Solana paid the dealers | Motoswap docs

One plumbing decision built the Solana flywheel. The creators got paid in cash. The players still paid for everything.

Solana is the one floor where the house changed its rules, and it changed them for the dealers. The people who make the tokens got paid. Here is the mechanism.

PumpSwap, the DEX pump.fun tokens graduate onto, runs the same constant-product math as Uniswap v2. Same curve, same pools. The difference is one plumbing decision: the protocol cut and the creator cut come out of the cash side of the trade and leave the pool.

Uniswap: the fee dissolves

Trade

fee, in both tokensThe pooland it never leaves

Tradefee, in both tokensThe pooland it never leaves

PumpSwap: the fee is cash

Trade

LP cutThe poolthe rest, in cash

Creator vault

Protocol

TradeLP cut to the pool, the rest in cashCreator vaultProtocol

Follow what that does to the deployer's life. A pump.fun creator earns a cut of every trade on their token, in cash, and getting paid never touches the chart.

$350M+Paid to pump.fun creators in a single year

In SOLEvery payout in cash, never in the token

Any timeClaimed from a vault, no sell required

That is the flywheel, and it is an incentive loop, not a technology: deployers get paid in cash, so they launch where the cash is, so the launches are on Solana, so the volume is on Solana, so the traders are on Solana, so the next deployer launches there too. Pump.fun made cash creator fees the standard on Solana, and that standard has never been copied on top of Uniswap.

Now the other half of the ledger, because Solana solved the deployer's side and left yours alone. Buy a pump.fun token through Phantom's in-wallet swap and you pay Phantom's flat 0.85% app fee on top of a route that already includes the pool's own fees. The stack runs fees on fees on fees, and none of it returns to the person generating the volume.

So the scoreboard reads: Solana pays the house and the dealers in cash, and the players pay for all of it. EVM pays nobody in cash at all. Nobody, anywhere, pays the players.

That open seat is the point of the next chapter: Nobody paid the players.