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HYPE -2.41%Independent guide · Updated 29 August 2026
Moon.com Fees: What You Pay, and What It Costs at 50x
Four costs apply to every Moon.com bet, and only one of them looks like a fee. Here is each one, what it attaches to, and what it works out to in dollars.
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What you actually pay on Moon.com
There are four costs, and only one of them looks like a fee. The opening fee is a percentage of the position, the rolling fee accrues with time, the performance fee comes out of profit, and the settlement spread is buried in the price you are filled at. Three of them are easy to overlook, and together they are what makes the average outcome of a wager negative — a capped loss is not the same as a cheap one.
The single most misread line is the first. The opening fee is charged on the leveraged amount, not on your stake. That is arithmetic worth doing before your first bet rather than after it.
| Cost | Charged | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Opening fee | 1% of the position | Taken the moment the bet opens, calculated on the LEVERAGED exposure — not on your wager. At 100x a $10 wager is a $1,000 position, so the fee is about $10: the size of the wager itself. |
| Rolling fee | per 8-hour period | Charged while a position stays open. It is the cost of time, and it is the reason a bet held overnight is a different proposition from one held for a minute. The rate is shown in the wager panel before you confirm. |
| Performance fee | on a winning close | Deducted from profit when a position closes in the green. It does not apply to losses, which is why the headline "loss capped at your stake" stays true. |
| Settlement spread | inside the price | You do not open and close at the mid price. The gap is the least visible cost of the four because it never appears as a line item — it is simply the price you got. |
Only the opening fee has a published rate we can quote. For the rolling fee, the performance fee and the spread the operator discloses the mechanism but not a public number, so the figure you should trust is the one the wager panel and the fee view show you at the moment you bet — Moon.com's terms.
A worked example
Wager $20 on BTC at 50x. Your exposure is $1,000. The 1% opening fee is charged on that exposure, so roughly $10 — half your stake — is gone before the price has moved at all. The position now needs about a 1% favourable move just to return you to even, and at 50x that is about a 0.02% move in BTC. Small, but not free.
Raise the multiplier and both halves scale together. At 1000x a $20 wager is a $20,000 position; the opening fee alone is around $200, which is more than the wager, so the platform caps what it can take at the stake. This is the point at which the multiplier stops being leverage in any ordinary sense and becomes a very short-dated bet: the Max Loss Price sits roughly a tenth of a percent away.
Hold that position for a day and the rolling fee applies three times over. The product is built for minutes, and the fee schedule is the clearest statement of that intent — see leverage and Max Loss Price for the distance-to-liquidation arithmetic.
Four ways to pay less
Use a lower multiplier for the same view. The opening fee scales with the position, so 10x costs a tenth of what 100x costs on the same wager.
Close what you are not watching. The rolling fee is charged on time, not on attention.
Check the spread on thin markets. It widens where liquidity is thinner, and that shows up in the settled price rather than in a fee line.
Rehearse on Play Money first. The demo uses the same live prices, so you can watch the cost structure without paying it.
FAQ
How much does Moon.com charge to open a bet?
The opening fee is 1% of the position, and the position is your wager multiplied by the leverage. A $20 wager at 50x is a $1,000 position, so the fee is about $10. Confirm the current rate in the wager panel before you bet.
What is the rolling fee?
A charge applied for every 8-hour period a position stays open. It makes long holds materially more expensive than short ones, which is consistent with a product built around very short-dated bets.
Is there a fee when I lose?
The performance fee applies only to a winning close. A losing position costs you the wager and the fees already charged — never more than the wager in total, because the loss is capped at the stake.
What is the settlement spread?
The difference between the mid price and the price your bet is actually settled at. It is a real cost even though it never appears as a separate line, and it is the reason two bets in opposite directions do not cancel out to zero.
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