Maker fees apply when your order adds resting liquidity to the book; taker fees apply when your order removes it.
Last verified 13 September 2026 · written by the DexLadder team
What it means
Maker fees apply when your order adds resting liquidity to the book; taker fees apply when your order removes it.
Why it matters when you trade
Venues pay for the liquidity that makes them usable, so makers are charged less or paid a rebate and takers subsidise them. The gap looks trivial — often 0.02% against 0.05% — until you multiply by turnover. A strategy trading its account 200 times a year pays roughly 6% of equity more as a pure taker than as a pure maker, which is larger than most strategies' entire edge.
Worked example
0.10% taker on 200 round trips a year is 20% of a fully-deployed account in fees. The same strategy at a 0.02% maker fee pays 4%.
See it on live markets
DexLadder runs maker and taker fees against live market and pool data, with simulated capital, so you can watch it act on an order instead of reading about it — no account, no wallet, nothing installed.