Affiliate Program

Hold $500+ in any CrystalVault and earn 50% of the performance fees from depositors you bring in. Self-serve, transparent, paid in USDC.

How it works

Deposit at least $500 into any of our vaults. Your eligibility is checked daily against on-chain balances — no application, no approval gate.
You get a referral link the moment you qualify. Format: crystalclear.finance/r/cc-onyx-abc123 — vault-specific.
Share the link. Anyone who deposits via your link is attributed to you forever (per vault).
Earn 50% of perf fees from those depositors. Payouts land in USDC to your wallet within minutes of their withdrawal — no manual claim, no payout schedule.

Example. You refer someone who deposits $10,000. The vault earns 30% in a year ($3,000 profit). We take a 20% performance fee on that profit ($600). Your cut: $300. Ours: $300.

More referrals × more profit = scales linearly. No tiers, no quotas.

The rules

Eligibility: continuous $500+ balance in any single vault. Drop below → no future payouts until you top back up. Past payouts you've already earned are unaffected.
Per-vault: if you deposited in Onyx, your link refers people to Onyx. Want to refer for Amber too? Deposit there as well.
Referred user minimum: we only pay out if your referral has deposited at least $200 across our vaults. Filters out airdrop farmers; doesn't affect real users.
First click wins: if someone clicks your link, then later someone else's link before depositing, you still get credit.
Self-referral: allowed. Use your own link, get 50% of your own perf fees back as a rebate.
Forfeiture: if you drop below $500 when one of your referrals withdraws, that specific payout goes to us instead. Top up and future ones flow to you again.

What you DON'T get

Any share of trading fees, builder fees, or other vault revenue. The program shares performance fees only — that's the part you helped earn for the vault.
Payouts on deposits that happened before the program existed. The program is forward-only for new deposits.
A way to refer the same depositor to multiple of your own links. One affiliate per (depositor, vault) pair, locked at their first deposit.

Why this design

Most affiliate programs in crypto look like MLMs — tiered referrals, free giveaways, gameable mechanics. Ours is the opposite:

You must have real money in the same vault you're shilling — same skin in the game as the people you bring in.
One tier, no pyramid.
Payouts only flow when actual fees realise, not on signup or deposit.
Everything on-chain and verifiable. No tokens. No points. No vesting.

Get started

If you already have $500+ in a vault, your dashboard is ready:

Open your affiliate dashboard

Not a depositor yet?

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Questions? DM us on X — handle in the site footer. Program terms can change with notice; payouts already earned are always honoured. See terms for the boring bits.