Self-referral
Self-referral is signing up under your own referral code to collect commission on your own trading. Exchange affiliate terms prohibit it, and detected cases lose the commission — a rebate platform is the legitimate route to the same outcome.
The idea occurs to every trader who learns how referral commission works: become your own referrer and keep the share. Exchanges anticipated it — affiliate agreements uniformly ban self-referral, and enforcement ranges from commission clawbacks to closure of the affiliate account. Detection is not hard for the venue that operates both accounts.
The economics the self-referrer wants are, however, exactly what rebate platforms deliver legitimately: the platform holds the affiliate relationship the terms allow, and contractually shares most of the resulting commission with the trader who generated it. You end up with the majority of "your own" commission without violating any agreement, because the structure routes it through a permitted partner.
In Korean-speaking communities the practice is widely known as "셀퍼럴", and the search term usually leads to workaround guides of varying honesty. The clean answer is structural: 50–67% of fees returned through a compliant partnership, daily, with the exchange's knowledge.
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