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Dubai, TradingHive Technologies Ltd. office
Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland
Thomas Heinfart
Alan Sanchez
United Arab Emirates
Switzerland
2022
Passing a challenge earns a 200% fee reward in Hive Coins, not a cash refund; coins cover up to 50% of future purchases. Failed evaluations are not refunded. Cash refunds are considered only under the terms.
Ethereum gas is paid by the trader; ETH is required in the wallet.
5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.
On demand through a smart contract, with verified A Book profits, no open positions and after covering A Book losses and outstanding fees. PFP debt may also be deducted from other funded accounts. Trading resumes at 00:00 UTC after a withdrawal.
1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.
Daily limit per ERC20 address: USD 1,000 on Classic and PFP; USD 2,000 on InstantGrowth. Resets at 00:00 UTC. Accounts sharing an address share the cap; excess profit remains available on following days.
$5,000 per transaction (crypto)
USD 50, paid in USDC on Ethereum ERC20.
123456Password7cZy-gEoServerRLCrates-Live-PasswordDemoCFT1Dynamic by exposure. Classic: NewBee up to 1:50, WorkerBee 1:100 and QueenBee 1:200. PFP: evaluation up to 1:50; funded Low/Moderate/Medium/High up to 1:200/1:100/1:50/1:30. InstantGrowth up to 1:50. Decreases in tiers as exposure increases.
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
Gold: dynamic by exposure, up to 1:30 on NewBee, PFP evaluation and InstantGrowth; up to 1:50 on WorkerBee and QueenBee. Higher exposure tiers reduce leverage.
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 20:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 5:1
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
- Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.
All accounts are swap free.
Golden Tower begins with demo verification; AADS applies from level 2.
One phase Pay From Profits.
InstantGrowth: 10 levels up to USD 1,000,000, with a 6% target per level. Scaling is paid from profits; capital doubles through level 5 and then grows in tiers. Only the entry level is directly purchasable. Classic unlocks WorkerBee after NewBee and QueenBee after WorkerBee.
Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.
Classic and two phase Pay From Profits.
Static and balance based; floating or realized losses can trigger a breach. Funded PFP: Low 5%, Moderate 6%, Medium 7% and High 10%. AADS closes positions and switches to B Book at a 1% loss below initial balance; recover initial balance and reactivate in the dashboard to return to A Book. B Book profit is not withdrawable. A cumulative A Book loss limit also follows the account daily limit; on InstantGrowth it is 6%.
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
- Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
Calculated from the previous closing balance and reset at 00:00 UTC. Funded PFP depends on risk group: Low 2%, Moderate 3%, Medium 4% and High 5%.
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
- Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
Up to 6 active InstantGrowth accounts. Anonymous Web3 access permits one identity per user, device, household and network; it may hold multiple challenges.
No maximum phase completion time. PFP: 14 days to pay the next phase or activate funding; activation may receive one extension of up to 30 additional days with approval.
Unlimited
Hive Coins are internal utility rewards with no guaranteed monetary value. They may be issued for passed challenge fees or for B Book profit net of A Book losses when an account closes.
Classic and PFP: 3 profitable days per phase, each earning at least 1% of initial balance while balance is at or above the initial balance. None on funded accounts or InstantGrowth.
If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No trade lost more than 2%.
2-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $180
- $10,000 -> $345
- $25,000 -> $760
- $50,000 -> $1,140
- $100,000 -> $1,880
- $200,000 -> $3,620
1-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $198
- $10,000 -> $380
- $25,000 -> $840
- $50,000 -> $1,255
- $100,000 -> $2,079
- $200,000 -> $3,980
1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).
- Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
- 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
- Break: 80% in the Final Stage.
If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No single trade lost more than 2%.
- You traded for at least 15 days.
Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.
- 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
- Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
- Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.
EAs are allowed; no HFT, latency arbitrage, error exploitation or abusive automation.
Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.
Netting accounts offset opposite orders in the same symbol. Cross account hedging is prohibited.
PFP Low: stop at opening and closing, with up to 20 seconds to place it. Moderate: stop before closing. Medium, High, Classic and InstantGrowth: no general requirement. An accidental position fully closed within 10 seconds does not by itself change risk group.
No minimum holding time under the current terms; no tick scalping or HFT.
Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.
Partial entries are allowed; all positions with the same instrument and trading intent count as a single trade for combined risk assessment.
Prohibited on InstantGrowth. Other plans remain subject to risk limits and restrictions on excessively speculative strategies.
Per trade: Classic and PFP evaluation 3%; InstantGrowth 2%. Funded PFP Low/Moderate/Medium/High: 1%/1.5%/2%/3% of opening balance. Exceeding the assigned group pauses funding and closes positions; resuming requires paying the fee difference for the new group.
Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.
Own account copying is allowed during evaluation only. Prohibited on funded accounts, including your own. While one funded account holds an asset, other funded accounts of the same user or network cannot open that asset in either direction.
Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.
Trading through news is allowed. Bracketing high impact news with nearby buy and sell stops is prohibited.
Ascend
During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.
The account may be terminated after 3 consecutive months of inactivity.
Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.
Allowed during evaluations; prohibited on funded accounts.
Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.
Arbitrage, latency exploitation, tick scalping, HFT, hedge/reverse arbitrage, news bracketing, error or slow feed exploitation, third party account management, account sharing and resale. InstantGrowth prohibits martingale and grid.
High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.


















