The Burn Economy
A fee model designed for long-term sustainability and transparent value distribution. All fees are denominated in $APE and processed on-chain with publicly verifiable allocation 80% lower than incumbents while generating real deflationary pressure.
Fee Structure: 0.5% platform fee on all transactions. NFT trades: 50% burned, 50% to treasury. NFT mints: 25% burned, 75% to treasury. Creator royalties are enforced separately and do not reduce the platform fee.
Burn Impact: At $1M monthly volume, the platform burns $2,500 in $APE monthly ($30K annually). At $5M monthly volume, burns reach $12,500/month ($150K annually). Revenue scales linearly with volume.
Sustainability: At $1-2M monthly volume, the platform becomes fully self-sustaining, covering all infrastructure costs while continuing meaningful burns and funding competitions entirely from protocol revenue.