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Fee Structure

Every fee on Blank is defined in code and verifiable on-chain. This page walks through the full token lifecycle: creation, bonding, graduation, post-graduation trading, staking, buybacks, liquidity compounding, and how the distributions get paid out.

Estimate creator-side fees

Use the Fee Calculator to project creator payouts, staking rewards, buybacks, liquidity compounding, and token position value from a market-cap and volume assumption.

Creating a token

FeeAmountWhat it covers
Basic LaunchNo seed buyNo fixed setup fee. The creator just covers network and account costs.
Tokenomics Launch0.05 SOLOne-time setup fee for the advanced launch flow.
Network and account costsAbout 0.015 SOLSolana account rent and transaction fees. Add ~0.01 SOL on top if you also enable staking. Buyback and Liquidity Compounding route future fees and do not add a separate launch setup fee.
Vested supplyVariableDepends on how much supply is vested through tokenomics — anywhere from 1% to 30%.

Trading on the bonding curve

Every buy and every sell on the bonding curve has a flat 2% trading fee. Meteora keeps about 20% of that (their protocol fee) before Blank can claim the rest.
RecipientSlice of the tradeNote
Total trading fee2.0%Charged on every bonding buy and sell.
Meteora protocol0.4%Meteora keeps it. Not controlled by Blank.
Blank platform0.4%25% of the Blank-controlled portion.
Creator1.2%75% of the Blank-controlled portion.
A token graduates from the bonding curve once it’s raised 85 SOL (in production).

Launch protection

New launches can opt into a short 5-minute launch-protection window. During that window, large single buys pay progressively higher fees — the bigger the buy, the steeper the cost.
Single buy sizeEffective feeNote
1 SOL2.0%Basically the normal base fee.
2 SOL3.5%Higher, still moderate.
3 SOL5.0%Noticeably more expensive.
5 SOL8.0%Aggressive penalty for early-buy size.
10 SOL15.5%Heavy. Designed to discourage launch sniping.
How it actually works: a single 5 SOL buy is sliced into five 1 SOL chunks, each priced separately — 2%, 5%, 8%, 11%, 14%. That adds up to 0.40 SOL in fees, or an 8.0% average on the order.
The point isn’t to punish normal traders. It’s to make large early sniper buys less attractive without dragging the rest of the launch into a long cooldown.

Graduation

When a token hits 85 SOL raised (in production), it graduates from the bonding curve onto a Meteora DAMM v2 pool.
ItemValueNote
Migration fee5%Roughly 4.25 SOL gross at the 85 SOL production threshold. The relayer’s actual migration cost is paid first, the rest goes to platform treasury.
LP allocation25% of supplyPaired with the SOL left over after migration costs and protocol fees.
Bonding curve sold75% of supplyAlready sold during the bonding phase.

After graduation

Once graduated, the token trades on Meteora DAMM v2 with the same 2% trading fee as before.
RecipientSlice of the tradeNote
Total trading fee2.0%Charged on every trade.
Meteora protocol0.4%Meteora keeps it.
Blank platform0.4%25% of the Blank-controlled portion.
Creator side1.2%75% of the Blank-controlled portion — split by creator, staking, buyback, and liquidity-compounding settings.

Creator-side fee allocations

Creators can decide what slice of their 75% creator share routes to staking rewards, Auto Buyback and Burn, and Liquidity Compounding. Each configured slice is 1% to 100% of the creator portion, and the three configured slices cannot exceed 100% combined.
RecipientShare
Platform25%, always fixed.
Creator75% minus staking, buyback, and liquidity-compounding shares.
StakersConfigured staking share, while stake exists.
Auto Buyback and BurnConfigured buyback share.
Liquidity CompoundingConfigured liquidity-compounding share after graduation.
A couple of examples:
  • 50% staking share: platform gets 25%, creator gets 37.5%, stakers get 37.5%.
  • 20% staking + 10% buyback + 5% liquidity compounding: platform gets 25%, creator gets 48.75%, stakers get 15%, buyback gets 7.5%, liquidity compounding gets 3.75%.
If nobody is staking at the moment, the staking slice doesn’t pile up waiting for someone to join — it just routes to the creator for that period instead. Auto Buyback and Burn and Liquidity Compounding never redirect to the creator. Those shares accrue in dedicated on-chain buckets. Buybacks execute when the buyback bucket crosses its threshold; liquidity compounding executes only after graduation when the liquidity bucket crosses 0.1 SOL, then adds paired liquidity to the token’s Meteora DAMM v2 position and permanently locks the added liquidity.
Creator-side allocation shares can be set at launch and increased later. They can go up, but they can never come back down.

What each allocation does

Staking

Routes the configured share to stakers while active stake exists. If nobody is staking, that share routes to the creator for that period.

Auto Buyback and Burn

Routes the configured share to buyback_claimable. When enough SOL accrues, Blank buys the token and permanently burns the bought amount.

Liquidity Compounding

Routes the configured share to liquidity_claimable. After graduation, Blank adds paired liquidity to the Meteora pool and permanently locks it.

How distributions work

Trading fees accrue in Meteora until someone progresses that token’s fee pipeline. Blank now uses pull-based claims instead of the old broad automatic payout job. When a creator claims fees from the dashboard, their wallet-paid transaction claims upstream Meteora fees for that token, books the platform / creator / staking / buyback / liquidity-compounding buckets, settles staking if staking is active, and pays the active creator-fee split recipients. Creator claims require at least 0.01 SOL in pending creator fees before the claim button is enabled. Stakers claim through the staking flow and do not need to wait for the creator. Platform treasury collection is handled separately by Blank’s daily thresholded keeper, which only touches tokens whose platform bucket is large enough or stale enough to be worth collecting. Buyback and liquidity-compounding keepers run separately from creator/staker claims. Public token pages still show lifetime creator, staking, buyback, and liquidity-compounding fees, paid/injected amounts, vault amounts, and pending upstream fees so the totals stay visible before anyone claims.