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Gains Credits is a loyalty program that offers tiered fee discounts, letting you save more the more you trade. Every trade earns credits, and the credits you earned over the last 30 days set your discount.

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Tiers

Your discount applies to your opening and closing fees.
  • Each day’s credits count for 30 days. Credits you earn today count toward your discount from tomorrow, for 30 days.
  • Your tier is set once a day, at your first trade of the UTC day, and holds for every trade you make that day.
  • Degen pairs and the BVIV and EVIV volatility indices earn credits, but their fees take no discount. On Base and Polygon, ZECDEGEN, DOGEDEGEN and LINKDEGEN are the exception and do take it.

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Earning credits

Credits are earned on both open and close volume. Each dollar of volume earns credits at the market’s rate:
AAVE, ADA, ALGO, APT, ARB, ASTER, ATOM, AVAX, BCH, BNB, BONK, DOGE, DOT, ENA, EOS, ETC, FARTCOIN, FET, FIL, FLOKI, FORM, GRT, HBAR, HYPE, ICP, IMX, INJ, IP, JUP, KAS, LINK, LIT, LTC, MKR, MNT, NEAR, ONDO, OP, PENGU, PEPE, POL, PUMP, QNT, RAY, RNDR, S, SEI, SHIB, SOL, STX, SUI, TAO, TIA, TON, TRUMP, TRX, UNI, VET, VIRTUAL, WIF, WLD, WLFI, XLM, XPL, XRP, ZEC.
For example, opening and closing a $100,000 BTC position is $200,000 of volume, which earns 800,000 credits. Eight of those round trips within 30 days reach Tier 1. Rates are set by governance and can change. Check your accrued credits, today’s discount and tomorrow’s at gains.trade/portfolio/credits. Inbound Credits are the credits you earned today, which count from tomorrow, and Outbound Credits the ones earned 30 days ago, which stop counting tomorrow. The screenshots on this page use example figures.
The Gains Credits page: Current Discount 10%, Total Credits (30d) 173,920,450, Outbound Credits 2,915,700, Inbound Credits 4,862,300, Tomorrow's Discount 10%, and a Tier 4 progress bar about halfway to Tier 5.

A trader at Tier 4: 10% off today and tomorrow, about halfway to Tier 5.

Trades opened with Bonus run from their own account, so they earn no credits for your wallet and do not get your discount.

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Stacking with $GNS discounts

Staking $GNS earns a second discount, applied on top of your Gains Credits discount. Stake GNS on gains.trade/portfolio/gns-discounts. On Arbitrum you can also stake gGNS, which counts at its value in GNS when you stake it.
The GNS Trading Discounts page: Your Staking Status with Staked GNS 4,500, Staked gGNS 0 and Staking Discount 10.00%.

The same trader with 4,500 GNS staked: 10% off.

The two discounts multiply. At Tier 4 (10%) with 4,500 GNS staked (10%), you pay 0.90 × 0.90 = 81% of the standard fee, so 19% off. At the top of both tables, Tier 8 and 1,000,000 GNS, you pay 37.5% of the standard fee. In the trading panel, Discounts, at the top of the Account section, shows your total and opens the detail of both.
The Your Trading Discounts menu opened from the Discounts button of the trading panel: Volume (Credits) Tier 4/8 at 10%, $GNS Staking Tier 2/8 at 10%, and Total Discount 19.0%.

Tier 4 credits and 4,500 GNS staked: 19% off in total.

Staked tokens can be withdrawn 24 hours after your last stake.

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Trading with size?

Large traders can apply for reduced fees through Gains Credits, with discounts of up to 25%. Eligibility: If you have actively traded on other PerpDEX or CEX venues in the past 6 months, you’re invited to apply! Apply through the large trader application form. For the story behind Gains Credits, read the launch article on Medium.