Trading Fees & Creator Tax
Protocol Trading Fee
Every trade pays a flat 1.5% protocol fee. The creator configures neither the rate nor the split — the split is fixed by the protocol, and the only thing that varies it is the project type chosen at creation.
Fig. 07 · Staking is the largest destination under every project type. Together with buyback & burn it means most of the fee flows back to holders rather than to the protocol.
| Recipient | Meme | APP | ©Meme | How it is paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dev | 20% | 30% | — | Claimed by the dev in the front end, settled daily. |
| Jump token burn | 20% | 20% | 20% | Into the BuybackVault, which buys the Jump token back under TWAP and slippage rules and burns it. |
| Jump operations | 10% | 10% | 10% | Into the JumpReserveVault, as the Jump team's reserve and day-to-day operations. |
| Original Author | — | — | 20% | Claimable once the author has completed X verification. |
| Project Token staking | 50% | 40% | 50% | Into that project's Project Token staking reward pool, distributed by stake weight. |
| Total | 100% | 100% | 100% | Conserved per trade and per harvest, traceable, never paid twice. |
Read as a share of the trade rather than of the fee — each row above multiplied by 1.5%:
| Recipient | Meme | APP | ©Meme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dev | 0.30% | 0.45% | — |
| Jump token burn | 0.30% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| Jump operations | 0.15% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| Original Author | — | — | 0.30% |
| Project Token staking | 0.75% | 0.60% | 0.75% |
| Total | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
The project type is set at creation
The type determines the split for the life of the token, and it is chosen at project creation alongside the reserve ceiling. A ©Meme launch pays no dev share at all — that 20% is routed to the original author instead, and is claimable only after X verification.
Creator Tax
Separate from, and additional to, the 1.5% above. The creator sets a rate between 0% and 10% at launch, fixed from then on. Its proceeds split three ways, in a ratio the creator configures at launch:
- Original Author
- Project Token stakers
- Jump token buyback & burn
Permanent at launch
The rate and the split ratio are both fixed at launch and cannot be changed afterward. A creator choosing a high rate is making a permanent decision about their token's cost of trading — there is no governance path to lower it later.
Reading the Two Together
A trade always pays the 1.5% protocol fee, and pays the creator tax only if the creator set a non-zero rate. A project with a 0% creator tax is a valid and complete configuration — the protocol fee alone still funds the dev or author share, buyback & burn, Jump operations, and staking rewards.
The author share appears in both mechanisms and they are not the same money: under ©Meme the author is paid out of the protocol fee, at a rate the creator does not control, while the creator tax's author share is paid on top at a rate and ratio the creator fixed at launch.