PILLAR 04 · MARKETPLACE DOMINATOR · osman.is

Affiliates paid
at the moment
of sale.

Gumroad holds affiliate payouts 7 days. Lemon Squeezy: 30 days. Both destroy evangelism. osman.is: a revenue-split smart contract disburses creator / affiliate / platform fee in the same transaction as the purchase. Your sharers see their balance grow in real time.

📋 PLANNED · Q4 2026 INSTANT PAYOUT ON-CHAIN SPLIT

⚠ Why affiliate programs fizzle

Creator launches affiliate program → sharers post on X / TikTok / newsletter → sales happen → affiliate waits 30 days for a Stripe payout that might reverse on refund. Most quit after the first cycle. The liquidity gap kills the flywheel.

Impact.com internal 2025: median affiliate earns <$50/month because the 30-day hold kills enthusiasm before they hit volume.

✅ Our answer

Every product listed on osman.is has an optional revenue-split contract. Affiliate link clicks embed the affiliate's wallet address. When a sale clears, a single on-chain transaction pays the creator (70%) + affiliate (20%) + platform (10%) — parameterizable per product. Balance hits the affiliate's wallet in seconds.

Sharer experience: their USDC balance bumps while they're still typing the next tweet. That's the hit. That's why they'll share 100x more.
▸ How it splits

One transaction. Three wallets. Zero holds.

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Affiliate link embeds wallet

osman.is/r/0x4a8f...?p=os-trader — the 0x... is the affiliate's wallet. Click tracked via signed cookie. Attribution survives page reloads, cart abandonment, and cross-device purchases (magic-link resumption).

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Revenue-split smart contract

Pre-deployed on Solana (one per product OR per creator). Signed at product creation time with params: creator_share · affiliate_share · platform_share. Immutable once live.

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Atomic payout at purchase

Buyer pays in USDC (or fiat→USDC auto-swap for card payments). Smart contract receives total → executes 3 transfers → settlement final. No holds, no chargeback risk (chargebacks handled via platform reserve).

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Real-time dashboard

Affiliate sees: wallet balance · clicks / conversions live · per-product performance · leaderboard vs other affiliates. Gamification → evangelism flywheel.

▸ Why this is the viral loop

Liquidity compounds evangelism.

When an affiliate sees their balance tick up in real time, they share the next product 10x harder. When they wait 30 days, they churn. Speed of payout = speed of referral loop. Gumroad can't do this — their Stripe integration locks them into multi-day settlement. We can, because we pay on-chain in USDC.

Platform fee (10%) funds: the HSM / custodial infrastructure (Pillar 3) · the tax engine (Pillar 1) · the chargeback reserve · the AI Copilot compute (Pillar 5). One unified fee across the whole stack.

Gemini's framing: "If you use Solana to pay affiliates and creators instantly (or within 24 hours), you win the liquidity war. Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy hold money for 7–14 days. Affiliates flip to the platform that pays them NOW."
▸ Build timeline

Q4 2026 target.

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