Fee structure
One fee. Zero leakage. Everything recycled.
Every trade on a pools.fun token pays the pool's 1% swap fee — and 100% of that fee is split, on-chain, between the people who make the token go:
| Share | Goes to | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 20% | The creator | Paid for the life of the token, enforced by immutable bytecode. Claim any time. |
| 25% | The community pool | Funds the daily top-3 buyback & burns. Fees become buy pressure — and burned supply. |
| 30% | Protocol token buyback + burn | Accruing from day one; once the protocol token is live, buys it on the open market and burns it. |
| 25% | The platform | Keeps pools.fun running and shipping. |
The creator deal
This is the strongest builder deal on any launchpad, and it's not a promise — it's bytecode:
- 20% of every fee, on both sides of the pool, forever. Not a launch bonus. Not a one-time airdrop. A permanent revenue share on all volume your token ever does.
- Locked at launch. Your split is snapshotted into the contract the moment you launch. Future platform changes can never touch an existing token's economics.
- Claim whenever you want. Fees accrue on-chain in a pull-based ledger. One click collects and claims in a single transaction. No thresholds, no lockups, no permission.
- Transferable. You can rotate your payout address at any time — move it to a multisig, a new wallet, or a teammate. Everything already earned is settled to you first, automatically.
The community share
25% of every fee on every token flows into the community pool. Every day, the pool buys back and burns the top 3 tokens, split 50/30/20 by finishing position. The more the platform trades, the more buy pressure and burned supply the community's favorites get. That's the flywheel.
The protocol token buyback + burn share
30% of every fee on every token funds the protocol token buyback. The share has been accruing on-chain to the buyback vault from day one; once the protocol token is live, it buys the token on the open market and every token bought is burned — permanently removed from supply.
The fine print (the good kind)
- Splits apply to all fee value — every side of every pool, including tokens paired against tokenized stocks, at exactly the same ratios.
- Fee accrual is pull-based and permissionless: collection can never be blocked, frozen, or held hostage — by anyone, including us.
- Changing the default split for future launches requires an on-chain governance action with a 48-hour public timelock — and the protocol-side proportions are frozen in bytecode. Existing tokens never change.