Community partner setup
Bring Telegram communities to STRYK and earn from the ones you onboard.
This guide is for approved acquisition partners/KOLs. Community owners use a different setup flow.
The important part first
Application approval does not make you an active partner.
After approval, a STRYK admin still creates the partner record and sends your activation link. You then connect Telegram, and the partner must be activated before community onboarding links start working.
Partner statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Draft | Partner record exists, but no invite is active yet. |
| Invited | Activation link has been issued. |
| Bound | Your Telegram account is connected, but you are not live yet. |
| Active | Community onboarding and new partner earnings are enabled. |
| Paused | New activity is paused. |
| Revoked | The partner record is permanently disabled. |
Setup step by step
1. Apply
Open Communities and choose Apply as a Partner.
One application can be in review at a time.
2. Application review
STRYK reviews the application.
Approval means you can move into partner setup. It does not yet create an active onboarding link.
3. Partner record
A STRYK admin creates the partner record.
The record starts in Draft.
4. Activation link
The admin issues your one-time activation link, moving the record to Invited.
The link can expire. If it does, ask for a new one rather than trying to reuse the old invite.
5. Connect Telegram
Open the activation link in Telegram.
The bot confirms the partner identity and binds the correct Telegram account.
After this step the status is Bound.
Bound means you finished your side of setup. It does not mean your onboarding link is live yet.
If the activation link is opened from the wrong Telegram account, the binding is refused and needs a new admin-issued invite.
6. Activation
A STRYK admin activates the partner.
Once the status is Active:
- your community onboarding link works,
- new eligible community assignments can be credited to you,
- partner earnings can start under the active assignment terms.
Bringing in a community
- Open your Partner Hub.
- Copy your community onboarding link.
- Send it to the community owner.
- The owner opens the link and completes the normal community application/setup.
- When the owner submits the application, STRYK records the Partner connection if the onboarding link is still valid.
The community owner remains the owner of the community. The partner link only handles acquisition credit.
When attribution does not apply
A community can still complete setup even if partner attribution fails.
Common reasons include:
- partner is not Active,
- onboarding link expired or was rotated,
- link reached its use limit,
- partner reached a configured community cap,
- too much time passed between the owner opening the link and submitting the application.
Where the owner can continue without partner attribution, STRYK should make that choice explicit rather than silently dropping the assignment.
What partners earn
Partner earnings come from the referred community's referral share. They are not an extra fee charged to traders.
The current default assignment terms are:
- 15% to the acquisition partner,
- 85% stays with the community,
- for 12 months from community activation.
These are defaults. A specific assignment can use different approved terms, and an existing assignment keeps the terms it started with.
What you can see
The Partner Hub shows the trading volume connected to your referrals, your Partner earnings and the status of communities you brought in.
It does not expose the community owner's private earnings view.
If your Telegram setup is complete but the onboarding link still does not work, check the partner status. Bound means you are waiting for the final activation step.