# To Fee or Not to Fee, That is the Question (FastBTC Fees)

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**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.sovryn.com/t/to-fee-or-not-to-fee-that-is-the-question-fastbtc-fees/1543 "2021-07-22T21:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Profesh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.sovryn.com/profesh/32/342_2.png) [@Profesh](https://forum.sovryn.com/u/Profesh)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.sovryn.com/t/to-fee-or-not-to-fee-that-is-the-question-fastbtc-fees/1543/2 "2021-07-27T21:23:34Z")

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I’ve already [declaimed at length on Sovryn’s Discord](https://discord.com/channels/729675474665603133/739867335971831898/865969081609355274) regarding this topic; suffice it to say that I agree with you wholeheartedly.

To distil the rhetoric: BTC is Sovryn’s lifeblood and _raison d’être_. BTC HODLers represent an abundant, untapped resource which for ideological reasons remains closed-off to mainstream defi, yet still within reach of Sovryn; furthermore, it seems obvious that such low–time-preference mindsets, if adequately incentivised, can then make for ideal long-term stakeholders, early-adopters and grass-roots participants in platform governance.

To HODLers, who typically regard Ethereum’s and BSC’s ever-shifting foundations as emblematic of ‘everything wrong’ with defi, that 0.2% risks making ours a ‘bridge too far’ right out of the gate—and yet the idea of a _free_ bridge, by contrast, is precisely the proverbial (and memetically _marketable_) call-to-arms which should cement Sovryn’s foothold and invigorate RSK as a whole.

What’s more, by making these defi-newcomers ‘honoured guests’ of the protocol, one not only fosters good-faith but also relieves pressure to immediately recoup on-costs, freeing our intrepid inductees to pursue lower-risk activities (e.g., lending) and expand comfort-zones at their leisure; as opposed to mining liquidity, sustaining impermanent loss, and then feeling (not altogether-unreasonably) that those initial misgivings were perhaps warranted after all.

Moreover, I’d argue your fifth ‘con’ is actually a ‘pro’ for this very reason: if Sovryn can parlay its first-mover advantage into becoming the de-facto _gateway_ onto RSK, servicing all comers and aggregating liquidity on both sides of an ever-deepening moat, then that mere “head start” swiftly approaches near-unassailable escape-velocity.

And if we don’t? Well, then I’d say we’re in danger of eventually playing second-fiddle to [RSK’s answer to Nerve](https://discord.com/channels/729675474665603133/739867335971831898/865969081609355274).

N.B. @light expressed a similar notion on Discord; I’d be curious to hear his input.

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