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Overview

The Referral Program pays you a share of the taker fees your referred users generate, in USDC. When someone signs up through your referral link and trades, a percentage of the fees they pay is credited to you. The program works in two stages:
  1. Earnings accrual (continuous): as your referred users trade, Limitless credits referral earnings to you at your current tier rate.
  2. USDC payout (daily): once per day (UTC), Limitless pays out settled earnings in USDC to your trade wallet. No claiming is needed.
Your referral link, earnings, referred users, and the leaderboard all live on the Referrals page.

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How referrals are attributed

  • A user who signs up through your referral link is credited to you permanently. The first referrer wins and the attribution is never reassigned.
  • You earn on the taker fees your referred users pay on CLOB markets (see Trading fees). If a referred user’s order rests on the book and is filled as maker liquidity, that fill pays no taker fee and generates no referral earnings.
  • Only finalized (on-chain settled) fills count.
Fees generated on user-generated markets (markets with a Community badge) do not currently accrue referral earnings.

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Earning rates

Your referral rate is determined by your own trading volume: the total of your own maker and taker fills on CLOB markets, counted from the program launch. Trade more yourself, earn a higher rate on the fills you refer. A tier change applies from the day you reach it (UTC): fills from that day onward earn the new rate, while earlier days keep the rate they were earned at.
Partner arrangements can carry a pinned minimum tier. A pin acts as a floor: if your volume clears a higher tier, the higher tier wins.

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Pending vs. settled earnings

Referral earnings appear on your dashboard as soon as your referred users trade, but they become payable only once the underlying market resolves:
  • Fills on unresolved markets are valued conservatively and count as pending earnings.
  • When the market resolves, the fill is revalued at its final fee value and the earnings become payable.
This means your displayed total can run ahead of what has been paid out. The difference is earnings on markets that have not resolved yet.

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Payout mechanics

  • Payouts run once per day (UTC) as a single batched USDC transfer to your trade wallet.
  • The minimum payout is $1. Smaller balances are never lost. They roll forward and are included in a later payout once you clear the minimum.
  • Each payout covers everything you are owed that has settled, across all days since your last payout.

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Example

A user signs up through your referral link and pays $100 in taker fees trading a market. You are on the Starter tier (10%), so $10 is credited to you. While the market is open the $10 shows as pending; once the market resolves, it becomes payable and is included in the next daily payout. If your own trading volume later passes $25,000, you move to Bronze and new fills from your referred users earn 18% instead.

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Programmatic access

Your referral stats, referred users, and the leaderboard are also available over the API — see the Referral API reference.