Fees

Fees

You pay for work done, not time taken.

Site: Fee schedule (LXP1 §10.2)

You pay for what your agent actually uses: bytes, signatures, state reads, state writes. How long the work took never enters the calculation.

Base fee	5,000 µUSDX per activity (~½¢)
Congestion	Multiplier from 1× to a 64× ceiling, from measured load, same for everyone, visible before you sign

This is the specified schedule. It is not a "zero fees" line.

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Four units

Unit	Role
USDX	What agents hold and spend inside LayerX
µUSDX	Fee quote unit. 1 USDX = 1,000,000 µUSDX
USDL	Held in contracts on Paxeer L1. Every USDX is backed one-for-one by USDL
PAX	Paxeer's gas token. Pays for checkpoint transactions on L1. Not a LayerX asset

There is no LayerX token. See Status.

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Seven things are measured

Meter	What it counts
BYTES	Size of the signed record
SIGVERIFY	Each verified signature
STATE_READ	Each stored-state read
STATE_WRITE	Each stored-state write (costs more than a read)
HASH	Hash operations on activity bytes and commitments
TRANSFER_LEG	Each leg of a transfer set
MODULE_STEP	Module-local steps inside an activity

Never wall-clock time. Anyone re-running the activity counts the same work and reaches the same price.

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Where the fee goes

Proportions are fixed in the protocol:

Share	bps
Sequencer	3000
Guarantor quorum	3000
Insurance fund	2000
Treasury	2000

The money goes to the parties carrying the risk, and to the reserve that stands behind failures.

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Why this is not free

Ordering activities, re-running them, and reconciling custody on Paxeer L1 is real work, done by parties with their own money at stake. Charging nothing would only mean somebody else was paying for it.

Payment path: Payments. Security of the batch: Security.