What's OKX Affiliate Program?

How can I become an affiliate?

There's one method to become an affiliate:

• Review this document in its entirety, review the OKX Affiliate Program Agreement in its entirety, and complete the application form. An affiliate link will be shared with you if your application is approved. Click here to fill it out.

How can I earn commission as an affiliate?

• Get your affiliate links - The links and codes are available at the More > Affiliates page. You can customize your affiliate code and link or create new links and set commission rates for you and your invitees. Your referral link will be your default affiliate link.

• Share your links - Share your affiliate links or codes with your friends and your community, or promote via social media and other channels in approved markets (see the Prohibited Jurisdictions, below).

• Join and trade - Your invitees can use your link or code to sign up on our platform and make a trade; or

• Earn commission - You’ll earn a commission from every trading fee paid by your invitees for their duration on OKX. Commissions are settled hourly in USDT.

Note:

• If an invitee’s counterparty has a negative trading fee rate, the final commission will be calculated based on the actual net trading fees incurred.

• We don’t credit commissions for:

  • Zero-fee trades

  • Trades with rebate cards (commissions will be credited in the form of rebate cards)

  • Trades with special fee rates

• You may not be able to earn commissions from users located in Prohibited Jurisdictions, as further defined below.

Where can I view commission metrics?

• You can view invitees’ deposited amount, fees, and commissions on the Invitees page.

• You can also select Download > select any period from one day to one year > select Create report and download the data report.

Note: You can create up to 30 reports per month. Each data report is available for download within 15 days after creation.

How does OKX assess affiliate levels?

• We'll assess all affiliates monthly with immediate effect and adjust commission rates based on your affiliate level.

• Affiliates are assessed based on their:

  • Invitees’ monthly trading volume

  • Number of new or total traded invitees per month

• The default commission rate is 30%.

  • If you meet the criteria for a higher level, you will be upgraded during next month to a higher commission rate.

  • If you fail to meet the current level's criteria for three consecutive months, your level will be adjusted correspondingly.

  • You will not receive commissions when your affiliate level is 0.

• After becoming an affiliate, you can enjoy a 5-month affiliate level protection period. During this time, your commission rate will not fall below your first month's rate.

• For affiliates joining before or on the 15th of the month, the protection period ends on the last day of the 5th calendar month. For affiliates joining after the 15th of the month, the protection period ends on the last day of the 6th calendar month.

  • Example: If you join the affiliate program on July 1, your protection period will be from July to November. If you join on July 20, your protection period will be from July to December.

How can I partner with sub-affiliates?

As an affiliate, you can invite sub-affiliates to help share your links, and your sub-affiliates can also get a share of invitees' trading fees. Here's how it works:

• Make sure your sub-affiliate has an OKX account.

• Create a sub-affiliate link on the Affiliates page.
  Note: Only affiliates can create and edit sub-affiliate links.

• Set commission rates for yourself, sub-affiliates, and invitees.
  Note: Once complete, you can only modify the rate for sub-affiliates, but not invitees. Commission rates are the same for spot and derivatives*.

• Earn commissions on invitees’ trading fees. If an invitee uses a rebate card, commissions will be credited to you and your sub-affiliates in the form of rebate cards.

• Track performance data on the Affiliates page.

Note: Sub-affiliates can also track their data on the Affiliates page. OKX will assess each sub-affiliate link with immediate effect. To learn more about the sub-affiliate link rules, please read Sub-affiliate Link Rules.

*Not all products available in all regions.

What are my ongoing compliance obligations?

You acknowledge that your role as an affiliate or sub-affilate includes engaging and educating your audience in a manner that adheres to the highest standards of integrity and regulatory compliance. Compliance with these obligations is essential to protect both your reputation and OKX’s interests. Accordingly, you expressly warrant and undertake to fully comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance obligations, including, but not limited to, applicable anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, sanctions compliance, marketing and advertising laws, registration and licensing requirements, intellectual property and brand representation, and regulatory updates and changes. You further warrant that you are solely responsible for understanding and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, you have not relied on OKX for guidance or interpretation of these requirements, and you are obligated to independently ensure compliance with all relevant obligations.

Why could I be removed from OKX's Affiliate Program?

All affiliates (and sub-affiliates) must remain fully compliant with OKX's terms and all applicable laws and regulations pertaining to the prohibition of marketing, advertising, and link posting in the Prohibited Jurisdictions provided below and shall be responsible for any violations thereof.

For account security, you’ll be removed from the affiliate program if suspicious activity is detected, including but not limited to:

• Redirecting users to OKX from websites that resemble the OKX official website, including:

  • Websites mirroring the look and feel of the OKX website

  • Websites with similar URLs as our official URL (www.okx.com), such as www.okx.xxx.com

  • Websites loaded with OKX logos as clickbait

• Using social media accounts that resemble the OKX official social media account, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

• Sending invitation emails or text messages by impersonating OKX

• Advertising OKX's brand keywords such as OKX and OKX Exchange in search engines, including Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo, and Naver

• Self-inviting through multiple accounts

• Promoting the affiliate program (including recruiting sub-affiliates), posting links, and/or marketing or advertising directly, to users residing in the following countries, or other prohibited and restricted jurisdictions, as may change from time to time (collectively, the "Prohibited Jurisdictions") as provided in section 2.2 of OKX's Terms of Service.

• Posting, linking, or submitting any links related to OKX on search engines, digital platforms, or any other online medium which could be accessible by individuals or entities located in the Prohibited Jurisdictions.

Any breach of this clause may result in immediate termination of this agreement for both yourself and any sub-affiliates(s) in breach of this Agreement and may expose any breaching affiliate and/or sub-affiliate(s) to legal action and liability for damages, including but not limited to those imposed by regulatory authorities within the specified jurisdictions.

OKX reserves the right to modify or discontinue the affiliate program and modify the terms at any time and for any reason without prior notice.