Every network charges its own fee

A withdrawal fee is not a price we invented. It is the cost of moving your money on the network you chose, passed through to you.

Those costs are not the same. Sending on one network can cost cents; on another the same transfer can cost dollars, and both numbers move over time. For a while Zenboox charged a single fee across all four networks.

WHY ONE NUMBER WAS WRONG TWICE

A single fee has to be either too high or too low, and usually both at once. Set it at the level of the expensive network and everyone withdrawing on the cheap one pays for a cost that was never incurred. Set it at the level of the cheap one and the platform loses money on every expensive withdrawal — which is not neutral either, because a platform that loses money on an operation eventually stops offering it.

Each network now carries its own fee. When you pick a network in the withdrawal screen, the fee shown is the fee for that network, and it changes as you change your selection. Nothing is averaged and nothing is hidden.

THE RULE THAT COMES WITH IT

The minimum withdrawal has to stay above every network's fee — not above the average, and not above the cheapest. If the minimum were ten and one network's fee were fifteen, a withdrawal on that network would arrive as a negative number: the screen would offer an amount that cannot exist. The check runs on every network before any fee change is accepted, and when it refuses, it names the network that caused it.

WHAT YOU SEE

Before you confirm, you see the fee for your network, the minimum, the per-request maximum, and what remains of your daily allowance. All four come from the server at that moment. None of them is a constant compiled into the app, which is exactly why they can be corrected on the day a network's cost changes rather than on the day of the next release.