An independent welcome-bonus index, not another affiliate aggregator.
CryptoReferralBonus exists for one reason: most traders walk away from real money because comparing exchange welcome programs is exhausting and the marketing copy is designed to confuse you. We re-read each exchange's rate card at least every 45 days, log every change, and quote the bonus terms as each exchange publishes them — so you don't have to.
What we verify, and what we only quote
Two kinds of numbers appear on this site, and they are not held to the same standard. Trading fees are read from each exchange's official rate card, re-read at least every 45 days (the build refuses to publish past that window), and every change is written into the corrections log below. A rate card we cannot load keeps the date of the last reading that worked, and says so on that exchange's page — Weex is the one that applies today. Welcome-bonus ceilings and rebate percentages are reproduced as each exchange publishes them on its own promotion page; we do not independently verify them, they change more often than fees, and the rung-by-rung thresholds live only on the exchange's page. If an exchange withdraws a welcome programme, its page is corrected or removed rather than left with stale numbers.
How we make money (and how we don't)
When you sign up through one of our links, the exchange pays us a commission as part of its referral program. This does not change the price you pay or the bonus you receive — your bonus comes from the exchange, ours comes from the exchange separately. We never accept paid placement: an exchange cannot pay to rank higher in our index.
If we ever find that an exchange is offering inflated bonus numbers in marketing that don't match what users actually receive, we either flag it on the detail page or remove that exchange from the index entirely.
What we never do
- We never ask for your account credentials, API keys, or KYC information.
- We don't operate any "rebate aggregator" tools that sit between you and the exchange — every link goes directly to the exchange's official sign-up flow.
- We don't use tracking cookies beyond what's strictly required to render the page.
- We don't take money to write a bonus up as better than its terms read.
Corrections log
Each time the rate cards are re-read, the outcome is written down here — including the visits that changed nothing. If a figure on this site turns out to be wrong, the fix will appear on this list before it appears anywhere else.
- — The September 2023 HTX hack is back on that page. Rewriting the November note earlier today dropped it, which made HTX’s record look cleaner than it is; it now has its own source. The OKX and Weex rebate ceilings are also written as ceilings everywhere they appear, not only inside the exchange pages.
- — Read every security record back against its citation and trimmed the ones that ran ahead of the source: the OKX note carried a June 2024 incident the cited article does not contain and a reimbursement stated as done rather than promised; XT.com had a withdrawal halt and a “company funds” framing CoinDesk never reported; Gate.io had an unsourced 2024 denial; Bitget’s compensation is offered rather than confirmed paid; HTX no longer states the bridge losses were excluded from its pledge, only that nothing we found extends it there. MEXC’s “clawed-back profits” is now “forfeited balances”. Earlier that day every exchange-favourable claim moved onto an independent citation, BingX’s figure narrowed to ~$43m, and Bybit’s recovery was reattributed to loans and OTC buying.
- — Counted every exchange’s listed assets from its own public instruments API, and found all eleven of our figures wrong: Binance 350 → 494, OKX 320 → 408, Bybit 280 → 396, Bitget 600 → 2,171, Gate 2,500 → 2,066, HTX 700 → 592, MEXC 1,800 → 1,595, BingX 700 → 2,225, XT.com 800 → 996, BTSE 200 → 295. Weex’s endpoint errored the same way its rate card does, so its count still dates from . Several “biggest catalogue” lines had to be rewritten — MEXC was never the widest here, BingX is. Bybit’s KYC field moved from “Optional/Tiered” to “Required”. Every exchange also gained a security record covering the 36 months to that date, each with a source; five of the eleven turned out to have had an incident we had never mentioned.
- — Re-read of the exchange rate cards; ten of the eleven loaded. Weex's did not, so its figures still date from and its page says so. Three figures moved: Gate.io's spot taker fee is now 0.10% (we had 0.20%), HTX's futures taker fee is 0.06% (we had 0.04%), and XT.com's futures maker fee is 0.02% (we had 0.04%). Three of our citation links had gone dead — Bitget, HTX and BingX — and now point at the pages we actually read.
- — Retired every metric we could not trace to a source. The numbers on the homepage strip are now all computed from the bonus table itself.
- — First verification pass across all eleven rate cards.
Welcome-bonus ceilings and rebate percentages are reproduced as the exchanges publish them; they are not part of the fee re-read and tend to change more often than fees do, so treat the exchange's own promotion page as the final word before you deposit.
Contact
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Disclaimer
CryptoReferralBonus is a comparison service, not an adviser: nothing here is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and a welcome bonus is never a reason to trade with money you cannot afford to lose. Cryptocurrency trading carries a substantial risk of loss. Do your own research and consider a licensed adviser before you place a trade. Welcome bonuses and rebate offers are subject to each exchange's terms and may be modified or withdrawn without notice — always confirm the current terms on the exchange's own site before depositing.
Privacy
The site is a set of static pages; the only visitor data we see is aggregate page-view counts, and none of it is sold, rented or shared. The moment a referral link hands you over to an exchange, that exchange's privacy policy governs what happens next, and KYC is where it starts asking for documents — worth reading before you get there.