EDITORIAL METHODOLOGY
How We Verify Figures
fomo's documentation is live and current -- the problem is that its own Terms of Service and help center don't always agree with each other. This page describes how we handle that: the evidence tiers behind every number on this site, what happens when two of fomo's own documents contradict each other, and the claims we will not publish at all.
The problem: fomo's own documents disagree
fomo's Terms of Service state, without qualification: “We charge a minimum fee of 0.50% per transaction (subject to a minimum fee of $0.95 per transaction).” Read literally, that applies to every transaction, on every chain. fomo's help center -- a more detailed, more specific document -- scopes the same $0.95 minimum to Solana orders under 200 USDC specifically, and gives different figures entirely for Base, BNB Chain, Monad and Ethereum.
Neither document is wrong exactly; they're just not reconciled with each other. So instead of silently picking whichever number sounds better, we quote both and say which one we're leaning on. More on why that shaped the whole site on the about page.
The three evidence tiers
Every factual claim on this site traces to one of three tiers, and pages label which one they're leaning on whenever it matters.
| Tier | What it is | How much weight it carries |
|---|---|---|
| Terms of Service | fomo.family/terms, the legally binding document | Highest confidence for anything it states without qualification. Where it disagrees with the help center, we quote both rather than pick one. |
| Help center | help.fomo.family, fomo's support documentation | More detailed and more specific in most places. This is where the $0.95 minimum gets scoped to Solana orders under 200 USDC, a qualification the Terms don't carry. |
| fomo's own marketing | fomo.family and its blog | Used for positioning and product announcements, never for a figure we could instead source from the Terms or help center. Where marketing describes a feature -- copy trading is the clearest case -- and the help center doesn't document it as live, we say so. |
Below those three sit dated press reports, used for corporate events like funding rounds where no primary source is public, and always attributed to the outlet that ran them. Reddit, X and App Store reviews are quoted only as evidence that a user problem exists, never as evidence that a number is correct.
Baseline figures we hold to source
These are the numbers every fee, referral and comparison claim on the site is checked against, current as of 2026-08-08.
| Item | Figure | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Standard trading fee | 0.50% | Terms of Service + help center |
| Fee on select major tokens | 0.05% | Help center |
| Solana minimum fee, orders under 200 USDC | $0.95 flat | Help center (unqualified in the Terms) |
| Ethereum fee | 0.50% + network gas | Help center |
| Perps fee | 0.05% per side, on top of Hyperliquid | Help center |
| Perps operator | Independent third-party protocols, primarily Hyperliquid | Terms of Service |
| Referral discount | 10% off, permanent, applied at signup only | Help center |
| Referrer earnings | 25% of referred user's trading fees | Help center |
| Custody model | Non-custodial, MPC key-splitting via Privy | Help center |
| Key export behavior | Unencrypted transmission, user assumes risk | Terms of Service |
| Chains supported | Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, Ethereum | Help center + live app |
| Perps availability | Not available to U.S. Persons | Terms of Service |
The fee calculator encodes exactly these figures and nothing else.
Claims we refuse to publish
Every one of these circulates widely, and some appear on sites that rank above us. Each is excluded for a specific reason, not a stylistic one.
A fomo token or airdrop
No token exists as of this writing, and there is no official denial either -- that gap is exactly what scam "claim your airdrop" sites exploit. We state plainly that nothing is confirmed rather than repeating third-party speculation as fact.
Automated copy trading as a live feature
fomo's own marketing page runs a section titled "How Copy Trading Works on fomo," but the help center does not document copy trading as an existing feature. We report the gap rather than assuming the marketing copy describes something live in the app today.
Any referral discount above 10%
Third-party posts and blog spam advertise "50% off fomo fees for life" and similar. The documented rate, verified verbatim from fomo's help center, is 10%. We publish the real number and flag inflated claims as unsourced.
Where a claim is merely unverified rather than false, we say “unverified” on the page instead of dropping it silently or guessing.
Market data
The market pages pull prices, liquidity and volume from GeckoTerminal and DefiLlama rather than from fomo itself, since fomo has no public market-data API. Those figures move constantly and are presented as live data, not as verified editorial claims. Treat them as a snapshot and confirm anything you're about to size a position on.
Review cadence
Every guide carries a Last Updated date in the byline. Pages built on time-sensitive figures -- fees, the referral rate, chain coverage -- also carry a Last Verified date recording the last manual check against fomo's Terms and help center.
Fee and referral pages are re-checked at least monthly, since a documented discrepancy like the fee-minimum one means a future fomo update could resolve it in either direction. Comparison and ecosystem pages are re-checked quarterly or when something material happens, such as a new funding round or a feature launch.
Limitations
Fee figures pulled from DefiLlama (like the realized 1.587% take rate on fomo's 30-day Solana volume) are derived data, not a stated fomo policy -- we label them as such and show the arithmetic rather than presenting them as an official number.
Press coverage of funding rounds is reported secondhand and occasionally disagrees with itself on exact dates or amounts, in which case we give the range instead of picking a winner. The whole mobile-trading-app space moves fast enough that a figure verified today can be stale next month. When accuracy matters for a decision you're about to make, follow the source link on the page.
Reporting something wrong
If a figure here looks out of date or wrong, tell us. The fastest route is a direct message to @Concept211 on X or an email via the contact page. Include the URL, the figure, and the source you're comparing against. Corrections are prioritized over new content.
Editorial independence and disclosure
FomoAppGuide earns from referral and affiliate links, set out in full on the about page. That does not decide which figures get published or how a comparison lands. The $0.95 minimum fee on small Solana orders is the least flattering thing on this site, and it's also the page we put the most work into -- fomo Fees Explained. Where fomo's own marketing describes a feature that isn't confirmed live, such as copy trading, that gets covered too.