It costs nothing to launch
There is no deployment fee and no listing fee. You pay the gas to deploy your own token and nothing else. The platform earns from a share of trading fees, so it only earns if your token trades.
Fees
What a launch costs, what it charges, and where every basis point of trading fees ends up.
The opening fee
Every launch opens at 80%, the highest the protocol allows, and decays in a straight line to its final rate over 5 minutes.
The final fee
Teams choose where the decay lands, between 1% and 5%, with 2% as the default. On a mentored launch the mentor reviews that choice before anything goes live. It is fixed at launch and cannot be changed afterwards.
Where the fees go
The protocol underneath takes its share first, and how much depends on the chain: Doppler takes 5% and Meteora takes 20%. Everything below is a share of what remains, not of the total, which is the part most people read wrong.
| Recipient | Share of the remainder | Of all fees, on Doppler | Of all fees, on Meteora |
|---|---|---|---|
| The protocol | n/a | 5% | 20% |
| Team, mentored launch | 60% | 57% | 48% |
| Mentor | 20% | 19% | 16% |
| Platform, mentored launch | 20% | 19% | 16% |
| Team, self launch | 60% | 57% | 48% |
| Platform, self launch | 40% | 38% | 32% |
You claim your own share, from the wallet the launch pays. One click on your dashboard, from that wallet. Nothing expires, and anything unclaimed keeps accruing — but nobody can move it for you, including us.
The mentor is paid the same way you are
A mentor takes no fee up front and cannot be paid to take a project on. Their entire compensation is a share of trading fees on a token they agreed to put their name against, which is the whole reason to trust the vetting.
Scout referrals
A scout who refers a project receives 1% of supply, set aside before the pool opens so it never pays the opening fee. It is withheld from the tokens that go to the curve, not from the team’s allocation, and it takes no share of trading fees at all.