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RivrDEX charges a single, flat fee on every swap. There are no hidden fees, no protocol cut, and no separate gas costs.

Fee summary

Fee typeAmountWho receives it
Swap fee0.35% of input amountLiquidity providers (proportional to pool share)
Protocol feeNone
Gas feeNone

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
The 3.5 VARA fee stays in the pool — it is never extracted as a separate transfer.

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.
2

Fees accumulate

Every swap against that pool adds 0.35% to the reserves. Your LP tokens grow in value with every trade.
3

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.
Your fee earnings are proportional to your share of the pool. If you own 10% of a pool’s LP tokens, you receive 10% of all fees that pool has ever earned (minus fees earned before you joined).

No gas fees

Vara Network’s architecture means you do not pay a separate gas cost when swapping on RivrDEX. The 0.35% swap fee is the only cost of a trade.
This is one of the core advantages of building on Vara. Traditional EVM chains charge gas on top of swap fees. On RivrDEX, what you see is what you pay.

Protocol fee

There is currently no protocol fee. 100% of every swap fee goes directly to liquidity providers. This may change in the future through a governance or protocol upgrade — any such change would be publicly announced.