Fees
The complete gitpad fee model, where each part goes before and after graduation, and what claims cost.
Summary
- Every fee-paying trade on the bonding curve pays 1.75%.
- Of that, 0.994% goes to the repository's builders, 0.406% to gitpad and 0.35% to the Meteora protocol.
- The launcher's discovery reward comes out of gitpad's share. It does not add a fee and does not reduce the builders' share.
- After graduation, the DAMM v2 pool's own fee applies.
- There is no gitpad launch fee and no fee to claim builder earnings.
Before graduation
The bonding curve charges a fixed 1.75% trading fee on each fee-paying trade, collected in SOL.
| Recipient | Share of trade value | Share of the fee |
|---|---|---|
| Repository builders | 0.994% | 56.8% |
| gitpad (partner) | 0.406% | 23.2% |
| Meteora protocol | 0.35% | 20% |
| Total | 1.75% | 100% |
How this is derived: Meteora takes 20% of the total fee as its protocol share. The remaining 80% (1.40% of trade value) is split between the pool creator and the partner, with 71% to the creator. The creator share is paid to the repository's builders, and the partner share belongs to gitpad.
These are nominal rates. Accounting uses the exact fee amounts recorded in each finalized swap, in integer lamports, so per-trade rounding is reflected exactly.
Discovery reward
For enrolled markets, the launch wallet earns 50% of gitpad's partner share on curve trades, which is about 0.203% of trade value. It stops at the first of curve completion, 30 days after the pool activates, or 2.5 SOL earned. See Discovery rewards.
| Recipient during the discovery window | Share of trade value |
|---|---|
| Repository builders | 0.994% (unchanged) |
| Launcher (discovery reward) | about 0.203% |
| gitpad | about 0.203% |
| Meteora protocol | 0.35% |
After graduation
After migration to Meteora DAMM v2, the pool has a 1% base fee with dynamic fees enabled, so the total fee can be higher in volatile conditions. Meteora takes a 20% protocol share. The rest is earned by liquidity positions in proportion to their liquidity, in SOL.
| Recipient | Source |
|---|---|
| Repository builders | Fees earned by the locked creator position (50% of migrated liquidity) |
| gitpad | Fees earned by the locked partner position (50% of migrated liquidity) |
| Meteora protocol | 20% protocol share of pool fees |
The 0.994% builder rate does not carry over as a fixed rate after graduation. Discovery rewards do not accrue from DAMM trades.
Fees accrue before maintainers join
Builder fees start accruing from the first trade on a market, including the launch's initial buy. Nobody from the repository needs to have signed up.
- On the curve, builder fees accumulate in the pool's on-chain creator fee balance until they are claimed.
- After graduation, they accumulate in the locked creator position.
- gitpad's worker indexes every canonical swap from finalized transactions, including trades that did not start on gitpad, and credits them to the repository's numeric ID.
When a current GitHub admin of the repository verifies and binds a payout wallet, everything earned so far becomes claimable. See Builders.
Where each part goes
| Part | Where it goes | Who can move it |
|---|---|---|
| Builder fees | Pool creator fee balance, then the creator position after graduation | gitpad's protected creator signer, only to the wallet bound by a current GitHub admin |
| gitpad partner fees | Pool partner fee balance, then the partner position after graduation | gitpad's protected partner signer |
| Discovery rewards | Paid out of the partner fee balance | The launch wallet, with the partner signer co-signing |
| Meteora protocol fee | Meteora | Meteora |
gitpad's claimed platform revenue is allocated under its revenue policy: 60% $GITPAD buyback reserve, 20% protocol liquidity, 20% treasury. Builder fees and discovery rewards are never part of platform revenue. See $GITPAD.
Claim costs
| Claim | Who pays network costs | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Builder fees | gitpad's protected signer submits the payout transaction | You do not sign a transfer. You may see a small temporary wrapped SOL rent refund arrive with the payout; it is accounted for separately from fees. |
| Discovery rewards | Your wallet | You sign the claim and pay the network fee and any account setup. A very small reward can cost more to claim than it pays; the review shows costs first. |
| Builder token allocation | See the market's claim review | One-time, after verified graduation. |
If the protected signer runs low on SOL for transaction costs, builder claims pause until it is funded. Accrued fees stay in place.
Trading costs
Beyond the trading fee, each trade pays a Solana network fee, and your first purchase of a token pays a token account deposit. See Trading.
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