Discovery rewards

#The rule

The wallet that launches an enrolled market earns 50% of gitpad's partner share of trading fees on that market's bonding curve. Earning stops at the first of:

• curve completion (graduation);
• 30 days after the pool's on-chain activation;
• 2.5 SOL earned in total.

The reward comes out of gitpad's share. It adds no fee for traders and does not reduce the builders' share.

#How much

gitpad's partner share is 0.406% of each fee-paying curve trade, so the reward is about 0.203% of trade value. At that rate, reaching the 2.5 SOL cap takes roughly 1,232 SOL of eligible volume. Many markets will graduate or reach 30 days before that.

Accounting uses the actual partner fee recorded in each finalized swap, not the nominal percentage. Lifetime earnings are calculated as:

earned = min(floor(sum of eligible partner fees / 2), cap)

Paid rewards count toward the cap.

#Which trades count

• Canonical swaps on the market's bonding curve, from pool activation until the window ends.
• The swap that completes the curve is included.
• Trades that did not start on gitpad count too, as long as they are canonical swaps on the pool.
• DAMM v2 trades after graduation do not count.
• Migration, liquidity and protocol fees do not count.

The 30-day window starts at the pool's on-chain activation time and uses the same Solana clock as swap events.

#Who receives it

The recipient is the wallet that signed the finalized launch transaction. It is recorded when the launch is indexed and cannot be reassigned afterward. It is not transferable to another wallet.

Discovery is separate from GitHub. You do not need a GitHub account to earn or claim, and earning discovery rewards gives you no claim on builder fees.

#Enrollment

Enrollment is stamped on a market when its launch is reserved, and the market stores its policy version and cap. Markets are never enrolled retroactively. The market page and /wallet show whether a market is enrolled and its terms.

#Claiming

1. Connect the original launch wallet. Rewards appear on the market page and in /wallet.
2. Review the available reward and the transaction costs.
3. Select Claim discovery rewards and sign the prepared transaction.

gitpad prepares the claim without its own signature. Only after your wallet signs, and gitpad verifies the signed message matches exactly, does its partner signer add its signature and submit. The reward is paid from the pool's partner fee balance directly to your wallet.

Your wallet pays the network fee and any account setup costs. There is no minimum claim, but a very small reward can cost more to claim than it pays. The review shows costs before you sign.

Earned rewards remain claimable after the window closes, including after graduation.

#Tracking

• The market page shows the reward's cap, lifetime earned, paid, available and when accrual ends.
• /discoverers ranks launch wallets by earned discovery fees, then reward-period market volume. Fees earned include those already paid. Volume describes the market's eligible curve trading, not trades made by the discoverer.

#Custody

Discovery rewards are a platform-managed obligation. They are funded by partner fees that remain in each enrolled pool, and gitpad keeps at least the earned-but-unpaid amount there. There is no separate on-chain escrow enforcing the split. See Security.