pricing
One price list. No plans, no subscriptions.
You pay a fixed fee in WINTER when you protect something, and Ethereum gas, like any transaction. Leaving never costs a fee.
Launching soon. Until WINTER launches, early access is free: gas only.
Once. Fixed in WINTER, forever. Plus gas for one transaction.
Each send, swap or contract call from your vault, paid from its protection credit. Fixed in WINTER, forever. Plus gas.
Escape, evacuate, recovery and cancelling a recovery: gas only, always.
Ethereum gas, in plain words
Gas goes to Ethereum's validators, not to Wintergate. A protected action is two transactions (record, then execute). Measured costs:
| Gas price | Protected action | Create a vault, paying in ETH | Start an escape |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet day (0.2 gwei, like early October 2026) | about $0.24 | about $0.50 | about $0.14 |
| Busy day (1 gwei) | about $1.19 | about $2.50 | about $0.72 |
| Very busy (10 gwei) | about $12 | about $25 | about $7 |
ETH at $2,572. The app shows today's figure before you approve anything.
No WINTER yet? The app quotes the swap from the live pool, turns the ETH you send into WINTER in the same step and adds anything above the fee to your vault as protection credit. One approval. Paying with ETH includes a 20% convenience premium: the app buys 20% more tokens than the fee and credit need, and the extra is split like a fee, half burned and half added to the canary bounty. Paying in WINTER directly carries no premium.
Your vault keeps some WINTER to pay for actions. The app tells you when it runs low and tops it up with ETH when you ask.
1,000 WINTER to create and 50 WINTER per action, written into the contract when it is deployed. The fee never changes in WINTER. What it costs in other currencies moves with the WINTER market price, up or down. Every action also carries the most you agreed to pay.
Until WINTER launches, creating a vault and protected actions cost nothing but gas. From the launch on, every vault pays the same fee, whenever it was made.
Where the fee goes
Sent where no one can ever spend it, on chain, for good, in the same transaction that pays the fee.
Added to the public bounty on a key that only a quantum computer could sign for. It has no cap: it grows with every vault and every action.
No share goes to any person or treasury. Each new vault burns 500 WINTER and adds 500 to the bounty; each protected action burns 25 and adds 25.
Teams, treasuries and protocols: Business and Enterprise packages are coming soon.