Follow the money
How this site makes money
Referral links, disclosed in full. Here is every deal this site has, what it buys, and what it doesn't.
Updated
On this page
The model
When you sign up for some products through links on this site, the provider pays a referral commission. It costs you nothing extra — and to be precise, the one current deal pays this site a commission and gets you nothing special. If a deal ever includes a reader-side bonus, this page will say so. That commission is the site's only revenue. There are no paid placements, no sponsored posts, no display ads, and no selling of reader data.
Current referral relationships
This list is complete. If a brand isn't on it, this site earns nothing from it.
| Brand | Relationship |
|---|---|
| ether.fi | Referral link for staking and the ether.fi Cash card — read the ether.fi Cash review |
Yes, that link is a referral link — it would be a strange page to hide one on. It's marked as sponsored, like every referral link on this site.
The rules
- Disclosed where it appears. Any page containing a referral link says so visibly, not in a footer you'd need archaeology to find.
- Deals don't touch verdicts. Scores, rankings, and recommendations are set by the data before any link is attached. A referral deal buys placement of a link, never placement in a ranking.
- No deal, same coverage. Most cards reviewed here pay this site nothing. They're researched with identical depth, and when a no-deal card is the better pick, it gets the recommendation.
- Negative findings publish. Including about referral partners. If a partner's product develops a problem, you'll read it here first — that's the deal with you, which outranks the deal with them.
Independence
Crypto Card Guy is unofficial and independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any card issuer, exchange, or protocol it covers. Brand names and logos appear editorially, to talk about the products.
Not financial advice
Everything on this site is research and opinion, published for information. Crypto products can lose money, cards get discontinued, terms change. Verify the current terms with the provider before signing up — this site prints its verification dates so you know exactly how fresh each number is.