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# Trading Fees

> Maker/taker fees on Intention use a 14-day rolling volume schedule with additional rebates for top market makers and group-based contract pricing.

Intention charges maker and taker fees per fill. Fees are determined by your 14-day rolling volume tier, with separate schedules for perpetuals and spot. Exceptional market makers earn additional rebates, and all trading fees flow back to community infrastructure — the liquidity vault, insurance fund, and listing deployers — rather than to a corporate treasury.

## Volume tiers

Your tier is derived from a weighted 14-day rolling volume, where spot counts double:

```
14d weighted volume = 14d perps volume + 2 × 14d spot volume
```

The tier is recomputed in the first block after each UTC midnight and applied to all sub-accounts under a master account. New accounts start at tier 0.

| Tier | 14-day volume | Perp taker | Perp maker |
| ---- | ------------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| 0    | —             | 0.0450%    | 0.0150%    |
| 1    | > \$5M        | 0.0400%    | 0.0120%    |
| 2    | > \$25M       | 0.0350%    | 0.0080%    |
| 3    | > \$100M      | 0.0300%    | 0.0040%    |
| 4    | > \$500M      | 0.0280%    | 0.0000%    |
| 5    | > \$2B        | 0.0260%    | 0.0000%    |
| 6    | > \$7B        | 0.0240%    | 0.0000%    |

Spot fees follow a similar ladder, starting at 7 bps taker / 4 bps maker at tier 0 and reaching 3 bps taker / 0 bps maker at the top.

## Market maker rebates

Market makers whose 14-day maker volume exceeds a fixed share of total platform maker volume earn an additional rebate on top of their tier:

| Share of total maker volume | Extra maker rebate |
| --------------------------- | ------------------ |
| > 0.5%                      | -0.001%            |
| > 1.5%                      | -0.002%            |
| > 3.0%                      | -0.003%            |

<Tip>
  Rebates are credited as negative fees at fill time and show up as positive balance deltas in your fee account.
</Tip>

## Contract groups

Contracts are grouped into six tiers by liquidity profile, and each group can carry its own schedule:

* **Group 1 (Majors)** — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP. Tightest spreads, lowest taker fees, institutional maker rebates.
* **Group 2 (High growth)** — Large caps with strong depth.
* **Group 3 (Mid-tier liquidity)** — Mid caps with steady flow.
* **Group 4 (Mid-tier activation)** — Growing liquidity, modestly higher takers.
* **Group 5 (Long tail)** — Lower liquidity; new USDT perps list here by default.
* **Group 6 (Pre-market + Innovation Zone)** — Highest risk, pre-market listings.

Group assignments and rates are reviewed monthly.

## Where fees go

Trading fees are credited to a protocol-controlled fee account and periodically distributed:

* Liquidity (HLP / liquidation vault) rewards
* Insurance fund top-ups
* Spot token deployers (up to 50% of fees on their listings)
* Referral rebates

The insurance fund and fee account are fully on-chain. Movements from the insurance fund require a validator quorum.

## Special accounts

Negotiated rates may apply to select partners. Unless a special agreement is in place, everyone trades on the same public schedule.

<Note>
  Fee values shown above are the pre-launch schedule and may be re-tuned before mainnet. The schedule will remain configurable on-chain after launch via governance.
</Note>