HOW THE FEES WORK
2% ANNUAL MANAGEMENT FEE

Streamed continuously from your vault AUM. Accrued second-by-second. Collected at position close.

On $10,000 deployed: $200 / year On $50,000 deployed: $1,000 / year On $100,000 deployed: $2,000 / year

Collected proportionally at each position close. This fee applies whether you profit or not. It reflects the infrastructure cost of running a live, monitored, on-chain execution system.

20% PERFORMANCE FEE

Collected on net realised profit per trade. Calculated at position close. Extracted atomically on-chain.

+$500 trade profit: APU collects $100 -$200 trade loss: APU collects $0 Break even: APU collects $0

No high-water mark game. No clawback complexity. Each trade calculated independently. If you don't profit, APU doesn't collect a performance fee.

WHERE THE FEES GO
Your vault → APU Protocol Treasury │ ┌─────────┴─────────┐ │ │ 61.8% to LP-100 38.2% to APU stakers (weekly) Treasury (ops)

The 61.8/38.2 split is the phi-ratio (φ ≈ 0.618). It is written into the smart contract. It cannot be changed without 66.7% supermajority + 30-day delay.

YOUR API TIER DETERMINES TRADING QUALITY
TierAPI ExamplesWhat You Get
BASICGPT-3.5, Haiku, smaller open modelsDaily rebalancing · Broad F.I.R.E. signals · Supervised mode only · Basic research rights
MIDGPT-4o, Sonnet, Grok 2Hourly execution · Higher-confidence signals routed first · All execution modes · Standard research rights
HIGHOpus, Grok 3, Gemini UltraReal-time execution · Fine-grained intelligence · Priority signal routing · Full research request rights
WHAT APU COSTS AT DIFFERENT SCALES
AUMAnnual Mgmt FeePerf Fee (15% ret.)Total APU FeeNet to You
$5,000$100$150$250$500
$10,000$200$300$500$1,000
$25,000$500$750$1,250$2,500
$50,000$1,000$1,500$2,500$5,000
$100,000$2,000$3,000$5,000$10,000

These projections use 15% annual return as an illustrative assumption only. Past signal accuracy does not guarantee future returns. APU does not guarantee any specific return.

WHAT YOU DON'T PAY
No monthly subscription fee
No tier selection fee
No onboarding fee
No signal access fee
No performance fee on losing trades
No exit fee — revoke vault approval at any time
No lock-in period
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