According to CoinMeta, Velotrade released its 2026 Trading Firm Transparency Report today, which compared the policies of six proprietary trading firms and found that the closure of most funding accounts was not due to poor trading performance, but rather due to the rules set forth in the evaluation guidelines and help center pages. The report indicates that among over 300,000 funding accounts, only about 7% of traders received payments, which is usually unrelated to trading capability. The report aims to help traders compare the terms under which payments are made by various firms, beyond just profit sharing. It also mentions that with the rapid growth of the industry, the monthly search volume for “prop firm” has increased from around 880 times at the beginning of 2020 to about 49,500 times in 2025, a 56-fold increase, attracting a large number of first-time buyers into this industry.