Fees
Single source of truth for every fee on Alien Base
This page lists every fee charged anywhere on Alien Base, what it pays for, and where the value flows.
Last updated: July 6, 2026.
TL;DR
Alien Base charges no buy/sell taxes on the ALB token.
Liquidity providers earn pool fees directly. esALB stakers earn a share of protocol fees as Real Yield in WETH and other liquid assets.
The platform itself takes only what's needed to fund the operating budget approved by the DAO.
At a glance
V2 swap (pool fee)
0.16%
LPs
V3 swap (pool fee)
7 fee tiers (see below)
50% LPs / 50% esALB stakers
Swap (platform fee)
0.01% / 0.05% / 0.15% (stables / blue chips / other) + 0.05% Protocol
Treasury / esALB
Limit / Take Profit orders
0.01% / 0.05% / 0.10% (stables / blue chips / other) + 0.05% Protocol
Treasury / esALB
Stop Loss / Stop Buy / Trailing Stop orders
0.10% / 0.20% / 0.45% (stables / blue chips / other) + 0.05% Protocol
Treasury / esALB
DCA orders (per chunk)
0.01% / 0.10% / 0.20% (stables / blue chips / other) + 0.05% Protocol
Treasury / esALB
Token Generator
0.015 ETH per token mint
Operating budget
Liquidity ops (add / remove / claim)
None
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Locking ALB → esALB
None
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Unlocking esALB → ALB
None
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The Protocol execution fee is a flat 0.05% charged on top of the platform fee for every trade executed through Epsilon — swaps and resting orders alike.
Trading fees
V2 swaps
0.16% per swap in standard V2 pools, paid by the taker.
Distribution: flows to LPs in-pool and esALB holders.
V3 (Concentrated Liquidity) swaps
V3 uses fee tiers. Each pool is created with a fixed tier:
0.01%
Tightly-pegged stablecoin pairs (USDC/USDbC, USDC/USDT)
0.02%
Standard stablecoin pairs
0.03%
LSDs and very-blue-chip volatile pairs (ETH/cbETH)
0.04%
Wider-spread stable / LSD pairs
0.075%
Blue chips (ETH, BTC and wrapped variants)
0.30%
Mid-cap and standard tokens
1.00%
Small-cap and memecoin pairs
The wide tier ladder lets each pool choose the fee that matches its volatility. Tighter pegs use the lower tiers; volatile pairs use the higher tiers.
Distribution: 50% to LPs in-pool, 50% to esALB stakers as Real Yield. esALB Real Yield is paid in WETH (and select underlying tokens / stablecoins).
Swap platform fee (Epsilon)
Every swap executed through Epsilon pays a small platform fee on top of the underlying pool fees, tiered by asset class, plus the flat Matcher execution fee:
Stables
0.01%
0.05%
0.06%
Blue chips (ETH, BTC and wrapped variants)
0.05%
0.05%
0.10%
Everything else
0.15%
0.05%
0.20%
In nearly every case the fee is significantly less than the price improvement Epsilon captures by aggregating the entire chain.
Distribution: routed to the Treasury, with the bulk going to the esALB Real Yield stream.
Epsilon Router orders (Limit / Stop / Trailing Stop / DCA)
Resting orders live in the on-chain Epsilon Router and are executed by the Matcher when their trigger fires. Fees are tiered by the asset class of the traded pair; every execution also pays the flat 0.05% Protocol fee:
Limit / Take Profit
0.01%
0.05%
0.10%
Stop Loss / Stop Buy / Trailing Stop / DCA stop-loss
0.10%
0.20%
0.45%
DCA chunk
0.01%
0.10%
0.20%
+ Protocol execution fee (all of the above)
0.05%
0.05%
0.05%
Stop-style orders cost more than plain limit orders because the Matcher must monitor and execute them under adverse, fast-moving market conditions.
On top of the order fee, each fill pays the underlying pool fee of whichever venue the Matcher routes through (exactly like a swap placed at that moment), and your slippage setting applies at execution time.
Gas: you pay gas for approving token spend; order creation is gasless and execution gas is handled by the Matcher (funded by its fee).
Distribution: routed to the Treasury / esALB Real Yield stream.
Deprecated: Carbon orders
Carbon-powered Limit / Range / Recurring orders (deprecated July 2026) charged 0.40% on the executed trade on top of the maker's spread. Existing Carbon orders remain withdrawable; see Archive — Carbon Orders.
Liquidity provision
There are no fees to add or remove liquidity beyond gas. Specifically:
No deposit fees on V2 farms (the deposit-fee parameter is permanently set to zero post-launch).
No withdraw fees on farms.
No performance fee on Bunni-wrapped V3 positions.
Vaults that auto-compound (Bunni and future Mothership-managed vaults) collect fees inside the AMM pool and increase the LP token's redemption value over time; there is no on-claim performance fee taken at the vault layer.
ALB locking & vesting
Locking ALB → esALB: free. 1:1.
Unlocking esALB → ALB:
30-day full unlock: free, no penalty. Vested position continues to earn at a 30%-reduced APR until redemption.
1% every 12 hours: free, instant.
Redemption window: 7 days after the 30-day vesting completes — if not claimed in 7 days, the position auto-relocks for another 30 days.
Vesting (multi-year): the AIP-4 / VestingFactory streams have no user-facing fee; they are an internal accounting facility for team / DAO contributors.
Token Generator
Deployment fee: 0.015 ETH per token, regardless of template.
The fee is paid in ETH at deploy time and is non-refundable.
The deployment fee funds the operating budget; an explicit per-template breakdown is not maintained.
If your generated token uses the Tax template, your token's own buy/sell taxes are independent of any Alien Base fee — the Tax token implements its own taxation logic, payable to the addresses you set.
Where the protocol's share goes
Per AIP-3 and ADIP-01, the protocol's share of fees (V3 50% staker share, Epsilon front-end, Epsilon Router order fees, Token Generator) flows to:
Real Yield to esALB holders in WETH and protocol tokens — this is the largest line.
DAO operating budget (audits, infrastructure, marketing, legal, dev allowances) — set as a USDC and ALB allocation per cycle, not as a percentage.
Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) — building treasury liquidity that earns yield → buyback-and-burn ALB (ramping under AIP-5).
The most recent published dollar allocations are defined in ADIP-01 (Sept 2025 → Feb 2026); team funding is transitioning to the AIP-5 Line-of-Credit model.
Historical fee changes
2023-11-27
V3 launches with concentrated-liquidity fee tiers; AIP-2 establishes the LP / staker fee-sharing structure (originally 60/40, later normalized to 50/50).
Current
Epsilon Router launch. Carbon orders (0.40%) deprecated. New tiered schedule: swaps 0.01/0.05/0.15%, Limit/TP 0.01/0.05/0.10%, Stop/Trailing 0.10/0.20/0.45%, DCA 0.01/0.10/0.20%, all + 0.05% Protocol. Former Epsilon front-end fee (0.03%/0.20%, non-native only) retired.
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