The short version: this site is paid by exchanges through their referral programmes. When a reader signs up using our code or link, the exchange pays us a share of what it already charges that account. It is not added to your bill. If anything the code cuts it. Sign-ups made with a referral code may get a trading-fee discount: "up to 20%" is the ceiling commonly quoted, and the actual figure ranges from nothing up to that ceiling depending on whatever the exchange is running at the time.
Where the money comes from
Most exchanges run a referral programme. Enter a code during sign-up, or arrive through a link carrying that code, and the new account is attributed to whoever referred it. From then on the exchange keeps a share of that account's trading fees for itself and passes a share to the referrer. We are one of those referrers.
Two things worth being precise about.
- The share comes out of fees the exchange has already collected. Nothing is charged on top of what you would otherwise pay.
- The discount attached to a code is the exchange's promotion, not ours. They set the percentage and the conditions, and they change both without asking us. We write "up to 20%" because that is the commonly quoted ceiling — the top of a 0–20% range, not a figure every account gets. When we checked Binance's public referral programme page (Chinese edition) in September 2026, it offered invitees trading-fee rebate vouchers of up to $1,100 and did not list a percentage discount for them. What actually lands on your account, and in what form, is whatever the exchange's own page says on the day you sign up.
How we mark links that pay us
What points a reader at an exchange falls into three buckets here, and they are treated differently.
| Kind | Where it appears | Carries a code | How it is marked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign-up link | Pages where someone is plausibly about to open an account — the sign-up walkthrough, the fee explainer. One per page at most. | Yes | A sentence right next to it tells you it carries our referral code, and the link itself is marked as a paid link so search engines can tell too. |
| Referral code as text | The top of the home page (visible as soon as it opens on a phone) and the sign-up-related pages show the code as plain text you can copy. | Code only, no link | The code sits next to a line saying it is our referral code and what the discount depends on. The home page carries no exchange sign-up link. |
| Reference link | Anywhere the text points you at a help centre article, a fee schedule or a terms page so you can check the claim yourself. | No | Nothing. It is a citation, not a revenue line. |
Stripping the code out of reference links is deliberate. The point of citing an exchange's own documentation is to let you verify what we said. Turning that into a quiet earning opportunity would make the two indistinguishable, and then you would have no way to tell which sentence is explanation and which is sales.
What this does and does not change about the writing
A site that takes referral money and then claims it has no effect on the content is not being straight with you. What we can do is write the limits down and let you hold us to them.
- No "best exchange" rankings. A ranking is the single easiest thing for a payout rate to bend.
- No burying the bad parts. If a platform is unavailable in your region, has a feature locked, or has a history worth knowing about, it goes in.
- No manufactured urgency. You will not find "limited time", "spots remaining" or "claim now" on this site.
- No paid articles, no arrangements that come with a required conclusion, and nothing on this site is for sale as a link.
Before you register with the code
Everything above is about how money moves from the exchange to this site. Here is something unrelated to that, and more important: crypto prices have no ceiling on how far they move, and leveraged or perpetual products can take your entire deposit. A fee reduction is a small amount of money. It does not change what kind of activity this is — the percentage you save will not cover one bad call.
There is a second thing we cannot work out for you: rules on crypto assets differ a great deal between jurisdictions. Some restrict trading, some restrict particular products, some treat gains differently for tax — and those rules change. What you are permitted to do where you live is something only you, or a professional there, can confirm. This site describes how the steps work, not whether you may take them.
If you would rather we did not get paid
Go straight to the exchange and register without entering any code. Nothing here is gated; you do not have to come through us to read it. The trade-off is that you also give up the fee discount the code carries, and that is your call to make.
Something here look wrong
If a line on this page reads as evasive, or you find a link on the site that is not marked the way this page says it should be, write to [email protected]. We will check it, change what needs changing, and log the change on the corrections page.