Every trade you place pays the exchange a fee. A large slice of that fee can come back to you through the exchange's own affiliate program — if you register the right way. This guide explains the mechanics, the numbers, and the one mistake that gets accounts frozen.
Exchanges spend heavily to acquire active traders, so they run affiliate programs that pay a partner a sizable share of the fees a referred user generates. (Wondering why this matters in the first place? Start with why every trader needs a rebate.) A rebate desk like GoGoTrading holds those affiliate relationships and passes the bulk of the commission back to you. Crucially, your fee schedule doesn't change — you pay the exchange exactly what you'd pay anyway; the difference is that part of it comes back to you.
The rebate is a percentage of the fees you pay, not of your trading volume — so it scales with how actively you trade:
Plug your own figures into the rebate calculator to see your number. For an active trader the rebate quietly becomes one of the largest recoverable costs in the whole operation.
You trade on one clean account under GoGoTrading's affiliate ID. We rebate up to 70% of your fees each month in USDT. No partner account to manage, no overhead, and — importantly — no risk-control exposure. This is the default for individual, API and quant traders.
If you run a community, channel or signal group, you open your own partner account. You start at 45% commission (negotiable to 50%+ at volume) on the users you bring, plus a 10% override on any sub-affiliates beneath you. Deals can combine commission, CPA and retainer.
For most traders, Bybit is a strong first account — our flagship desk with deep liquidity (rebate up to 55%). Chasing the highest headline rate? LBank tops the desk at 70%, with MEXC, Weex, XT.com and BTSE right behind at 60% (HTX 55%). Spreading volume across venues? OKX and Bitget both sit around 50%.