# Fluid DEX Lite Expenses Methodology

## 1. Overview

Expenses measures the total cost Fluid DEX Lite incurs to operate its business, including token incentives paid to supply-side or demand-side users, core contributors, and traditional operating expenditures. For Fluid DEX Lite, this metric is currently set to zero. This reflects that no on-chain token incentives are distributed and no protocol-level operational costs are recognized for this specific product within the current tracking framework.

## 2. Data sources

- **None**: This metric is set to a constant value and does not consume blockchain events

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Expense identification

- **Purpose**: To track protocol-level expenditures and incentive distributions
- **Logic**: Expenses for Fluid DEX Lite are hardcoded to zero. This value represents the absence of protocol-issued token incentives or other recognized on-chain operational expenses for the product. All underlying components are aggregated at the daily level with UTC day boundaries.

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

Total project operating and incentive expenses.

Expenses

Exchanges (DEX)

Fluid acts as a lending, vault, and DEX platform for seamless DeFi interaction.

Fluid is a non-custodial lending, vaults, and DEX protocol built by Instadapp. Instadapp was founded by Samyak Jain & Sowmay Jain and launched in 2018.

FLUID tokenholders own and govern the protocol. They currently earn a cut of the fees generated through Fluid lending, vault and DEX services. Instadapp's investors include Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Robot Ventures, etc.

Fluid DEX Lite

Expenses

Expenses

Chain breakdown