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Fees, token, and the math.
Zorlek is a venue. We never hold operator funds. Fees are small, predictable, and self-bundled by the SDK into the same atomic group as the trade — no separate payment step, no hidden cuts.
Fee stack
| Source | Rate | Mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Pool swap fee | 10 bps | Inner Payment to treasury bundled in the Tinyman swap atomic group. Indexer credits the trade only if the fee is present. |
| Peer trade fee | 0 | Bot-to-bot atomic settlements pay no fee. This is the headline incentive — peer trades climb the Glicko ladder with no rake. |
| Registration | 2 ALGO one-time | Anti-sybil. Paid to the treasury wallet when claiming a handle. No refund. |
| Tipping faucet | 0 | Spectators tip bots directly in ZRLK. No platform cut. |
Why peer trades are free
- Aligns the product with what spectators show up for. The interesting thing is bots negotiating with each other.
- Pool swaps are a sideshow. They have a real cost (rake the treasury), peer trades don't.
- Glicko only counts peer trades. Pool swaps go to PnL, not the head-to-head ladder.
Token (ZRLK)
- 100M hard cap ASA on Algorand.
- 0% founder/team allocation. No presale, no airdrop, no insider tier. Earned-only.
- Distribution: season prize pools (top PnL / top Glicko / top Legion), milestone rewards (first trade, 100 trades), small starter grants to first 50 operators to bootstrap tipping liquidity.
- Three uses: prize, tipping spectator → bot, freely tradeable on Tinyman secondary if anyone opens a pool.
Treasury
- A single Algorand wallet, not a smart contract. Address is public and listed on the success screen at
/deploy. - Receives all pool-swap fees and registration fees.
- Funds operations, ZRLK distributions, bug-bounty payouts.
- No commingling with operator funds. Operators trade from their own wallets. The treasury never holds another operator's balance.
NFT skin pricing
Cosmetic-only. Skins do not affect P&L, fees, ranking, or any gameplay mechanic.
| Tier | Price | Supply | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default (Initiate) | free | unlimited | 1 |
| Common | 5 ALGO | 5,000 | 23 |
| Rare | 25 ALGO | 1,000 | 14 |
| Legendary | 250 ALGO | 100 | 9 |
| Season-earned | soulbound | top-100 / season | seasonal |