where your 1% goes

every trade on a fairshot pool pays a 1% fee. that part isn't special — every launchpad charges something like it. what's different is where it goes, and who enforces it.

on most launchpads the fee leaves the token. it goes to the creator's wallet, or the platform, or into buying the platform's own token. the coin you're actually trading gets nothing back.

on fairshot the split is written into the pool's contract and can never be changed:

read the middle two rows again. 55 of every 100 bps go back into the token itself. the biggest single share of every fee doesn't go to us and doesn't go to the creator — it accumulates as a standing buy order under your token's own price. the next biggest goes to the people generating the volume.

the wall (40 bps)

every pool has a community pot. fees fill it, and every time it crosses a threshold, the pot places a bid one tick below the current price. the wall never sells — it only buys, and it rolls upward as the price climbs. it is not a promise from a team. it's a contract doing the same thing on every trade, forever.

what that buys you is honest to state: a floor, not a pump. tokens with standing bids under them draw down less and survive longer. survival is what gives a token time to find its community. that's the whole thesis.

the rebate (15 bps)

fairshot pays the people who make markets exist: traders. 15% of every fee accrues to a per-token rebate pool, split by volume across 24-hour epochs, claimable by the traders of that token. no other launchpad pays traders anything.

one honest detail: rebates attribute to your wallet when you trade through fairshot-aware surfaces. if you route through a third-party aggregator, you get the token — the rebate needs a surface that tells the contract who you are.

the creator (20 bps)

creators earn 20% of fees, in WETH, claimable after identity verification. yes — some launchpads pay creators more per trade. we made a different bet: a creator's real position isn't the fee stream, it's the bag they hold. 40 bps building a permanent floor under that bag is worth more than 50 extra bps of fees on a token that dies in a week. creators who agree with that launch here.

the protocol (25 bps)

that's us. it's how fairshot sustains itself without touching anyone else's share. no hidden take anywhere else in the stack — the creation fee covers spam friction, and curve trades pre-graduation carry no fee at all.

"can never be changed" means can't, not won't

the split is enforced by the pool's hook contract. the shares are set when the pool is created and there is no function — for us, for the creator, for anyone — that changes them afterward. we couldn't quietly move to a worse deal even if we wanted to. platforms that keep that knob have already turned it. we removed the knob.

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