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# Fees and Protocol Revenue

Every basis point, and where it goes.

## On a spin

Fees are taken at settlement, not at purchase. That is why a spin whose randomness never arrives refunds the whole pack price.

| Fee               |              Rate | Where it goes                    | Cap |
| ----------------- | ----------------: | -------------------------------- | --: |
| Protocol          |         **2.50%** | Protocol fee wallet              |  5% |
| Jackpot feed      |         **0.50%** | The growing jackpot card's fund  |  2% |
| Golden Chest feed |         **1.00%** | The chest fund                   |  3% |
| **The rest**      | **the remainder** | The bankroll — funds the shelves |   — |

On a 100 USDG spin:

```
$100.00  pack price
   2.50  protocol         (2.5%)
   0.50  jackpot feed      (0.5%)
   1.00  Golden Chest feed (1.0%)
───────
  96.00  to the bankroll   (buys the cards that pay your face)
```

Only the 2.5% protocol fee is the operator's. The jackpot and chest feeds are player money in transit — they leave the vault and come back to players later, in larger, rarer chunks. The remainder funds the racks the machine draws from; those racks pay out at the published **\~90% effective RTP**.

## On selling a card back

The house doesn't hold your card at a stale price. It **burns the certificate, sells the stock on Uniswap V3, and pays you the proceeds**. You supply your own slippage floor on that sale, so the price you get is the real market price.

* Paid in USDG, or ETH if you route through the ZapRouter.
* Available for **2 days** after you win the card.
* Only for intact, machine-won cards. A split card can never sell back.
* Spread is contract-capped at 10%.

## On consignment

Lend a won card back to the machine instead of selling it.

|                                    |                                                                  |
| ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Consignors earn                    | **2.00%** of each spin, pro-rated by consigned share of the rack |
| House keeps when the card is drawn | **2.25%** of its face                                            |

The two are deliberately close: `consignPayoutFee ≈ consignFee / RTP` is the condition under which consignment nets to roughly zero for the bankroll at any level of participation, so consignors get paid without diluting LPs. See [Consignment](broken://pages/9e1d1ee32fe609815c4bff7fe6d71067956e3667).

## On the Bankroll Vault

{% hint style="info" %}
**No deposit fee. No withdrawal fee. No management fee. No performance fee.**
{% endhint %}

The only cost is time: withdrawals are two-step (request, then execute after a delay) and priced at NAV both ways. Current deploy: no deposit lockup, one-hour withdraw delay. Both are owner-tunable within hard caps — see [Parameters](broken://pages/5cd4150e8ab82c707dbfda2617eb3b89bd395e7e).

## What you pay that the protocol never sees

**Gas.** Robinhood Chain, paid in ETH — typically a fraction of a cent.

**Swap slippage.** Your ETH→USDG hop goes through Uniswap V3. The ZapRouter uses an exact-output swap and refunds every leftover wei, so you pay the pool's price and nothing more.

**Randomness.** TheVRF charges **nothing** per spin — `quoteFee` returns 0. The operator pays reveal gas out of protocol fees.

## The full picture

Of every $100 spun:

```
$2.50  →  protocol fee
$1.00  →  Golden Chest fund   →  to a random spinner in the window
$0.50  →  jackpot fund        →  to whoever hits the 0.05% tier
$96.00 →  the bankroll        →  funds the shelves that pay your card
```

The shelves return **\~90% effective RTP** to spinners (89.5% off the rack, \~90% with the jackpot feed). The chest and jackpot feeds are counted in that return — they are player money moved into rarer, larger payouts, not operator revenue.

## Fee changes

Fees are owner-settable within the caps above and **frozen while any spin is in flight** — your spin settles under the fees that existed when you bought it.

The caps themselves are `constant` in the bytecode. No transaction can raise them; changing one means deploying a new Machine at a new address.


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