Trading Fees and Gas Fees
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All trading fees are paid in USDC. This includes protocol fees paid to makers (i.e., liquidity providers).
0.10% on all trades.
For example, when you open or close a position with a value of 10,000 USDC, the trading fee will be:
= 0.001*10,000 USDC = 10 USDC
You can check the fees paid for your trades here:
Currently, makers earn 80% of fees while the rest goes towards the insurance fund.
Since Perp v2 is based on Ethereum's Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism, you'll have to pay L2 gas fees in ETH to execute a transaction whenever you open or close a position. There's also a gas fee to publish your transaction on L1 in a rollup batch.
You can track the gas fees in terms of both ETH and USD using this .
To learn more about how gas fees work on Optimism, check out this guide: