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Uniswap's Fee Switch
For now, 100% of the ~$2B fees accumulated pass through to LPs, with the protocol’s fee switch yet to...fee revenue....fees....Does the Fee Switch Move the Needle for UNI? Can Current Fees Support a Viable APR?...less fees as a result....revenue to governance, otherwise known as the fee switch.
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DeFi
Apr 2023
Dog Coins, Liquidations, and Metamask's Fee Capture
Perp Protocol recapitalizes its insurance fund Metamask earns nearly a million dollars a day in swap fees...At the current pace of growth, Metamask is estimated to earn over $20 million in swap fees for May 2021...lnuyDk0Ehf — Axie Infinity (@AxieInfinity) May 11, 2021 Ethereum miners earned $100 million in daily fees...
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DeFi
May 2021
Bitcoin Market Structure, Fees and Lightning
Bitcoin Fees Collected Reach Multi-Year Low Bitcoin miners’ earned fees are down to a 20 month low,...with just over 8 BTC worth of fees collected yesterday....At the height of the bull market, miners were pocketing over 200 BTC in daily fees, implying a whopping...
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Infrastructure
Sep 2021
MetaMask Revenues, DEX Fee Competition, and Aggregator Wars
Metamask levies a 0.875% fee on each swap, which is exorbitant by DeFi standards....The simple UX of swapping via the Metamask plug-in seems to trump the ludicrous fees the wallet charges...The introduction of a new low-fee tier was a recent catalyst....On centralized exchanges, traders are always looking for ways to move into a lower fee bracket.
3 Min
DeFi
Nov 2021
NFTs Resilient, GMX Fees Soar, & BTC Holders Capitulate
NFT Fees and Royalties to Exceed $300M in Jan With the rise of NFT volumes, OpenSea and NFT projects...have been earning massive fees....OpenSea has made $93M in marketplace fees, while projects have earned a cumulative $202M in royalty fees...Note: OpenSea charges 2.5% of volume as marketplace fees and a variable % of volume as royalty fee dependent...
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NFT Marketplace
Jan 2022
ENS Registrations Jump, L2 Traction Diverges, & Uniswap Fee Tiers
...v3 hit Ethereum mainnet, and if concentrated liquidity didn’t excite you as a trader, then lower fee...Close to 65% of Uniswap’s weekly volume was on the back of 0.05% fee pools, followed by the regular old...0.30% fee pool....Notably, the 0.01% fee tier, which launched just over a week ago, accounted for just under 7% of weekly...
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Infrastructure
Nov 2021
Solana's Isolated Fee Markets in Action
Fees stayed low and DeFi was unaffected....Priority fees worked as expected, but even still barely spiked....trading, and that’s when the true test will come and we’ll really get to see how effective Solana’s fee...standard, and all the recent improvements over the past year like Quic, stake weighted QoS, and localized fee...
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Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2023
Checking In On Ordinals, Fees, and Miners
During the BRC-20 craze, fees were sometimes 20% – 40% of Bitcoin’s block rewards....The increase in fees created a healthy bump in mining revenue...., and if the fees are declining, so too may the mining stock....fees for normal transactions....If Ordinal inscription fees decline, so to will other fees, which reduces miners’ revenue from them.
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Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2023
The Blur Fee Switch Debate
A week ago, Arca (a digital asset investment firm) submitted a proposal to turn on the fee switch for...Essentially, they propose that Blur: Implement a 1% base fee on all trades Use the fees to buy...back BLUR and burn it Implement a fee discount based on the amount of BLUR held The impetus for this...
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NFTs
Oct 2023
Memecoins Leaking Millions/day in Fees, Privacy, MEV & SocialFi
...social platforms like Friend Tech and Fantasy Top, as well as the FTX bankruptcy and the exorbitant fees...
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DeFi
May 2024
Perrenial's Unique Approach to Fees
As explained in this Medium post, Perennial has a unique approach to trading fees that it hopes will...Many derivatives projects lean partly on dynamic fees to balance reserves, risk, and/or compensate LPs...This can result in expensive fees that frustrate users and push them back to CEXs....Perennial’s bold approach uses little-to-no taker fees and high slippage.
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Derivatives
Feb 2023
Uniswap Labs Front End Fee Increased to 0.25%. Where to Trade?
Uniswap Labs has increased its fee on trades using the Uniswap Labs front ends from 0.15% to 0.25%....If you’ve still been using the official Uniswap interface since the initial fee implementation, at this...The interface fee goes to Uniswap Labs to fund the operations of the team building out products around...
3 Min
DeFi
Apr 2024
Are High ETH Fees Bullish or Bearish?
Are high ETH fees on Ethereum bullish or bearish?...This is why devs continue to launch on L1 despite the fees....When fees rise on L1 it impacts everything built on top, including L2s....The introduction of a new fee market is estimated to reduce rollup fees by ~10x....Are high fees bullish or bearish? Yes.
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Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Spot BTC ETF and Visa Transaction Fees...and Coinbase
Similar to Visa’s transaction fees, these are the equivalent of 10-15 bps on payment volume.
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Other
Jan 2024
What Would Happen If Uniswap Activated Its Fee Switch?
This has led many to speculate on the potential impact of its governance activating its highly debated fee...In our latest report, Uniswap’s Fee Switch, we quantify these impacts through detailed analysis/forecasts...for its volume, fee tier & pool type splits, projected yields, and what a rollout plan might look...
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DeFi
Apr 2023
Fee Switch for LDO? - New Proposal for LDO Staking
A new proposal presented by lidomaxi aims to address key issues faced by LDO holders. The proposal introduces an LDO staking module and buyback program that will enhance the token’s utility and alloca...
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Staking
May 2023
Uniswap Labs' New Frontend Fee is Not the End of the World
So you’ve probably heard of the new Uniswap Labs fee by now....The introduction of a front-end fee is not the end of world....You could use an aggregator like Matcha, 1inch, or CoW and completely avoid the front-end fee....Second, the introduction of this fee highlights that the entire “fee switch” debacle failing boils down...
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AMM
Oct 2023
Monetizing the Spread: The Playbook Behind Zero-Fee DEXs
The common critique of zero-fee trading venues is that the business can’t be profitable....Why not keep tight spreads and just charge normal or even high fees like others?...flow (via RPI and/or speed bumps) and drop taker fees to zero....Zero-fee model: taker fee 0 bps → maker pays ~1.0 bps on curated flow → venue nets ~1.0 bps; user pays...
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Derivatives
Oct 2025
The Blood of Moloch and Ve-Everything
Active Votes APWine, due to a lack of quorum in the first vote, is voting again to add a treasury-fee...Balancer is currently voting on modifying their protocol fees....Fee Restructuring: Prior to this vote, fees were slightly different across mStables products....To ensure a consistent experience for traders, mStable has consolidated their fees.
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DAO
Feb 2022
Curve: Crypto’s Forex Leader
Post CRV inflation, trading fees will become the primary demand driver for locking....If fees are not attractive, locking CRV would be much less desirable....Annualizing fees since September 13th, we come to about ~11M fees attributed to veCRV holders....Fee data is calculated based on volume data from this source.
7 Min
DeFi
Feb 2021