Myriad affiliate program review: at most 1% of referred buys, $500 minimum payout

Myriad is the prediction market built by Dastan, the media company behind Decrypt and Rug Radio, and its builder program was written for publishers from the start. The numbers are specific and small. A builder earns a share of the market’s distributor fee, typically 1% of each referred purchase; how much of that 1% is agreed case by case or set at Myriad’s discretion. Sells and claims earn nothing. Payment comes on the first Monday of the month once the balance reaches $500. On 25 September 2026, 30 of the 51 open markets carried the fee at all. We read the builder revenue-sharing page, the referral guide, the API reference, the terms of 13 January 2026, the public market data and the review sites that day. Our score is 6/10.

Who runs the program

The terms of use, updated 13 January 2026, are made with Myriad Foundation, “a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Grand Cayman”. The builder page names the same Foundation as the payer of rewards. No registration number appears in either document, and there is no separate builder agreement to read; the public pages and the account terms are the whole contract until you sign a direct agreement.

The ownership is better documented than most programs we review. Decrypt’s announcement of 5 December 2024 launched the public beta at Art Basel in Miami and names Dastan as the parent company of Myriad, Rug Radio and Decrypt, with Loxley Fernandes as Dastan’s CEO. The same release promised USDC markets in early 2025 “enabling creators and publishers to generate revenue directly from transactions”. That is the program reviewed here. The announcement is the company’s own, not an independent account.

The product is live on several chains: BNB Smart Chain is the main deployment per the contract directory, with AMM markets also on Abstract, Linea and Celo. The builder model already runs outside Myriad’s own site: the gaming platform Mint offers “Prediction Markets on Mint Powered by Myriad” under supplemental terms dated 4 March 2026 that name Myriad Foundation as the protocol provider and Mint as the interface.

Regulation is the usual prediction-market picture. The CFTC’s register of designated contract markets, 92 organisations including Kalshi and Polymarket US on 25 September 2026, has no entry for Myriad or Dastan. Myriad does not claim one; its terms exclude the United States outright. No licence of any kind is published, so a publisher checks its own audience’s country against the restricted list below.

Commission structure

Three routes, three bases. The figures come from the builder page, the referral guide and the API reference, all read on 25 September 2026.

Route	Rate	Base	Who sets it
Builder codes	Up to the distributor fee, typically 1%	Value of each eligible buy carrying the code	Myriad, by direct agreement or at its discretion
Retail referrals	Up to 33%	Fees paid by referred traders	Myriad, no default tier published
Frontend fee	0% to 5%	Each trade through the builder’s own interface, charged to the trader	The builder, with a whitelisted API key

The builder route is the affiliate program proper. Each Myriad market carries up to three fees on buys: a liquidity-provider fee, a treasury fee and a distributor fee. The distributor fee is the only one a builder shares in, and the page caps the reward at “the value of the distributor_fee, typically 1%, multiplied by the value of the trade”. Whether you get all of that 1% or a fraction is not published; it is “determined by the Myriad team based on direct agreements or at the team’s discretion”. Builders using the code from their own Myriad Account get the discretionary version; organisations apply for a custom code, which needs whitelisting.

Eligibility is per market, and it matters. Myriad’s public API returned 51 open markets on 25 September 2026. Thirty carried a distributor fee, all of them set at 1%: 12 USDC.e markets on Abstract, 11 USDT markets and 7 USD1 markets on BNB Smart Chain. The other 21 carried none, among them all 12 points-denominated markets on Celo. A builder code passed on those markets records a referral and pays nothing, which the documentation says plainly. Platform volume is the wrong starting point for a forecast; eligible buy volume is the right one.

One live market shows the arithmetic. Market 813 on Abstract, an ETH price market in USDC.e, charges 1% each for liquidity, treasury and distributor on buys and nothing on sells. Its public referral records show a 100 USDC.e buy under a builder code on 30 August 2026 that generated exactly 1 USDC.e of distributor fee, and sells under the same code that generated zero. The record proves the fee was collected, not what the builder was paid. Scaled up: $50,000 of eligible buys is $500, one month’s minimum, if the agreement gives the builder the whole 1%; at half, $100,000.

The frontend fee is a different product. Through the API’s quote-with-fee endpoint, a whitelisted builder can add between 0% and 5% to each trade placed through its own interface, transferred to its wallet in the same bundle as the trade and on top of the market’s fees: the builder is paid at once and the trader pays more. Nothing on the pages describes a CPA bounty, a hybrid model, a sub-affiliate percentage or a cap.

Attribution and cookies

Attribution is attached to the purchase, not to the person. A builder’s integration calls the contract’s referral-buy function with its code, and the contract emits a referral event carrying the trader’s wallet, the market, the code, the outcome, the value and the time. On eligible markets it also transfers the reward to the distributor-fee address in the same transaction. Anyone can read those events, and the API lists them per market with the fee split: something concrete to reconcile against a monthly statement, which is more than most programs in this section offer.

The cost of that precision is that nothing sticks. A trader who buys once through your app and then trades on myriad.markets directly earns you nothing on the second trade, because the code was not on it. There is no lifetime attribution, no first-click or last-click rule and no cookie window for builders, because there is no cookie. If your audience does not trade inside your integration, this program does not pay you. For the exchange programs that attach a referred trader to an affiliate for a year or “for life”, see our crypto exchange affiliate programs comparison.

Retail referrals work differently and more loosely. A signup link from your portfolio page credits every future buy by a trader who registers through it. A “share to earn” link on a market page credits buys “throughout their browser session”, in that market and any other, and the referral guide says this applies “even if they’re an existing trader, and even if they were referred by someone else”. No duration is given for signup attribution and no rule for competing links; the guide is a paragraph, not a policy.

The privacy policy, dated May 2024, reserves the right to run sanctions and politically-exposed-person screening and bars under-18s. Neither reward page names a referred-user verification milestone or a self-referral rule; those are questions for the agreement.

Payouts

The calendar is the most complete part of the offer. The builder page says the Foundation “pays out rewards in the first Monday of each month to builders who earned $500 or more up until the end of the previous month”. The counter resets after each payment, and a builder below $500 keeps accumulating into the next period. Reach the threshold by 30 September 2026 and the scheduled payment falls on Monday 5 October; reach it in October and you wait for November’s. “Direct agreements may have different payout terms.”

$500 is a high floor for a small publisher: at $100 of rewards a month, the first payment arrives after five months. Neither the page nor the account terms say what happens to a balance under $500 if the whitelisting is cancelled.

Payment goes “to the builder’s Myriad Account or their whitelisted wallet address”. The currency and chain are not stated. On-chain, the distributor fee is collected in the market’s own token, USDC.e on Abstract or USD1 and USDT on BNB Smart Chain, and the Foundation then pays the builder; the documented flow is a monthly transfer from Myriad, not a claim you trigger yourself. Money in a Myriad Account can be withdrawn “at any time” under the withdrawal guide, as USD1 on BNB Smart Chain or USDC.e on Abstract. Holdbacks, clawbacks and transfer fees are not mentioned. For a program that spells its clawbacks out, down to a negative balance recoverable from the affiliate’s own account, see our KAST affiliate program review.

Retail rewards have no calendar at all: they “are distributed periodically into your Myriad Account directly at the team’s discretion”. The $500 threshold and the monthly date are builder terms and do not apply to ordinary referral links.

The terms that bite

Nineteen restricted territories, including some large ones. Section 2 of the terms bars trading by “persons or entities residing in or associated with” the Bahamas, Botswana, the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, the Cayman Islands, North Korea, France, Iran, Libya, Malta, Ontario, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Singapore, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Zimbabwe. Using a VPN to get around the list is “strictly prohibited”, and section 4 has every user warrant that they are not a resident, national or agent of a restricted territory and not on a United States, United Kingdom, European Union or United Nations sanctions list. There is no separate list for builders; a publisher in Zurich or Toronto should assume the restriction reaches its integration too.

Whitelisting can be withdrawn without a reason. The builder page: “Whitelisting is granted and canceled at Myriad’s discretion.” No notice period, no final-payment clause, no statement that a balance under $500 is paid out on cancellation. An integration that costs weeks of development sits on that sentence until a direct agreement replaces it.

Changes take effect on publication. Section 3 lets the Foundation amend the terms “at its sole discretion”, with notice by updating the date on the page or “through the Services”; “unless otherwise specified, modifications will take effect immediately upon publication”. Section 6 lets it “modify or discontinue Services at its discretion”. Nothing in the terms speaks to builder commissions already earned, in either direction.

The liability cap is $50. Section 11 limits the Foundation’s liability “to the lesser of $50 USD or the total fees paid by you in the preceding 12 months”. A builder pays few or no trading fees itself, so on a plain reading the cap on an unpaid-commission dispute is $50. Section 12 sends all disputes to binding arbitration “under the JAMS Comprehensive Arbitration Rules or following principles of Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act”, with jury and class-action waivers, under Grand Cayman law and courts. The terms do not say who picks between the two routes, and section 1 still points to “the mandatory arbitration provision in Section 11”, one section off.

What the pages do not cover. Brand bidding, paid search, incentivised traffic, dormant balances, accrued rewards after termination and the payout currency are all absent. Put the rate, the eligible markets, the currency, the channels and the final settlement into the direct agreement before writing code. A publisher buying traffic for a Myriad integration through a network such as Coinzilla should get Myriad’s written approval of the channel first; the terms are silent on it.

What affiliates report

Very little, so far. The Trustpilot profile for myriad.markets is unclaimed and showed 3.1 out of 5 from two reviews on 25 September 2026, both posted in the last 12 months and neither about the affiliate program. Marcello, from Italy, gave three stars on 9 January 2026 for the interface, noting “some smaller markets still feel a bit thin”. David Cancio gave one star on 1 May 2026, in Spanish, saying a prediction he believes was correct was marked as lost and support did not answer; we have not verified the market. Trader complaints, not payment complaints.

The only forum thread we found is a Turkish-language Bitcointalk post of 2 February 2025 about the browser extension and the points system from the beta period, read 28 times. Reddit, AffPapa, GPWA and AffiliateFix turned up no builder or affiliate payment reports, positive or negative. The absence cuts both ways: no pattern of non-payment, and no public evidence that anyone has been paid $500 on a first Monday. Limitless advertises “$200K+ already paid to partners” on its own page; Myriad publishes no such figure. Our score rests on the published offer and the contract, not on testimony.

Myriad against the alternatives

Limitless negotiates a creator deal around a link; Polymarket lets an application charge its own fee on routed orders. All three pages were read on 25 September 2026. Limitless’s account-level referral ladder is public, though: 10–40% of taker fees, paid daily in USDC from $1, with the tier set by the referrer’s own trading rather than the audience’s; see our Limitless affiliate program review.

Program	Published rate	Base	Attribution	Payment terms
Myriad builders	Negotiated or discretionary; ceiling typically 1%	Value of eligible buys carrying the code	Per purchase, on-chain event	$500 minimum, first Monday monthly, to account or whitelisted wallet; currency not stated
Limitless affiliates	None; “we don’t run a one-size-fits-all rate card”	Revenue from referred users’ trades, “for as long as they keep trading”	Link and dashboard; duration not stated	“No waiting period, no volume threshold before you start earning”; minimum, frequency and currency not stated
Polymarket builder fees	Builder sets it: 0% default, 1% taker and 0.5% maker maximum	Notional of orders carrying the builder code	Builder code in the signed order, on-chain	Collected fees distributed to the builder-profile wallet; no minimum or cadence on the page

Polymarket’s builder fee is the relative of Myriad’s frontend fee, not of its distributor share: the builder adds a charge on top of platform fees and the trader pays it; Polymarket’s own example puts a 1,000 pUSD taker order at a 1% builder fee at 10 pUSD. Rate changes are limited to one per seven days with three days’ notice, and Polymarket can revoke a code “for any reason or no reason”. Its builder portal separately lists weekly USDC rewards based on integration volume, “subject to approval”, a bonus rather than a commission. Limitless asks for a conversation and promises earnings “from day one”, but publishes no percentage, minimum or payment date; a creator who wants a link rather than an integration will find it the easier door.

Myriad sits between them. It publishes more about eligibility, the payment floor and the calendar than Limitless, and it shares platform revenue rather than adding a charge to the trader’s bill, which is what Polymarket’s fee layer does. What it withholds is the one number a publisher needs first. PRED, a sports prediction exchange, publishes that number, 60% of trading fees for six months and then 20% to month 24, and withholds the company name instead; see our PRED affiliate program review.

Verdict

We rate the Myriad builder program 6/10. In its favour: the ceiling is published, eligibility is visible per market in a public API, every referred purchase leaves an on-chain record, and the payment rule is a date and a threshold rather than “periodically”. Against it: the actual rate is negotiated or discretionary, $500 is a high minimum for a program that pays about $1 per $100 of referred buys, attribution ends at the transaction, whitelisting can be cancelled without notice, the payout currency is unstated, and the liability cap is $50.

Our rubric for prediction markets reserves 8 and above for public rates, a stated stablecoin or fiat payout and clear attribution, and 5 or below for programs that are referral-only or restrict the United States without saying so. Myriad has clear attribution, discloses its restrictions and is a real publisher program rather than a share link; it fails on the unpublished rate and currency. That is a 6. It suits a publisher with an existing audience and the capacity to build a trading interface, once a direct agreement fixes the rate, the currency and what happens on cancellation. It does not support a paid-traffic campaign priced from the public pages.

FAQ

What is the Myriad affiliate commission?

For builders, a share of the market’s distributor fee, which is typically 1% of each eligible buy. The share itself is set by direct agreement or at Myriad’s discretion and is not published. Ordinary referrals advertise up to 33% of the fees referred traders pay, with no default tier stated.

When does Myriad pay affiliates?

Builders are paid on the first Monday of each month if their balance reached $500 by the end of the previous month; smaller balances carry forward. Payment goes to the Myriad Account or a whitelisted wallet. Retail referral rewards are distributed “periodically” at the team’s discretion, with no date or minimum.

Is the Myriad affiliate program legit?

The product is live, the owner is documented (Dastan, the parent of Decrypt and Rug Radio), the reward rules are public and every referred buy is recorded on-chain. Missing: a published rate, a stated payout currency and any public record of builders being paid, in either direction. Our score is 6/10.

What is the difference between Myriad referrals and builders?

Referrals are share links for ordinary users, paid as a share of fees at Myriad’s discretion. Builders integrate Myriad markets into their own app, pass a builder code with each purchase and earn a share of the distributor fee under the $500 monthly rule; whitelisted builders can also charge a frontend fee of up to 5%.

Does Myriad offer lifetime attribution?

No. Builder rewards attach to each purchase that carries the code; a referred trader who later buys elsewhere earns the builder nothing. Retail signup links credit a referred user’s future buys, but no duration is published, and market-share links only credit the current browser session.

Can US publishers or traders join?

The terms bar trading by anyone residing in or associated with the United States, and 18 other territories including Singapore, Switzerland, France and Ontario. There is no separate rule exempting publishers, so a US-facing site should not build on Myriad expecting its readers to be allowed to trade.

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