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Written by an operator.

Alex Badea, the affiliate and growth operator who writes Evolveify, photographed at his desk
18+
years
3×
continents
∞
P&L cycles

Alex Badea — currently operating in regulated finance at naga.com. Evolveify is the dispatch from that desk.

Eighteen years inside CFD, iGaming, crypto and regulated fintech — building affiliate programs, fixing broken funnels, scaling growth across EMEA, APAC and LATAM. Both sides of the table: the operator shipping the program, and the partner negotiating against it.

Evolveify exists because the affiliate economy in regulated finance is being rebuilt in real time and nobody is writing about it honestly. Most published coverage is recycled press releases or vendor-paid LinkedIn essays. This is what operators actually say to each other — three times a week, in writing, with names and numbers.

Footprint

Operated, not advised.

EMEA
92%
12y operating

UK, DE, CY, MT, RO. CFD + iGaming partner programs end-to-end.

APAC
74%
8y operating

SG, PH, ID, MY. Localized acquisition + native compliance.

LATAM
61%
5y operating

BR, MX, CO. Funnel design through regulatory transitions.

Timeline

Receipts. In order.

  1. 2007
    EMEA · Bucharest

    First desk: retail brokerage

    Cut teeth on lead funnels for a CFD broker — back when 'affiliate' meant a banner and a CSV.

  2. 2011
    EMEA · London

    Built the first multi-jurisdiction partner program

    Compliance-first revshare structure across UK, CY, MT — the template most CFD brands still rip off.

  3. 2014
    APAC · Singapore

    Scaled growth into APAC

    Localized acquisition through PH, ID, MY. Discovered the gap between agency rhetoric and on-the-ground performance.

  4. 2017
    Crypto · Global

    Operated growth through the first ICO cycle

    Stress-tested attribution when every traffic source was simultaneously on fire and printing money.

  5. 2020
    iGaming · LATAM

    Opened LATAM funnel for a tier-1 operator

    BR, MX, CO. Real-time CPA-to-revshare arbitration during regulatory whiplash.

  6. 2024
    Fintech · EU

    Currently operating at naga.com

    Affiliate & growth in regulated finance. Writing Evolveify from inside the room — Mon, Wed, Fri.

What people say

What the room actually says.

Alex is the only operator I'll forward to my exec team without redacting first.
VP Growth, Tier-1 EU broker
Evolveify is the dispatch our compliance head reads before our own internal memo.
Head of Partnerships, Crypto exchange
He builds programs the way auditors wish more programs were built.
Regulatory advisor, MFSA-registered firm
Signal feed

Intercepts

What the room is saying this week.

INTERCEPT · Tier-1 EU broker◆

The affiliate team is being absorbed into brand by Q4. Nobody knows what happens to the revshare contracts.

— VP Growth, Tier-1 EU broker
INTERCEPT · Crypto exchange◆

Three IB agreements killed in a week. AI-generated traffic was indistinguishable from real volume until behavioral checks ran.

— Head of Partnerships, Crypto exchange
INTERCEPT · MFSA-registered firm◆

Three operators preparing to move to Dubai before the next ESMA sweep. Their affiliates haven't been told.

— Regulatory advisor, MFSA-registered firm

The manifesto

I don't advise. I'm still in it. The affiliate economy outgrew the agencies covering it; Evolveify is a dispatch from inside the room.

Premise

The advisory layer is broken.

Every analyst publication is one career-pivot removed from the actual mechanics.

The operators left running CFD, iGaming, crypto and regulated fintech funnels stopped writing publicly years ago.

The alpha disappeared into Slack DMs and private decks.

Evolveify reverses that. Three issues a week, written from a desk that still owns a P&L.

Position

Insider, not influencer.

I do not run courses. I do not sell leads.

I do not take retainers from the platforms I cover.

The newsletter is the product — and the constraint that keeps it honest.

Cadence

Mon · Wed · Fri. No filler.

Field intel on Monday.

Regulatory + platform shifts on Wednesday.

A single contrarian read on Friday.

If I don't have signal, I don't ship.

Discretion

Names redacted. Numbers verified.

Sources are protected. Quotes are real.

If a number cannot be triangulated, it does not enter the dispatch.

Trust here is the only moat that compounds.

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Alex Badea
Operator · Evolveify
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