Partners

Partners is the promoter program: negotiated terms for people and organisations who bring traders at scale. Where Refer & Earn is self-serve and automatic, Partners is an application, a human review, and a contract.

Who it's for

Creators and analysts with a real audience, trading communities, and marketing firms — anyone whose promotion is a channel rather than a handful of personal referrals. If you are referring friends, Refer & Earn is the better fit and needs no approval.

A partner is always also a HardBasis account holder; earnings are paid into that account.

Applying

You apply from the app: your channels, your audience, how you plan to promote, the jurisdictions you operate in, and your acceptance of the marketing terms.

Every application is reviewed by a person. There is no automatic approval and no scoring model. Outcomes are approve or decline, and an approved partner can later be suspended if the marketing terms are breached.

Approval lets you start earning. Before your first payout there is a separate screening step — earning begins at approval, sats leave the pool only after screening clears.

What partners earn

Base share	30% of referred net taker fees
Negotiated tiers	available — higher shares against agreed volume
Per-referee monthly cap	1,000,000 sats
Holdback	14 days
Minimum claim	1,000 sats
Paid in	sats, into your HardBasis trading account

The base share is the starting point, not the ceiling: tiers are negotiated per partner and recorded in your terms. As with Refer & Earn, the reward base is the net taker fee actually collected on your referees' fills — never spread, funding, liquidation penalties, or fee-free flow.

Partner streams carry the same per-referee time bound as the user program — rewards accrue for 365 days from binding.

There are no fiat rails, no invoices, and no CPA or per-signup bounties. You are paid a share of revenue, in sats, into the same account you trade from.

Campaign codes

A partner holds up to 20 codes — one per campaign, each with its own label.

Each code carries a kickback: the slice of your share you choose to hand to the referees who sign up through it, as their fee discount. The kickback is fixed when you create the code and cannot be changed afterwards, which makes each code a clean unit of accounting and lets you run one campaign against another without either of them moving under you.

Maximum kickback	20 percentage points of the fee
Comes out of	your share, not the venue's
Referee sees it as	a taker-fee discount, on the same window and volume bounds as Refer & Earn

On a partner code the kickback is the referee's discount — the user program's standard discount does not stack on top of it.

Claiming

Partner earnings follow the same three states as the user program: pending holdback, claimable, claimed. Claiming moves sats into your free balance; it is not a withdrawal, and withdrawing is a separate step that works in every mode.

Marketing rules

Summary of the marketing terms — the binding version is the contract you accept on application, and its formal text is with counsel

Every partner agrees to the marketing terms at application. In summary:

• Disclose the relationship. Every promotion must make the paid relationship clear, plainly and in the same place as the promotion.
• No US-directed marketing, and no coaching anyone around a geographic restriction.
• No bidding on HardBasis brand terms in paid search, including misspellings, and no lookalike domains.
• No spam, no misleading performance or earnings claims, and no representation of yourself as HardBasis or as speaking for it.
• No buying signups. Paying people to create accounts, or reselling the kickback as a cash bounty, is out.
• Self-referral and wash referral forfeit the accrual, and repeated instances end the partnership.
• Terms can change with notice, partnerships can be terminated at the venue's discretion, and unsettled accruals can be clawed back or set off against amounts owed.

Sats already claimed into your balance are yours and are not clawed back.

Restrictions

Partner applications are not accepted from every jurisdiction — see Eligibility & legal.

If the program is paused

HardBasis can pause the partner program independently of Refer & Earn. Accrual stops, the dashboard says so, and vesting, claims, existing referee discounts, and attribution all continue unaffected.