Binance

Referral Pro pays a share of eligible net trading fees. Public Spot grid: 20%–50%, assessed over three months with volume and new-trader criteria. Product and account terms apply.

Binance is most interesting as a way to monetise crypto content that answers a specific question: understanding fees, choosing between market and limit orders, or learning how an exchange works. Its name may help earn a click. Your affiliate revenue, however, depends on eligible activity by users attributed to you. Our view: specialist publishers have reasons to examine the program, but “up to 50%” is not enough to judge whether it belongs on their website.

What Binance affiliate commissions actually pay for

You earn a share of eligible trading fees generated by referred users. A reader opening an account or depositing €500 does not automatically produce a commission. Separate registration, activation and activity that qualifies for payment. Hypothetical example: your referred users generate €100 in eligible net fees during a period. At a 30% rate, the theoretical commission is €30 before any commission sharing with users. It is not 30% of their deposits or 30% of their trading volume. Understanding that distinction is more useful than filling ten articles with the highest advertised rate.

Net fees matter more than a headline percentage

In 2026, Binance changed its commission calculation basis: Spot uses net fees after market-maker rebates from April 29, and Futures from July 15. A headline rate can stay the same while the amount it applies to becomes smaller. Evaluate the commissions credited for your own referred users rather than borrowing an earnings-per-million-volume estimate from another review. Product choice, applicable fees and account profiles affect the result. A calculator that turns every dollar of trading volume into a fixed amount of affiliate income can suggest a certainty the program does not provide.

The public Spot tiers: 20%, 30%, 41% and 50%

Referral Pro uses three-month performance evaluations. Its published Spot grid, effective October 1, 2025, has a 20% base tier; 30% requires USD 200,000 of qualifying volume and 3 new traders; 41% requires USD 2.5 million and 10; 50% requires USD 30 million and 15. Both criteria must be met for the higher tiers. Fifteen account registrations alone do not qualify you for 50%. New users must meet qualification rules and complete their first trade in the evaluation period. Your results in later evaluations affect whether you retain a tier. A small publisher should budget using the rate actually assigned to the account. A separately negotiated agreement may have different terms.

Referral Pro, Lite and Futures are different arrangements

Binance referral offers should not all be treated as the same program. Lite can distribute campaign rewards; Pro pays commissions associated with referred activity. A user already attributed through Lite does not automatically generate Pro commissions. Futures has its own assessment and duration rules: its base tier has a one-year limit, and removing that limit depends on achieving an eligible tier through evaluation. We would avoid describing this as unconditional lifetime passive income. Earnings may recur while eligible users remain active, but neither the amount nor duration is guaranteed.

Which content has a reason to mention Binance?

A tutorial comparing market and limit orders on Binance reaches someone trying to understand an actual feature. A fee guide can explain makers, who add liquidity to the order book, and takers, who execute against available liquidity; a limit order does not automatically make a trade a maker trade. An article about exporting transaction history serves a bookkeeping need. These topics give a reader more than a company biography. But consider intent: a guide for existing customers may be useful without recruiting many attributable new users. Page views alone are not enough to judge its commercial value.

Measure a page beyond its outgoing clicks

Referral Pro supports separate links and reporting on registrations, verification, first deposits, first trades and commissions. Assign an identifiable link to each page or channel. Hypothetical example: a tutorial gets 1,000 visits, sends 100 clicks, produces 20 registrations and only 2 first trades. A 10% click-through rate looks encouraging but tells you little about revenue before eligible fees are known. Compare commissions per click and their development over time. A video with fewer views can contribute more affiliate income if it explains a relevant process more clearly. Use those figures to improve information, rather than encourage readers to trade unnecessarily.

Who would we consider this program for?

A specialist crypto publisher with a relevant audience in an eligible market, rather than a general-interest site looking for another way to earn money online. Brand recognition and link-level reporting are useful, but fee-based earnings and performance tiers make revenue variable. The program’s restricted-country guide prohibits targeting audiences including the EU and EEA, France, the UK and the United States. A primarily French audience is therefore not a suitable target for this partnership. The language of an article does not replace identifying the market it actually serves.

Our view: judge the offer on credited commissions

Binance can remunerate useful crypto content and provides tools to connect that content with referral results. For the publisher, its weakness is that a high percentage can conceal a small fee base or limited attribution. Before expanding coverage, we would examine market eligibility, actual credited income by content and the effort needed to maintain accurate tutorials. If those hold up, the program may belong in a specialist publishing business. If they do not, adding referral links everywhere will not fix the underlying mismatch. Publisher commissions are never evidence that readers will make money trading.

For another view of crypto customer activity and affiliate commissions, KuCoin and Poloniex provide useful comparisons of earning bases and admission conditions.

Public terms checked October 7, 2026. Hypothetical calculations illustrate the model; they are not our earnings.