Category: Affiliate & Partnerships

Crypto affiliate marketing is unusually opaque for a business built on published rates. The headline commission percentage is the most visible term in any partner program and rarely the one that decides what reaches your account, which is why this section is organised around the clauses that actually govern payment rather than the ones in the recruitment email.

The mechanics differ from affiliate marketing in most other sectors in one specific way: under revenue share on a trading venue, your commission can be negative. If your referred users are collectively profitable, the operator lost money on them, and your share of a loss is a debit. Whether that debit resets each month or carries forward is the single most consequential term in the agreement, and it is routinely omitted from the pitch. We cover it in detail because almost nobody else does.

Alongside that sit the terms that quietly decide your income: what counts as a qualifying sign-up, how long a cookie stays valid, whether attribution is first-click or last-click, what balance you must reach before anything is paid, how far back a chargeback can reach, and what happens to accrued earnings if the operator terminates. Each is checkable before you sign, and each is worth more attention than the rate.

Our earnings calculator and commission comparison ask you to supply the terms you were actually offered rather than assuming any, because commission is negotiated per affiliate and a built-in default would be a claim we could not stand behind. The vocabulary — revenue share, CPA, negative carryover, cookie window, payout minimum — is defined in the glossary.

We hold ourselves to the same standard we ask of the programs we cover: our own commercial position is stated in full on the Affiliate Disclosure.