Creator fees
0.5% of every curve trade and 0.3% of every swap after graduation, paid in the trade's quote asset and claimed when you want.
Every coin on moto.fun pays its creator a cut of every trade, from the first buy, in the quote asset of the trade. You never hold your own coin to earn it and you never sell anything to collect it.
| While bonding | 0.5% of every buy and every sell |
| After graduation | 0.3% of every swap on your coin's pools |
| Paid in | The other side of the trade: WETH on the curve and the TOKEN/WETH pool, MOTO on the TOKEN/MOTO pool. Never your own coin |
| Turned on | Always, from the first trade. There is no switch to forget |
| Recipient | Set at launch, defaults to the wallet that signed. The current payout wallet can move it later |
| Claiming | Any time, any number of coins, from the vault |
| Expiry | None. It sits in the vault until you claim it |
How it accrues
The fee comes out of the non-coin side of every trade on your coin (ETH on the curve, WETH or MOTO in the pools) and lands in the creator fee vault, credited to your coin. The vault holds it per coin and per asset. Nothing is pushed to your wallet and nothing is streamed: the balance sits there until you claim.
Trading does not stop paying you when your coin graduates. The rate changes from 0.5% to the standard 0.3% creator fee, and it keeps accruing into the same vault from your coin's new pools for as long as anyone trades your coin.
Claiming
Claim from your coin's page or from Your coins. A claim is a normal transaction, you pick which assets to take, and you can take WETH as ETH in the same transaction. Claiming several coins at once is one transaction.
Only the coin's current payout address can claim its fees: the one set at launch, or the one it was moved to since. There is no signature service, no backend approval, and no one who can withhold it.
Choosing the recipient
At launch the payout address is your connected wallet, filled in for you. Change it in the form before you sign if the fees should go somewhere else, as an address or an ENS name. It cannot be one of the protocol's own contracts, and the launch refuses one that is.
Changing it later
You can move the payout address any time after launch, from your coin's page or from Your coins, with one transaction from the current payout wallet. It takes effect at once, and any fees you have not claimed yet move with it to the new address. Only the current payout wallet can make the change. If you lose that key, contact support. Recovering a lost payout wallet is the one change that goes through us.
Whoever holds the payout address holds the coin's fee income, including anything that accrued before. Treat it like a treasury address, not like a throwaway.
When the fee is rerouted
If the registry that names your coin's creator cannot be reached at trade time, or the curve's permission to deposit into the vault has been withdrawn, the whole 1.2% goes to the protocol Collector for that trade instead of splitting. The trader always pays the same 1.2% either way, and the event is recorded on chain, so a rerouted fee is visible rather than silent.
This is a failure path, not a policy. It is documented because a creator looking at their vault should be able to tell the difference between "no trades" and "trades that did not pay me".
Not the same as your dev buy
The creator fee is income from other people's trading. A dev buy is you buying your own coin at the curve price, and it sits in your wallet like anyone else's position. They are unrelated, and you can take one, both, or neither.