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Polymarket Adds Taker Fees to 15-Minute Crypto Markets in Targeted Liquidity Test

The charges fund daily USDC rebates for market makers.

Overview

  • The new fees apply only to short-duration crypto contracts, while political, longer-term, and non-crypto markets remain fee-free.
  • Collected taker fees are redistributed each day in USDC to liquidity providers rather than retained as platform revenue.
  • The variable schedule is highest near 50% odds and falls toward zero at the extremes to shape order flow in fast markets.
  • Documentation shows a 100-share taker order at $0.50 incurs about $1.56, a little over 3% of the trade’s value at the fee peak.
  • The update surfaced via revised documentation without a formal announcement, framing the rollout as a narrowly scoped market-structure experiment.