Fee split
A coin's fees fall into two eras: what happens on the curve, and what happens in the pool. The pool is where a coin spends its life, and it pays the creator's side twice over.
Before graduation
Creating a coin
Free. The creator pays network gas and nothing else.
Curve trades
1.5% of every buy and sell, in ETH, identical on every coin.
| Slice | Share | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | 50% | the coin's fee recipient |
| Protocol | 50% | the protocol |
A referred trader pays the same 1.5%; the referrer's share comes out of the protocol's half. See Referrals.
Graduation
A one-time fee taken from the ETH raised, in the transaction that fills the curve.
| Slice | Share | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Creator fee | 5% | the fee recipient |
| The rest | ~95% | the coin's locked liquidity |
On the suggested curve at ETH $2,000, roughly $450 to the creator and $8.5K into liquidity.
A coin whose pool was seeded directly has neither of the two streams above: it starts at the pool.
In the pool
Everything below applies from graduation, or from the first block for a directly seeded coin. It is where a coin spends the rest of its life, and it produces two streams for the creator's side, one on top of the other.
1. What the locked liquidity earns
The liquidity created when the market opened is locked permanently, and it is a liquidity provider like any other: it collects its share of every swap fee on the pool. That income is collected in batches, by anyone who triggers it, and split:
| Slice | Share |
|---|---|
| Creator and community | 75% |
| Protocol | 25% |
This is the stream a launchpad of this kind normally offers, and on most of them it is the whole story. It also follows the pool: the locked position earns in proportion to the liquidity it represents, so as outside providers add to the pool, its share of the LP fees falls. Frontier does not stop here.
2. The swap-side share, on top
Frontier takes a second cut of every swap, before the liquidity providers are paid, and that one is the creator's too. It is added to the stream above rather than replacing it.
The first cut of a swap fee is the LP share, which pays whoever provides liquidity. Everything left after it is the earning side, split the same way as the collections above. At the default LP share:
| Slice | Share of the swap fee | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Liquidity providers | 70% | whoever provides liquidity to the pool |
| Creator and community | 22.5% | the fee recipient, and the staking vault for the share the creator set |
| Protocol | 7.5% | the protocol |
70% is a default, not a rule. The LP share is set at creation, anywhere from 0% to 99.97%, and a creator raises it precisely when they want to attract outside liquidity and build depth — paying providers more per swap, out of their own side. Lowering it does the reverse. The three numbers always move together.
The important part is where this second stream is taken. It comes out of the fee before the liquidity split, so it does not depend on who provides the liquidity. Outside capital can flood the pool and the locked position can end up holding a fraction of it; this stream is unchanged. It is income attached to the coin's activity rather than to a position in its pool, which is what makes it impossible to dilute — and it is the stream most platforms simply do not have.
The protocol keeps an incompressible 0.03% of every fee, which on a small fee is worth more than its usual quarter: at a 0.30% fee with the default LP share the creator and community side is 20% rather than 22.5%.
Liquidity added to the pool by anyone else is not part of any of this: those fees stay with whoever provided the liquidity.
Where the creator's side lands
All of it, on every stream, is sent to the coin's fee recipient: the wallet, address or contract chosen at creation. It is customisable at creation and nothing about it requires an action afterwards — no claim, no signature, no visit to the app.
Who pays and who earns
| Pays | Earns | |
|---|---|---|
| Trader | 1.5% on curve trades; the coin's own fee on swaps | — |
| Creator | gas to create | half of every curve fee, 5% of the raise, and 75% of everything the pool produces |
| Staker | nothing beyond staking | the share of the creator's income the creator assigned, in ETH and in the coin |
| Liquidity provider | — | the LP share of every swap on the liquidity they provide |
| Referrer | — | a share of the fees paid by traders they referred |
| Protocol | — | half of curve fees, a quarter of the earning side of swaps and of collections, with an incompressible 0.03% of every fee |