Mint fees for contract deployments update

Effective Date: February 11, 2025, at 2:00 PM PST

Since launching in 2021, over 2 million smart contracts have been deployed with our toolkit — powering billions of transactions every year. We’re making some changes to our fee structure to better support the development of our smart contract development toolkit.

Starting on the effective date, a 2.5% platform fee (applied to both native and ERC20 tokens) will be introduced for all prebuilt contracts deployed through the thirdweb dashboard after 2 pm PST on February 11, 2025.

Please note this change does not effect already deployed contracts.

Which contracts have a fee?

This change applies to any contracts that have a primary sale recipient, including but not limited to:

• Drop Contracts: DropERC20, DropERC721, DropERC1155, OpenEdition
• Token Contracts: TokenERC20, TokenERC721, TokenERC1155
• Specialized Contracts: , LoyaltyCard, BurnToClaim, MarketplaceV3

How the Fee Works

• The 2.5% fee will be automatically deducted from primary sales executed through these contracts. For example, an asset listed at 0.1 ETH will distribute 0.0975 ETH to the seller and 0.0025 ETH to the platform.
• The fee applies only to prebuilt contracts deployed via the thirdweb dashboard. Custom contracts or externally deployed contracts remain unaffected.
• The fee is charged from the primary sale, including a claim or mint action when there is a price on the NFT (non-zero). The fee is paid in the same currency as the claiming or minting price.

Why This Change?

This adjustment helps support continued development and maintenance of prebuilt smart contracts, ensuring reliability, security, and innovation for the ecosystem.

For any questions or further details, please reach out to our support team.

FAQs

• Which prebuilt contracts will have included fees?
  • The following contracts and corresponding modular versions will now include a seller fee:
    • Drop Contracts: DropERC20, DropERC721, DropERC1155, OpenEdition
    • Token Contracts: TokenERC20, TokenERC721, TokenERC1155
    • Specialized Contracts: LoyaltyCard, BurnToClaim, MarketplaceV3
• I deployed a contract prior to the effective date, will these fees apply to me?
  This fee is only applied to any contracts deployed after 2 pm PST on 2/10/2025.
• Can I opt out of the changes?
  • This change only applies to contracts deployed via the dashboard and not any contracts deployed programatically.