Polymarket Referral Leaderboard

Polymarket pays referrers a share of the gross trading fees generated by users they bring to the platform. The programme has two tiers (per the official article): 30% of fees from direct referrals (users who signed up via your link), plus 10% of fees from indirect referrals (users brought in by your direct referrals). Both rates apply during each referred user's first 180 days. Rewards settle daily at midnight UTC and are unlimited — per Polymarket, referral volume also increases your allocation in all future rewards, so today's referrers are positioning for whatever programmes Polymarket ships next.

You need a lifetime trading volume of at least $10,000 to qualify. Once you cross that threshold, the "Refer and Earn" icon appears in the upper-right corner of the polymarket.com homepage — clicking it surfaces your personal referral link. You can also grab the link directly from polymarket.com/refer or from any market page when logged in. Anyone who signs up with your link counts as a direct referral; people they later refer count as indirect referrals.

Direct referrals sign up via your personal link — you earn 30% of every fee they pay during their first 180 days. Indirect referrals are the people your direct referrals later bring in — you earn 10% of their fees over their own 180-day boost window. It's a two-tier structure: a single high-quality direct referral who also recruits actively can generate two layers of long-tail commission for you.

Polymarket's help article describes 30% / 10% as the rates during the boosted period of each referred user's first 180 days, and notes that this period itself is subject to change without notice. The article does not enumerate a residual rate after the window ends. The lifetime totals on this leaderboard reflect whatever rates actually got paid out on-chain — we mirror the distribution, we don't recompute the formula. See the official article for current programme rules.

On-chain Transfer events from Polymarket's referral distributor wallet on Polygon. Same pipeline as the LP, maker, and Holding Rewards leaderboards — Polygon RPC watches inbound Transfer events into recipient wallets and aggregates per address. No scraping, no third-party API — blockchain truth. For lifetime, monthly, and daily referral-commission distribution totals across this same on-chain dataset — plus the concentration breakdown — see our referral payouts distribution stats.

Each view aggregates referral payouts within its window from the same on-chain Transfer events. All-time shows lifetime cumulative commissions. 30-day and 7-day show only payouts received in the trailing month/week. A referrer can rank #1 all-time but drop off the 7-day board if their referred users have all aged past 180 days. Use the period picker above the table to switch.

Referrals are the only Polymarket reward that pays you for bringing other users, not for your own trading or holding. LP and maker rebates pay for posting liquidity; Holding Rewards pay for taking long-term positions; referral pays for network growth. Earnings depend on the quality of who you brought — a single whale who trades $1M/month generates more referral revenue than 100 dormant signups. See the LP, Maker, and Holding Rewards leaderboards for the trading-side reward streams.

Referrals are gated: you need $10,000 in lifetime volume to even qualify as a referrer. That eliminates virtually every drive-by user — only established traders can participate. As a result, the referrer pool is on the order of a few thousand wallets (vs. 80k+ for LP and maker, 200k+ for Holding Rewards). The median referrer lifetime earnings are correspondingly higher — referrers are pre-selected to be active, network-connected traders.

Three things to know. Self-referrals are banned — Polymarket disqualifies wallets that violate Terms of Service, explicitly including self-referrals and inauthentic trading. Not every market has fees — when a referred user trades a no-fee market they generate $0 of referral revenue for you. Rates are variable — Polymarket can change the 30% / 10% tiers or the 180-day window without notice. The official docs are the canonical source for current programme rules.

Referral payouts settle daily at midnight UTC via on-chain Transfer events. Our cron picks up the new events at 02:00 UTC every day and refreshes the matview. The "synced X ago" indicator in the page header reflects the actual timestamp of our most recent successful cron run.