QuantumPoolsPerformance & Fees
One charge, taken from one place: the trading fees your position collects. Here is how much, when, where it goes, and what stops it from changing overnight.
In short
- Liquidity pools: a performance fee of at most 15%, only from the trading fees your positions earn. Never your deposit, never your price gains. It is taken only when fees are collected: withdraw · snuggle · harvest · compound.
- Copy trading: up to 25% of earned fees, only when you copy another member's LP position.
- Referrals: refer as many friends as you like. Your own performance fee drops 1% for every friend who joins with your link and keeps an open position worth at least $500, with no cap (it can reach 0%, never below). If a friend closes all their positions, your fee goes back up 1% until they reopen. Each friend still pays 15%, and 1% of each active friend's fee is routed to you.
- No protocol fee to deposit, withdraw, harvest, compound or move your range, and no yearly fee on your deposit. You pay the network's gas on transactions you send. When our bot (the keeper) moves your range for you, in a snuggle, it pays the gas.
- Fee increases wait 48 hours in public before they can apply, and the default rate can move at most 5 points per 6 hours.
The fee in one line
Traders pay your range a fee each time they swap through it. On your liquidity positions, QuantumPools keeps at most 15% of those fees. That is the whole bill. The one higher rate is copy trading: up to 25%, only when you copy another member's LP position.
Nothing else about your position is charged. The contract tracks, for each position and each token, how much in fees you have earned and how much has already been charged. It only charges the difference, so each fee dollar is charged once.
Today's 15% was read from the live vault on 23 September 2026. It is public on the vault as performanceFeeBps (1500 = 15%). If a wallet has its own rate, that is public too, as userFeeBps(address) (0 means the default applies), and feeExempt(address) means 0%.
What each step costs you
No step has a protocol fee of its own. The 15% is worked out only when a step collects trading fees. Until then, fees sit in the pool, uncharged.
| Step | Collects trading fees? | Gas paid by |
|---|---|---|
| Open a position (deposit) | No. A one-token deposit is never swapped: it opens a one-sided range just past the current price, so there is no swap fee or slippage. | You |
| Just holding (no yearly fee) | No | — |
| Add funds (held until the next snuggle) | No | You |
| Automatic snuggle (the keeper moves your range) | Yes, 15% of them | Keeper |
| Manual snuggle (you move your range) | Yes, 15% of them | You |
| Compound (fees back into the position) | Yes, 15% of them | You |
| Harvest (fees to your wallet) | Yes, 15% of them | You |
| Withdraw, all or part | Yes, 15% of them, including any fees still waiting in the pool | You |
Gas is the network's charge for running a transaction. It goes to the chain, not to QuantumPools.
A worked example
Here is the whole calculation, start to finish, for one position.
Example
Put $6,000 in. By the time you pull out, traders have paid your range $440. The math:
Say your tokens also rose 9% in price over that time. The fee is still $66. Price gains are not fees.
Where each $100 of fees goes
On-chain split: inside the vault, the 15% cut is divided between the protocol treasury and, only if one is set, the vault's on-chain referrer slot (see Referrals; this is not the member referral program). Your share is the same either way.
- You
- Protocol treasury
- On-chain referrer slot (only if set)
Try your own numbers
Move the sliders. The rates inside are the contract's own: 15% overall, and 3 of those 15 points to the vault's on-chain referrer slot if one is set. That toggle is the on-chain split, not the member referral program below.
Fee calculator
Charged on your $7,500 deposit: $0. Illustration only, not a forecast. The yearly fee income is your own guess. Real fee income depends on how much people trade and how long price stays inside your range. Simple interest, no compounding, gas not included.
When the fee is taken
Here is how one pile of fees gets charged across several collections.
- Fees earned
- Fees already counted for the 15%
- Waiting in the pool
| Moment | Fees collected | Fee (15%) | Yours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Snuggle, day 10 | $40.00 | $6.00 | $34.00 |
| 2 · Harvest, day 18 | $32.00 | $4.80 | $27.20 |
| 3 · Withdraw, day 30 | $48.00 | $7.20 | $40.80 |
| Total | $120.00 | $18.00 | $102.00 |
Three collections, one $120 pile, exactly 15% charged. A snuggle gives your position a new ID, but the tally moves with it, so the new position never re-charges old fees. What happens to "yours" after the fee (compound it, send it to your wallet, or a split) is your fee setting. See Configuration. The fee is the same whichever you pick.
Can the fee change?
Yes, within limits. Every owner change waits 48 hours in public first. It has never been changed since launch.
| Default rate: biggest single change | 5 percentage points, up or down |
|---|---|
| Default rate: how often | At most one change every 6 hours |
| Per-wallet rate | The owner can set one wallet's own rate in a single change. The 5-point and 6-hour limits do not apply here, but the change still waits 48 hours in public. The keeper can only lower a wallet's rate, never to 0, and that takes effect right away. |
| Who can change it | A wallet that needs two signatures (a 2-of-2 multisig), and even then the change has to wait 48 hours in public (a timelock) before it can apply |
Compared with a typical manager
Many liquidity managers charge in more than one place. The big one is easy to miss: when some managers move your range, they swap tokens, and each swap has its own costs. QuantumPools moves your range (a snuggle) without swapping at all.
| Typical LP manager | QuantumPools | |
|---|---|---|
| Swap fee when the range is moved | Can apply | None. The contract has no swap path. |
| Slippage when the range is moved | Can apply, if it swaps | None from swapping |
| Bots that trade just before and after your swap (sandwiching) | Can apply, if it swaps | No swap to sandwich when the range moves. Snuggles are still public transactions in a live pool, so normal pool-level MEV and price risk still apply. |
The middle column is a general picture, not a claim about any one provider. Terms vary, so check each manager's own docs.
Referrals
Refer as many friends as you like. There are two rewards, and neither is an extra charge to your friends:
| Your own fee | 1% lower for every friend who joins with your link and has an open position worth at least $500. If they close all their positions, your fee goes back up 1% until they reopen. No cap: 4 friends take you from 15% to 11%, 10 friends to 5%, 15 or more to 0% (the floor; it never goes negative). |
|---|---|
| Routed to you | 1% of each referred friend's performance fee while they have an open position, no limit on how many friends. |
| Your friends | Pay the normal 15%. The 1% routed to you comes out of that 15%, not on top of it. |
Friends count only while they have an open position worth $500+ (this threshold can change); we recheck regularly. Referrals that look like the same person, for example the same network or device as the referrer, don't count. Your lower fee is applied on-chain by the keeper; the 1% routed share is credited to your referral ledger now and paid on-chain once the vault upgrade that supports per-friend referrers is live. Get your referral link on your profile.
The on-chain referrer slot
Separately, the vault contract has a referrer slot of its own. It is not the member referral program above. It works differently from most referral programs, and right now it is empty.
| How many referrers | One address for the whole vault, not one per user |
|---|---|
| Who sets it | Only the contract owner, through the 48-hour timelock. Users cannot set or pick this on-chain referrer, so self-referral through it is not something a user can do. |
| Its share | 3 of the 15 points by default (3% of fees collected), taken out of the protocol's cut |
| Extra cost to you | None. You keep 85% either way. |
| Permanent? | No. The owner can change or clear it. |
| Right now | Not set. All of the 15% goes to the treasury. |
If the treasury or the on-chain referrer can't receive a payment, the vault holds it for them to claim later. Your withdrawal still goes through.
The on-chain numbers on this page (today's rate, per-wallet rates and the on-chain referrer split) can be read from the live vaults on Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663), Base (chain ID 8453) and BNB Chain (chain ID 56). Public deposits are open on these live venues.
Questions
My position lost value. Do I still pay the fee?
If it collected trading fees, yes: 15% of those fees (up to 25% on a position you copied from another member). The fee looks at fees earned, not at whether the position is up overall. To see if your fees are beating price losses, check your Cover Value.
If I compound, am I charged again later?
No. Fees are charged once, when collected. After you put them back in, they are part of your position, and your position is never charged. Only new fees they earn count later.
Which token is the fee paid in?
The same tokens your fees were earned in. The contract tracks each token separately and never swaps to pay the fee.