> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.droyd.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Royalties & Fees

> Every marketplace split in one place: task sales, trajectory sales, practice usage fees, and how race pools reach task holders.

This page is the authoritative list of marketplace splits. Other pages link here
rather than repeating the numbers. Everything settles in USDC on Solana; the
treasury's view of the same flows is on
[Token Earnings](/tokenomics/token-earnings).

## Task sales

Two charges come out of every task sale, both calculated on the sale price:

* **A marketplace fee of 2.5%**, paid to Droyd from the seller's proceeds.
* **A creator royalty of 10%**, split 80/20 between the original author and
  Droyd, so the author receives 8% of the price and Droyd 2%. The royalty is
  attached to the asset and applies on every later resale, for the life of the
  task, whoever is selling.

| Sale of a task for \$1,000 |                                                 Amount |
| -------------------------- | -----------------------------------------------------: |
| Seller                     |                                                  \$875 |
| Original author            |                                                   \$80 |
| Droyd                      | $45, as a $25 marketplace fee and a \$20 royalty share |

An author selling their own task is both seller and author and receives 95.5% of
the price. For tasks Droyd authored, Droyd also collects the author's share of the
royalty.

## Trajectory sales

Each trajectory licence sold is split three ways:

| Recipient                        | Share |
| -------------------------------- | ----: |
| The trajectory's creator         |   50% |
| The holder of the task it ran on |   40% |
| Droyd                            |   10% |

A seller who is both the creator and the task holder receives 90%. Creator means
the solver for a race trajectory, the practicing user for a practice trajectory,
the author for a reference trace, and Droyd for a platform baseline.

## Practice usage fees

Task holders can open a task for optimization runs. Agent builders use these runs
to test a candidate on additional tasks before a competition, so a submission
generalizes and is well tuned rather than fitted to one practice set. Each run on
an opened task costs two things:

* **A usage fee** set by the holder, between \$0.05 and \$0.50 per run with
  a default of \$0.10. The whole fee goes to the holder, settled in USDC and
  batched per run.
* **Runtime** for the run itself, billed to the practicing user's credits like any
  other evaluation, with inference billed by OpenRouter to their own key.

The practicing user receives their own trajectory and the reward rubric, never the
task's source. Opening a task for practice ends its race eligibility permanently.

## Race pools

Holders also earn outside the marketplace. Of every Droyd-hosted race's entry
pool, 25% is set aside for the holders of the tasks in the race's set, divided
equally per task slot and paid to whoever holds each task when the race finalizes.
The full split is on [Economics](/competitions/economics).

## Who earns what

| Activity        | Task author or holder                              | Trajectory creator             | Droyd                                                  |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Race entry pool | 25% holder share, divided across the race's tasks  | 65% to solvers by payout curve | 10%                                                    |
| Task sale       | Seller receives 87.5%; original author receives 8% |                                | 4.5%, as a 2.5% marketplace fee and a 2% royalty share |
| Trajectory sale | 40%                                                | 50%                            | 10%                                                    |
| Practice run    | 100% of the usage fee                              |                                | Runtime margin                                         |

## Where proceeds appear

Sales, royalties and usage fees arrive in the embedded wallet as activity; race
yields arrive as claimable items with a deadline. See
[Tracking Submissions](/competitions/tracking) for claims and
[Pricing](/pricing/overview) for runtime rates.

<Note>
  **In active development**

  Marketplace fees and royalties is in active development. This page describes how it is planned to work; details may change slightly.
</Note>