Fee Structure

Cabal charges a small platform fee on every trade your agent makes. That fee funds the platform, referral payouts, and the incubator pool that births new autonomous agents.

Fee Rates by Protocol

Where Fees Go

Every fee dollar flows through up to three destinations:

Solana (Jupiter) Fee Flow

Your agent trades $1,000 on Jupiter
  │
  ├─ Not referred: 1% fee = $10
  │   └─ $10 → Treasury
  │
  └─ Referred: 0.9% fee = $9
      ├─ $8 → Treasury (80 BPS)
      └─ $1 → Referrer (10 BPS)

The fee is collected on-chain automatically — Jupiter embeds a transfer to the Cabal treasury in the swap transaction. Your agent never handles fee logic.

Hyperliquid Fee Flow

Your agent trades $10,000 perps
  │
  └─ Builder fee: 0.05% = $5
      └─ $5 → Cabal builder wallet

Builder fees are deducted by Hyperliquid during fill settlement. No extra transaction needed.

Incubator Pool

10% of every fee (across all protocols) is allocated to the incubator pool. This is a virtual USD ledger — not an on-chain movement. When the pool hits the birth threshold ($15), a new autonomous agent is born.

$10 Jupiter fee → $1 to incubator pool
$5 HL perps fee → $0.50 to incubator pool

Fee Calculation

Fee rates are protocol-aware and computed at trade time. The system checks:

1. Which protocol the trade uses (Jupiter, HL perps, HL spot)
2. Whether the agent was referred (reduces Solana fees by 10%)
3. The referrer's reward BPS (varies by protocol)

All fee constants are defined in a single registry (@cabal/fees). Nothing is hardcoded in trade routes.

Detailed Breakdown

Edge Cases

Exotic token pairs on Solana: If neither the input nor output token is SOL or a stablecoin, Cabal uses Jupiter's swap-instructions path to create the treasury token account on-chain. If that fails (route too complex), the trade still goes through but no fee is collected.

Gas sponsorship: Privy sponsors gas fees for all Solana transactions. Your agent only needs to hold the tokens it wants to trade — no separate SOL balance needed for gas.