PoolPay$ Review: Gaming ruse MLM crypto Ponzi
PoolPay$ fails to provide ownership or executive information on its websites.
PoolPay$ operates from two website domains:
- poolpays.com – privately registered on September 9th, 2025
- poolpays.app – privately registered on an unknown date
Despite only existing for a few months, on its website PoolPay$ falsely claims it
has already moved over $80 million during its pre-launch from 2023 to July 2025.
Of note is PoolPay$’s website defaulting to Portuguese. This suggests whoever is running PoolPay$ is probably fluent in Portuguese.
One name we can tie to PoolPay$ is Thiago Malcher, author of PoolPay$’s official marketing presentation:

I wasn’t able to find anything further on Malcher with respect to PoolPay$. Thiago however is a common Portuguese name.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
PoolPay$’s Products
PoolPay$ has no retailable products or services.
Promoters are only able to market PoolPay$ promoter membership itself.
PoolPay$’s Compensation Plan
PoolPay$ promoters invest 10 USDC or more on the promise of a passive return:
- invest for 1 day and receive 0.5%
- invest for 5 days and receive 0.6% a day
- invest for 10 days and receive 0.7% a day
- invest for 20 days and receive 0.9% a day
The MLM side of PoolPay$ pays on recruitment of promoter investors.
PoolPay$ Promoter Ranks
There are twenty promoter ranks within PoolPay$’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Rank 1 – sign up as a PoolPay$ promoter and invest 100 USDC
- Rank 2 – invest 200 USDT and recruit two Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 3 – invest 300 USDC and recruit three Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 4 – invest 400 USDC and maintain three personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 5 – invest 500 USDC and maintain three personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 6 – invest 600 USDC and recruit five Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 7 – invest 700 USDC and maintain five personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 8 – invest 800 USDC and maintain five personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 9 – invest 900 USDC and maintain five personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 10 – invest 1000 USDC and maintain five personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 11 – invest 1100 and recruit seven Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 12 – invest 1200 USDC and maintain seven personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 13 – invest 1300 USDC and maintain seven personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 14 – invest 1400 USDC and maintain seven personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 15 – invest 1500 USDC and maintain seven personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 16 – invest 1600 USDC and recruit ten Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 17 – invest 1700 USDC and maintain ten personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 18 – invest 1800 USDC and maintain ten personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 19 – invest 1900 USDC and maintain ten personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
- Rank 20 – invest 2000 USDC and maintain ten personally recruited Rank 1 or higher promoters
While not explicitly clarified, I believe required investment amounts must be active in order to qualify toward rank promotion.
ROI Match
PoolPay$ pays a ROI Match through a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places a promoter at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited promoter placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 promoters recruit new promoters, they are placed on level 2 of the original promoter’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 promoters recruit new promoters, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
PoolPay$ caps payable unilevel team levels at twenty.
The ROI Match is paid as a percentage of the daily return paid across these twenty levels based on rank:
- Rank 1 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1 (personally recruited promoters)
- Rank 2 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1 and 8% on level 2
- Rank 3 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2 and 3% on level 3
- Rank 4 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on level 4
- Rank 5 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 and 5
- Rank 6 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 6
- Rank 7 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 7
- Rank 8 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 8
- Rank 9 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 9
- Rank 10 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 10
- Rank 11 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 11
- Rank 12 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 12
- Rank 13 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 13
- Rank 14 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 14
- Rank 15 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 15
- Rank 16 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 16
- Rank 17 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on levels 4 to 17
- Rank 18 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3, 2% on levels 4 to 17 and 3% on level 18
- Rank 19 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3, 2% on levels 4 to 17, 3% on level 18 and 5% on level 19
- Rank 20 promoters earn a 20% match on level 1, 8% on level 2, 3% on level 3, 2% on levels 4 to 17, 3% on level 18, 5% on level 19 and 8% on level 20
Joining PoolPay$
PoolPay$ promoter membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum 100 USDC investment.
PoolPay$ Conclusion
PoolPay$ represents it generates external revenue through gaming operations:

PoolPay$ doesn’t provide any evidence of registration with a gaming authority, so it’s assumed the represented gaming operations are unlicensed.
Also not provided is verifiable evidence PoolPay$ generates external revenue of any kind, gaming or otherwise.
PoolPay$’s business model also fails the Ponzi logic test. If PoolPay$ is already generating external revenue from purported gaming activity, what does it need your money for?
As it stands the only revenue entering PoolPay$ is new investment.
Using new investment to pay ROI withdrawals would make PoolPay$ a Ponzi scheme.
Additionally, with nothing marketed or sold to retail customers, the MLM side of PoolPay$ operates as a pyramid scheme.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once promoter recruitment dries up so too will new investment.
This will starve PoolPay$ of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.
Math guarantees that when a Ponzi scheme inevitably collapses, the majority of participants lose money.

