If you have an audience
You trade, and people watch you trade. Somewhere in your DMs is a prop firm offering you a percentage to send them your followers.
You have probably said yes to one of those before, and you have probably regretted it. This page is the case for why this one is structured differently, and it is a case about risk to your name rather than about rate.
Why affiliate deals go bad
The rate is never the problem. The problem is everything the rate depends on.
You promote a firm. Your audience buys. Six months later the firm starts slow-walking payouts, or quietly tightens a rule, or fails outright. The people who lost money did not read the firm's terms of service. They remember who told them about it.
Three things make that outcome the default rather than the exception:
- You cannot verify what you are promoting. Payout claims are numbers on a landing page. You have no way to check whether the firm is solvent, and neither does anyone you send.
- The deal can be changed after you deliver. Rates get renegotiated, attribution windows quietly shorten, and cookies expire. The leverage sits entirely on one side.
- Your earnings live in the firm's database. You are looking at a dashboard the firm controls, waiting on a payout schedule the firm sets, on money the firm is still holding.
Every one of those is a structural feature of promoting a business whose books are private.
What is different here
The rate is in the contract, not in the negotiation. 10% of every evaluation fee a trader you referred pays, of which 1% is the platform's, so 9% is yours. It is fixed platform-wide and locked on-chain. No firm can offer you more to switch, and no firm can quietly pay you less once you have delivered. There is nothing to negotiate because there is nothing negotiable.
Attribution is lifetime and first-touch. The first affiliate a trader signs up through is bound at their first purchase, and every evaluation that trader ever buys at that firm pays you. Not the first purchase, not a 30-day window, not until a cookie expires. One level only: you earn from traders you referred, not from affiliates you recruited.
Your earnings are not in anyone's database. They accrue into an on-chain vault, carved out inside the same transaction as each purchase, tracked against an earned-versus-claimed ledger. You claim whenever you like, straight to your wallet. No invoice, no payout schedule, no approval step, and the operator cannot spend your accrued earnings even if they want to. That last part is not a policy. It is what the vault is.
You can check the firm before you send anyone. This is the one that matters most for your name. Every payout a firm has ever settled is a public transaction, and its page opens on that ledger. You can see what it has actually paid, how much of that carries an on-chain receipt, whether its treasury covers what it owes, and how fast it settles. Choosing a firm is written for traders and applies exactly as well to you.
So you are not asking your audience to trust you about a firm. You are pointing them at evidence, and they can check it without taking your word for anything. That is a materially different thing to put your name behind.
What you actually earn
| Source | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluations bought by traders you referred | 9% of the fee, net | Lifetime, first-touch, every purchase they ever make at that firm |
| Someone you referred deploys a whole firm | 2.7% of their launch fee | On an Enterprise-tier launch that is a four-figure referral |
| Airdrop points | 0.2 per $1 your referred traders spend | On top of the SOL, and never multiplied |
Paid in SOL, claimed by you, on your schedule.
The honest limits
The program is per-firm. Each firm turns its own affiliate program on and picks approval-based entry or open registration. A firm that never enabled it has nothing to join yet, so check the storefront or ask the operator.
Your rate does not scale with your size. A creator with 200,000 followers earns the same 9% as one with 200. If you are used to negotiating a premium rate for volume, that lever does not exist here. The tradeoff is that nobody can undercut you either.
One level only. Recruiting other affiliates earns you nothing. If your plan is to build a downline, this is the wrong program.
The protocol is on devnet. Referral earnings today are devnet SOL, which is test money. The mechanism is real and proven; the money becomes real at mainnet. What's live today is exact about this, and you should be exact about it with your audience too.
No third-party audit yet. Stated plainly on Security & audit status. If you are putting your reputation behind something, read that page rather than this one's summary of it.
If you would rather launch than promote
Referring traders pays a percentage of what they spend. Running the firm pays you the operator's share of every evaluation your firm sells, plus a cut of every payout it makes, plus the firm's treasury and token equity outright.
An audience is most of what a new firm needs and the hardest part to buy. If you have one, the arithmetic is worth doing rather than assuming: Operator economics, worked runs a real firm's first ninety days at actual numbers, and Operator quickstart is the path.
Getting started
Your referral link works two ways, a web link on the firm's storefront and the firm's Telegram bot start link, both captured first-touch at signup. For affiliates has the mechanics in full, and Growing your firm is the same program from an operator's side of the table.