# Performance fees

The protocol takes 5% of the total rewards earned, and uses them to redistribute it to people staking STAR/eSTAR tokens. 

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100 BANANA are earned through the Banana Vault, 5 BANANA are taken for performance fees.
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Performance fees are allocated as follows:

**80%** distributed on the Fee Redistribution Pool : 

**10%** used to increase available liquidity

**10%** to the team

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[staking-earn-revenues](https://aperocket.gitbook.io/ape-rocket/core/staking-earn-revenues)
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