Every number on this page is read from the platform's configuration at the moment you load it. If a fee changes, this page changes with it — nothing here is typed by hand.
Prices always look like this: the amount in BSV, with its equivalent in your currency next to it.
Three things that are not the same
People mix these up constantly, and they are charged by different parties for different reasons:
| Who keeps it | What it is | |
|---|---|---|
| Market fee | Zoide | What the platform charges for the service |
| Creator royalty | the creator of the piece | Declared on chain when the piece is minted, and paid on every resale, forever, whoever sells it |
| Referral commission | whoever referred the buyer | A share of the sale, only if the referrer is verified |
A single purchase can involve all three at once.
Who pays, on a secondary sale
The buyer. The seller receives exactly the price they listed; the market fee, the creator royalty and the referral commission are added on top and funded by the buyer in the same transaction. Before you confirm a purchase you see the breakdown and the total.
This is worth reading twice if you are selling: the price you set is the amount that reaches your wallet. What the buyer pays is that price plus the fees.
That breakdown is not something you have to trust: the purchase dialog spells it out before you sign, with these same percentages.
Review purchase
Price
0.0250 ($0.43)Market fee (5%)
0.001250 ($0.02)Royalties (10%)
0.002500 ($0.04)Total
0.0288 ($0.49)Buying, selling and moving pieces
Each of these actions is one button, and the fixed fees are told to you in its dialog:
| Action | |
|---|---|
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Review purchase
Price 0.0250 ($0.43) Market fee (5%) 0.0013 ($0.02) Total 0.0263 ($0.45) |
Buy at the listed price |
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Listing review
Service fees 0.00080000 ($0.01) |
Put a piece up for sale |
| Take it off sale | |
|
Transfer review
Make sure the destination address is a valid ORDINAL address. An invalid address will send the ordinal wherever you point it, with no way to recover it. Always DYOR and use this service at your own risk.
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Send it to somebody |
| Offer for a piece |
| Action | Who pays | How much | On what |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy a listed piece | buyer | 5% | the listed price |
| Referral commission | buyer | 1% | the listed price, on top of the market fee, only if the referrer is verified |
| Creator royalty on a resale | buyer | up to 10% | the listed price — see the cap below |
| List a piece for sale | seller | 80,000 sats | fixed, per listing |
| Cancel a listing | seller | 80,000 sats | fixed |
| Transfer a piece to someone | sender | 80,000 sats | fixed |
| Make an offer on a piece | whoever offers | 80,000 sats | fixed |
| Claim a piece you are entitled to | claimant | 80,000 sats | fixed |
The royalty cap
A piece minted outside Zoide can declare any royalty it likes in its on-chain metadata — including an absurd one. Zoide pays out at most 10%, the same rate its own mints declare. If a piece declares more, the recipients are scaled down proportionally so their total is exactly the cap, the purchase goes ahead, and the difference stays with the seller.
Auctions
An auction does not work like a listing. Each bid raises the price by a fixed step, and the previous bidder is refunded their bid plus a profit:
| How much | Who gets it | |
|---|---|---|
| Bid step | 35% over the current bid | — |
| Market fee | 30% of the step | Zoide |
| Creator share | 35% of the step | the creator |
| The rest of the step | what is left | the previous bidder, on top of their refunded bid |
The first bid is different: it pays the starting price, split between Zoide (30%) and the creator (the remainder).
After the auction ends there is a grace window of 24 hours.
What this means if you bid. Being outbid is not a loss: you get your bid back plus a share of the step that outbid you. Being the last bidder is what wins the piece. Nobody guarantees a next bid.
The step is worked out for you before you confirm:
Minting from a drop
| Action | Who pays | How much | On what |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mint a piece from a drop | buyer | 10% | the mint price |
The price is on the button, so what you are about to pay is never a surprise:
That percentage is frozen into the drop when it is created, so a drop always charges what it charged on day one, even if the platform's default changes later. By default it goes to Zoide; for a particular drop it can be agreed with a third party.
Creating and publishing
| Action | Who pays | How much | On what |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submit a collection | creator | 5 sats per byte | the total size of the files you upload |
| Extra if the collection is an airdrop | creator | 3 sats per byte | on top of the submit fee |
| Run a manual airdrop | creator | 80,000 sats | fixed |
Submitting is charged by size because what you are paying for is inscribing your files on the blockchain: a heavier collection costs more because it takes more space on chain.
Creator tiers discount the submit fee: Gold 35%, Silver 20%, Bronze 10%.
What you are paying for is the size of this, item by item:
Collection details
Tips and ratings
A tip is the heart on a piece, with the count of tips it has had:
| Action | Who pays | How much | Who gets it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send a tip | sender | 80,000 sats fee | Zoide |
| — the tip itself | sender | 80,000 sats | the recipient |
| Tip a creator | sender | 80,000 sats fee | Zoide |
| Rate a collection | whoever rates | 1,000,000 sats | split: 70% to the creator, the rest to Zoide |
Rating a collection costs money on purpose: a free star rating is worth what it costs, and most of what you pay goes to the creator whose work you are rating.
Bulk operations and extras
| Action | Who pays | How much | On what |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk Manager job | the user | 80,000 sats | fixed, per piece processed |
| Bulk BSV payment | sender | 5% | the amount sent; minimum 1,000 sats per address |
| Follow extra addresses (Balances) | the user | 1,000,000 sats | unlocks 5 more addresses; the first 5 are free |
Per piece processed is the part that surprises people: a batch of forty listings pays forty listing fees, and the panel counts them one by one:
Your jobs are in progress
Processed: 0 of 0
Completed Jobs: 2
Failed Jobs: 1
| Job | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| List · Zoide Nº 7 · #12 | done | Listed at 0.0250 BSV |
| List · Zoide Nº 7 · #13 | running | Building the transaction |
| List · Zoide Nº 7 · #14 | failed | Not yours any more — skipped |
Subscription
| Term | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 month | 20,000,000 sats |
| 3 months | ×3 |
| 6 months | ×5 |
| 12 months | ×10 |
Renewing early gets you 5% off, measured against your current expiry date — not against the day you renew.
What Zoide does not charge for
- Browsing, and having an account. No fee to create a wallet, sign in or look at anything.
- Receiving. Being sent a piece, or winning an airdrop, costs you nothing.
- The network fee. Every on-chain action pays a small fee to the Bitcoin SV network itself. That one is not ours and we do not take a cut of it.
- Holding. There is no storage fee, no renewal, no expiry. A piece in your wallet costs nothing to keep.
Discounts
Two things reduce what you pay, and they stack with nothing else:
- Your rank. Each user rank carries a discount on the market fee. What rank you are depends on the rarest piece you hold.
- Your creator tier. Gold, Silver and Bronze discount the submit fee by the percentages above.