> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.intention.xyz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Referrals > The status of a referral program: what is decided, what is not, and what the one published commitment actually says. There is **no referral program**. Nothing is built, no referral relationship can be registered, and no rebate is accruing. This page exists to say what is actually settled, which is very little. ## What is settled One thing: **referral rebates are funded out of collected trading fees.** The protocol fee account that receives every [trading fee](/programs/fees) lists a referral rebate pool among its outflows, alongside the liquidity vault and the insurance fund. That has a real consequence, and it is the reason it is worth stating on its own. A rebate paid from collected fees is bounded by fees actually collected — the program cannot pay out more than the activity it rewarded generated. It is a redistribution of revenue rather than an emission against future revenue, so there is no schedule to run out and no dilution to price in. ## What is not settled Everything else: * The rebate share to the referrer, and whether the referee also gets a discount * How a referral relationship is established and recorded * Whether attribution is permanent or time-limited * Eligibility rules, and how self-referral and circular referral are excluded * Whether rebates settle to balance or must be claimed * How and when attribution is computed The last one is not a detail. Whether a rebate is computed on-chain per fill, or off-chain over a window and committed back, determines what an integrator can rely on and what a user can verify. It is not decided, so this page does not describe it. If you are building against a referral flow, there is nothing here to build against yet. Do not infer a design from how [fee tiers](/programs/fee-tiers) work — the resemblance is plausible, not planned. ## The standard this page will meet When the program is defined, it will be documented here before it starts accruing — not backdated, and not revealed after a period of activity it was quietly measuring. The launch is announced in the [protocol changelog](/protocol/roadmap/changelog). The specific thing worth insisting on is **whether a rebate can be recomputed from public data.** Everything the protocol charges today — rates, tiers, rebates — derives from committed blocks and can be checked by anyone. A referral balance that exists only in a database is a different kind of object, and it will be labelled as one rather than presented next to numbers that are verifiable. ## Where to go next Where fees go, including the referral pool. The rate reduction that is live today. The other reward program, and its status. Where a launch would be announced.