MyCardCrypto is supported financially by affiliate commissions paid by some of the card providers we review. This page explains exactly how that works, what it changes, and what it doesn’t.
How affiliate commissions work
When you click a link on this site to a card provider and then sign up, fund the card, or in some cases make a qualifying transaction, the provider may pay us a commission. The amount varies by provider — sometimes a flat sign-up fee, sometimes a share of the provider’s revenue from your account over time, sometimes a one-off bounty.
This costs you nothing. You pay the same fees, get the same cashback and have the same experience as someone who walked in off the street. The commission comes from the provider’s own marketing budget, not from your wallet.
What we will and won’t do
We will:
- Use affiliate links where they exist, because they keep this site running without paywalls or banner ads.
- Disclose, on the relevant review or comparison page, that the link is affiliate.
- Continue to cover providers that don’t offer affiliate programs at all, when they’re the right pick. Several cards we recommend pay us nothing.
We won’t:
- Recommend a card because it pays better. We’ve turned down higher-paying programs from cards we don’t trust.
- Rank a card higher in a best-of list because it has a more generous affiliate program. Ranking is based on the criteria stated in each list.
- Take payment for a positive review, a guaranteed ranking position, or removal of criticism. Several providers have offered these arrangements. We’ve declined all of them.
If a vendor offers us an affiliate program and we wouldn’t recommend the card on its own merits — the review says so. The commission doesn’t change the verdict.
How to know when a link is affiliate
Affiliate links on this site are tagged with rel="sponsored nofollow" in the HTML. On review and comparison pages, a short disclosure sits near the primary call-to-action button. If you ever see a link to a card provider on this site and you’re not sure — assume it’s affiliate, and check the source if you want certainty.
Providers we currently have affiliate relationships with
This list is kept current; it may not match every link on the site at any given moment, because we update it on a delay. Major current partners include Crypto.com, Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, KuCoin, OKX, Wirex, Nexo and KAST. Several other providers we cover have no affiliate program with us at all.
What this means for you in practice
Read every review with the same skepticism you’d apply to anything written by a publication that earns from sign-ups. We’ve designed our editorial process (see our Editorial Policy) specifically to keep affiliate incentives from corrupting the work, but no system is perfect, and the only honest position is to ask you to read critically rather than trust us blindly.
If something on this site reads like it’s trying to sell you rather than inform you — call us out. Email [email protected] and we’ll look at it.