Crypto platform bonuses

Exchanges, bitcoin apps, wallets, cards and tax tools. Most pay in crypto or a discount, and the traps are state exclusions and programs that quietly ended.

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The recurring trap here: volatile-token payouts and state exclusions.
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Exchanges 13
Coinbasein bitcoin through the referral link on this page, which read "Sign up now to get $20 in Bitcoin." on Oct 2, 2026; the direct path is a random draw instead: Coinbase says 99% of users land between $10 and $100, and 1% between $1,000 and $2,000 $20Crypto The two paths are mutually exclusive forever. The referral buy must be funded by bank transfer, debit or credit card, and purchases on Coinbase Advanced or Prime do not count. Coinbase publishes no US minimum, so use the figure it shows you Worth it ReadOct 2, 2026 Guide Binance.USin cash, flat $10Cash (USD) Not available in NY, TX and several other states, $99.50 of trades pays $0, and the $10 cannot be withdrawn for 30 days Worth it ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Crypto.comin CRO for $100 of crypto traded in 30 days (US tier). $75 needs $5,000 traded; staking CRO or Level Up Pro adds $25 $5CRO token A referral code at sign-up rules out the Welcome Bonus. Stablecoin and stock trades build no volume. $75 is the top-tier ceiling; other countries cap at $65 or $50 Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Krakenfor you, per Kraken's help pages. The referral page advertises up to $75; the binding terms name no amount, so check the offer in the app $20Crypto Stablecoin trades and card deposits do not count. Kraken's own pages disagree: $75 or $20, and 15 or 30 days. Maine and New York are excluded Worth it if ReadOct 2, 2026 Guide Geminiin crypto of your choice for trading $100 in 30 days; the amount has fluctuated, confirm in-app $50Crypto of choice $100 must be TRADED, not just deposited, and fees apply to that trade Worth it ReadOct 2, 2026 Guide Upholdin bitcoinEnds Dec 31, 2026 $20BTC Funding is not enough. The $100 in and the $100 converted are two separate conditions and the widely repeated single-step version is wrong. You must arrive by clicking the link, because joining any other way voids it even if everything else is right. Only the Americas qualify, New York is excluded and Europe entirely so. Payment is bitcoin valued at the moment it lands, up to 45 days after the month ends Worth it if ReadSep 18, 2026 Guide eToro USin the US for a first-time $100 deposit, with no trade required. In Europe the new user gets nothing $30Cash to eToro Five states are out (Hawaii, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York), and the 2022 terms eToro's invite page links also drop Delaware, Illinois and Tennessee. Check the app Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide OKX (US)a personalized amount OKX shows only inside the app; OKX publishes no figure anywhere public VariesCrypto The new user must hold the required balance for 30 days within a 90-day window or OKX reclaims the reward. Treat any "$10,000 OKX bonus" headline as affiliate-blog fiction Think twice ReadSep 24, 2026 Guide Swan Bitcoinnothing anymore: Swan retired its referral program, and old referral links no longer work for new signups EndedNothing Bonus blogs still advertise a $10 Swan reward. Swan’s own help center says the program is retired, so that money does not exist. Swan’s homepage carried a new-client line in August 2026, "No buy fee on your first $250 for new clients", a fee discount rather than a signup bonus, and it was gone again by September 18 Ended ReadSep 18, 2026 Guide CEX.IOnothing under the standing program: CEX.IO's current referral terms describe no reward for you, the new user NothingTrading-fee credit, not withdrawable The bonus is fee credit that is worthless unless you trade enough to burn it, and it expires in 14 days Think twice ReadSep 14, 2026 Guide Blockchain.comnothing. The program was paused, and its referral article and whole Referrals help section are now gone. When live it paid up to $70 in ZETAterms moved PausedZETA token No restart date, and the only public page is gone. When it ran, eight US states were excluded and the reward was paid in a token whose value moves Paused ReadJul 27, 2026 Guide Binancea Trading Fee Rebate Voucher rather than money: up to $1,100 across two tasks for the new user, and then the FAQ says the total face value received is subject to the actual amount received Fee voucherTrading-fee vouchers A crypto deposit or a transfer from another Binance account completes nothing, exactly $50 or exactly $100 fails, and this is not Binance.US: the global program is run by three Abu Dhabi entities off a prohibited countries list Think twice ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide OKX (Global)nothing you can price before you commit: OKX publishes no odds for the referral mystery boxes and no fixed reward figure on any page it owns, and its own terms send you to the app to find out what you are being offered UnconfirmedCrypto US users are expressly prohibited by OKX from using the non-US OKX entities, so this is not a US reader's offer at all. The deposit channels that count are shown only on your referral page, unclaimed rewards expire and do not roll over, and the reward's minimum, maximum and the per-campaign invitee cap are shown only inside the app's Referral section before you join, never on the open web. The widely repeated "$10,000 mystery box" figure appears on no OKX page we could reach Think twice ReadSep 14, 2026 Guide
Bitcoin apps 6
Strikeof fee-free bitcoin TRADING, which is a fee waiver and not money. It is $500 in the US and EUR 500 in Europe; if you or the account whose code you use is in another supported country it is $100, and if either account is in the UK there is no reward $500 fee-freeFee waiver The headline is a trading allowance, not a payout. Fees are waived on your next $500 of trades, which is worth a few dollars, not $500. If you or the account whose code you use is outside the US and Europe you get $100 instead, a fifth as much, and if either account is in the UK there is no reward at all Think twice ReadOct 2, 2026 Guide Riverin BTC, tiered: $5 after your first $100 of BTC, the full $100 only after $10,000 total $5 to $100BTC The realistic reward is $5; the $100 headline needs $10,000 of purchases Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Fold$10 in sats after your first Fold Card purchase, per Fold's homepage; one Fold help page still says $20 and the binding terms defer to the appterms moved $10Bitcoin Paid in sats that stay pending 30 days and cannot be withdrawn below 30,000 sats; an inactive account can lose 0.01 BTC a month Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Lollia signup amount Lolli publishes nowhere. The terms print no payout minimum; its help pages say 1,000 sats by Lightning, which the terms let Lolli change at will UnpublishedBitcoin Go twelve months without earning a reward and every unwithdrawn reward is forfeited without notice. Paid in bitcoin, and ad-blockers can break the purchase tracking that triggers it Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Bitrefillin bitcoin store credit, but only after you spend over $200 on eligible products $5Bitcoin The $200 spend gate is steep for a $5 reward, and Bitrefill bans public posting of codes, which is why you will not find a working one on any deals site Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Bitcoin Depotnothing: Bitcoin Depot filed Chapter 11 in May 2026, took its ATMs offline, sold them and liquidated (plan effective Aug 24, 2026) GoneNothing Bonus sites still list a $15 reward. The company has been liquidated, its kiosks were sold to other operators, and the general claim deadline passed on July 21, 2026 Ended ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide
Wallets, hardware and software 6
Ledgerin Bitcoin, but tiered by device: $5 on a Nano S Plus or Nano X, $10 on a Nano Gen5, and $20 only on a Flex or Stax. On the $59 Nano S Plus, "up to $20" means $5 Up to $20 in BTCBitcoin (friend's link) Some named affiliate links DO pay the buyer a $10 or $20 bitcoin voucher. Ours does not: no voucher appears on our link and our code is not on Ledger's named-affiliate list, so on this one a reader is better off with somebody else's link than ours. Ledger's own terms pay the voucher only on a full-price first purchase, after 30 days, and want the scratch card returned unscratched with any refund. Third-party sellers can also ship tampered devices, so buy official only Worth it if ReadSep 18, 2026 Guide Trezora $49+ order for the new buyer 10% offDiscount / voucher The buyer must never have bought on the Trezor Shop, a rule in the terms PDF, not the landing page Worth it if ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide Tangem10% off for the buyer, though the same 10% is handed to anyone who simply enters an email on Tangem site 10% off10% discount The referral link buys you nothing extra, because that 10% is freely available anyway. Bigger promos appear from time to time but they expire, so do not treat any of them as standing Worth it if ReadOct 2, 2026 Guide Keystonenothing as the buyer: Keystone runs a promoter-only affiliate program and gives the buyer no discount NothingNothing to buyer Keystone's terms make passing commission back to you a contract breach, so anyone offering a Keystone kickback is breaking their own agreement. Its payout terms also contradict its docs site, so treat any published figure with care Think twice ReadSep 18, 2026 Guide Ellipalnothing as the buyer: this is a promoter-only affiliate program, and no page we read gives the buyer a discount NothingNothing to buyer Coupon sites claim Ellipal runs a refer-a-friend that gives the buyer a discount. That text is templated boilerplate, word for word identical to the BitBox version with the name swapped, and Ellipal's own site says nothing of the kind Think twice ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide BitBoxnothing as the buyer: BitBox runs a promoter-only affiliate program and gives the buyer no discount NothingNothing to buyer Coupon sites claim BitBox runs a refer-a-friend that gives the buyer a discount. That text is the same template posted for Ellipal with the name swapped, and BitBox's own site says nothing of the kind Think twice ReadSep 25, 2026 Guide

Showing 1 to 25 of 38 in this list. Every entry above was read on the official terms on the date shown. When terms change, the row changes. “Most people get” is what the terms pay on the typical path; the advertised ceiling and its condition are printed in the same row.

How to read this list

Almost nothing in this category pays dollars. Bonuses arrive in bitcoin, in an exchange's own token, or as a discount at a hardware-wallet checkout, and a token reward can be worth meaningfully less by the time it unlocks. Every entry says exactly which asset would land in your account.

Geography is the second filter. New York sits outside several of these programs, and some exchanges exclude a dozen or more states outright, so each guide lists its exclusions above the buttons. Safety is the third, and it deserves its own reading before five figures move anywhere: our examination of Nexo is the worked example.

This is also where referral programs go to die quietly. Exodus ended its program, Swan retired its own, Blockchain.com paused, and coupon sites still advertise all three. We mark a program ended the day the provider does, and the full list lives on the dead programs page. One more habit of this category: several wallet referral programs pay the buyer nothing at all, because they are promoter commissions, and each guide says so plainly.

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