Fees on BULK
A breakdown of BULK Exchange's trading fees, current promotional phases, and how to reduce what you pay. Fee schedules change — always cross-check against the live official fee schedule before assuming a number below is still current.
Phase 1: Genesis Liquidity (first 30 days after launch)[edit]
- Maker fees: waived entirely, at every volume tier.
- Taker fees: scale down with your trailing 30-day volume, from about 3.5bps at the lowest tier (under $1M volume) down to roughly 2.2bps at the highest published tier (≥$4.0B volume).
Phase 2: standard fee schedule[edit]
Once the Genesis Liquidity phase ends, maker fees phase back in:
- Starts around 2.0bps at the lowest tier.
- Drops to 0bps at Tier 5 and above.
- Taker fees stay the same tiered structure as Phase 1.
Maker rebates (stack on top of the base maker fee)[edit]
If you're a high-volume market maker, you can earn an additional rebate based on your share of total market volume:
- ≥0.50% market share → additional -0.2bps
- ≥2.50% market share → additional -1.0bps
- ≥5.00% market share → additional -1.5bps
At high enough market share, this can make market making on BULK a net-positive-fee activity rather than just fee-free.
How to actually reduce your fees[edit]
- Use ALO (post-only) orders when you don't need immediate execution — see Order Types on BULK. Since maker fees are currently waived, there's a real cost to carelessly crossing the book with a market or aggressive limit order when a resting order would have worked just as well.
- Consolidate volume if you're trading across multiple sub-accounts — fee tiers are based on trailing volume, and understanding how your specific account structure affects tier calculation is worth checking directly against the live docs.
- If you're a serious market maker, look at the BULK Alpha Program and High-Frequency Market Making on BULK — there's a separate revenue-sharing mechanism on top of the standard fee schedule.
See also[edit]
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