The fee structure of a market is where the small surprises live, because nobody reads the fine print before they deposit. This is the structure of Nexus, stated plainly, and the places where the real cost is not in the fee schedule at all.

What is charged

Deposits are free. There is no cost to move coins into the market wallet, and no minimum deposit. Withdrawals carry a flat 1 percent fee, applied to the amount you withdraw. There is no vendor bond, which is unusual, and it is the reason the vendor base is large relative to the market's age. There is no listing fee for buyers, and no subscription.

The 1 percent is the market's revenue line, together with the small cut it takes from some vendor fees. It is not a lot per transaction, and it is not the place where most people lose money.

What the coins cost

The fee schedule is the visible cost. The invisible one is the coin you pay with. Bitcoin is the most convenient, because most people already hold it, and it is also the most public, because every payment is on a chain anyone can read. Monero is the opposite, private by construction, at the cost of a slightly smaller ecosystem of wallets and exchanges. Litecoin sits between the two, cheaper fees than Bitcoin, similar visibility.

The market accepts all three and recommends Monero for the privacy reason stated above. The choice is yours, and it is the one decision in the payment flow that has a real cost difference, even though none of it appears in the fee schedule.

Where the real costs are

Three places, none of them in the table above. The exchange withdrawal fee, if you pay from an exchange, is a second fee on top of the market's, and it is the one that connects your identity to the payment. The price difference between vendors, which can be significant on the same product, is a cost of not comparing listings. And the time cost of a dispute, which is measured in days and in attention, is a cost that no fee schedule mentions, because it only happens when something goes wrong.

The practical budgeting rule is simple: deposit the order amount, compare two or three vendors before you commit, and pay in the coin that matches how much privacy you actually want. The 1 percent is the last thing to worry about.

The escrow guide covers what happens to the money after you pay, and the withdrawal guide covers getting it out.