How it works
Fees and earnings
Two charges per trade: one split with the creator, one paid to them alone. Plus a tax on the opening seconds that makes sniping a bad trade.
Two charges on a trade, independent of each other. The base fee is always 1% and splits between the protocol and the creator. The creator tax is 0–10%, set at launch, and goes to the creator in full.
Both come off the OKB leg whichever way you're trading, so fees are never denominated in the memecoin and a creator's earnings don't depend on their own coin holding up.
The base fee#
| Share | Of the 1% | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| 30% | 0.30% of the trade | The protocol |
| 70% | 0.70% of the trade | The creator |
On a 1 OKB buy that's 0.01 OKB of fee: 0.003 to the protocol, 0.007 to whoever launched the coin. The split is frozen into each launch when it's created, so changing the protocol's terms later can't reprice a coin that's already trading.
The creator tax#
A creator can add up to 10% on top, charged on every buy and sell and paid to them entirely — the protocol takes none of it. It's set in the launch transaction and can't be changed afterwards.
It shows on the coin's page before you trade. A 10% tax is allowed here, and it's also impossible to miss — the number is on the contract and on the screen, not buried in a token's transfer function.
Worth knowing
The launchpad caps the creator tax at 10% today. The contracts cap base fee plus creator tax at 20% combined no matter where that setting ever moves. Most launches set no tax at all.
The opening seconds#
A third charge applies only to the first 15 seconds of a launch. A buy in the launch second pays 99%; that decays to zero across the window and is gone for good after 15 seconds.
It's there to make sniping unprofitable. A bot buying a brand-new curve in the block it was created spends nearly its whole budget on fees and walks away with almost nothing. Sells are never taxed.
Two kinds of wallet are exempt, both declared inside the launch transaction before anyone else can see the coin exists:
- The creator and their fee recipient, automatically.
- Any wallets the creator names at launch — the sanctioned route for a team bundling opening buys across several addresses, up to 32 of them.
What a sniper does pay isn't burned. It joins the base fee bucket and splits 30/70 like everything else.
Buyback and lock#
A creator can opt into putting half of their own share of the base fee into buying their coin back. That's 35% of the 1%, or 0.35% of every trade. It never touches the protocol's 30% or the creator tax, and it can be switched on or off later.
Bought-back tokens aren't burned. They go into a vault on a five-year vest and release to the creator over that period. So it's a commitment rather than a supply cut: the tokens come off the market for years and the creator's own payout funds it.
If the curve is too thin for the buyback to run without moving the price too far, it folds back into the creator's ordinary payout instead of forcing a bad trade.
Claiming
Fees reach a wallet in two hops. Worth knowing, because a creator staring at a full "pending" column and an empty "claimable" one is one transaction away rather than owed nothing.
The escrow pays whoever calls it. There's no recipient argument, so there's no address to type and nothing to send to the wrong place — and it's why the fee screens can be public without the money being.
Creators do all of it on the creator dashboard. One exception: a curve with a buyback earmarked needs a price floor on its sweep, which only the protocol's sweep operator can set, so those get swept for you.
The 0.01 OKB launch fee never enters the escrow. It goes straight to the protocol as the coin is created.
After graduation#
The Uniswap v4 pool charges the same 1% and splits it the same 30/70, through a hook shared by every graduated pool. The creator tax carries over too.
So nothing changes when a coin crosses over. A creator keeps earning on every swap for as long as the pool trades, into the same escrow balance the curve fees went to — one claim covers both.