Fees & tax

There are two separate things that can be taken from a trade on Runitup. Every token has the first. Only Utility Tokens have the second. They're independent, and the app always shows you the combined total.

1. The mandatory fee — 1% of every trade

Every token, both launch types, no exceptions and no opt-out. It splits like this:

This is the "keep 70% of the fees" part. On every single trade of your token, for as long as it trades, most of that 1% comes to you.

Where the 1% actually comes from

This is worth understanding, because it's neater than it first sounds.

The 1% isn't an extra charge Runitup bolts on. It is the pool's own swap fee. Every AMM pool charges traders a fee that normally goes to whoever supplied the liquidity — and Runitup's pools are created on the 1.00% fee tier.

Because the pool's liquidity position is locked in a contract, those fees accumulate inside it until something collects them. Runitup does that for you automatically — see When the money actually arrives below.

So: traders pay the standard pool fee they'd pay anywhere, and the creator receives the majority of it instead of an anonymous liquidity provider.

Worked example

Someone buys $1,000 of your token:

• Pool fee at 1% = $10
• You receive $7
• Platform receives $2
• Rewards pool receives $1

At $100,000 of lifetime volume, that's $700 to you. Volume, not price, is what pays you — a token that trades sideways all day earns its creator more than one that doubles on two trades.

2. Additional tax (Utility Tokens only)

Set by you at launch, minimum 1%, with buy and sell configured separately. This is entirely your own tax and stacks on top of the mandatory 1% above.

The app always displays the combined figure. If your token's panel says 4.00% buy, that's the 1% mandatory plus your 3% additional.

The four buckets

Your additional tax is split across four destinations, in percentages you choose at launch (always totalling 100%):

• Creator — paid out immediately, in full, to your fee recipient. Same as the mandatory fee, just a second stream on top.
• Burn — sent immediately to an address nobody controls, permanently destroying it. Supply goes down and never comes back.
• Dividend — accumulates, it does not pay out by itself. It sits and waits for a Forge to distribute it to holders.
• Liquidity — also accumulates, waiting for a Forge to spend it, typically on topping up the token's locked pool.

The distinction matters: Creator and Burn happen on their own, automatically. Dividend and Liquidity are savings accounts that do nothing until you attach a Forge to spend them.

Worked example

Your Utility Token charges 3% additional on buys, split 50% Creator / 20% Burn / 20% Dividend / 10% Liquidity. Someone buys $1,000:

• Mandatory 1% = $10 → $7 to you, $2 platform, $1 rewards
• Your additional 3% = $30, split:
  • Creator 50% → $15 to you, immediately
  • Burn 20% → $6 worth destroyed
  • Dividend 20% → $6 accumulating for holders
  • Liquidity 10% → $3 accumulating for the pool

You receive $22 from that one trade ($7 + $15). The buyer paid 4% in total.

When the money actually arrives

You never have to claim anything. Fees are sent straight to your wallet — Runitup never holds a balance for you, there is nothing to withdraw, and nothing expires if you don't come back.

There is an optional Collect pool fees button on My Launches, but it isn't a claim. It just triggers the collection early instead of waiting for the automatic one, and it's explained below.

When they arrive depends on which type of token you launched.

Utility Tokens — instantly, on every trade

The tax is taken and split during the trade itself, so your share lands in your wallet in the same transaction that the buy or sell happened. Nothing to wait for, nothing to trigger.

Meme Coins — automatically, in batches

This one works slightly differently, and it's worth knowing why.

An AMM pool never pushes fees out on its own. They sit inside the locked liquidity position as an uncollected balance until someone calls a collect function on it. That's how AMMs work everywhere, not something specific to Runitup.

So Runitup runs a service that does it for you. Every hour it checks each pool and collects the fees, which then split 70 / 20 / 10 and land in wallets immediately. It collects when a pool has built up:

• more than $10, or
• more than $0.25 that has sat uncollected for 14 days

The $10 floor exists so the collection doesn't cost more in network fees than it's worth moving. The 14-day rule is the safety net: if your token goes quiet at $3 of fees, that $3 still reaches you rather than being stranded in the pool forever.

At the 1% fee tier, $10 of fees means $1,000 of trading volume. An active token clears that several times a day and gets paid several times a day. A quiet one gets paid on the 14-day rule.

Don't want to wait?

Collect pool fees on My Launches does the same collection immediately, at any amount, with no threshold. The only difference is that you pay the network fee for it instead of Runitup. Useful if you're sitting just under the threshold and would rather have the money now.

It can't clash with the automatic sweep. If you collect a moment before one runs, the sweep finds nothing left and skips your pool — fees only exist once, so there's no way to be paid twice or to interfere with anything.

If fee recipients change

Collection pays whoever the recipients are at the moment it runs, not who they were when the fees were earned. So if a token's fee recipient is changed — a community takeover, say — any fees still sitting uncollected in the pool will go to the new recipient once collected, not the old one.

Where to see it live

Every token page shows its actual on-chain rates and allocation — read from the contract, not from what was typed into a form at launch. Your own earnings across all your tokens are on My Launches and your public profile.

Choosing your rates

Some plain trade-offs, no rules:

• Higher tax = more per trade, but fewer trades. Traders can see the rate before they buy, and a high one discourages activity. Since your income is a percentage of volume, a tax that scares volume away can earn you less in absolute terms.
• Burn is marketing, not income. It reduces supply, which sounds good and pays you nothing.
• Dividend and Liquidity do nothing until you attach a Forge. If you allocate to them and never attach one, that money just sits there. Allocate to them only if you intend to follow through.