# Historic Fee Distribution

By [Aelin News](https://paragraph.com/@aelinnews) · 2023-05-02

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In the 15 months since Aelin launched, the protocol has collected a sizable chunk of deal tokens via the 2% protocol fee on Pools & Deals.

These fees were originally to be sold after a 6 month escrow period with the proceeds being used to purchase Aelin and then distribute to stakers. AELIP-43 changed this mechanism to align more closely with Aelin’s original vision; to give the community exposure to these new protocols.

There’s a lot of good news for the community in this post so strap in.

We’ve given up our cut
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Originally the Aelin DAO was going to receive 30% of protocol fees, but to celebrate this initial round we are giving up our cut and passing on 100% of them to historical AELIN stakers & LPs.

The Synthetix Treasury Council was staked in Pool1 during the first round, and has also kindly agreed to give up their allocation (their size was size).

![Fees being distributed now](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ed501955d48a9b641b05d49ab5638e893d6c06339254d0184093d9bff785fa1e.jpg)

Fees being distributed now

Claiming
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These deal fee tokens are claimable in-kind, with the release of a new merkle tree contract for historical stakers & LPs between January 10th, 2022 to March 6th, 2023 - ⅔  to Stakers and ⅓ to LPs.

Going forward, protocol fees will be split 50/50 between pool 1 stakers and the Aelin Treasury in an upcoming release of a multi-reward staking contract specifically built for a new fee source - VestAMM, which you’ll hear more about soon.

Claims will be open for a period of 1 year. After this period unclaimed tokens will be claimed by the Aelin DAO and likely redistributed through the new staking mechanism.

When?
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Right now at [https://app.aelin.xyz/fees](https://app.aelin.xyz/fees)

What’s Next?
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There is a lot going on behind the scenes at Aelin. We’ve been heads down building VestAMM which is a novel liquidity management product, bringing in new users and protocols as well as on-going fee revenue.

We’re also going through a rebrand, working on new UX, overhauling tokenomics, and have several Pools & Deals coming up. 

Stay tuned for news on all of this and more!

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*Originally published on [Aelin News](https://paragraph.com/@aelinnews/historic-fee-distribution)*