FundedHive is a forex prop firm operating at fundedhive.com. Its pitch rests on four claims: funded accounts traded on real capital (A-book execution), on-demand crypto withdrawals processed within minutes, a short rulebook on its Classic Account, and an in-house discount currency called Hive Coins. Nearly everything known about these terms comes from traders describing their own accounts, and that evidence is mixed. Its strengths are fast crypto payouts, permissive trading rules and well-regarded support. Its main risks are a loss-recovery mechanism, described by one funded trader, that makes the A-book model work very differently from a standard funded account, and the absence of any licence, regulator statement or risk warning on its site.
What FundedHive Is
FundedHive sells evaluation accounts. A trader pays a fee, trades a simulated or live account under set risk limits, and, after qualifying, trades a funded account and receives a share of profits. It is a forex firm with no futures offering, so traders looking for CME futures accounts need a different category of firm.
When we checked on 13 November 2026, FundedHive had a Trustpilot rating of 3.2/5 from 135 reviews. One trader mentions a giveaway the firm ran on reaching 20,000 registered users, a rough indication of its size at that point, though the figure comes from that trader rather than the company.
Classic Account Rules as Traders Describe Them
The most detailed rule description comes from a trader on the Classic Account. According to that account, the program has three core limits:
- 3% risk per trade: the maximum you can risk on any single position.
- 5% daily drawdown: the maximum loss allowed in one trading day.
- 10% maximum loss (static): the overall loss limit, fixed rather than trailing.
The same trader says these are not restricted:
- No maximum lot size
- No minimum trade holding time
- No restriction on martingale strategies
- No restriction on news trading
Another trader says there is no consistency rule on the funded stage. A consistency rule caps how much of your total profit can come from a single day or trade. Without one, a trader who makes most of a target in one session is not penalized for it.
How the Three Limits Interact
The limits stack, and the per-trade cap is the one most likely to catch traders who come from firms without it. Here is a hypothetical $10,000 Classic Account, assuming each percentage is measured from the starting balance:
- Per trade: 3% of $10,000 is $300. A position whose loss reaches $300 would breach the rule, even if the day and the account are well within limits.
- Per day: 5% is $500. Two full-risk losing trades ($600) would break the daily limit, so the per-trade cap does not protect you from the daily one.
- Overall: 10% static means a hard floor at $9,000. If the account grows to $11,000, the floor stays at $9,000, which leaves $2,000 of room. Under a trailing drawdown the floor would follow the peak balance upward and the room would stay closer to $1,000.
A static maximum loss is generally more forgiving than a trailing one once an account is in profit, because gains widen the buffer instead of moving the floor. The per-trade limit pulls the other way. Martingale and grid strategies are allowed, but those strategies add to losing positions, so combined exposure can reach 3% quickly. Whether the rule counts each order separately or an entire scaled position as one trade matters a great deal for those strategies.
The A-Book Model and the Loss-Recovery Dispute
What A-Book Means
An A-book model passes client orders through to the market or a liquidity provider, so the client’s profit or loss is real. A B-book model keeps trades internal, with the dealer taking the other side and earning client losses. Many prop firms run funded accounts on simulated capital, paying traders from evaluation fees and other revenue.
FundedHive’s supporters describe it as an A-book firm where funded trades run on the firm’s real capital. One reviewer calls it “the only firm that does the real A booking.” That is a trader’s opinion, not something established here, but it explains much of the firm’s appeal.
The Reported Catch
The most detailed negative account comes from a trader who says they hold $100,000 in funded capital and have received $3,200 in payouts. According to that trader:
- Once funded, every loss must be paid back to the firm before the trader earns their own profits again.
- A drawdown of about 1% switches the account from A-book to B-book.
- With a $10,000 maximum drawdown and the account down 1%, they owed roughly $3,000 in what they called “fees,” to be recovered before another payout, while only $19 remained before the account would be breached.
The figures in that description are hard to reconcile, and the trader acknowledges it does not quite add up. The structure they describe, though, is clear: losses on the real-capital account become a balance the trader must earn back before any new profit is paid out.
What a Recover-First Rule Does to Payouts
Here is a hypothetical example of how such a rule would work, if it operates as that trader describes. These are not FundedHive’s published terms.
A trader on a funded account loses $3,000 in one month and makes $4,000 the next. On a typical simulated funded account with no carry-forward, the second month’s $4,000 would count toward payout (subject to the account’s split and drawdown rules). Under a recover-first rule, the first $3,000 of the second month’s gains would go toward the outstanding loss, and only $1,000 would count toward payout, despite identical market performance.
This differs from a standard high-water mark, which only stops you being paid twice for the same gains. The reported mechanism attaches a running obligation to the losses themselves, combined with a switch to B-book execution, so real-capital execution may not mean simply “my trades go to market.”
The positive reviews do not contradict this account directly. They praise clear rules, payouts and support, but none of them describes how losses on a funded account are treated.
The Pay-From-Profit Account
One reviewer singles out a “pay from profit” account type as a highlight, without saying when the fee is charged, how much it is or how it interacts with the split.
Payouts and Withdrawals
Fast payouts get the most praise. Traders report:
- Minimum withdrawal: $50
- Processing time: as fast as one minute, described by one trader as guaranteed
- Delivery: payouts sent directly to connected MetaMask wallets, with users on the firm’s Discord reporting receipts in 3, 5 and 11 seconds
A $50 minimum is low enough that small funded accounts can withdraw early and often, which reduces how much profit sits exposed to a later breach.
The MetaMask detail indicates crypto payouts, which brings some practical points:
- Wallet setup: you need a self-custody wallet on the token and network the firm pays on; a wrong network or address can lose the funds.
- Irreversibility: confirmed blockchain transfers cannot be disputed the way card or bank payments sometimes can.
- Conversion: cashing out usually goes through an exchange, with its own fees and identity checks.
- Records: in many jurisdictions this creates tax reporting obligations, so keep transaction records from the start.
Fast processing covers payouts the firm approves, not how much funded profit is eligible, which is the loss-recovery question above. The positive reviews address only speed.
FundedHive does not publish a total amount paid to traders.
Costs, Discounts and Hive Coins
FundedHive has no public discount code. The discount traders report is Hive Coins, the firm’s internal currency:
- Value: 1 Hive Coin is treated as $1.
- Discount: Hive Coins can reportedly cover up to 50% of an account purchase.
- Restrictions: they cannot be sold, converted or transferred to another user.
- Payment method: they can reportedly be applied when paying with ETH.
One trader gives the example of an $80 account bought for $40 using Hive Coins, which matches the 50% cap. The same trader says they won 100 Hive Coins in the 20,000-user giveaway. Because the coins can’t be cashed out or transferred, their only value is as a discount on future FundedHive purchases. They suit traders who expect to buy several evaluations and are already willing to pay in ETH.
FundedHive’s home page lists prices and splits, including a $19 access fee for the 5,000 account on its Pay From Profits program and an 80% profit split, and its FAQ describes how payouts work, though costs and splits should still be confirmed on the firm’s checkout and terms pages before purchase.
Support and Community
Several traders describe support as fast and professional. One notes a dedicated Hindi chat, which helps traders in South Asia who would rather go through rules and disputes in Hindi than in English. Much of the payout evidence traders cite comes from FundedHive’s Discord. Discord posts show what users choose to share. They are useful for checking whether payouts are moving, less useful for judging how disputes are resolved.
Who FundedHive May Suit
Based on what traders report, FundedHive fits a forex trader who:
- trades news events or uses strategies that other firms restrict, and can keep each position within a 3% risk limit;
- is comfortable receiving payouts in crypto to a self-managed wallet;
- prefers frequent small withdrawals over waiting for a scheduled payout cycle;
- has had the funded-account loss treatment explained in writing and accepts it.
It is a poor fit for traders who want futures instruments, bank or card payouts, or a firm whose costs and splits are published for side-by-side comparison.
Before You Buy
Several core terms are unclear: how funded losses are treated, when execution switches to B-book, how the risk limits are calculated, and how payouts are sent. Ask FundedHive for written answers to these questions, ideally by email or ticket so there is a record:
- On a funded account, are losses carried forward and recovered before future payouts, and how is the amount calculated?
- At what drawdown, if any, does execution change from A-book to B-book, and what changes for the trader when it does?
- Is the 3% per-trade limit measured per order or per combined position, and on stop-loss distance or floating loss?
- Are the 5% daily and 10% maximum loss limits measured on balance or equity, and from what reference point?
- Which network and token are payouts sent on, and are any payout methods besides crypto available?
How we checked FundedHive
We visited fundedhive.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. On the home page we clicked through the 1-Step plan tabs for the 5K, 10K and 25K sizes. We also read the FAQ and the cTrader page. The footer calls FundedHive a blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Corporation within the TradingHive Group. It lists TradingHive Inc. (New York), TradingHive Technologies Ltd (DIFC-Dubai) and TradingHive Global Brokerage Ltd. (St. Lucia). The About link would not open from our location.
Prices are on the page. On the Pay From Profits program, a 5,000 account carries an access fee of $19. That program has a 10% profit target, a 5% daily loss limit, a 10% static overall loss, a 3% cap per trade and an 80% profit split. One FAQ answer mentions a 6% target per level instead, which may belong to a different program. We could not tell which. According to the FAQ, payouts are designed to complete within approximately 60 seconds, and no KYC is required because access runs through a linked MetaMask wallet. We found no licence number, no regulator statement and no risk warning anywhere we looked. We never reached a checkout page, so we cannot say whether an account is needed before paying.
The same day we searched Companies House, the UK company register. Our search of Companies House did not return TradingHive Technologies Ltd. Since the footer places that company in Dubai, a UK register may simply be the wrong place to find it. AcademyHive Ltd, another name the site uses, did come up as ACADEMYHIVE LTD, number 16581158, a private limited company with status Active, incorporated 14 July 2025, registered at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London.
When we read Trustpilot on 13 November 2026, FundedHive scored 3.2/5 from 135 reviews, split sharply between 60% five-star and 28% one-star. The company had replied to 0 of the 8 newest reviews. Our earliest Wayback Machine capture of the domain is dated 2024-08-05, about a month after its registration on 2024-07-03. We could not verify the question traders argue about most: how losses on a funded account are treated. Nothing we opened addressed it.
Alternatives
If the loss-recovery model or crypto-only payouts rule FundedHive out, firms with published terms are easier to evaluate. FundingPips and FundedNext are forex-focused firms that publish their payout terms, and The5ers is another long-running forex option.
Alternatives
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| 7.1/10 | $245 | 80%/95% (Add-On) | 14 Days | Review | |
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