Use Gondola, pay a lower fee
Every week is a small competition. Place high and your platform fee drops the next week, from the standard 2% to as little as 0.3%. No token, nothing to buy or stake: a lower fee is earned by usage alone.
What it is
Each UTC week (starting Monday at 00:00) is a friendly ranking. Buyers compete with buyers, and lenders compete with lenders, as two separate boards. Where you land sets your platform fee for the following week. Place near the top and your fee drops close to the 0.3% floor; sit in the middle and it dips a little below 2%.
There is nothing to opt into. If you buy inference or lend a key, you are already in the running.
What counts
Your score for the week is your settled usage plus referral credit. Usage is simply your volume: what you spent buying if you are a buyer, or what your keys served if you are a lender. On top of that you earn referral credit worth 20% of the volume from wallets you referred directly, and 4% of the volume from their referrals. Share your link, and other people using Gondola lifts your placement too. Scores display as points, 100 points per dollar of scored volume.
What placement earns
Every figure below is your resulting platform-fee rate, not a discount on the total price.
To be concrete: a top-20% placement turns your 2% fee leg into roughly 0.9%, which trims only about 1% off the total price. Heavy, consistent use earns a meaningfully cheaper fee, but the price you pay is already the marketplace price (well below Venice list) before any of this.
The rules that matter
Rates apply the week after you place, so this week's activity sets next week's fee. If you stop using Gondola, your rate decays back to the full 2% fee. Ties share a rank. And because ranking is relative, there is always someone paying the fee: the program lowers what active users pay, it does not remove the fee.
No token
This is not a token, points balance, or airdrop. There is nothing to buy, stake, or claim, and nothing sits in a wallet waiting to be sold. The only way to pay a lower fee is to use Gondola and refer others, and the only thing you earn is a cheaper fee next week.