Fee summary
Swap fee
Every swap deducts 0.35% from the input token before the trade executes against the pool. Example: You swap 1,000 VARA for another token.- Fee: 1,000 × 0.0035 = 3.5 VARA
- Amount used to buy: 996.5 VARA
- Of that fee, 3 VARA (0.3%) accrues to the pool’s liquidity providers and 0.5 VARA (0.05%) is the protocol share.
How fees accrue to liquidity providers
When you provide liquidity to a pool, you receive LP tokens representing your proportional share of that pool’s reserves. Fees are not paid out immediately. Instead, they are added directly to the pool’s reserves. As fees accumulate, each LP token represents a slightly larger share of the total reserves over time.1
Deposit tokens
You add token X and token Y to a pool in equal value. You receive LP tokens in return.
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Fees accumulate
Every swap against that pool adds its 0.3% LP share to the reserves. Your LP tokens grow in value with every trade.
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Withdraw and collect
When you remove liquidity and burn your LP tokens, you receive your share of the current reserves — which now includes all accumulated fees.
Near-zero network fees
Vara Network’s architecture keeps the network fee of a swap at a near-zero amount of VARA — a fraction of a cent. In practice, the 0.35% swap fee is the only cost that matters. Your first swap doesn’t even need that: RivrDEX covers its network fee with a gas voucher, so it works with a zero VARA balance.This is one of the core advantages of building on Vara. Traditional EVM chains charge meaningful gas on top of swap fees. On RivrDEX, what you see is what you pay.