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Creator fees on Pons: how they work, and how to claim them
You choose a rate once, when the token is created, and it never changes again. After that the fees accrue on their own and sit there until you claim them. Almost nothing about this is written down anywhere, so here it is.
What a creator fee actually is
It is your share of the trading fees on tokens you launched — not a share of the tokens themselves. If you hold a bag of your own token, that is a position, and it has nothing to do with this. The creator fee is a cut of what other people pay to trade it, and it accrues whether you hold any of the supply or not.
It builds up as people trade and shows up as claimable once it is available. There is no schedule, no vesting and no lock-up on the claim itself: when there is something there, you can take it.
There is a second pot, and you get most of it
The creator fee is yours in full — none of it is split with anyone. Alongside it sits a separate shared trading-fee pot, and a share of that is credited to you too. Your share is read live from your own token's contract when you sweep, not estimated and not promised here, and where that read cannot be completed you are shown no figure at all rather than a guess.
The rate is chosen once, at step eight
The last question in the launch wizard is the creator settings. The rate is a set of buttons — 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 2% or a custom figure — and whichever one is lit when you press confirm is the rate for the life of the token.
This cuts both ways, and the good half is worth saying plainly: nobody can raise it on you later. Not us, not a future version of the bot, not whoever ends up running the launchpad. A trader who checks your token's fee today is looking at the number it will still have in a year. The other half is that you cannot raise it either, so a rate you picked in thirty seconds is a decision you live with.
The payout wallet can move; what is already credited does not
The wallet the fees pay out to is not fixed. Change Fee Recipient in the management panel repoints it, effective immediately — useful when you move from a hot wallet to something you actually keep, or when a project's treasury changes hands.
Fees already credited to the old wallet stay with the old wallet. Claim what you are owed before you move the recipient, not after.
The four levers, and what each one does
Poncho's management panel for a token you launched shows its status, the fee rate, and the recipient — then gives you these:
| Lever | What it does | Changeable |
|---|---|---|
| Creator fees | Claims what has accrued, to the payout wallet. | — |
| Fee recipient | Points the payout at a different wallet. | Any time |
| Buyback & Lock | A slice of your fee share buys the token back on the market and locks what it buys, for about five years. On or off only — there is no percentage to set, because the slice is fixed by the protocol. | Yes, but see below |
| Reinvest fees | Puts collected fees back to work instead of paying them out. | Any time |
Alongside them sit Burn 50% and Burn 100%, which destroy that share of the tokens you are holding, and Transfer Tokens. Burning is not a fee lever — it is a supply decision, and it is irreversible in the ordinary way that sending tokens to nowhere is irreversible.
What Pons does not document
This is the part other pages leave out, so read it before you set anything.
An earlier version of this page said Buyback & Lock was fixed at launch, in line with what every launch we had sampled suggested. That was wrong, and the correction matters more than the error did.
It is changeable. The launch factory exposes
setBuybackEnabled(token, enabled), and Poncho reaches it from the My Launches panel.
The permissions are deliberately lopsided: only the current fee-recipient wallet can turn
it on — enabling it spends the creator's own fee bucket, so nobody else gets to commit your
money — while the creator or the protocol owner can turn it off, which is Pons
keeping a safety valve.
Turning it off does not release what has already accrued under it. We measured
this on a fork on 6 September 2026: with the flag set to false through the factory's own setter —
the curve's getter confirmed reading 1, then 0 — a claim still reverted with
InternalSwapRequiresOperator. Zeroing the already-accrued buyback bucket, and changing
nothing else, was what made it succeed. The flag is not the gate; the pending balance
is. Switching off stops future fees going into that bucket and does nothing about what is
already in it — that still waits on Pons to run the conversion.
The creator fee rate is a different matter and is genuinely fixed at launch. Neither field is described in Pons's own documentation; what is on this page was read off the contracts and measured, and it is dated so you can see how old it is.
What this means in practice: if you are launching a token and you want the fee, choose the rate deliberately and understand you are choosing once. If you are launching for fun, the defaults are what almost every token on the chain has, and leaving them alone is the safe answer.
How to claim, step by step
- Open My Launches and pick the token.
- The panel shows the status, the rate, whether Buyback & Lock is on, and which wallet is the recipient.
- Press Creator fees. If there is nothing to claim it says so; if there is, it goes to the payout wallet.
- Check it on the explorer. The panel links the token's Pons page and its Blockscout page, so the claim is a transaction you can read rather than a number we showed you.
How to check any of this yourself
Everything above is on-chain. A token's page on Pons is
ponsfamily.com/launchpad/<contract> and its contract is at
robinhoodchain.blockscout.com/token/<contract>. If a number here and a number
there ever disagree, the chain is right and this page is wrong — tell us and we will fix it.
Questions
How do I claim creator fees on Pons?
From the token's management panel, press Creator fees. What has accrued goes to the payout wallet you set. There is no waiting period and no minimum.
Can I change my creator fee after launch?
No. The rate is fixed when the token is created and cannot be changed by anyone afterwards.
Can I change the wallet my creator fees go to?
Yes, at any time, and it takes effect immediately. Fees already credited to the previous wallet stay there, so claim before you switch.
Do creator fees come out of my own tokens?
No. They are a share of the trading fees other people pay, and they are separate from any tokens you hold.
What is Buyback & Lock?
A slice of your creator-fee share is used to buy your token back on the market, and what it buys is locked for roughly five years. It is on or off — the slice is set by the protocol, not by you. It can be switched on and off after launch, but only the current fee-recipient wallet can switch it on, and switching it off does not release fees that already went into the buyback bucket.
Can I turn Buyback & Lock off and claim what it collected?
No. Those are two different things. Turning it off stops future fees going into the buyback bucket; what is already in there still has to be converted by Pons before anything can be claimed, and only Pons can run that conversion. If your management panel says "only Pons can run that conversion" instead of showing a claim button, this is why, and turning the switch off will not change it.
Is Buyback & Lock the same as Reinvest fees?
No, and they do not overlap. Buyback & Lock is Pons's and happens on chain before you claim: a protocol-fixed slice of your fee bucket is converted and locked for about five years, and you never see it as liquid ETH. Reinvest is Poncho's and spends a percentage of what you actually claimed — liquid, from your wallet, after the money has arrived. At 50% reinvest, half the ETH you claimed buys the token and half stays as ETH. Whether reinvest is on has nothing to do with whether buyback is.
What is Reinvest fees?
A switch that puts a share of claimed fees back to work instead of leaving them as ETH. On and off at any time, from the same panel.
Is the creator fee the same as Poncho's trading fee?
No, and they are paid by different people. Poncho's trading fee — 1%, built but not yet switched on — is what a trader will pay us to route a trade. The creator fee is what a trader pays you for trading a token you launched. One is our business model; the other is yours.
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