Tiers and fee discounts

Holding SURGE tokens and subscribing to staking places you in a tier that discounts the Surge fee on every order you place. The discount is applied to your account rate at the next six-hourly staking snapshot and stays until the following snapshot moves you.

The tier schedule

Tier	SURGE held	Surge fee discount	Effective fee (base 0.2%)
Base	0 – 2,499	0%	0.200%
Bronze	2,500 – 9,999	10%	0.180%
Silver	10,000 – 29,999	30%	0.140%
Gold	30,000 – 74,999	50%	0.100%
Platinum	75,000 and above	70%	0.060%

[VERIFY: this is the launch schedule as specified; the tier table that the current build seeds is Free 0 / Bronze 1,000 → 5% / Silver 5,000 → 10% / Gold 15,000 → 20% / Platinum 50,000 → 30%. Confirm the new rows are deployed before publishing.]

Tiers are data on Surge's side and can be changed by Surge; the Staking page always shows the current table and your position in it.

How you qualify

1. Subscribe to staking on the Staking page. Holding SURGE without subscribing earns no discount and no rewards — the snapshot only looks at subscribed accounts. See Staking SURGE.

2. Every six hours Surge reads the SURGE balance across your connected wallet's stake address and all your verified strategy wallets.

3. Your tier is the highest one whose threshold that balance meets. Your account's fee rate is recomputed as base × (1 − discount) and saved.

4. Every order from then on — manual swaps and all strategies — uses the saved rate.

Timing

• A tier upgrade is billed at the old rate for up to six hours (until the next snapshot).

• A balance drop likewise keeps the higher discount until the next snapshot.

• [VERIFY: after you unsubscribe, snapshots stop and your rate is no longer recomputed — it keeps its last snapshotted value rather than resetting to base.]

• [ENV: snapshots run in production only; on the pre-production testnet no discount is ever applied.]

What the Staking page shows

Your current tier, the next tier, your SURGE balance, how much more SURGE you need, and a progress bar within the current band. [VERIFY: whether the page shows the tier from your latest six-hourly snapshot or an estimate from your live wallet balance; the billed rate always follows the snapshot.]

What else a tier can gate

A tier can also cap how many arbitrage strategies you may run at once. No cap is currently set on any tier (unlimited). If a cap is introduced, creating a strategy beyond it fails with a message naming your tier and the limit; archiving a strategy frees a slot.

Worked example

You hold 12,000 SURGE and are subscribed to Silver, with a 30% discount and a 0.14% effective rate.

Order	Base fee	Your fee
500 ADA buy	1.00 ADA	0.70 ADA
5,000 ADA buy	10.00 ADA	7.00 ADA
100 ADA buy	0.20 ADA (shown 0.978)	0.14 ADA (shown 0.978)

The recorded minimum of 0.978 ADA per order is not discounted; see The Surge fee and its minimum.