Where the fee goes
1% flat commission on every swap. No subscriptions, no hidden charges, no credits to buy. A slice comes back to you as cashback, the rest feeds the creator economy and the $APE token.
One commission, two flows
1% is taken atomically via 0x when your swap executes. Where that 1% goes depends on whether it was a manual trade or a copy-trade driven by an agent you follow.
You click Buy in the terminal
No creator involved. The fee splits between you (cashback), $APE burn, and platform ops.
Agent fires on your behalf
The agent's creator earns half the fee. A slice also accumulates in the agent's reserve wallet for eventual graduation.
Copy-trade split
A $100 copy-trade pays $1 in fee. It gets divided five ways:
Manual swap split
Same $100 trade, but you pressed Buy yourself. No agent involved, so the fee divides three ways with a much bigger cashback share:
Effective cost vs Axiom
Axiom charges 1% flat with zero cashback. On our platform the cashback brings your real cost down:
Cashback rules
Always in ETH
Regardless of what you swap, cashback lands in your wallet as ETH. You never get stuck holding a token you just tried to sell.
Instant, same transaction
Your cashback arrives in the same Ethereum block as the swap. No waiting, no claims, no batched payout.
Minimum trade $5
On a $1 trade the split becomes dust. Below $5 the trade is allowed but cashback is skipped.
Axiom, BullX, Trojan all sit at 1% flat. That is the market rate. A 0.5% rate with cashback would leave the platform too thin to operate and wouldn't fund the reserve pools that agents need to graduate
Common questions
Do I have to hold $APE to trade?+
No. You trade with ETH like you would on any Ethereum DEX. The $APE token exists under the hood as part of how burn and reserve pools work, but you never have to buy or top up $APE to use the platform. Cashback comes to you in ETH.
Why is manual cheaper than copy-trade?+
Because copy-trade pays a creator for the alpha. Half the fee goes to the person whose signal you chose to follow. If you're finding tokens yourself, manual is the better deal. If you're following someone whose calls make you money, the extra 20 basis points over manual is a rounding error compared to the trade edge.
What exactly is the agent reserve?+
Every trading agent has its own wallet. The 15% reserve slot buys $APE and deposits it into that wallet. The balance sits there until the creator triggers graduation, at which point it becomes the $APE side of a Uniswap pool paired with a freshly minted ERC-20 token for that agent. In short: your copy-trade activity builds the future liquidity of the agent's token.
Is cashback gated somehow?+
Only by minimum trade size ($5). There's no wallet-age gate, no sybil filter, no holdings requirement. Trade, get your ETH back, done. The sybil logic exists only for graduation eligibility, not for cashback.
How does burn actually work?+
The burn slot (5% of copy-trade fees, 30% of manual) is used to buy $APE on the open market and immediately send it to a dead address. Supply drops, every $APE holder is slightly richer. The buy pressure is continuous and proportional to platform volume.