Fees

There are exactly three fees in the protocol: a flat fee to launch, a percentage on trades routed through the terminal, and the swap fee your launch pool charges — of which 70% is yours. Everything else — locking, vesting, airdropping, burning, staking, claiming, buying back — costs nothing but gas. And one of the three partly refunds itself: 25% of every trading fee is credited back to the wallet that paid it.

#Every fee, one table

#The launch fee

A flat 0.001 ETH, sent to the treasury inside the launch transaction. It covers per-launch infrastructure (artwork and metadata hosting) and it is the same whether you launch a 1 000 supply token or a quadrillion. Anything you send above the fee becomes your dev buy.

The launcher owner can change it, but never above the compiled-in MAX_LAUNCH_FEE of 1 ETH. There is no percentage-of-supply cut, no share of your token, and no vesting to the platform: hood.dev never holds any of your token.

#The trading fee

1%, taken on the ETH side of every trade routed through the terminal, with a 2% hard cap (MAX_PLATFORM_FEE_BPS) written into the contract that no admin can exceed.

• On a buy, the fee comes off msg.value first and the remainder is routed to the venue. You are quoted on the post-fee amount.
• On a sell, the fee comes off the ETH the venue returned. Your minEthOut slippage floor is checked against what you actually receive, not the pre-fee amount.
• Tokens are never skimmed. The fee is always ETH, on both sides of the trade. Nothing in the terminal takes a cut of the token you bought.
• 25% of it comes back to you. The fee is pushed to a receiver that credits your share to your wallet as a claimable ETH balance, which makes the fee you actually bear 0.75%. Full mechanics on Cash back.

#How referrals interact

A referral does not make a trade more expensive. The referrer’s share is carved out of the 1%, never added on top: at the current 10% setting, a 1 ETH buy pays 0.01 ETH in fees regardless, split 0.009 ETH to the protocol and 0.001 ETH to the referrer. The referral share is itself capped at 50% of the fee. See Referrals.

#Launch pool swap fees

Every hood.dev launch pool is created at the 1% fee tier. That fee is charged by Uniswap (or SushiSwap), not by us, and it accrues to the position that holds the liquidity — which is the launch position, locked forever in the FeeLocker. Anyone can call collect() to sweep it, and the collected amount is split:

• WETH side — 70% to the creator (or to the creator’s chosen fee policy), 30% to the protocol.
• Token side — if the creator picked a token-side policy at launch, the full amount goes to that policy (burn, vest, or stake). If not, it splits 70/30 in kind like the WETH side.

The 70/30 split is protocol-wide, not a per-creator negotiation, and it is stamped into your position at launch — the value in force when you launched is yours forever, even if the protocol changes it later. The contract also carries a compiled-in floor of 10% (MIN_CREATOR_BPS): no admin action can ever reduce a creator’s share below that. Details in Liquidity & LP fees.

#Worked example: a 1 ETH buy

you send                                    1.000000 ETH
  platform fee 1%                          -0.010000 ETH   -> fee receiver (0.009000)
                                                            -> referrer     (0.001000, if any)
                                            of which cash back to YOU (25%)
                                                            +0.002500 ETH   (0.002250 if referred)
  routed to the pool                        0.990000 ETH
    pool swap fee 1%                       -0.009900 ETH   -> accrues to the locked position
    actually swapped for tokens             0.980100 ETH

later, when anyone calls collect():
  that 0.009900 ETH of accrued WETH splits 70/30
    creator (or the creator fee policy)     0.006930 ETH
    protocol                                0.002970 ETH

So the round number: a buyer pays about 1.99% in total — 1.74% once the cash back is claimed back out — of which roughly 0.97% ends up with the protocol and roughly 0.69% ends up with the token’s creator. A seller pays the same 1% platform fee plus the same pool fee on the way out, and earns cash back on it the same way.

#Who can change what

The caps are constants in the deployed bytecode, not storage: a setter that would exceed one reverts. The full accounting of which settings exist, what each one reaches, and what none of them can touch is on Security model.