Trading Fees
There are two types of trading fees you will see on VELA Exchange: Position and Funding fees
Position Fee:
- Crypto Asset - To open a position, you will need to pay a maximum 0.25% fee of the position size opened. Same amount must be paid to close a position.
- Forex Asset - To open a position, you will need to pay a maximum 0.015% fee of the position size closed. Same amount must be paid to close a position.
Funding Fee: Once a position is opened it starts to accrue funding fees based on how much is being borrowed from the vault and the current funding rate (which resets every 6 hours and is also dependent on if Long (L) or Short (S) as shown in the image below). The longer a position is held open the higher the funding fee will be which is paid out upon closing the position.
As an example, assume you open a $10,000 ETH Long position with 5x leverage (meaning you're borrowing $8,000) and you close this trade out completely 6 hours later, or 2 funding periods. Also assume the rate (0.051%) given in the above image doesn't change over this 6 hour period. Your total funding fee would be:
TIP: In order to pay less Trading Fees on any asset class, users can stake VELA and/or eVELA tokens. (see table below.)
Staked VELA + eVELA | Discount |
|---|---|
500 | 2% |
2,500 | 3% |
5,000 | 5% |
10,000 | 10% |
25,000 | 15% |
50,000 | 20% |
100,000 | 30% |
250,000 | 40% |
500,000 | 50% |
50% → VLP pool (in USDC)
10% → VLP stakers (in eVELA)
5% → VELA stakers (in USDC)
10% → VELA stakers (in eVELA)
25% → Treasury Fund
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