Protocol Fees

How the protocol earns revenue

Anonymity Pool

The protocol charges a 0.3% withdrawal fee when a user withdraws from the anonymity pool using their secret note. Fees are collected for 7 days by the fee distribution contract then distributed evenly over the next 7 days as follows:

Contracts	Allocation
Treasury	20%
SHADE pool	40%
xSHADE pool	40%

Exiting Vesting Early

The protocol charges a 50% penalty fee for exiting vesting early on rewards earned from mining, this is collected by the SHADE distribution contract immediately then distributed evenly over the next 7 days to the xSHADE pool.

ShadeStaker

The protocol charges a 0.1% withdrawal fee when a user withdraws their unlocked SHADE from the ShadeStaker contract, all SHADE collected from ShadeStaker will be burned.