# Fees & payouts Fronex earns only on **trade fees** and **market creation fees**. There is no spread on the order book; the price you see is the price you pay. There is no deposit fee and no platform withdrawal fee — the only cost to move money is the TON network gas, and your withdrawal gas is paid by Fronex for you (it is never taken out of your USDT). ## Trade fees When you take an order (predict in or out of a market), a small percentage fee is taken from your trade. The baseline taker fee is **1.5%**, and makers (resting limit orders) pay **no fee**. The effective rate is then scaled by a per-pillar multiplier, by how active the market is, and by your 30-day trading volume (higher-volume traders pay less): | Pillar | Trade fee multiplier | Notes | | ---------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | Soccer | 0.8× | Auto-resolved via API-Football | | Crypto | 1.0× (baseline) | Auto-resolved via Binance + CoinGecko | | Entertainment | 1.2× | Semi-manual resolution | | Climate | 1.2× | Auto-resolved via Open-Meteo / NOAA | | **Community / Custom** | **1.5×** | Manual MO resolution | On top of this, **one pillar rotates to zero fee each week** (every Monday UTC), so a full category trades fee-free one week in five. ## Trade fee splits The trade fee is split four ways: 1. **Market Owner share — 50%.** The Market Owner who created the market earns half of every trade fee on it. 2. **Rebate pool — 30%.** Paid out daily, pro-rata, to the real makers who provided the liquidity you traded against. 3. **Treasury — 15%.** The platform's operating account. 4. **Insurance pool — 5%.** Held back to cover disputed resolutions and reversed-oracle refunds. ## Market creation fees Creating a market — whether as the platform or as a Market Owner — costs a flat USDT fee, paid at market creation time. The fee is **refunded in full** if your draft is rejected during admin review (for example, an AI clarity review rejection you can't or won't fix). | Pillar | Creation fee | Why | | ----------------------------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------- | | Soccer | $5 | Oracle-fed, minimal manual work | | Crypto | $5 | Oracle-fed, minimal manual work | | Entertainment | $15 | Semi-manual, verified against public sources | | Climate | $15 | Oracle-fed, but stricter parameters | | Community / Custom (Pillar 5) | $25 | Manual MO resolution | The exact fee is shown in the Mini App's Create flow before you commit. ## Where there are no fees * **No deposit fee.** Only the TON network gas applies, paid by your own wallet when you send the deposit, not by Fronex. The minimum deposit is **0.01 USDT**. * **No platform withdrawal fee, and no withdrawal gas charged to you.** Fronex sponsors the TON gas for your withdrawal — it is never deducted from your USDT balance. The minimum withdrawal is **1 USDT**. * **No idle-balance fee.** Holding USDT in your Fronex wallet costs nothing. * **No fee on the Bracket Challenge entry** beyond the stated entry fee. Round 1 is free; Round 2 is **$1 USDT**. Entry fees are 100% pooled, minus a **5% platform cut** declared on the entry screen. ## Payouts Payouts are credited **automatically** to your Fronex balance **at settlement** — there is nothing to claim: * **Auto-resolved markets**: shortly after the event ends, once the oracle result is in. * **Semi-manual markets** (Entertainment): within 24 hours. * **Community/Custom markets**: within 24 hours of the Market Owner setting the outcome. * **Bracket Challenge**: prizes are credited automatically once the tournament's end time passes and settlement runs — winnings are pushed straight to your balance, with no claim window. Payouts settle to your Fronex balance as USDT. From there, you can withdraw to any external TON wallet. ## What about the platform's wallet? Your funds live in **your own personal vault** ([Your wallet](/get-going/your-wallet.md)) — never in a shared platform pool. Fronex keeps its own separate operating wallets to pay out settlements quickly, but those never hold your balance and you never touch them. ## Refunds A draft market that is **rejected during admin review** has its creation fee returned in full to the creator, in the same step as the cancellation. Markets that **resolve to an outcome we then determine was wrong** trigger a refund of affected positions, paid from the insurance pool. We have not yet had to use this path; if we do, the post-mortem is published publicly. Tournaments that don't reach the minimum number of players are **cancelled, and every entry fee is refunded** to your balance automatically. ## Tax Fronex does not withhold tax on payouts. 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