Revenue
Frontier has no token. What the platform does with its fees is therefore the whole of its economics, and it is public in both directions: what a trader pays, and where each part of it ends up.
Read in the order that matters, a coin earns on three streams.
The locked liquidity — the base
When a coin's market opens, the liquidity that seeds it is placed in a position the protocol locks permanently. Nobody can withdraw it. What it can do is earn: it is a liquidity provider like any other, and it collects its share of every swap fee on the pool.
That income is collected periodically, 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 only one. It has a property worth knowing: it can be diluted. The locked position earns in proportion to the liquidity it represents, so as outside liquidity providers add to the pool, its share of the LP fees falls. The coin trading more offsets it; a large outside position does not.
The swap side — added on top, and undilutable
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, not a different way of paying the same thing.
Each swap fee divides in two. The LP share goes to whoever provides liquidity — 70% by default, and a number the creator sets at creation, anywhere from 0% to 99.97%. A creator raises it when they want to attract outside liquidity and build depth, and pays for that out of their own side. Everything left is the earning side, and it splits the same way as the collections above:
| Slice | Share of the earning side |
|---|---|
| Creator and community | 75% |
| Protocol | 25% |
At the default LP share, a swap fee therefore splits 70% / 22.5% / 7.5%.
The important part is not the number, it is where it is taken. This share is deducted before the liquidity split, 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 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.
Two bounds are not negotiable: no coin's fee can exceed 10% outside a declared sniper tax window, and the protocol keeps an incompressible 0.03% of every fee, taken from inside it rather than added to it.
Curve trades
Before a coin reaches its pool, if it launched on a bonding curve, every buy and sell pays 1.5% of the trade.
| Slice | Share |
|---|---|
| Creator | 50% |
| Protocol | 50% |
It is the one stream with a fixed rate on every coin, and it runs from the very first buy — income long before graduation is in sight. A referred trade pays the same 1.5%; the referrer's share comes out of the protocol's half rather than the creator's. See Referrals.
A coin whose pool was seeded directly has no curve phase, so it starts at streams 1 and 2.
It arrives on its own
Every stream above is sent to the coin's fee recipient, chosen at creation and customisable: a wallet, any address, or a contract that acts on the money. Nothing has to be claimed. Curve and swap shares arrive as trades happen; the locked liquidity's collections run on their own and can also be triggered by anyone.
Creators can pass their share on
The creator's side does not have to stop at the creator. The app has two built-in ways to send it further, whole or in part:
- a staking vault, where the creator sets what percentage of their own income goes to the people staking the coin, paid in ETH and in the coin itself;
- a fee recipient other than their wallet: an address they name, or a contract that acts on the stream on arrival.
Both are chosen at creation and are permanent, which is what makes them worth something to the people they pay.
What the protocol keeps does not stay there
The protocol's share is the smaller half of the curve fee and a quarter of everything else. It is not the end of the flow.
A large part of it goes back to the people who generated it. Activity on the platform is recorded in points, and rewards funded by the protocol's own fees are paid against that record — creators, traders and referrers, in proportion to what they actually did. The rest funds the operation of the platform.
One rule applies to all of it: fees received in a coin are never sold. They are burned or recycled into vaults. The addresses are public and a sale would be a transaction anyone could read, which is why the claim is made at all.
See Points and Protocol revenue.
Checking any of it
Every rate on this page is a value in a deployed contract, and every payout is a transaction. On-chain verification shows how to read each one, and Parameters lists the current values with the getter that returns them.