You Shared Peanut 40,000 Times. Now It Pays You Back.
We rebuilt rewards from scratch. Real money, real sharing, real earnings.
You Shared Peanut 40,000 Times. Now It Pays You Back.
The organic love
Over 40,000 times. That's how often Peanut users have shared the app with someone they know. Not because we asked. Not because there was a leaderboard or a points goal. Because the app solved a real problem and they wanted the people around them to have it too.
I've read the DMs. "I told my whole family about Peanut." Friends explaining the app to each other at meetups in Buenos Aires. Group chats passing around invite links. People who found a better way to send money to Argentina or pay with MercadoPago and wanted their friends to stop overpaying.
That kind of sharing doesn't come from marketing. It comes from a product that works.
The old system failed you
Here's the honest part: the rewards system we had before didn't deserve that loyalty.
It was points. Levels. Vague mechanics nobody understood. You'd share the app with five friends, check your rewards dashboard, and see a number that didn't mean anything concrete. When do the points convert? What are they worth? How many do I need?
People were sharing Peanut out of genuine generosity, and we gave them a system that didn't match their contribution. Points that felt disconnected from real value. Tiers that confused more than they rewarded. We built for metrics when we should have built for people.
That gap needed to close.
We burned it down and rebuilt
The new rewards system has one principle: if you bring someone to Peanut and they use it, you earn real money.
Here's how it works:
- Invite a friend. Share your referral link.
- They use Peanut. When your friend sends money, pays a merchant, or makes any transaction, Peanut earns revenue from that activity.
- You get a cut. A percentage of that revenue goes into your pending rewards balance. Real dollars, not points.
- Your friend invites their friends. You earn from those connections too. When your friend's friend uses Peanut, a share of that revenue also flows to you.
Rewards come from real activity. When the people you invited use Peanut, the revenue from their transactions funds your earnings. Every dollar you earn is backed by real usage.
And for new users? Two surprise rewards after they start using the app. After their first QR payment, a surprise: "$0.35 earned!" Then after their second payment, another one: "$0.65 earned!" Two genuine surprises, not something they know about upfront. A small thank-you for trusting a friend's recommendation.
No points. No levels. No confusion. Money.
Show me the numbers
Each time you claim rewards, you're looking at $0.08 to $2.40 depending on how active your referrals have been. Those claims add up. The friend you invited last month is still earning you rewards this month. And next month. And when they invite someone, that person's activity flows to you too. One invite can branch into a network of ongoing earnings.
The math is simple: the more people in your network who actively use Peanut, the more frequently you earn, and the larger each claim gets. There's no cap on what you can earn.
Most referral programs give a one-time signup bonus. Peanut rewards keep going — every transaction, not just the first.
How you claim rewards
Rewards accumulate in a pending balance you can see in the app. To claim them, you make a payment as you normally would. After the payment completes, the app prompts you to claim your available rewards. The claimed amount moves to your spendable balance.
There's no separate button to hunt for. Claiming happens naturally as part of using Peanut. You spend, you claim, your balance grows.
Points vs. rewards
Points still exist, but they're a separate system. Points are a gamification score earned from activity. They have no direct monetary value. They're used for leaderboards, seasonal promotions, and status.
Rewards are real dollars earned from referrals. Different system, different purpose. When I say "we rebuilt rewards," I mean the money part. Points do their own thing.
This is what you deserved from day one
I want to be direct about why we built this. It wasn't a growth hack.
It was because the community that grew Peanut organically deserved a system that matched their generosity. You told your friends, your family, your coworkers. You explained how to pay like a local in Argentina without needing a DNI. You walked people through their first payment. You did what only a real community can do.
The old system didn't honor that. This one does.
Your referral link is in the app right now. Every person who joins through it and uses Peanut puts real money in your pending balance, and so does every person they invite. Simple, transparent, ongoing.
To everyone who shared Peanut before there was any real incentive to: thank you. The product is finally catching up to the community that built it.
-- Konrad
