Creator earnings
A creator earns from three streams. All three are paid to the fee recipient set at creation, and shared with the coin's staking vault if the creator opened one.
| Stream | Rate | When |
|---|---|---|
| Curve trades | 50% of the 1.5% fee | from the first trade |
| Graduation | 5% of the ETH raised | once, when the curve fills |
| Pool activity | 75% of what the coin's own liquidity earns | for the life of the coin |
The curve
$100,000 of curve volume pays $1,500 in fees, of which $750 reaches the creator.
The rate is the same on every coin and applies from the first buy, long before graduation is in sight.
In the pool: one stream, then another on top
After the curve, the creator's side is paid twice over, and reading only one of the two undercounts it by more than half.
First, what the coin's own liquidity earns. The position locked when the market opened collects its share of every swap fee, like any other liquidity provider. Those collections pay 75% to the creator and their community, 25% to the protocol. This is the stream most launchpads of this kind stop at, and it follows the pool: outside providers adding liquidity take a growing share of the LP fees.
Then, a second stream on top of it. Frontier deducts the earning side of a swap fee before the liquidity providers are paid, and it goes to the same place: 75% to the creator and their community, 25% to the protocol. At the default LP share that is 22.5% of every swap fee.
That second stream is the one that matters most, for a reason that has nothing to do with its size: it cannot be diluted. It is taken from the fee rather than earned by a position, so it does not depend on who provides the liquidity. Outside capital can flood the pool, the locked position can end up holding a fraction of it, and this stream is exactly what it was.
Added together, on a coin running the default split:
| Stream | Share of a swap fee | Dilutable |
|---|---|---|
| The locked liquidity's collections | 52.5% — three quarters of the 70% it earns | yes, as outside liquidity joins |
| The swap-side share | 22.5%, taken before the split | no |
Which is 75% of every fee the coin's own liquidity earns, and never less than the 22.5% whatever happens to the pool around it.
The identity holds at any LP share: raising it moves income from the swap-side payout to the collections, lowering it does the reverse. What bends it is the protocol's incompressible 0.03%, which takes a larger relative share on very small fees.
A staking vault takes the portion of the creator's side the creator assigned to it, on both streams.
Getting paid
There is nothing to claim. Every stream above is sent to the coin's fee recipient — the address or contract chosen at creation, and customisable — without the creator doing anything at all.
The curve share and the per-swap share arrive as trades happen. What the locked liquidity earns is paid out in batches, which run on their own and which anyone can also trigger, including the creator. There is no queue, no request, and no dependency on the protocol team being available.
What is not an income stream
Frontier takes no cut of the creation, sells nothing back to the creator, and holds no balance on their behalf. There is also no mechanism that pays a creator in newly issued supply: everything above comes from fees actually paid by traders.