Referrals

Overview

Vordex referrals pay both sides. The referrer earns a share of the trading fees their referees pay; the referee pays a lower taker fee. Both rates are set on chain and scale with the referrer's tier.

Discounts and shares are taker-only — the maker fee is already 0%. The referee discount is funded by the protocol, so a referrer's share is never reduced to pay for it. Neither side is capped by volume or time.

Your invite link

Your code is derived from your address and looks like VORD-XXXXXXX. The invite link carries only the code:

Text

https://app.vordex.io/join/VORD-76BC789

The link contains no wallet address. The join page resolves the code to its owner on chain via GET /referral/resolve/{code}.

A referee links to a referrer once, by signing a message — no gas. The binding is permanent and cannot be changed afterwards.

Tiers

Tier	Referrer earns	Referee discount	How to reach it
SIGNAL	15%	5%	Default — open to anyone
VECTOR	20%	8%	$10M of referees' volume, unlocked automatically
APEX	25%	10%	Partner only — apply, subject to approval

"Referrer earns" is a share of the taker fees the referees pay. "Referee discount" is a percentage off the taker fee, not percentage points: at a 3 bps taker fee, a 5% discount means the referee pays 2.85 bps.

A referee's discount is set by their referrer's tier, so a trader referred by an APEX partner gets 10%.

Reading the live rates

Do not hardcode the percentages — read them from the chain, which is the only authoritative source:

Bash

curl https://rpc.vordium.com/referral/stats/0xYourAddress

JSON

{
  "code": "VORD-76BC789",
  "tier": "SIGNAL",
  "referee_discount_bps": 0,
  "referees_get_discount_bps": 500,
  "taker_only": true,
  "referee_count": 0,
  "referred_volume_usdc": 0.0,
  "pending_earnings_usdc": 0.0,
  "total_earned_usdc": 0.0,
  "total_saved_usdc": 0.0
}

Field	Meaning
`referees_get_discount_bps`	What traders referred by this wallet receive. `500` = 5%.
`referee_discount_bps`	What this wallet receives as a referee. `0` when not referred.
`taker_only`	The discount applies to taker fees only.
`pending_earnings_usdc`	Earned and claimable.
`total_saved_usdc`	Cumulative fee savings as a referred trader.

Rates are reported in basis points where bps / 100 is the percentage.

Claiming

Referral earnings accrue as USDC and are claimed to your wallet from the Referrals page. There is no minimum and no schedule — claim whenever you like.

APEX partners

APEX is invite-only and must be applied for. Applications are reviewed by the protocol owners and granted through a 2-of-3 multisig operation.

Applying requires an existing referral footprint: refer at least one trader before submitting. Applications from wallets with no referral history are rejected with: