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# Economics

*Light fees on the privacy path, by design.*

Lacuna's fees are deliberately light on the core privacy path. Low friction keeps people in the pool, and a larger, busier pool means stronger privacy for everyone.

## Fee structure

| Action                         | Fee               | Goes to  |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------- | -------- |
| Shield (Deposit)               | 0.2%              | Treasury |
| Unshield (Withdraw)            | 0.2%              | Treasury |
| Private transfer in-pool       | 0%                | —        |
| Gasless withdrawal \[Relayers] | Network gas + 20% | Relayer  |
| Emergency Exit                 | 0.001 ETH (flat)  | Treasury |

The relayer premium compensates operators for fronting gas and running infrastructure; it tracks cost, not transfer size. The EmergencyExit fee is a small flat charge covering on-chain cost never a percentage of what you are protecting. Private swaps and bridging follow the same principle: small, transparent fees that keep activity inside the pool.

## Treasury & sustainability

Protocol fees accrue to a treasury controlled by a multi-signature wallet, with no single person able to move funds unilaterally. The treasury exists to make the protocol durable: funding continued development and audits, seeding the liquidity and incentives that grow the anonymity set, and underwriting the relayer network until it is fully decentralised.

The design philosophy is deliberate. Keep per-transaction fees low so that activity stays in the pool, and let value accrue from the aggregate of a large, active network rather than from heavy charges on any single user. A privacy pool becomes more valuable the more people use it; the economics are built to compound that effect, not to tax it.

## A note on the token

Any future token would exist to serve the protocol  aligning relayers through staking and supporting decentralised operation rather than as a standalone product. Its structure and timing will be addressed separately, with appropriate care. This paper makes no token offer.


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