# $APHR Buy & Sell Fees Aphrodite's trading (buy and sell) fees are an **important component of the AAP**. They provide capital for performing critical functions to the protocol. Other protocols utilize **selling bonds** to support the same functions as Aphrodite fees, but we believe that approach is riskier because if bonds are not purchased, the token **can lose its support and spiral downward** in price as we have seen with several of these bond based protocols. Selling bonds also costs token holders. It reduces the amount of APY that can be offered and eliminates **the ability to offer a stable APY**. The amount of trading fees (**16% for buys** and **24% for sells**) allows Aphrodite to provide $APHR holders with the stable high yield of **300,001%** annually. One additional benefit of the high fees is that Aphrodite is the only token that benefits when whales dump because the fees collected support $APHR holders * **LP -** Trading fees go to backing the liquidity of the METIS/APHR pair on TETHYS ensuring an ever-increasing collateral value of $APHR. * **AIF -** Trading fees are stored in the Aphrodite Insurance Fund which helps sustain and back the staking rewards provided by the positive rebase. * **Treasury -** Trading fees go directly to the treasury which supports the AIF and provides a marketing budget for Aphrodite and funds new product development. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://aphrodite-finance.gitbook.io/aphrodite-finance/usdaphr-tokenomics/usdaphr-buy-and-sell-fees.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.