Fees and Protocol Revenue

CICADA Finance monetizes its onchain asset management platform through a multi-layered revenue framework designed to scale with managed assets and actual performance. Fees and revenues are generated across the full asset lifecycle—onboarding, issuance, liquidity operation, settlement, and distribution—while emphasizing transparency and long-term alignment.

Note: Fee items and parameters may differ by asset category and are disclosed on the relevant product pages and/or governance-controlled parameter registries, where applicable.

Protocol-Level Revenues

Asset Management Fees

CICADA Finance may charge management and operational fees for maintaining asset products and their lifecycle processes, including monitoring, settlement coordination, reporting, and protocol operations. Fee basis and timing are asset-specific and disclosed per product.

Protocol Transaction Fees

CICADA Finance may charge fees for protocol functions that enable issuance, conversion (where applicable), liquidity routing, redemption workflows, and cross-chain operations. Users may also incur third-party costs (e.g., DEX aggregators, bridges, custodians), which should be disclosed at the interface level.

Yield Settlement & Distribution Fees

In addition to basic management fees, CICADA Finance may charge fees related to automated yield settlement and distribution only when underlying assets generate real yields and complete allocation. This creates structural alignment:

• CICADA Finance does not profit in advance if assets do not generate yields

• Avoids “charge first, perform later” dynamics

• Strengthens long-term alignment between the platform, asset providers, and capital-side users

This is a revenue model centered on realised performance, not expectations.

Product-Level Revenues

CICADA Finance provides asset-side services to support professional originators entering onchain markets with durable product structures and long-term operational support. Revenue may be generated from:

• Asset issuance & listing services: structure design, token model planning, protocol onboarding, and market-readiness support

• Launchpad & structured product services: yield layering, risk isolation, and product combination designs tailored to different capital preferences

These services reflect higher professional value and product complexity and are distinct from basic protocol usage fees.

Advanced Service Revenues

As CICADA Finance expands managed asset types and operational depth, the platform may offer advanced services such as:

• cross-chain asset management and liquidity efficiency solutions

• composite yield and allocation frameworks under risk-control and compliance constraints

• customized onchain asset management solutions for institutions, enterprises, or family offices

These services tend to be longer-term and higher-touch, supporting recurring revenue in mature phases.

Market, Integration, and Ecosystem Revenues

CICADA Finance may generate additional revenues from:

• Market and trading access: listing-related services and Marketplace enablement (where applicable)

• Integrations and partnerships: technical integration, interoperability support, and ecosystem collaboration programs

• Launchpad enablement: launch-related service fees, and where a financing/credit structure exists, disclosure of any platform fees and applicable external costs

Transparency

CICADA Finance aims to ensure fee and revenue transparency through:

• clear asset-level fee schedules and definitions

• indication of whether displayed yields are gross or net of fees

• separation of protocol-owned onchain assets vs custodied offchain assets and strategy capital

• disclosure of third-party dependencies that may introduce additional costs

Scalability

CICADA Finance’s revenue model scales because the underlying framework is reusable across scenarios:

• Multi-chain by design: the chain is an execution environment, not a business boundary

• Paradigm replicability: CICADA Finance standardizes the asset management process while adapting token structures to each asset

• Compliance compatibility: compliance is treated as configurable parameters, enabling jurisdiction-specific onboarding and disclosure without breaking core protocol logic