Fees
AlphaFi's fee structure is intentionally simple: no deposit fee, no management fee. You only pay when the protocol earns you yield.
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AlphaFi's fee structure is intentionally simple: no deposit fee, no management fee. You only pay when the protocol earns you yield.
AlphaFi charges a 20% performance fee on the yield generated. Taken at every auto-compound event, deducted from rewards before they're compounded.
Your principal is never touched. The fee is purely on profits.
If a vault earns you $100 in gross yield, $20 goes to the protocol and $80 gets reinvested into your position.
Fee distribution
The 20% performance fee is split into:
50% → buys ALPHA on the open market, sent to ALPHA Reward Reserves. These get rewarded to ALPHA Locked Vault stakers.
50% → buys more ALPHA, adds liquidity to the ALPHA-SUI pool, and builds a protocol reserve.
So every dollar of yield AlphaFi generates becomes ALPHA buy pressure and long-term value for protocol participants.
Standard vaults have no withdrawal fee. Exit anytime, get your principal plus accumulated yield back (yield is already net of the performance fee).
The one exception is the ALPHA Locked Vault — a 100-day lock with a 50% penalty for early exit. That's a tokenomics primitive, not a standard vault.
For single-sided deposits and withdrawals that need an internal swap, the swap goes through the Cetus aggregator. The aggregator charges a small routing fee (a few basis points).
AlphaFi doesn't add a zap fee on top.
Want to skip swap costs entirely? Use dual-asset deposit/withdraw on LP vaults.
Depositing is free. You get receipt tokens equal in value to what you deposited, minus only network gas and any swap slippage from a zap-in.
The APY on every vault page is already net of the 20% performance fee.
This is deliberate. Some yield protocols quote gross APY and bury the fee in fine print. AlphaFi quotes the net number. What you see is what you earn.
A USDC-USDT vault earns the following over 30 days:
Trading fees: $40 in USDC + USDT
CETUS rewards: $25 worth
SUI rewards: $15 worth
Total gross yield: $80
At harvest:
CETUS and SUI get swapped into USDC and USDT
20% performance fee = $16 goes to the protocol
$64 net gets compounded back into the vault
If you held 1% of the vault, you earned $0.64 net over those 30 days. Your USDC + USDT balance grew by exactly that — no claim needed.
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