Overview
AdaLink is a free affiliate marketing platform that lets Cardano projects pay content creators in ADA for driving real results — sign-ups, stake-pool delegations, token purchases, and tipping flows. The platform works for stake-pool operators, token issuers, and any project that wants creator-driven promotion tied to verifiable actions. What sets it apart is that every payout happens in ADA directly — there is no native AdaLink token to hold or stake.
The platform is run by the team behind Frenchies Club, a Cardano NFT community focused on Web3 marketing and content creation. AdaLink lives on Cardano mainnet, where campaign tracking and reward distribution are recorded on-chain so projects and affiliates can both verify the outcome.
Key Features
- Pay creators in ADA, not platform tokens. Rewards are settled directly in ADA when a tracked action completes, so creators do not have to claim, swap, or hold a separate utility token to access what they earned1.
- Four campaign types in one platform. Projects can run stake-pool delegation drives, token promotion campaigns, affiliate-program listings, and creator tipping links — each with its own dashboard and tracking2.
- On-chain tracking and attribution. Affiliate actions and reward distributions are tied to Cardano transactions, which means projects can audit who drove which result and creators can see proof of their payouts3.
- Built around content creators, not advertisers. The Frenchies Club parent community runs workshops, sponsorships, and monetization paths for creators, so the platform sits inside an existing creator network rather than starting from zero1.
- Public roadmap and open-source repos. Documentation lives on GitBook, and the AdaLink GitHub organisation hosts the platform code along with proof-of-achievement repos for past Project Catalyst funding rounds4.
What to Expect
Projects launching a campaign pick a campaign type — stake pool, token promotion, affiliate program, or creator tip link — set the reward structure, and publish a listing. Creators browse open campaigns at the content-creators directory, opt in to the ones that match their audience, and share their unique tracking links across social channels, livestreams, or written content.
When a tracked action lands on-chain, AdaLink credits the affiliate and triggers an ADA payout. The Knowledge Base on the platform walks new affiliates and projects through onboarding, and tutorial videos cover the same ground for people who prefer to watch2.
The community side leans on Frenchies Club and active channels on Discord and X for support and announcements. Project Catalyst has funded earlier AdaLink milestones — public Fund 11 and Fund 12 proof-of-achievement repositories document completed work — though three more recent Fund 12 proposals (a Frenchie orderbook DEX, Multichain Tip Links, and Cardano Ads) were submitted but did not receive funding5. The platform itself runs independently of that outcome.
