A Russian-language site, bankstoday.net, published a “review” of Prop Hub with a 1.6 rating and a tab labelled “Reviews (111)”. If you landed on it while searching for Prop Hub reviews, this page is the other side. We went through the piece claim by claim and checked each one against our published rules, public registries and the responses of bankstoday’s own server.
Every server response from 9 October 2026, 13:32 UTC, is saved with HTTP headers, PDF copies of the pages and SHA-256 checksums in the Internet Archive. The upload date is stamped by the archive itself, and the checksums let anyone confirm the files haven’t changed since.
What Prop Hub actually is
Prop Hub evaluates trading skill on prediction markets. You trade a virtual account on live Polymarket prices. No wallet, crypto or securities are involved: we are not an exchange or a broker, and we don’t take money under management.
- Challenge. The fee, from $30 to $500, pays for the evaluation. It is not a deposit. Virtual capital ranges from $1,000 to $50,000.
- Funded account. Pass the challenge and you get a funded account. Profit on it is paid out in real money, with up to 90% going to the trader.
- Welcome account. Free at sign-up: $100 in virtual funds for 3 days. Profit on it can be withdrawn once in real money, from $5 to $100.
The whole path from sign-up to payout is described in the help center.
Claim by claim
| What the “review” says | What is actually true |
|---|---|
| The team promises regular giveaways with real prizes | No such promise exists on our site. The home page says the opposite about the welcome account: it is not a lucky gift but a chance to show skill on real data. |
| Prop Hub is an investment platform, an exchange, a broker | None of these. The fee pays for an evaluation. There are no deposits, so the “lost my deposit” story in a comment below the review cannot happen here. |
| The gift money can’t be withdrawn and only helps you get through challenges | The welcome account is separate from challenges. Its profit can be withdrawn once, from $5 to $100. This is on the home page and in the help center. |
| You can withdraw as soon as your first trade closes in profit | Profit is withdrawn from a funded account, after passing the challenge, under the payout rules: up to 90% to the trader and a consistency requirement. One good trade gives no right to a withdrawal. |
| The target on the $25,000 plan is $7,000 | The target is $7,500 (30%). The other plans were copied correctly. |
| Withdrawal methods are visible only after sign-up | They are public on the payouts page, no account needed. Payouts are sent within 72 hours of the request. |
| The service has operated since 22.09.2026 | prop-hub.pro was registered on 17.07.2026 (RDAP copy). 22.09 is the “last changed” date, when a DNS record was updated. |
| No developer contacts could be found | The legal entity, Sharikat al-Marfa Ltd. (Mahé, Seychelles), and a support address have been in our Terms and Privacy Policy since 19 July, linked from the footer of every page. |
| No reviews found, so user interest is zero | A little higher on the same page sits “Reviews (111)”. Both can’t be true. |
Payout coins and networks today:
| Coin | Networks |
|---|---|
| USDT | TRC20, BEP20 |
| USDC | ERC20, Polygon, Solana, BEP20 |
Where “111 reviews” comes from
bankstoday runs on WordPress, and WordPress has a public comments API. A request to bankstoday.net/wp-json/wp/v2/comments?post=151293 returns the comments on this review, and the x-wp-total response header gives their total. On 9 October it was 6 (saved headers).
The “Show 105 more reviews” button loads nothing, because there is nothing to load. The same page also shows three different numbers: a 1.6 rating in the header, “Average rating 1.0 out of 5 · 44 one-star reviews” in the review block, and “111” on the tab (PDF of the page).
Here are the six (saved API response; quotes translated from Russian):
- “Liquidity Hub is yet another scam…” is about a different service, a crypto exchanger, not about us.
- “Apparently, Prop Hub is yet another pseudo-broker…” is a template. The same text sits under other reviews with only the project name swapped.
- “Prop Hub is yet another rip-off! … lost deposits” talks about deposits we don’t have.
- “After this I don’t get why people still look for brokers online…” is a general remark about brokers and never mentions Prop Hub.
- A reply to it, “Well, where else would you look for them…”, appears word for word 513 times under 507 different reviews, posted by 14 different “users”.
- A second reply, “Right. I also used to think they were all more or less the same…”, has 513 copies as well, each with a link to a “top project” called Eldor, the one ranked first on their list.
Then the timestamps. The first three comments are dated 24.09 12:14:29, 27.09 00:14:29 and 30.09 12:14:29: identical seconds, exactly 60 hours apart. Yet their database IDs (326901–326908) are higher than the ID of the comment from 30.09 21:57 (325826). WordPress assigns IDs in the order records are written, so these three were written to the database after the comment from 30.09, even though they carry earlier dates.
The “pseudo-broker” comment dated 27.09 also says users complain they can’t withdraw. The first withdrawal request on the platform was made on 5 October. On 27 September there was nothing to complain about.
How the copy-paste works, and how to check it yourself with the same API, is in a separate piece: one comment under 507 reviews.
Who wrote the “investigation”
The site calls itself a registered online media outlet and quotes certificate number “Эл № 04-216902”. We found no such record in Russia’s official media registry, kept by the regulator Roskomnadzor. The registry does list an outlet called “Banki Segodnya” (certificate ЭЛ № ФС 77-71541), and its status is “terminated”. The contacts page names no publisher, editor or address, but the site does sell “native integration into an existing article”. Registry screenshots and the rest are in a media license missing from the registry.
What the review got right
The prices and targets of the other plans are correct. And asking whether a young prop firm can be trusted is a fair question: we launched in 2026, and you should check us. Check the rules and documents, not a review counter. Our list of what to look for before paying any prop firm is in how to choose a prop firm.
What we did
On 9 October we posted a point-by-point reply under the review. By 13 October it had not been published. On 13 October we sent a formal letter to the addresses listed on bankstoday (info@, complaints@, reklama@), listed the factual errors, and asked them to correct the article and remove comments that have nothing to do with us. Questions to us are welcome at [email protected].
Check it yourself
- The review as it looked on 9 October: archived PDF.
- Comment count: open
bankstoday.net/wp-json/wp/v2/comments?post=151293and look at thex-wp-totalheader in your browser’s developer tools. - Domain registration date:
rdap.org/domain/prop-hub.pro, the “registration” event. - Our rules and payouts: the help center; legal entity and contacts: the Terms.
- Checksums for every file:
SHA256SUMS.txtin the same archive item.