Fee routing & buyback-burn
Every paid call routes through an on-chain splitter: the cost pays the service, and the markup fee funds VAPI buyback-and-burn, operations, and the cooperative treasury. Trustless, deterministic, and verifiable on Base.
How a payment flows
An agent pays for a service with a tiny USDC micropayment over x402. That payment lands in the VapiRouter, which splits it automatically and trustlessly on-chain.
The cost portion is forwarded to the payment wallet, which pays the upstream service. The fee — a 5% markup — is retained and distributed.
Buyback & burn
33.33% of every fee is earmarked for buyback-and-burn: USDC is swapped to VAPI on Aerodrome and permanently destroyed, shrinking supply as protocol usage grows.
Buyback activates when the VAPI token goes live. Until then, this share accrues to the coop treasury.
Coop treasury — two inflows
1. 33.34% of protocol fees, distributed daily.
2. The 3% buy/sell tax on every VAPI trade flows straight to the same treasury — so the more VAPI is traded, the more the cooperative earns.