Referral attribution
Referral attribution is the exchange-side record of which referrer an account belongs to, normally fixed at account creation. It determines who earns commission on your fees — and whether you can receive a payback.
Attribution is the invisible switch behind the entire referral economy. When an account is created with a code, the exchange writes the referrer relationship into the account's record; from then on, commission from that account's fees flows to the attributed partner automatically.
The critical property is stickiness. On most exchanges attribution cannot be edited after registration — entering a better code later does nothing, because the relationship was fixed on day one. A minority of venues allow changes under specific conditions (account age, volume caps, cooling periods); where a documented path exists, loweef's guides describe it precisely, and where it does not, the guide says so instead of hinting otherwise.
For payback purposes, attribution is also what gets verified. Before activating rebates, loweef confirms with the exchange that your UID is actually attributed under its partnership — because paying rebates on an account whose commission flows elsewhere would be arithmetic fiction. If verification fails, the dashboard shows the reason and the realistic options.
When a referral can be changed — OKX example →