# 2025-10970: BZX Charges Up New Port Fees: Techie Trading Tweak

2025-10970, Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Adopt Fees for New Logical Ports in Connection With a New Connectivity Offering on Its Equity Options Platform, is a Federal Register notice from Securities and Exchange Commission published 2025-06-17, effective 2025-06-06; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10970
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10970
- Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Adopt Fees for New Logical Ports in Connection With a New Connectivity Offering on Its Equity Options Platform
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 25666
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: 2025-06-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

BZX Charges Up New Port Fees: Techie Trading Tweak

## Summary

Cboe BZX Exchange is rolling out new fees for special computer connections called Unitized Logical Ports on its equity options platform. Traders using these new ports will see updated charges based on their daily activity, starting right away. This change helps the Exchange offer better connectivity while keeping things fair and clear for everyone involved.

## Effects PRIA read

- Monthly Per-Port Unitized Fees: cost, medium. If you are a Cboe BZX Exchange Member and choose to buy a Unitized Logical Port, the Exchange proposes monthly charges of $350 per BOE Unitized Logical Port, $550 per Bulk Unitized Logical Port, and $400 per Purge Unitized Logical Port. These fees are charged per port each month and are assessed in…
- Tiered Unitized Port Set Pricing: cost, medium. The Exchange proposes tiered monthly pricing if you buy Unitized Logical Port Sets: BOE sets cost $2,500/month for the 1st and 2nd set, $3,000/month for the 3rd–14th set, and $3,500/month for the 15th–30th set. Bulk Unitized Logical Port Sets and Purge Unitized Logical Port Sets have analogous tier…
- Increase in Per-Firm Port Cap to 30: benefit, low. The Exchange proposes to raise the maximum number of Unitized Logical Ports you may hold to 30 Unitized Logical Ports per Member, per Matching Unit, per port type (up from a previously referenced cap of 20). Members may still also use existing non-Unitized logical ports with no maximum limit in add…
- New Average Daily Order/Quote Fees: cost, medium. The Exchange proposes Average Daily Order (ADO) and Average Daily Quote (ADQ) fees with free allowances of up to 2,000,000 ADO and up to 250,000,000 ADQ per month. If you exceed those amounts, ADO increments of 1,000 orders are charged $1.00/$1.50/$2.00/$2.50 per 1,000 at successive tiers (>2,000,0…

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## Sources
- [2025-10970 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-10970/self-regulatory-organizations-cboe-bzx-exchange-inc-notice-of-filing-and-immediate-effectiveness-of)
- [2025-10970 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-10970.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10970 (as of 2026-06-08).