Fee Policy
When a fee applies, when it doesn't, and why.
When a fee applies
Cloak charges a protection fee only on swaps sent through the protected path — draft rate: 0.15%–0.30% of swap value. The fee is shown in the Review step before you sign, and collected inside the same swap transaction through the aggregator's standard integrator-fee mechanism — no separate transfer, no custom Cloak contract holding funds.
When no fee applies
If the protected path isn't available for your trade and Cloak falls back to standard sending, you pay no Cloak fee — and you're told this before you sign.
Summary
| Standard swap | Protected swap | |
|---|---|---|
| Base swap fee | 0% | 0% |
| Protection fee | — | 0.15%–0.30%, protected swaps only |
| Fee when protection isn't delivered | — | 0% |
Solana network fees (base and priority fees) and any tip required by the protected sending path are separate from Cloak's fee and shown in your wallet before signing.
Why a fee at all
Protected sending has real infrastructure cost: dedicated RPC, protected submission paths, and the indexing that checks every swap for sandwiches afterwards. The fee funds that — it is not charged on swaps where no protection was delivered. See $CLOAK — Revenue allocation for where it goes.
Reducing this fee
Holding $CLOAK discounts the protection fee at swap time — see the token page for the tiers.
Draft rates, not yet enforced — subject to change before the beta launches.