Zero-fee promotion
A zero-fee promotion removes trading fees entirely on selected pairs or products for a limited time. Genuinely free — but always scoped, always temporary, and sometimes offset by wider spreads.
Zero-fee campaigns are the most aggressive form of fee promotion, most often seen on spot pairs the exchange wants to grow. For the covered pairs during the window, the fee line is genuinely zero.
The honest caveats: coverage is narrow (a handful of pairs, rarely derivatives), windows end — sometimes with little notice — and on some venues the economics reappear elsewhere, typically as wider spreads or thinner maker incentives on the covered books. Execution cost is fees plus spread plus slippage; zeroing one component does not zero the sum.
A trader using a rebate loses nothing by also using zero-fee windows: fills with no fee simply generate no payback, and every fill outside the promotion earns the normal 50–67% return. The mistake to avoid is choosing a venue for a zero-fee banner alone — compare the effective all-in cost of your real trading mix, most of which usually sits outside any promotion.
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