When the 30 days start
When the transfer lands, which on Solana is seconds after you send it. Checkout quotes an exact SOL amount from the dollar price at the live rate and holds that quote for 30 minutes. Send it inside that window, keep the page open, and the account opens as soon as the payment is seen. A transfer that arrives after the quote has lapsed is still watched for up to a day, and the 30 days start from when it is matched, not from when the quote was made.
How it differs from a card
A card pays for the challenge as a monthly subscription that renews on its own until you pass or cancel. A SOL payment cannot be pulled from your wallet again, so there is nothing to renew automatically. The practical difference is who carries the date: with a card the date carries itself, and with SOL you do. The challenge has no deadline on either route. What SOL adds is a paid period that ends unless you extend it.
Renewing early costs nothing
Renewal is a button on your dashboard: another 30 days at the same dollar price, converted at the rate on the day you pay. The new days are added to the end of the period you already have, not to today, so renewing a week early does not waste the week. If you are mid-way through a challenge you intend to finish, renewing as soon as the reminder arrives is the simplest way to keep the clock out of the way.
When the period runs out
The challenge closes with the reason that the paid period ended. It is not a failure of the trading rules, and nothing else is charged. Open coins close with it. Nothing carries over: as with any closed challenge, a new attempt starts from the full account size, zero trading days and a fresh loss line, and in SOL it is a new payment. That is the cost of letting the date pass, so it is worth putting it in a calendar.
What the clock does not touch
- The rules. Target, loss line, 2-day minimum and the 60% rule are identical on both payment routes.
- Activation. Paying activation or Instant Funded in SOL is a single payment. A funded account has no monthly fee, so the only clocks on it are the payout waits.
- The 14-day activation window. Passing still starts it, and once a challenge has passed there is nothing left to renew.
A calendar for one challenge
Pay on the 1st and your challenge runs to the 31st. On the 28th you get the reminder. Renew on the 29th and it runs another 30 days past the 31st, not past the 29th. Pass on the 12th of that month, and the remaining days simply go unused, because a passed challenge has nothing more to do. The fourteen days to pay activation start on the 12th.
Questions people ask
Can I pay for several months at once?
Each payment covers 30 days. Renewing again straight away adds another 30 to the end, so yes, in effect.
What if I forget and the period ends?
The challenge closes. Start a new one with a new payment; nothing from the closed one carries over.
Is a SOL payment refundable?
No. A payment in SOL is final once sent. The untraded-first-month refund applies to card payments.
Does the 30-day period pause if I stop trading?
No. It is calendar time from the payment, whether or not you trade.