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# Fees

ChestFi charges a small, flat service fee on operations that create on-chain state. You always pay the network gas cost separately, directly to the chain.

### Fee schedule

| Operation              | ChestFi Fee    | Gas | Notes                                      |
| ---------------------- | -------------- | --- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Token Creation**     | `0.000615 ETH` | Yes | Charged once per token deployed.           |
| **Token Lock**         | `0.000615 ETH` | Yes | Charged per lock operation, not per token. |
| **Withdraw from lock** | None           | Yes | Free after the unlock date.                |
| **Burn**               | None           | Yes | You pay only the transaction cost.         |
| **Liquidity Lock**     | TBA            | Yes | Module in development.                     |
| **Token Vesting**      | TBA            | Yes | Module in development.                     |
| **Multi-Send**         | TBA            | Yes | Module in development.                     |

Fees are denominated in **ETH**, the native gas token of Robinhood Chain. They are displayed in the Web App before you confirm anything. If a number in the interface ever disagrees with this page, **the interface is authoritative** — it reads the live contract.

### Worked example

Deploying a token, then locking the team allocation:

```
Token creation fee     0.000615 ETH
Lock fee               0.000615 ETH
─────────────────────────────────
ChestFi fees           0.001230 ETH
+ gas (approve, deploy, lock)
```

Three locks means three lock fees. Batching is not possible — each lock is an independent contract entry with its own unlock timestamp.

### What the fee is not

* It is **not** a percentage of your token supply. ChestFi never takes a cut of the tokens you create, lock, or burn.
* It is **not** refundable. Fees are collected by the contract at execution; a transaction that succeeds has already paid.
* It is **not** charged for reading. Browsing the Dashboard, viewing **My Locks**, and opening proof links are free.

### Gas on Robinhood Chain

Gas is paid in ETH and is generally low, as on any Layer-2. Two things still cost more than you might expect:

* **Contract deployment** (Token Creation) writes bytecode to storage. It's the most expensive operation ChestFi performs.
* **Approve + execute** patterns require two transactions. Locking and burning both need an approval first.

Keep a small ETH buffer — roughly `0.005 ETH` — so an approval never succeeds while the operation that follows it fails for want of gas


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