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Fees and revenue model
Vaelun charges no protocol fee. What a swap actually costs you, and where revenue would go if a fee is introduced.
Summary
The Vaelun protocol fee is 0%. Cross-Chain Swaps and Private Swaps both carry no Vaelun fee: what you receive is decided by the route, not reduced by a charge of ours.
What a swap costs you is network gas, the routing provider's own costs, bridge costs where a route uses one, and price impact. Those belong to the networks and providers carrying your route and are not Vaelun revenue.
If a protocol fee is introduced later, the Revenue model page already describes how that revenue would be allocated.
What you may pay beyond the Vaelun fee
- Network gas on the source chain, and on the destination chain where a route requires it.
- Provider, solver or market-maker costs, already reflected in the output the quote shows you.
- Bridge and cross-chain messaging costs on routes that use them.
- Liquidity costs and price impact, which grow with trade size and thin markets.
- Third-party execution fees charged by a routing provider on its own account.
None of these are Vaelun revenue, and none of them are set or controlled by Vaelun. They belong to the networks and providers that carry your route. Only the protocol fee described on this page is Vaelun's.
No hidden markup
The fee is requested by Vaelun's server, never by the browser, and the routing provider's response is bound back to that request before a quote is shown. A response that returns a fee Vaelun did not ask for, or a larger one than it asked for, is rejected rather than displayed.
The review screen shows the Vaelun fee on every quote, including when it is zero. A zero line is information, not an omission.
Where a fee would go
Protocol fees would be Vaelun's only revenue from swap activity. With the fee at zero there is none today, so nothing is being collected and nothing is being allocated.
The allocation that would apply across buybacks, community rewards, treasury, development and listings is published, unchanged, on the Revenue model page.