New Integrations, Sharper Risk Control, and Smarter Back Office

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The first half of 2026 focused on widening the platform. July focused on depth.

We shipped updates that give prop trading firms more ways to grow. Three new integrations expand coverage across futures, CFDs, crypto, and payments. Risk controls now operate at a finer level of detail. And back-office workflows are quietly smarter than they were a month ago.

Here is what shipped in July, and what each update means for how you run your firm.

Three New Integrations Expanding the Ecosystem

Most firms we work with want the same thing: more product to offer traders, without more vendors to manage. In July, we added three integrations that support exactly that.

1. BlackArrow: Futures and CFDs

BlackArrow joins the Axcera ecosystem with futures and CFD trading, giving firms a route to offer two of the most in-demand product categories in the market. For firms whose traders are asking for exchange-based execution and CFD flexibility, BlackArrow opens both from a single integration.

2. CLEO: Crypto Trading

CLEO adds crypto trading to the platform, meeting the growing trader demand for digital-asset challenges. It opens a fast-moving segment that many firms have been waiting to enter, without requiring parallel infrastructure to support it.

Together, BlackArrow and CLEO mean firms can now offer futures, CFDs, and crypto alongside their existing products, all managed from a single Axcera back office. More markets for traders. More revenue potential for firms. No extra operational overhead.

3. PayPipes: Payment Orchestration

On the payments side, PayPipes joins Axcera as a dedicated payments orchestrator. Rather than relying on a single processor, PayPipes routes transactions across multiple providers to improve approval rates, add resilience, and reduce dropped payments. Combined with the gateways added in previous months, PayPipes gives firms deeper payment coverage across more regions.

Sharper, More Granular Risk Control

Risk management sits at the core of every prop firm's operations. This month we gave firms finer control over how it is measured and enforced.

• Per-Plan and Per-Category Trailing Drawdown

Firms can now configure the trailing drawdown calculation source on a per-plan or per-category basis, rather than being locked into a single global setting. This is a meaningful upgrade for any firm running varied challenge types or asset classes. A crypto challenge and a futures challenge can now carry drawdown logic tuned to each, giving risk teams the precision they have been asking for.

• NinjaTrader Guardrails

We also tightened plan and account rules for NinjaTrader with structural changes that prevent misconfiguration. Firms can now trust that risk parameters apply consistently across every NinjaTrader account, with fewer ways for costly setup errors to slip through.

Smarter Back-Office Operations

The best platform improvements are often the ones that quietly save your team time every day. July delivered several.

• Retained filters and search after edits. Back-office users no longer lose their filters or search state after creating, editing, or deleting a record. The page stays exactly where you left it, which ends the daily friction of re-applying filters after every action.
• Target account in Orders and OpenAPI. The Orders table now shows the target account for activation orders, and the same field is available through the OpenAPI.
• Total payout transparency. Each customer's total payout share is now visible directly in the Customer Details view, as both a pill badge and a sortable column. Assessing payout exposure now takes a glance rather than a report.

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The Bigger Picture

Everything we build at Axcera follows one principle: helping ambitious prop trading firms scale without their technology holding them back.

Whether through new asset classes, payment orchestration, or sharper risk control, our focus stays the same. We give modern prop trading firms the infrastructure they need to grow with confidence.

We are continuing to develop the Axcera infrastructure, with further improvements planned in the months ahead.

Closing Thought

If any of this month's updates connect with what you are working on, whether that is expanding into new markets, payments, or risk control, we would welcome the conversation.

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Or reach the team at hello@axcera.io. 

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