Funded Trader
A registered user who has completed KYC, made a real deposit, and placed at least one trade. It is the only acquisition metric that maps to exchange revenue — judging channels on funded traders rather than signups is the single biggest correction most exchange marketing teams can make.
How Funded Trader works in practice
The funded trader is the only acquisition metric that maps cleanly to exchange revenue, and reorienting the entire growth function around it is the single highest-leverage change most exchange teams can make. Signups are vanity: a large fraction never complete KYC, and of those that do, many never deposit. When the optimisation target is registrations, AI-driven bidding will obligingly find the cheapest registrations on earth — and almost none of them will fund. Defining the funded trade as the primary conversion, passing deposit value as conversion value from the backend, and judging every channel on cost per funded trader realigns paid media, content, and community against the number that actually pays the bills.
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Related terms
The acquisition cost required to bring in one account that completes an actual deposit or funds a wallet. This metric is often more meaningful than simple signup cost in fintech and crypto.
The percentage of registered users who complete a first funded deposit. The KYC-to-deposit gap is where 40–70% of exchange registrations are typically lost, making this the highest-leverage funnel metric for lowering blended cost per funded trader.
The total customer acquisition cost calculated across all channels combined — total marketing and sales spend divided by total new customers in a period. Blended CAC differs from channel-specific CAC because it includes organic, referral, and word-of-mouth alongside paid channels. Companies with strong organic and community growth will have a blended CAC significantly below their paid-only CAC.
The revenue left after variable costs that contributes toward fixed costs and profit.
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