How Fortell works
These pages are the files, not a summary of them. Every page here is rendered at build time from a markdown file in the repository, so the published page and the file cannot say different things. Where a page cites a source file or a program account, the citation is the one the engineer wrote for themselves.
Fortell funds traders who can forecast. You pay for an evaluation, you trade it for two weeks under published limits, and if you clear four bars at once Fortell puts real capital behind you and keeps 10% of what you make.
These pages are the manual for that deal. They are written for the person taking it, not for the person who built it, and every number in them is the number the software actually enforces.
The three steps
1. You buy a challenge. $75 for Standard, $150 for Pro. You get a challenge account funded with the same amount of capital as the seat you are trying to win, $500 or $1,500. You trade live market prices with it for 14 days.
2. You are graded on four things at once. Enough scored calls, a high enough forecast score, a drawdown you stayed inside, and a profit target you cleared. All four, or you do not pass. There is no discretion and nobody to appeal to, because the grade is computed from your own fills by a rule you can read.
3. If you pass, Fortell funds a seat. A dedicated on-chain account is created for you and real capital is moved into it, $500 or $1,500 depending on your tier. You are named on that account as the person allowed to trade it. You are not named as somebody who can withdraw from it. Profit splits 70% to you, 10% to Fortell, 20% to the people whose capital funds the pool, and you can take your share whenever you have nothing open.
What makes this different from a prop firm
Two things, and both are structural rather than promises.
The capital is real and it is on chain. A funded seat is a Solana account holding actual money, and you can look at it. The limits it trades under are fields on that account, and you can read them. When a trade of yours is refused, it is refused by a program, in public, with a reason.
Your losses are absorbed before they reach anyone else's money. Fortell puts its own cash into a first-loss buffer sized to fully cover the worst a seat can lose, and the software refuses to settle a losing seat unless that cover is actually there. It is not a best-effort arrangement. The first-loss buffer explains whose money that is and how to check it exists.
Status, stated plainly
Nothing is live on Solana mainnet yet. Re-checked on 2026-08-07 by asking mainnet directly for each of Fortell's four program addresses: all four come back empty, which means the software is not deployed there.
| Network | Is Fortell deployed? |
|---|---|
| mainnet | no |
| devnet | partly, one program only |
| test fork of mainnet | yes, all four |
Everything currently working is running on a private fork of mainnet used for testing. That tells you the mechanism works. It tells you nothing about mainnet, which does not exist yet. Anything on this site describing live behaviour is describing that fork unless it says otherwise.
One rule about every number here
Some of what these pages describe is a rule, fixed in software and the same for everyone. The tier prices, the four pass criteria, the risk limits and the profit split are all rules.
Some of it is a reading, meaning a fact about the chain right now that can be different tomorrow. How much cash is in the first-loss buffer is a reading. Whether a specific seat has its limits switched on is a reading.
These pages state the rules and refuse to state the readings, because a number written into a document is a number that goes stale silently. Where you need a reading, the pages tell you where to look instead of telling you the answer. That is not evasion, it is the only version of this that stays true.
What to read next
The two tiers. What each one costs, what it pays, and why each number is what it is.
How a challenge is graded. The four criteria, how each one is actually measured, and what ends a challenge early.
The risk rails. Every limit you trade under, what happens when you hit one, and which ones apply during the challenge as well as on a funded seat.
What happens when you pass. How a seat is created, what you can and cannot do with it, and who holds the money.
Getting paid. The split, when you can claim, and one cost of the design worth knowing.
The first-loss buffer. What protects the capital behind your seat, whose money it is, and what happens if it runs short.
Checking it yourself. How to confirm any of the above without taking Fortell's word for it.
Glossary. Every term this manual uses.