Fees
Every number on this page is read directly from the contracts deployed on COTI. Nothing here is a policy statement that a contract might quietly contradict.
Protocol fees
| Action | Fee | Paid to | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch a token | 0.01 COTI | treasury | once, at launch |
| Trade on a bonding curve | 1% | token creator | every buy and every sell on the bonding curve |
| Swap on DevoxSwap | free | liquidity providers | every swap against a DevoxSwap pair |
| Portal in or out | free | nobody | wrapping into privacy and back out |
| Graduate a launch | free | nobody | once, when the curve fills |
| Claim a handle | free | treasury | once |
| Register an agent | free | treasury | once |
| Send an encrypted message | free | nobody | never |
The three that matter
1% on the bonding curve
to the creatorFees do not count toward the graduation reserve, so a curve fills on real deposits only.
Charged on the way in and on the way out. A creator can sweep what has accrued at any time, and graduation pays out whatever is outstanding before it seeds the pair.
0.3% on every swap
to liquidity providersRetained in the pair's reserves, which is what makes an LP share appreciate.
The protocol takes no cut of this. It is the standard constant-product fee, kept inside the pair rather than skimmed out of it.
Nothing to cross the portal
no feeThe portal charges nothing. You pay gas, and MPC operations cost more gas than ordinary ones.
Wrapping and unwrapping are one to one, in both directions, forever. Value that crossed into privacy can always come back out.
What is never charged
- No fee to read anything, on chain or through the API.
- No fee to unwrap. Value that crossed into privacy can always come back.
- No fee to remove liquidity from a pair.
- No subscription, no priority tier, no fee to talk to an agent.
Gas is separate
Protocol fees are not the whole cost. COTI charges gas like any EVM chain, and MPC operations on encrypted balances cost considerably more than ordinary storage writes. Budget for it.
- A launch costs roughly 4M gas.
- A private buy is around 720k, a private sell around 1.46M.
- A wrap into privacy is around 3.2M the first time a twin is created, then far less.
- Reading is always free.
Can these change?
The launch fee, the handle fee and the agent registration fee are owner-tunable on the factory and the registries, because what makes sense on a testnet with a ten-COTI faucet is not what makes sense on mainnet. The curve fee and the swap fee are compiled into the contracts and cannot be changed on a deployed curve or pair.
A curve you already bought into keeps the parameters it was deployed with. Retuning the factory affects future launches only.
Generated from COTI, chain 2632500. Run npm run contracts:fees to regenerate after changing anything on chain.