A referral is paid when your invite invests

A referral programme is a promise about someone else's money. It should be easy to state.

Ours is one sentence: when someone you invited opens a position, you earn a share of the amount they put in, and it is written at that moment.

WHAT YOU EARN

The share depends on how far away they are in your network. Someone you invited directly is level one; someone they invited is level two, and so on to level five. Each level has its own rate, and the rates are published in the app.

Every new investment counts. If the same person invests again next week, that is a new amount and it earns its own commission. Adding money to a position you already hold counts too — but only the new money. The capital that was already there earned its commission when it first arrived, and it does not earn it twice by moving between packages.

WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM

The commission is paid by the platform, out of what the engines earned. It is not deducted from the capital or the returns of the person who invested. Their position is exactly the size they chose.

That also sets the limit. Zenboox does not distribute yield it has not earned, and a commission is distributed money like any other. If the engines have not earned enough in the period to cover it, the commission is recorded as pending rather than paid: you can see that it is owed, the ledger does not move, and the daily job settles it as soon as there is room. A promise that quietly pays out of capital is not a stronger promise — it is a shorter-lived one.

WHAT THE COMMISSION DOES NOT DEPEND ON

It does not depend on how the money reached the investor's balance. A deposit that arrived on-chain and a balance adjustment made by an operator spend the same way, so they earn the same commission. There is no separate rule for either, because there is no separate balance for either.

It also does not depend on when you were connected. Your network is recorded when the invite is used, and commissions start from that point. Positions opened before the connection existed do not pay retroactively — that money was placed under a relationship that did not exist yet.

WHAT WE HAVE NOT DONE

The rates are set by one person. Changing them does not disturb history — a commission already credited keeps the rate it was calculated with, and old rate versions stay on record — but the future rate is a single decision today. We would rather publish the gap than the impression.