Simple pricing. One managed fund.
One product, one price. The TaoScale Strategy managed fund charges a flat subscription on the budget you entrust, and never a commission on your gains.
TaoScale Strategy: managed fund
Hand your budget to the desk: we deploy, time and rebalance it for you. You are billed on that budget only: 3.6% per year of it (9% of a 40% reference yield), plus a one-time 0.5% entry fee when you commit (or raise) the budget, never on the rest of your wallet. The price is locked once paid. All the on-chain fees of the fund's moves are on us, included in that price.
Budget you entrust
Pricing reference yield (40% APY)
40.0 τ
used only to set your price. It is not a forecast, and your real yield is never billed
Management subscription
0.2400 τ/mo
billed 2.8800 τ yearly (−20%)
+ one-time entry fee: 0.50 τ (0.5% of the budget, min 0.04131 τ)
Minimum entrusted budget: 10 τ.
At 100 τ entrusted, cheaper than Mentat Minds from ~38% APR (yearly plan). See the comparison below.
Price locked for a full year: only raising your entrusted budget ever costs more.
- ✓Your budget deployed & rebalanced by the TaoScale desk
- ✓In-house strategy: entries timed by the team
- ✓Best-validator selection on every position
- ✓Increase, decrease or leave anytime
- ✓Non-custodial: funds stay in your wallet
- ✓You keep 100% of your staking yield
What this price pays for
Because TaoScale is non-custodial, your TAO never joins a pool: it stays in your wallet, and every move the desk makes for you is its own on-chain transaction, signed under your staking proxy. We pay those network fees: every entry, every rebalance, every validator change, all year long.
Those fees are charged by the chain per position, not per amount: managing 10 τ costs us exactly what managing 1 000 τ costs. That is why the subscription has a floor of 0.75 τ/year: below about 26 τ entrusted (yearly plan), the 3.6% would come out under this minimum, so the floor sets the price instead.
Above that, you pay the plain percentage, and you keep 100% of your staking yield: we never take a cut of your gains.
TaoScale vs Mentat Minds: your real cost
Set your own numbers. Mentat takes 9% of your gains in TAO, so their bill grows with every τ you earn. The managed fund charges a flat subscription on the budget you entrust, never a cut of your gains.
Your potential yearly gains at 50% APR
500.0 τ
≈ — per year, and with TaoScale you keep 100% of it
Mentat Minds
9% of your gains · taken in TAO
45.0 τ/yr
— / year
Siphoned from your gains, and it grows as your gains and TAO's price grow.
TaoScale Strategy
Flat subscription · 0% of your gains
28.8 τ/yr
— / year · yearly plan (−20%)
+ one-time entry fee 5.000 τ → 33.8 τ first year
or 36.0 τ (—) on the monthly plan, independent of your APR: earn 20% or 200%, the price does not move.
✓ At 50% APR, the fund's first year costs 33.8 τ (28.8 τ subscription + 5.000 τ one-time entry), less than Mentat's 45.0 τ. You save ≈ 11.2 τ (—) the first year, and more after, since the entry fee is paid only once.
Illustrative: Mentat 9% from their public docs; TaoScale managed fund = 9% of a 40% reference yield on the budget you entrust (−20% on the yearly plan, minimum 0.75 τ/year), plus a one-time 0.5% entry fee, independent of your real APR. Adjust the values above to your situation.
The full fee schedule
Every fee, who pays it, and its range. Nothing else, ever.
What you pay
| Fee | When | Amount | Range / floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delegation Staking-proxy authorization | Once, the first time you delegate, then never again | ≈ 0.0041 τ | Fixed (one normal transaction) |
| Entry fee one-shot: never on a decrease, never on leaving | When you join, then on each increase (on the increase only: a tier you already paid is never billed twice) | 0.5% of the budget | Floor 0.0413 τ: it sets the price up to ≈ 8.3 τ of budget/increase, the percentage takes over above |
| Subscription billed on the entrusted budget, price locked per period | Monthly or yearly, recurring | 3.6% / year yearly plan: −20% → 2.88%/yr | Floor 0.75 τ/yr (0.0625 τ/mo), which covers any budget up to ≈ 21 τ (monthly) / ≈ 26 τ (yearly) |
| Mid-period top-up when you raise the budget past what your period covers | On a budget increase during the period (from +0.1 τ) | 3.6%/yr × the raise | No floor, pro-rated to the days left. Your renewal date never moves |
| Decrease · leave the fund | Anytime, even with an expired subscription | Free | Network fees included. Non-custodial to the end |
Entry conditions: entrusted budget ≥ 10 τ and wallet value ≥ 10 τ. The fund only deploys your free TAO. Under the floor the price does not move: declaring the budget you actually aim for (up to ≈ 21 τ monthly) costs exactly the same, and saves a top-up later.
What we pay
| Item | Cost | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Gas per desk transaction deploy, rebalance, validator move | ≈ 0.00184 τ / call | Charged per client and per subnet touched, whatever the amount: a 10 τ client costs us the same gas as a 1 000 τ client |
| Yearly management cost / client | ≈ 0.63 τ / yr | At a normal pace. This is the whole reason the floors exist |
| All the fund's network fees | Included | Every move the desk makes is on us, and you keep 100% of your staking yield |
What we pay back: referral
| Level | Rate | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| L1: your direct referrals | 20% | Every subscription payment your referral makes (base, renewals, top-ups). Recurring, for life. First referrer wins, the link is proven on-chain, paid out in TAO. |
| L2: their referrals | 7% | |
| L3: one level deeper | 3% |
Honest advice: don't park on root long-term
Root pays the lowest yield on the network. Use it as a waiting position while the desk times the entries. The real value is in subnets (historically far higher yields), which is exactly where the managed fund deploys your budget.