Affiliate disclosure

Quick summary: I'm an Affiliate Partner of Binance, OKX, and Gate. When you sign up through my referral code and trade, the exchange pays me a marketing service fee. This fee does not increase your trading costs — but it exists, and I'd rather put it on the table than hide it.

1. What an affiliate relationship means here

I've signed official Affiliate agreements with all three exchanges (also called "referral partner" agreements). Each exchange has assigned me a referral code. When a new user signs up using that code and starts trading, the exchange pays me a portion of the trading fees they collect from that user as a marketing service fee.

I call it a "marketing service fee" rather than a "commission" deliberately. Commission language implies a regulated brokerage relationship — I'm not a registered broker, I have no financial license. The contractual relationship with each exchange is for marketing services, paid out of their promo budget. That's the accurate term.

2. Does this raise your fees?

Concrete example (as of 2026-05, exchange official pages take precedence going forward): Binance VIP 0 default perpetual taker fee is 0.050%. Signing up with BN68999 typically applies an additional fee discount on top. My marketing service fee comes out of Binance's marketing budget, not added on top of what you pay.

If you want to verify: register two new accounts at the same exchange using different emails — one with my referral code, one without. Compare the fee rate pages of the two accounts. The non-referral one will show a higher base rate.

3. Technical link handling

All outbound links from this site to binance.com / okx.com / gate.com carry rel="sponsored noopener":

• sponsored: Complies with Google Webmaster guidelines. Tells the search engine this is a paid promotional link and shouldn't pass ranking weight.
• noopener: Prevents the new window from accessing the referring window's `window.opener`. Standard security practice.

The actual jump goes through /go/{name}.html redirect pages. Each redirect page shows the referral code, risk warning, and a countdown before forwarding. From that page you can also choose to go directly to the exchange's homepage without using the referral.

4. Editorial independence

This is the most important section:

• I do not accept "sponsored content reviews" or "advertising fees" from any exchange.
• I do not accept editorial change requests — if OKX asked me to remove the sentence "Binance has deeper liquidity," the answer is no.
• Fees, rules, API limits, withdrawal timing data in articles all come from publicly verifiable pages on each exchange's website.
• "Which exchange suits which use case" is judged by use case: Gate is faster on new listings, Binance has deeper liquidity, OKX has more complete derivatives products. These calls have nothing to do with referral fee rates.

If something significant goes wrong at one of the three exchanges — security breach, regulatory action, policy shift hurting users — I'll cover it the same way I'd cover any other event. The marketing fee isn't hush money.

5. How to pick the right exchange for you

The one-liner: don't just take my links — pick the exchange that fits your situation.

"Fit" depends on: your region (KYC restrictions), what you trade (spot / perps / options), your volume (VIP tier impacts fee curves), your security risk tolerance, whether you need OTC fiat ramps. What I can do is lay out the comparison axes. The decision is yours.

If you already have an account somewhere and you're happy with it, don't switch just for the affiliate bonus. Re-KYC takes time, splitting capital lowers your VIP tier, and stacking new accounts isn't free either (each one is another attack surface).

6. Contact

Questions about this disclosure, or want to verify that I'm actually a registered affiliate of an exchange? You can ask the exchange's Affiliate team directly to verify the codes (BN68999 / OK6899 / GATEVVCC), or write to me:

privacy@1088ex.com

Last updated 2026.05.27 · Author: GOD · privacy@1088ex.com