Fees
Every fee, as a schedule.
What a launch, a trade, a creator and a deal pay, and when money comes back. The creator-fee schedule and the holder rounds are the two rules this page exists for: a coin that lasts longer, and holding that pays more than flipping. Every number is read from the engine's own constants. How it works has the order it happens in.
| What | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| Launch fee | 0.25 SOL | Paid from your wallet to Longevity's deployer wallet before the launch, once the ticker check passes. It covers creating the coin on chain. Refunded if the worker cannot create the coin. |
| Clean graduation | launch fee back | The fee part comes back when the coin graduates clean: no early buyer linked to the launcher, no top holder at graduation funded by the launcher, and the launcher holding 10% of the supply or less. The on-chain cost of creating the coin is kept. |
| Reusing a ticker | 1 SOL more | When the ticker or name belonged to a coin that is no longer live. Refunded if the coin graduates within 48 hours of launch. |
| Trading fee | 1 or 3% | The creator's choice, fixed for the coin and kept by its graduated pool. Charged on every trade; Meteora takes its own share of each fee first. |
| Opening fee (every launch) | 99% for 3 slots | The first 3 slots after the coin exists, about 1.2 seconds; then the coin's fee. Early bots and bundles pay the opening fee; after it everyone pays the coin's fee. Every launch has it; it is not an option. |
| The creator's share | paid as the coin grows | A share of every trading fee is the creator's, and it builds up from the first trade. Payouts start after day 3: 25% of what has built up from a $50K peak, everything at graduation. A payout tops the creator up to that share, at most once every 6 hours. The coins the creator holds earn holder rewards like any other holder's, whatever happens on this schedule. |
| Holder rewards | a share of every fee, each round | Every coin pays its holders a share of every trading fee, in SOL, as often as every 10 minutes, whatever the creator chose for their own share. Each round's pot is split by coins held times the multiplier for how long you have held them: 1× after 10 minutes, 2× after an hour, 3× after two hours, 4× after three hours and 5× after four hours. Coins you add later start their own clock and do not change what your older coins count for. Sell, or move coins out, and every coin the wallet holds starts over at round one: it earns no share that round, and that share goes to the wallets that stayed. What it was already owed stays owed. Coins bought since the last round count for nothing in that round, and a wallet holding less than $20 of the coin earns no share that round. A round splits its pot once the pot holds 0.05 SOL, between every wallet that qualifies; a smaller pot carries over to the next round, so a quiet coin pays less often and nothing is lost. Each round sends as many as 720 payments, to the wallets owed the most. A share that is not sent, or is too small to send, stays owed to the same wallet and is paid in a later round. A wallet with no SOL in it is paid once what it is owed reaches 0.0009 SOL, the least Solana lets a wallet hold. A creator who picks Holders as the destination adds their own share to the same rounds; that choice is final, and only a community takeover changes it. Nothing waits on a schedule; holders are paid as the fees come in. The one exception is Longevity's own coin, whose fees Longevity retains until it announces otherwise. |
| Forfeits | the creator's unpaid share | The creator trading fees that have built up are forfeited if the creator's wallets (the launcher plus the wallets the worker links to it by who funded them) sell more than 50% of what they bought in the first 3 days. They are also forfeited if a coin has not graduated and goes 7 days without a trade: what is still waiting is forfeited, and so is the creator's share of anything the coin earns afterwards. Every forfeit funds the Summit Bounty in full. Holder rewards are not affected, the creator's own included. |
| Staking | a multiplier on your holder rewards | Stake the coin into its vault and your staked coins count for more in the holder rounds (× 1 with no lock, × 1.5 for a 7-day lock, × 2 for 30 days), counted against the coins you have held longest. Open from launch. Leaving a lock early costs a tenth of what leaves, kept for Longevity's treasury; nothing is charged after the lock. No SOL goes into the vault; the rounds pay your wallet. |
| The platform's share | retained | Longevity keeps its share of every trading fee until it announces how that share is split. Forfeited creator fees are not part of it: all of them go to the Summit Bounty. |
| The Summit Bounty | every forfeit, in full | Weekly. Summit: break $1M and hold $800K at the 24-hour check. Peak: break $500K and hold $400K. Each winner's share: 30% to its creator, 50% to its top 50 holders (each capped at 10% of that part), 20% buys the coin in its own pool and burns it. When the creator has forfeited, the creator's part buys back and burns too. A tier with no winner rolls its part into next week. |
| OTC fee | 0.3% of the price | Taken from the seller's proceeds inside the deal's own transaction and sent to Longevity's treasury: the buyer pays the price, the seller receives the price less the fee. The taker, whichever side that is, pays the network fee. The same fee on a market-priced deal, on the total the pool price sets when it lands. |
| Pairing | each leg's pool fee | A trade on a coin paired with another Longevity coin routes through the parent, and every pool on the route charges its own fee. |
| Other chains | a per-chain pool fee at launch | When the coin picks Base, Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain or Hyperliquid. |
The schedule, the forfeits and the bounty are run by Longevity's worker, and every coin's page prints its own state: held, paid, forfeited, the next payout. The whitepaper has the reasoning.