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Trading Fees

Trading fees depend on your VIP tier and whether your order is maker or taker. Base tier is Spot 0.08% maker / 0.10% taker and Perp 0.01% maker / 0.04% taker. See VIP Tiers & Fee Discounts for the complete schedule.
Maker orders add liquidity and have lower fees; taker orders consume liquidity and have higher fees. Market orders are usually taker; limit orders can be either. See Trading Fees (Maker & Taker).
Fees are charged whenever an order is successfully filled: Fee = Fill Value × Fee Rate (Fill Value = Price × Size). Cancelled or unfilled orders generate no fees. See Trading Fees (Maker & Taker).
It depends on the market. On Spot, the fee is taken in the asset you receive — the base asset when you buy, the quote asset when you sell. On Perpetuals, fees are charged in the quote currency (e.g. USDT). See Trading Fees (Maker & Taker).
View fees in your trade history (yellow.pro/spot/orders?tab=trades or /perps/orders?tab=trades). To reduce them, increase your VIP tier through trading volume or by holding $YELLOW. See VIP Tiers & Fee Discounts.

VIP Tiers & $YELLOW

Your VIP tier determines your trading fees — higher tiers pay less. It’s evaluated automatically and continuously as your trading activity or $YELLOW balance changes, and you’re always placed in the highest tier you qualify for. See VIP Tiers & Fee Discounts.
Meet any one requirement: 30-day Spot volume, 30-day Perpetual volume, or a 24-hour average YELLOWbalanceinyourTradingAccount(SpotAccount).VIP1needs100KUSDTSpotvolume,1MUSDTPerpvolume,or10,000YELLOW balance in your Trading Account (`Spot Account`). VIP 1 needs 100K USDT Spot volume, 1M USDT Perp volume, or 10,000 YELLOW. See VIP Tiers & Fee Discounts.
Hold a 24-hour average of YELLOWinyourTradingAccount(SpotAccount)toqualifyforhigherVIPtiers.OnlyTradingAccountbalancecountsnotAccountBalance(YellowWallet)orexternalwallets.TheresnoseparatediscountforpayingfeeswithYELLOW in your Trading Account (`Spot Account`) to qualify for higher VIP tiers. Only Trading Account balance counts — not Account Balance (`Yellow Wallet`) or external wallets. There's no separate discount for paying fees with YELLOW. See $YELLOW Token & Fee Discounts.
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Funding Fees

Funding fees are payments exchanged between long and short traders every 8 hours on Perpetual markets (positive rate: longs pay shorts; negative: shorts pay longs). They only apply if you hold an open position at the funding timestamp. See Funding Fees Explained.
Yes. Trading fees are charged when orders fill; funding fees are exchanged every 8 hours between traders for open Perpetual positions and are not collected by Yellow.pro. See Funding Fees Explained.

Network Fees

They’re Ethereum blockchain transaction fees required to process withdrawals on-chain — not Yellow.pro fees. They vary with network congestion, and Yellow.pro shows the estimate before you confirm. See Withdrawal Network Fees Explained.
The network fee is deducted from your withdrawal — e.g. a 100 USDT withdrawal with a 1 USDT fee results in 99 USDT received. See Withdrawal Network Fees Explained.

Fee Split

Your fee is divided internally — 85% toward $YELLOW buybacks and 15% toward platform operations. The split does not increase your fee — the amount you pay is unchanged. See Fee Split Explained.
Besides trading fees, Spot has no additional fees. Perpetual traders also pay funding fees (every 8 hours). Network fees apply to deposits and withdrawals.