Orion Project Review: Ecommerce ruse MLM crypto Ponzi
Orion Project fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
Orion Project’s website domain (“oriongroup.app”), was privately registered on March 15th, 2025.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
Orion Project’s Products
Orion Project has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market Orion Project affiliate membership itself.
Orion Project affiliates are able to list products Orion Marketplace. Orion Marketplace appears to be a non-public ecommerce platform (no indication it actually exists).
Orion Project affiliates must also pay 50 tether USDT if they want access to a crypto debit card.
Orion Project’s Compensation Plan
Orion Project affiliates pay 15 USDT a month. Upon selecting a membership tier, they are then able to invest USDT on the promise of advertised returns:
- Basica [sic] – up to 0.5% a day capped at 200%
- Premium – up to 1% a day capped at 300%
Note the Basica tier also receives lower MLM commission rates. It’s unclear why it exists.
Also note that Orion Group
- slugs a 10% fee on all investments
- an ongoing 5% fee of USDT invested
- a 5% withdrawal fee and
- a 10% withdrawal fee if made with the 50 USDT crypto debit card
The MLM side of Orion Project pays on recruitment of affiliate investors.
Orion Project Affiliate Ranks
There are eight affiliate ranks within Orion Project’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Sirius – invest 250 USDT, recruit two affiliates and generate 1000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Altair – invest 500 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Sirius or higher ranked affiliates and generate 5000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Vega – invest 1000 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Altair or higher ranked affiliates and generate 15,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Polaris – invest 2500 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Vega or higher ranked affiliates and generate 50,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Arcturus – invest 5,000 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Polaris or higher ranked affiliates and generate 65,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Aldebaran – invest 10,000 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Arcturus or higher ranked affiliates and generate 150,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Rigel – invest 15,000 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Aldebaran or higher ranked affiliates and generate 400,000 USDT in downline investment volume
- Antares – invest 25,000 USDT, maintain two personally recruited Rigel or higher ranked affiliates and generate 1,000,000 USDT in downline investment volume
Note that no more than 80% of required downline investment volume can come from any side of the binary team.
Recruitment Commissions
Basica tier Orion Project affiliates earn a 5% referral commission on USDT initially invested by recruited affiliates.
Premier tier Orion Project affiliates earn a 10% referral commission.
Residual Commissions
Orion Project pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.
A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):
The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).
Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.
Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.
At the end of an unspecified pay period, Orion Project tallies up affiliate membership volume on both sides of the binary team.
- Basica tier membership counts at 50% of generated volume
- Premier tier membership counts at 100% of generated volume
Once tallied up, a percentage is paid on volume generated on the weaker binary team side:
- Basica tier affiliates receive a 5% residual commission rate
- Premier tier affiliates receive a 10% residual commission rate
Sales Bonus
Orion Project affiliates earn a 20% commission on products sold through their claimed Orion Marketplace platform.
Joining Orion Project
Orion Project affiliate membership is 15 USDT a month.
Orion Project Conclusion
With practically every aspect of Orion Project not transparently disclosed to consumers, it should come as no surprise it’s external revenue ruse is vague too:
As it stands the only verifiable source of revenue entering Orion Project is new investment.
Using new investment to pay affiliate investors would make Orion Project a Ponzi scheme.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.
This will starve Orion Group of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.
The math behind Ponzi schemes guarantees that when they collapse, the majority of participants lose money.