How Waypoint structures fees.

One fee: 0.1% on every transaction that executes through a waypoint. If no transaction executes, nothing is charged.

Waypoint Team · August 28, 2026 · 2 min read

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Waypoint charges one fee: 0.1% on every transaction that executes through a waypoint.

There are no subscriptions, no per-seat charges, no listing fees, and no charges for creating sessions. If no transaction executes, nothing is charged.

What is charged

The fee applies to transactions — state-changing calls that execute on-chain through a waypoint. A swap, a deposit, a borrow, a stake.

The fee does not apply to:

Read-only calls. Quotes, balances, positions, and rates are free. A session limited to read-only functions never generates a fee.
Failed transactions. A call that reverts is not charged by Waypoint. Network gas for a reverted transaction is consumed by the network and is outside our control.
Session management. Creating, rotating, or revoking a session is not a fee event.

The fee is separate from costs Waypoint does not control:

Network fees (gas), paid to the network for every transaction.
Protocol fees, charged by the protocol you interact with — a DEX’s swap fee, a lending market’s spread. These belong to the protocol, not to Waypoint.

The breakdown

Every fee collected follows the same path:

0.1% of the transaction is collected as the fee.

100% of collected fees automatically market-buy $WAY. Fees are not held as treasury revenue and are not paid out in the asset collected — the full amount is converted into $WAY through open-market purchases.

10% of the fee-purchased $WAY is distributed to the creator of the waypoint through which the transaction executed. Attribution is per-waypoint: the fee a transaction generates credits the specific waypoint that carried it.

90% of the fee-purchased $WAY is burned. It is removed from supply permanently, on-chain, where the burn can be verified.

The Waypoint flywheel: fees are generated through waypoints, fees buy $WAY, $WAY goes to creators, more waypoints are created, AI models can do more, more transactions happen

A worked example

A session executes a swap of $10,000 through a DEX waypoint.

Transaction size	$10,000
Waypoint fee (0.1%)	$10
$WAY market-bought	$10 of $WAY
To the waypoint’s creator (10%)	$1 of $WAY
Remaining (90%)	$9 of $WAY, burned

Gas and the DEX’s own swap fee apply as they would to any transaction, and are unchanged by Waypoint.

For waypoint creators

Creator distributions are proportional to use. A waypoint that carries more transaction volume generates more fees, and its creator receives 10% of the $WAY those fees purchase. There is nothing to claim eligibility for beyond publishing: any waypoint that passes verification and is published to the Directory earns from the transactions it carries.

Distributions are claim-based: earned $WAY accrues to the waypoint and its creator can claim it at any time, to an address the creator sets when publishing. There is no schedule to wait for and no deadline to meet.

Every waypoint earns on the same terms. Team-authored, protocol-authored, and independently authored waypoints receive the same 10% of the $WAY their fees purchase — including waypoints published by Waypoint itself.

Changes

Fee terms may change. Changes apply prospectively and will be reflected on this page and in the Terms of Service before they take effect.

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