ref_market

How it works

Two sides, three steps each, nobody holding anyone's money.

If you're signing up anyway

The easiest money on the board

You were going to open that exchange, card or hosting account this week. Someone will pay you to do it with their code, and the money is already locked.

1
Take a slotThe offer names the platform, the reward and what proof it wants.
2
Sign up with the code, submit proofA screenshot, a link, a note. You post a stake worth 20% of the reward; it comes back with your payout.
3
Get paidThe referrer approves, or seven days pass. Either way the USDC is yours to withdraw.

If you have a referral link

Turn your link into a bounty

The platform pays you for signups. Share part of that bonus with the people who earn it for you, and pay only when the signup is proven.

1
Post an offerName the platform, the reward per signup and the number of slots. The reward, a 20% stake and a 10% fee lock in escrow.
2
Review each proofSeven days per claim. Approve it, or reject it and let the jury decide. Silence pays out, so the dashboard keeps count for you.
3
Keep the platform's bonusYour stake returns on every honest settlement. The fee is charged only on deals that closed.

The numbers

What every offer is made of.

10%

Protocol fee, on top of the reward, kept only when a deal closes. Never on a cancelled or refunded slot.

20%

Dispute stake, posted by both sides. The loser of a dispute forfeits it to the jury; honest deals get it back.

7 days

Review window after a proof is submitted. No answer from the referrer means the referee is paid.

cents

What a settlement costs in gas on Base. A 5 USDC payout is cheaper than the coffee you'd drink waiting for a bank.

Disputes

A jury drawn from the wallets that use the market.

When a referrer rejects a proof, the court draws a panel at random from the protocol's most active wallets, minus the two parties. The first side to reach a majority wins. The loser's stake is split, equally, between the jurors who voted with the verdict, and only them.

If the panel doesn't reach a majority inside its window, ref_market rules, and the jurors who voted the same way are still paid. The referrer and the referee can never sit on their own case. Neither can we.

Being active on ref_market has a second payoff beyond points: you get drawn, and juries pay in USDC.

✓

30 drawn · 2 of 3 votes cast · only the count is shown while a case is open, never which way

Platforms

Any platform with a referral programme. Verified fast.

Coinbase

Kraken

Gemini

Hyperliquid

Aster

GMX

Polymarket

Kalshi

ether.fi

Revolut

Hostinger

Zora and forty more

Don't see yours? Post the offer anyway. ref_market checks the domain and puts the verified badge on it, usually the same day. Until then the offer carries a warning and can't be shared from the app: that is the anti-scam rule, not a gate. Fake referral links are the oldest trick in the business, and the badge is our answer to it.

Points, contracts, and the boring facts

Earned only on deals where money moved.

Every paid settlement earns points on both sides: per USDC that moved, plus a flat amount per closed deal. Records earn a bonus, and naming a referrer with an eight-character code pays them a share of everything you go on to settle. You cannot farm points by posting and cancelling, and no single counterparty can supply more than a quarter of your score. There is an item in the app labelled Airdrop, and it says "Soon". Points at the snapshot will count.

Everything settles in USDC on Base. The contracts are open source, verified on Basescan and Sourcify, and ship with clear-signing descriptors, so a wallet that reads them shows "Take a slot on an offer" instead of hex. New business can be paused by the owner; settlement and withdrawals can never be paused. If you're owed money, you can always take it out.

Get paid for the signups you were going to make anyway.