Shark Funded

Shark Funded is a forex prop firm that sells seven programs across three routes: the Prime and Lite 2-step challenges, the Lite and Strike 1-step challenges, and three instant funding accounts (Lite Instant, Prime Instant and Instant Bolt) that skip the evaluation. What it leads with is daily rewards: the Instant Bolt and the funded stage of the Strike 1-step both let traders request a payout every 24 hours. Its instant accounts trade forex, cryptocurrencies, indices, stocks, metals and energies, and the Strike challenge is listed on MetaTrader 5. Shark Funded says it was established in 2023, names Saint Lucia as its headquarters.

The Shark Funded rules change with the program. The Prime 2-step asks for 9% in phase 1 with a 4% daily loss limit and 10% maximum loss; the Lite 2-step asks for 6% per phase within 3% daily and 6% overall. The Lite 1-step sets 9% within 3% daily and 6% overall, and the Strike 1-step 8% with a 3% maximum drawdown and no daily drawdown. Prime Instant allows 4% daily and 7% overall with a 15% per-trade consistency score before payouts, Lite Instant has a 3% maximum drawdown and an 8% minimum profit before withdrawal, and the Instant Bolt allows 3% daily and 4% overall for 30 days. The rules most likely to end an account: a 1% maximum floating loss once funded or on an instant account, no trades from 10 minutes before to 10 minutes after high-impact news in the funded phase, no weekend holding once funded, no more than two open positions on one instrument, and bans on martingale and grid trading.

The program rules list an 80% profit split on the Lite 1-step, funded Strike, Lite Instant and Prime Instant, and 70% on the Instant Bolt; the help centre advertises up to 100%, and the scaling plan doubles capital after 10 reward payouts and 20% accumulated profit. Payouts are weekly on Lite Instant and the Lite 1-step and every 7 days on Prime Instant, paid in USDT or e-wallets where available, with a $10 minimum and 24–48 hours standard processing after KYC. Its pages disagree on refunds: the help-centre refund article says evaluation fees are not refundable, while the terms describe a refund before the first trade within 14 days. Account prices are not published outside the homepage plan selector.

Prop Firm Pal has not verified Shark Funded, so this is not an endorsement: it is what the record shows. Its own pages give its location as Saint Lucia. It was founded in 2023. Its website has been active in Prop Firm Pal's monthly traffic record since November 2025, and traffic over the last three months is growing fast. Its payout policy is published, and summarised on the Payouts tab.

In Shark Funded's words

Founded: “2023 Established” www.sharkfunded.com

Headquarters: “Saint Lucia Headquarters” www.sharkfunded.com/…/about-us

Prop Firm Pal has tracked Shark Funded's website traffic every month since November 2025. In August 2026 the site received an estimated 898.81K visits, up 12% on the month before and up 402% over three months.

Growth of this size usually means active marketing rather than anything about payout reliability. A firm can grow quickly and still have strict rules.

These are third-party estimates of website visits, collected once a month and stored against the month they describe. They are not trader counts, funded-account numbers or revenue.

Measured on estimated monthly website visits for August 2026, Shark Funded ranks 20 of the 477 prop firms Prop Firm Pal tracks — larger than 96% of them, at roughly 898.81K visits a month.

The ranking covers every firm measured between June 2026 and August 2026, each on its own latest reading in that window. Firms last measured before June 2026 are left out rather than shown with a stale figure, so the total moves month to month.

Size is not quality. A large firm is one that markets successfully, and several of the most visited firms in this ranking have the strictest rules; some of the smallest pay out reliably to everyone who asks. What the ranking is useful for is scale — whether you are looking at an established operation or something very new.