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Where the fees go

Each trade on a coin's curve pays about 1% in fees: 0.5% to the coin's recipient, 0.25% to aio and 0.25% to Raydium.

At a glance

to the recipient
0.5%
the creator fee, on each curve trade
to aio
0.25%
the platform fee, on each curve trade
to Raydium
0.25%
Raydium's own fee for running the curve
in total
about 1%
of each trade on the curve
to launch
0.05 SOL
a flat fee, once per coin

The fee on a trade

whoshare of the tradewhere it goes
the coin's recipient0.5%the coin's own fee wallet, then the X account, GitHub user or wallet the launcher named
aio0.25%aio's treasury
Raydium0.25%Raydium, whose LaunchLab program runs the curve

The first two rates are aio's settings on Raydium LaunchLab, flat from the first trade.

Where the creator's share goes

Launchpads pay the creator fee to whoever is recorded as the coin's creator on chain. So aio makes a fresh fee wallet for every coin, and that wallet is the creator. A coin's fees never mix with another coin's.

From the fee wallet, the fees go to the recipient. An X or GitHub recipient signs in and claims them. A wallet recipient has them pushed to that address by anyone, from the coin page. Claiming fees has the steps.

Fees an X or GitHub recipient leaves unclaimed for 90 days are swept to aio's treasury. After that sweep the coin counts as expired: its later creator fees go to the treasury too and can no longer be claimed. The fees of a coin its recipient declined, and of a coin the launch check flagged, are swept as well.

Where aio's share goes

The platform fee and the launch fee land in aio's treasury. aio's policy is to send 80% of its net SOL revenue to buying and burning the platform coin and keep 20% to run the platform. That starts only once the buyback is switched on. See the buyback and the platform coin.

The fees page shows the same split, and the buyback page publishes the ledger once the buyback is on.

After graduation

When a coin graduates to a Raydium pool, the curve's fees stop and the pool charges its own. aio's platform is set up with a pool setting that keeps a creator fee where Raydium offers one. That fee is owed to the same fee wallet and is paid out with the same claim. The pool's liquidity is locked at graduation: 90% is burned, and 10% is held under a fee key that gives aio that share's trading fees, not the liquidity.

Other fees you may meet

  • Solana's own network fee on every transaction you sign.
  • On mainnet, when aio's trade panel routes a graduated coin's trade through Jupiter, that trade carries a 0.5% referral fee (Jupiter keeps a fifth of it). This applies only where the trade panel is switched on and Jupiter keys are set.
  • A holders coin, off by default, adds a 1.5% tax on every transfer: 0.25 points go to aio and 1.25 points, plus the creator fee, go to holders. Payouts run daily unless a faster scheduler is set up. Stock coins default to holders rewards where available. Otherwise the form explains the creator-fee fallback before payment. Details.

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