Vest Markets Payout Rules: On-Demand Claims, USDC Withdrawals, Split and Proof

You pass a 10% or 20% target, the evaluation closes, and a new Live account of the same size opens straight away. From then on you can claim whenever you like at the split you chose at checkout. For the same size and rules, a 90% split costs about 1.2 times as much as 80%. Example: $210 vs $252 for a $25K account with a 10% target and 3% daily limit.

The evaluation profit is not paid out. The homepage FAQ says evaluation accounts “are simulated for evaluation purposes only” and that profits become withdrawable once you have a funded account. The daily loss limit you picked (3%, 4% or none) carries over to the Live account, so it still applies on the day you claim.

Hit 10% in step 1 and 5% in step 2, and a Live account opens at an 80% split. It uses the same Claim Profit flow as every other Vest Capital account.

This is the cheapest way to a payout-eligible account ($15 for $5K, $175 for $50K). In exchange, the split is locked at 80% and the 3% daily loss limit stays on once you are Live.

An Instant account is Live “from the moment your payment clears”. There is no target, so you can claim from your first profitable trade at 95%.

Your fee equals your max drawdown. On a $25K Instant account you pay $1,000 for $1,000 of room above a $24,000 floor. It has the highest split and no daily limit, but per dollar of room it is the most expensive account. At 95% you need $1,052.63 of claimed profit just to earn the $1,000 fee back.

You submit a Claim Profit request from the Live account’s Portfolio page. “You may need to close open positions or orders first.” Your split “will be credited to your Primary Account in 24 hours”, and a claim is “irrevocable once initiated”. The doc says this works “identically whether your Live Funded Account came from a passed evaluation or an Instant Account purchase”.

Because you may have to close positions before claiming, a claim is also a trading decision. If you are holding a swing trade, you either close it or wait. Funded accounts cannot take deposits, so once you have claimed you cannot top the account back up.

Press Withdraw on the Primary Account, then enter the destination address, the chain and the amount. Email and Google accounts withdraw USDC on Base or Arbitrum One. Wallet sign-ups can use any chain shown on the withdrawal screen. The minimum is 1 USDC. “The platform does not automatically route funds to the address you originally deposited from.”

A wrong address or wrong chain “cannot be reversed or recovered”. If the exchange you send to accepts USDC on only one of those networks, choose that network. On a large payout, sending a small test amount first costs little.

Claimed USDC lands in your Primary Account, which is Vest’s exchange account. Vest says it is then “yours to trade with, hold, or withdraw”. The Primary Account trades the same perpetual markets at up to 100x leverage, and it is governed by the exchange Terms of Service, not the Prop Trading Terms.

USDC left in the Primary Account is exposed to anything you trade there. The Primary Account is also where the US and UK question comes up (see who can be paid).

Claimed funded profit plus referral earnings makes up a “Payout Balance”. You can spend it on a new Vest Capital account by choosing Payout Balance at checkout. “Deposited funds cannot be used.” The FAQ separately says you “cannot pay from your Primary Account balance”.

Putting profit into another account saves you the withdrawal and any network or exchange fees, but the money stays inside Vest. If an account costs more than your Payout Balance, it shows as “Insufficient Balance”.

The Withdrawals tab on the Portfolio page lists each withdrawal’s type, USDC amount, status, date and time, and on-chain transaction ID. Vest emails you when a withdrawal completes.

The transaction ID is your proof. You can look it up on the public block explorer for Base or Arbitrum and see the transfer, the amount and the receiving address without relying on a screenshot.

The max drawdown is “a fixed floor, set once when your account is created. It never moves.” “Profits don’t raise it. Losses don’t lower it further.” It is calculated from starting capital. If your Account Value, which includes unrealized PnL, falls below the floor, the account closes “immediately and permanently”.

Take a $25,000 Platinum account with a $23,500 floor that has grown to $27,000. Claim $2,000 and the account is back at $25,000 with $1,500 of room, the same as day one. Leave the $2,000 in and you have $3,500 of room. With a static floor, a claim never locks your floor higher the way some trailing drawdowns do. The flip side is that unclaimed profit acts as extra cushion, so each claim trades cushion for cash.

Daily floor = reset balance × (1 − your rate) + net non-trading transfers since the 20:00 ET reset. “Withdrawals lower this floor by the full amount; non-trading credits raise it by the full amount.”

You have a 3% daily limit and a reset balance of $26,500, so your floor is $25,705 and you have $795 of room. You then claim $1,500. Your equity falls to $25,000 and your floor falls to $24,205, so you still have $795 of room. Vest’s Loss Limits page calls these transfers “withdrawals”. A funded account cannot withdraw directly, so BestProps reads the rule as covering Claim Profit, but Vest does not say so in those words.

Vest does not publish three things. First, whether a claim can take the balance below starting capital. Second, whether Vest’s 5% to 20% share leaves the funded account at the same moment as yours. Its pages say only that your split is “credited”, so BestProps’ examples assume the whole claimed profit leaves the account. Third, whether partial claims are allowed. “No cap on the amount you can claim” suggests you choose the amount.

The Loss Limits doc says “equality alone does not breach a limit”, but the FAQ says the account closes if Account Value “touches or drops belowR