trader rebates

fairshot is built to pay the people who make markets exist: traders. 15% of every fee on a graduated token accrues to that token's rebate pool, in WETH, claimable by the wallets that traded it. no other launchpad pays traders anything; fairshot ships the machinery that does.

how earning works

• epochs. each pool runs on 24-hour epochs — the pool's own clock, anchored at its graduation. fees accrue to the current epoch's pool as trades happen.
• volume-weighted. your attributed volume in an epoch earns you that share of the epoch's pool. a trade needs at least 0.001 WETH of volume to count.
• capped. one wallet's payout is capped at 5% of an epoch's total pool — the pool is built to spread across many traders, not concentrate on one.
• claims. when an epoch closes, its claims open for exactly one epoch (24 hours). claiming is done by the earning wallet itself — nobody can claim for you.

the honest part: attribution

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.

concretely: attribution rides in the swap's hookData, a field every uniswap v4 router can set. fairshot itself is a launchpad, not a trading venue — graduated tokens trade on uniswap — so whether your trade earns attribution depends on the surface you trade through. any router, wallet, or frontend can integrate it, permissionlessly, with no deal with us. the integrator spec →

until the surface you use integrates, trades earn no attribution and epochs settle undistributed. what happens to that value is defined, not lost:

unclaimed value never leaks

• an epoch's unclaimed remainder rolls forward into the next epoch's pool, still claimable by the next epoch's traders.
• after 4 consecutive epochs without full distribution, the outstanding remainder sweeps to that token's buyback wall — it becomes floor liquidity for the token itself.
• in no branch, not even by rounding, does unclaimed rebate value route to the protocol.

so the 15% is the token's either way: paid to its traders where attribution is live, reinforcing its wall where it isn't.

what we don't claim

we claim no wash-trading detection. what protects the pool is arithmetic: every trade pays the full 1% fee to compete for a 0.15% pool, so a wash round trip pays roughly 13× more in fees than the pool it's chasing — structurally unprofitable by construction. the minimum trade size and the per-wallet cap are best-effort limits keyed on addresses, and addresses are free; we don't claim they're sybil-proof.

and to say it plainly: a rebate is a fee share, not a return. it scales with real trading, it can be zero, and it promises nothing.