Last updated: 6 May 2026.

Transparency about how we make money matters. This page explains exactly how affiliate links work on CryptoAlgo, what we receive, what we don’t receive, and how the commercial side of the site is firewalled from the editorial side.

The short version

  • CryptoAlgo earns commissions when readers sign up to certain partner platforms via our links.
  • You don’t pay any extra. The commission comes out of the platform’s marketing budget, not your wallet.
  • Whether a product earns us a commission has no influence on the rating, ranking, or written review.
  • We review and rank products that don’t pay us a commission, and sometimes rank them above ones that do.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is a tracked URL. When you click one and then sign up or trade on the partner’s platform, the partner records that the introduction came from CryptoAlgo and pays us a referral fee. The fee can be a one-off (e.g. $50 per funded account) or a revenue share (e.g. a small % of trading fees you generate). Specific terms vary by partner.

Examples of partner categories that pay commissions:

  • Australian crypto exchanges
  • Crypto trading bots and SaaS platforms
  • Crypto tax software
  • Charting and data tools
  • Custody / wallet hardware vendors

How you can tell which links are affiliate links

Every page that contains affiliate links carries a visible “Advertising disclosure” notice near the top. In addition, the underlying HTML uses the rel="sponsored" attribute as required by Google’s link-attribution policy. You can hover over any outbound link to inspect its destination.

What we get paid for, and what we don’t

We accept commissions for: reader sign-ups and qualifying activity (e.g. funding an account, completing a first trade) on platforms we review.

We do not accept:

  • Payment for a positive review.
  • Payment to suppress a negative review.
  • Payment for a guaranteed top spot in any “best of” list.
  • Equity, tokens, NFTs, or pre-sale allocations from any project we cover.
  • Personal trading bonuses from partners.

Editorial firewall

Editorial decisions — what we cover, how we rate things, what we publish, what we leave out — are made independently of any commercial relationship. Reviews are written before commercial terms are finalised. Once a review is live, the commercial team negotiates partner deals where they exist; if a partner refuses to work with us, the review still stands. If a partner asks for a change to a published review as a condition of working together, we say no and document the request internally.

“Best of” lists and ranking

Our ranking of “best” products is determined by our scoring rubric (see our methodology) — not by which partner pays the highest commission. We will sometimes rank a non-paying competitor above a paying partner if the rubric scores them higher. We disclose every paid relationship in the per-product comparison rows.

Australian regulatory context

This disclosure is provided to comply with Australian Consumer Law requirements around misleading and deceptive conduct, ASIC’s expectations around the disclosure of conflicts of interest in financial-product-adjacent content, and the FTC’s endorsement guides (which apply to commerce-driven content visible to US readers).

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear or you have a tip-off about content that you think violates this policy, contact us.