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This page is for people deciding whether running a Network is worth their effort, or what an existing Network is worth buying. It states what you earn, what the number applies to, and what you can check yourself. The mechanics behind it (the five layers, the split, the qualification threshold) are on Layers & commissions. This page is about how the deal compares.

What you earn

Every bet placed by a qualified player in your Network generates house edge, currently 1.5% of the amount wagered, and a third of that edge is paid to the referral chain above them. So for every 100 USDC one of your direct invitees wagers, you are credited about 0.30 USDC. Read the last row alongside the first: the network is paid half of what the casino keeps. Applied to monthly wagered volume from your direct invitees, at the current 1.5% edge: These are illustrations of the formula, not projections. Commissions scale with volume actually wagered, and nothing guarantees any level of it. The right-hand column also assumes the full chain is there. Where a layer above the player is empty, or the player has not yet crossed the qualification threshold, that share stays with the house, which is why the network earns up to a third of the edge rather than exactly a third. Your own Layer 1 share is unaffected by what sits above you.

What a headline percentage hides

Affiliate deals in iGaming are usually quoted as a percentage of net gaming revenue (NGR): revenue after the operator has subtracted its costs. What gets subtracted varies by operator and is rarely visible from the outside: bonus and promotion costs, payment processing, game-provider fees, licensing and gaming duties, and often a flat administration fee. Many programmes also apply negative carryover. Revenue is computed per affiliate per month, and a month in which the operator loses money on your players is carried into the next one: you earn nothing until the deficit is cleared. It exists for a reason (without it an affiliate is paid on winning months and shielded on losing ones), but it means your income depends on outcomes you do not influence, reported by a party you cannot audit. So a headline percentage says very little on its own. A 40% share of a base that has been reduced by half pays less than a third of a base that has not been reduced at all. Ours is not reduced at all: When you compare two programmes, the question that matters is not the percentage but what the percentage applies to.

Why there is no carryover here

Not as a concession: it cannot exist. The commission is computed from the edge a wager generated and credited in the same transaction that settles the bet. There is no monthly period, so there is no monthly balance to be negative, and nothing to reconcile afterwards. The same property explains why a bad run for the house never reduces what your Network earns. The commission follows the edge the bet generated, not what the casino happened to win that week.

What you can verify

The percentages on this page are derived from a short list of parameters, and every one of those is stored in a public on-chain account:
  • the house edge, set per game;
  • the network’s share of that edge, set once for the whole casino (the same share applies whatever you play);
  • the five layer weights and the qualification threshold;
  • your Network’s balance, and every commission credited to it.
The figures in the tables above (0.50%, 0.30%, the monthly examples) are those parameters multiplied out. You do not have to take them from us: read the accounts and recompute them. See On-chain architecture for where they live, and Provably fair for how the bet outcomes that generate them are verified. One property is worth knowing because it is easy to get wrong in a payout system: the commission is never partially paid. The amount owed to the chain is computed before a winner’s gain is quoted, and a bet that cannot cover both is rejected outright rather than settled with a short commission. Your share does not compete with a large winner for what is left in the bankroll.

What this model does not offer

Worth being explicit, because it is the trade-off of doing it on-chain:
  • No negotiated rates. The share is a single on-chain parameter applied to every Network. There are no private deals, no tiers and no volume brackets: a large Network earns the same rate per bet as a new one. That cuts both ways: nobody can negotiate a better rate than yours either.
  • No guaranteed income. A Network earns from wagered volume. Sign-ups that do not play generate nothing, and players below the qualification threshold generate nothing.
  • Parameters can change. The edge, the network’s share, the layer weights and the threshold are governance-tunable on-chain. Current values are listed in Fees & limits; the on-chain accounts are always authoritative.
Next: Claiming & managing, which explains how credited amounts reach your balance.