Fees & costs

What it costs to use Super9MM, and when automation is worth it.

Super9MM is non-custodial, so most of what you pay is normal on-chain cost — plus one performance fee that only applies when you actually earn.

Protocol fee — 9% performance fee

Super9MM charges a 9% performance fee on the trading fees your position earns — and nothing else. There is no deposit fee, no entry fee, and no exit fee; you can put funds in and take them out for free.

• Only on yield. The fee is taken exclusively from the LP fees your position collects (the yield), at the moment the keeper compounds, banks, or closes them. It is never charged on your principal and never on impermanent loss. If your position earns nothing, you pay nothing.
• Aligned. We only make money when you make money — the fee is a cut of your earnings, not a toll on your deposit. You keep 91% of every fee your position earns.
• Hard-capped at 20%. The rate can never exceed 20%; that ceiling is enforced on-chain and cannot be raised past it.
• Still non-custodial. Only the fee portion of collected yield leaves your Automator; your principal and the remaining 91% stay in your own contract, which only you can withdraw from.

Why a performance fee, not an entry fee

Super9MM used to take a small fee when you opened a position. We replaced it with the performance fee above because it lines the protocol up with you far better:

• You pay only when it works. An entry fee costs you the moment you deposit — even if the market moves against you or the position never earns. A performance fee is charged solely on realized yield, so a position that earns nothing costs you nothing.
• No penalty for entering or exiting. Deposits and withdrawals are free, so you can size in, add, or pull out whenever you want without a toll eating into your capital.
• The fee scales with your success, not your size. A large deposit that earns little pays little; a position that compounds a lot pays proportionally. The protocol grows only when your positions actually produce fees.

What you pay

• Network gas. Deploying your Automator (once), opening a position, and each keeper action (rebalance, compound, close) costs gas on the chain you're using. On low-fee chains this is small; it still adds up if a tight range rebalances very often.
• DEX swap fees & slippage. When an automation needs to swap (e.g. to hit the right token ratio on a rebalance, or to close to a single token), you pay the DEX's fee and a little slippage on that swap.
• The pool's fee tier is what you earn as an LP — not a cost. Higher-volume pools at a healthy fee tier are what make LPing worthwhile.

When automation is worth it

Automation pays off when the extra fees it captures exceed the costs it incurs:

• ✅ Worth it: liquid, high Fee/TVL pools where staying in range and compounding clearly out-earns the occasional rebalance.
• ⚠️ Marginal: tiny positions, very stable pairs that rarely move, or thin pools where each rebalance is relatively expensive.

If a position is small or a pair barely moves, a wider range with auto-compound (fewer rebalances) is often the most cost-effective setup. See Choosing range width.

Keeping costs down

• Use a width appropriate to the pair's volatility (avoid over-tight ranges that churn).
• Prefer liquid pools for tight strategies (less slippage per rebalance).
• Use the rate limit and compound interval as designed — they exist to stop the keeper acting on dust.