It is sounding exactly like a pyramid scheme, with the scheme part. You do not ask for any affiliate networker anything beforehand, it never works that way, nobody who will invite people would want to be forced to pay for the privilege first, if you do that you will get less people than literally any other place.

You have to make affiliate a free thing, allow people to invite people without paying anything upfront, literally nowhere else does anything like that and succeed.

I once worked with an exchange and actually invited bunch of people from a project, then when I reached around 50 bucks I asked for a withdrawal, they said I have to deposit to withdraw ANY AMOUNT so I said no thanks and invited all of those people somewhere else. That exchange lost on thousands of dollars per day trading, just because they asked me to deposit ANY amount.