Nolus keeps its fees simple and easy to check before you commit to anything. This article covers every cost you can run into: interest on a leverage position, the spread you pay when swapping, and the transaction fees charged by the Nolus blockchain itself.
Interest on Margin Leverage Positions
When you open a leverage position, the interest rate is fixed at the moment the contract starts. It does not float with the market afterwards.
That interest splits into two parts:
Loan interest, which goes to the lenders who supplied the borrowed asset.
Margin (protocol) interest, which funds regular NLS buybacks.
Nolus charges no additional fee on top of that interest for opening, holding, or closing a position.
Swap Spread
As on any DeFi platform, the price you get on a swap can differ slightly from the quoted price. The gap comes from how deep the liquidity is in the DEX pool being used and how large your swap is relative to that pool. Larger swaps in thinner pools move the price more.
Transaction Fees on the Nolus Blockchain
Every transaction on Nolus costs a small gas fee, well below what the same action would cost on Ethereum. Part of what the network collects flows back to NLS holders as staking rewards, so the fees you pay help fund the ecosystem rather than disappearing.
Transaction Tax
40% of each gas fee is routed automatically to a decentralized treasury. The treasury grows with network activity, and NLS stakers decide how the accumulated funds are spent by proposing and voting on their use.