The Amboss Affiliate Program is open: earn 15–20% of platform fees for a full year on every business you bring to Lightning payments, claimable in any amount at any time, paid in bitcoin over Lightning, in seconds.
Every bitcoiner has done it. You've stood at a counter and told a shop owner they should accept bitcoin. You've explained Lightning to a founder over coffee. You've argued in a group chat that card fees are extortion and there's a better rail. That was missionary work, and it was unpaid.
Starting today, growing the Bitcoin payments network pays a commission.
The objection that always stopped you is dead
You know the conversation. The merchant nods along at instant settlement and no chargebacks, then says: "But I can't hold bitcoin. What if the price drops before I pay my suppliers?"
That objection no longer exists. Amboss Payments converts incoming bitcoin to USDT or USDC in-flight, using Lightning Labs' bridgeless Taproot Assets protocol, so the merchant's customers pay in bitcoin and the merchant holds dollars. Self-custodied, settled with finality in under a second, at a flat 0.5%. The merchant gets cheaper payments than any card processor offers, sheds chargebacks entirely, avoids volatility completely, and still becomes part of the growing network of businesses accepting bitcoin. Their customers: roughly 900 million people already holding Lightning-capable apps like Cash App, Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken.
Cheaper for them, bigger network for Bitcoin. The merchant doesn't have to believe what you believe. They just have to like keeping 99.5%.
The deal
Apply in two minutes. Once approved, you get a tracked referral link. When a business signs up through it and starts processing on the Amboss Payments API, you earn 15% of the platform fees Amboss collects from that merchant, for the first 12 months of their account. When your referred merchants process $1M+ combined over a trailing 30 days, you move to Elite at 20%, automatically, across your whole portfolio.
No cost to join. No exclusivity. No cap. And because your commission is a share of revenue Amboss actually collects, there's nothing to negotiate and no fine print that claws it back.
What one real-sized merchant is worth:
| Standard (15%) | Elite (20%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant processes | $800,000/mo | $1,000,000/mo |
| Amboss fee (0.5%) | $4,000/mo | $5,000/mo |
| You earn | $600/mo | $1,000/mo |
| Over the 12-month term | $7,200 | $12,000 |
Cross $1M in trailing 30-day combined volume across your portfolio and you're bumped to Elite automatically, on everything you've referred. Each new referral starts its own 12-month clock, so an active portfolio stacks.
Illustrative only; your earnings depend on the volume your merchants actually process.
Payouts that respect you
Most affiliate programs pay you like it's 1995: NET-60, $100 minimums, bank forms, a check in the mail. Ours works the way Lightning works.
Commissions accrue to a rewards balance in your dashboard. After a short 14-day reconciliation hold, claim any amount, whenever you want. Five dollars or five thousand. Drop in a Lightning address or invoice, and sats arrive in seconds, to Cash App, Wallet of Satoshi, or your own node. You pick the destination every single time. No one pushes funds to a wallet you didn't choose.
Paperwork is nearly nonexistent by design. Signup asks for your name, date of birth, country, and state, which is what we need for sanctions screening and nothing more. US tax forms only appear if your payouts approach $2,000 in a calendar year; under that, there's nothing to file with us at all.
Who this is for
Two kinds of people will do well here.
The believers. Integrators, node runners, creators, and community voices who've been orange-pilling merchants for years. This is the mechanism that turns your conviction into recurring income, and every merchant you activate makes the network you care about stronger. Bitcoin payments become normal the way card payments became normal for small businesses: someone trusted walks in and sets it up. That someone is you, and now you're on the revenue.
The professionals. PSPs, orchestrators, payment consultancies, and wallet, POS, and e-commerce platforms whose clients ask about fees every quarter. A Lightning option with stablecoin settlement is the answer that makes you look early instead of late, and it pays you 15–20% of the platform fees for the first year of every account. You never touch funds, never run onboarding, never take on the merchant's compliance. You make the introduction; we do the rest.
Offline introduction? Manual attribution works too. Just tell us before the merchant signs up.
The ground rules
Market truthfully, no spam, no bidding on our brand, no self-referrals. The full Affiliate Program Terms are short and readable, and they control over anything in this post.
Start now
Apply at amboss.tech/affiliates. Screening is quick; most affiliates go from application to active link in a day or two. Questions: [email protected].
You already know your first referral. It's the business you've been telling about bitcoin for free.