires.

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.

Prohibited practices include latency or gap exploitation, external or delayed data feeds, arbitrage, manipulative HFT, group trading, account mirroring, cross-account hedging, account rolling, grid trading, manipulative tick scalping, disproportionate position sizing, unauthorized third-party account management and manipulation of Bybit API keys, balances or challenge parameters.