Protocol Business Model
How GBM Captures Value and Fuels Ecosystem Growth
The GBM Auction Protocol generates value through two primary channels:
🏷️ 1. Auction Fee
Every auction run through the GBM Protocol incurs a 2% fee on the final winning bid.
This fee is collected in the base currency of the auction (e.g. $ETH, $POL, $USDC, $GBM etc), provided it’s a protocol-supported token.
This fee is the core value engine of the GBM Protocol, capturing value as auction volume scales across the ecosystem.
How it’s used:
100% goes to the Protocol Rewards Pool
🧾 2. Publishing Fee
Initially, this fee will not be charged - because we want to encourage Auction House deployments in the early stages of the Protocol launch.
In the future, every new user - individual or enterprise - who wants to deploy and publish a live GBM Auction House must pay a one-time publishing fee. This can be paid in either $USDC, $USDT or $GBM tokens.
The publishing fee serves three key purposes:
Filters out non-serious clients, ensuring quality and commitment
Funds the protocol treasury, supporting long-term ecosystem growth
Rewards the GBM community, strengthening long-term incentive alignment
How it’s used:
50% goes to the Protocol Treasury
50% goes to the Protocol Rewards Pool
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