Affiliates and influencers

Both are leaders in your referral tree who earn commission from the people beneath them. You can invite someone straight into either role, or promote a member who is already farming.

📷 Screenshot placeholder — Recruitment: the roster with a member's role picker open.

The three roles

Every member of a project has one of three roles:

Farmer — completes tasks, earns points, claims bonuses and tokens.
Affiliate — a farmer who also earns commission from the members beneath them in the referral tree.
Influencer — the same, at the top of a branch: the leader the chain ends at when it walks upward.

Anyone can invite farmers with their personal link. Only you can make someone an affiliate or an influencer, either by minting an invite link for that role or by promoting a member.

Two ways in

Invite straight into the role. On Recruitment, pick the project and the role and copy the link. Anyone who joins through it arrives as an affiliate or influencer — after you approve them under Join requests, which every affiliate and influencer join waits for. A leader who joins through your official link starts at the root of their own tree, with no one above them.

Promote a member. The roster on Recruitment lists the project's members with their current role. Open the picker on the row and set the new role; the change is written straight away and recorded in the member's activity history. A banned member's role cannot be changed until the ban is lifted.

One promotion is permanent

If the farmer you are promoting was invited by someone else, promoting them to affiliate or influencer breaks them away from that upline. They become the root of their own tree with full earning rights over everyone beneath them, and their former leader stops earning from that branch from that moment.

Points and commission already credited are never touched by a role change.

How leaders earn

Leaders earn from commissions. When a member pays a fee that has a commission attached — a paid task, a paid bonus claim, a token claim or a project fee — the platform sets aside the fee's commission pool and walks up the payer's referral chain on the project, paying the people it finds according to the formula.

If the payer's direct sponsor is an affiliate or influencer, that leader takes whatever is left of the pool after the assigned shares, and the walk stops there. This is the leader override; the platform team can switch it off, in which case a leader sponsor is treated like any other upline.
If the direct sponsor is a farmer, they take their assigned share, and the walk continues only when the project's downline earning is on. On the indirect pathway the nearest affiliate above takes its assigned share and the nearest influencer above that takes the residual. Farmers in between earn nothing.

Downline earning is fixed when the project is created and is off by default: with it off, only the payer's own share and their direct sponsor are paid. The project's Referral depth setting only changes how many levels the farmer app shows; it does not change who is paid.

A leader without a verified email forfeits their share for that charge — an assigned share is simply not paid, and a residual falls through to you. A banned member forfeits in the same way without blocking the members above them.

Earnings land in the leader's claimable balance and are withdrawn through Withdrawals.

📷 Screenshot placeholder — the breakaway confirmation dialog.

Where else the roles matter

A bonus offer's audience can be limited to affiliates or to influencers.
On an open project, code-less joins can be credited to the top-ranked influencer on the current season's leaderboard instead of your team.
The Influencers and Farmers pages list members by role, and Join requests shows the role each request asks for.

Naming it for them

Leaders decide whether a commission is worth promoting by reading its instruction. Say what earns it — "bring farmers who complete the launch task" — rather than what it is called.