Fees · aio

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The fee on a trade

A new coin trades on a bonding curve: a pool that sells the coin at a price that rises with each buy. Every buy and every sell on the curve pays the same fee, taken in SOL (or in the token the coin is paired with).

the coin's creator side

0.5%

0.005 SOL on a 1 SOL trade

aio

0.25%

0.0025 SOL on a 1 SOL trade

Raydium

0.25%

0.0025 SOL on a 1 SOL trade

Who gets each part of the trade fee
who gets it	share of the trade	on a 1 SOL trade	what it is
the coin's creator side	0.5%	0.005 SOL	Paid to whoever the launcher named. See the next section.
aio	0.25%	0.0025 SOL	aio's platform fee. See what aio does with it below.
Raydium	0.25%	0.0025 SOL	Raydium's own fee for running the curve. aio never receives it.
total	1%	0.01 SOL	Taken out of the SOL in the trade: out of what you spend on a buy, out of what you receive on a sell.

aio sets its own rate and the creator rate when it registers as a platform on Raydium LaunchLab, the launchpad program new coins launch on. Raydium sets its own. All three are stored on chain, and every quote aio gives you is worked out from the on-chain rates, so the amount you see before you sign already includes the fee.

This page covers that default setup. A coin launched on aio's second engine pays a different fee, and its coin page shows it.

aio curve

aio curve coins: the fee split

A coin launched on aio's own curve does not use the fee above. Every trade on it pays a fee of at least 1.5%. The launch program splits each fee into 6 fixed slices at the moment of the trade. Nobody can change the split for a coin after it is live.

Buyback

35%

of the fee

Trader rewards

30%

of the fee

Holder rewards

15%

of the fee

aio platform

10%

of the fee

Launcher

5%

of the fee

Liquidity

5%

of the fee

Where each slice of an aio curve fee goes
slice	share of the fee	on a 1 SOL trade at 1.5%	what it does
Buyback	35%	0.00525 SOL	Set aside for the buyback of aio's platform coin. The buyback from this engine is not switched on yet.
Trader rewards	30%	0.0045 SOL	Set aside for the coin's traders. Trader rewards are not switched on yet.
Holder rewards	15%	0.00225 SOL	Set aside for the coin's holders. Holder payouts are not switched on yet.
aio platform	10%	0.0015 SOL	aio's own share.
Launcher	5%	0.00075 SOL	Goes to the recipient the launcher named. For a wallet recipient, anyone can send it on from the coin page. An X or GitHub account collects it by signing in on the claim page. The coin page lists each collection.
Liquidity	5%	0.00075 SOL	Set aside for the coin's pool. Adding it is not switched on yet.
total	100%	0.015 SOL	The whole 1.5% fee. A coin can launch with a higher steady fee, and the first trades after launch pay a much higher opening fee. The split is the same.

After the coin graduates to a pool, the total fee falls in steps as its market cap grows: 1.5%, 1.2%, 0.9%, 0.6%, 0.3%. It never goes back up. Part of that fee is then taken in the coin itself. The coin page shows the current fee and what each slice has earned and paid.

The same rules apply when the coin is paired with a token other than SOL. The fee and every payout are then in that token. aio curve in the docs

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The 0.5% creator fee does not have to go to the person who launched the coin. At launch, the launcher names who earns it. Each coin gets its own fee wallet (a wallet aio makes just for that coin), so one coin's fees never mix with another's.

Where the creator's share can go
it can go to	status	how it is paid
an X account	on	They sign in and claim. Fees left unclaimed for 90 days are swept to aio's treasury.
a GitHub user	on	They sign in and claim. Fees left unclaimed for 90 days are swept to aio's treasury.
any Solana wallet	on	Anyone can push the fees to that address from the coin page, at any time. They never expire.
a charity	not switched on yet	All of the creator fee, or 5%, 10%, 25% or 50% of it, to a charity listed through donate.gg. It is paid inside the payout, never claimed.
the coin's holders	on (SOL coins; a pairing can differ)	The coin carries a 1.5% tax on every transfer. 0.25% of the transfer goes to aio. The rest of the tax, and the whole creator fee, are paid to holders by how much they hold, in SOL or in the token the coin is paired with. A coin paired with a tokenized stock (a stock coin) starts this way and pays in that stock. aio's server sends the payouts, every few minutes where a faster scheduler is set up, otherwise once a day.
the coin's traders (cashback)	on	25%, 50% or 100% of the creator fee goes back to the wallets that traded the coin on its curve. The share is set aside each time the coin's fees are paid out.
an NFT floor (Floor Fund)	on, but no collections are listed here	10%, 25% or 50% of the creator fee buys NFTs from one listed collection's lowest listings, once a day at most one NFT per collection. Metaplex Core collections only.
the coin itself (creator strategy)	on	Up to 50% of the creator fee is set aside each time the coin's fees are paid out. aio's server then buys the coin and burns it, or pays it out to holders, on its next run, once a day.

When a coin carries one of the optional shares, each payout pays those shares first and the named recipient last. All the shares together can never pass 100% of the creator fee, and none of them touches aio's or Raydium's part. Charity, cashback, Floor Fund and strategy shares are for coins paired with SOL only.

These shares are only set aside when the coin's fees are paid out. For a wallet recipient that is when someone pushes the fees from the coin page. For an X or GitHub recipient it is when they claim. If they never claim, nothing is set aside until the sweep after 90 days. That sweep still pays the shares and sends only the recipient's part to aio's treasury.

Every payout out of a fee wallet is public, with its transaction, on the payout log.

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aio's 0.25% goes to its treasury, the wallet that runs the platform. By platform policy, 80% of aio's net SOL revenue is set aside in a separate buyback wallet to buy aio's platform coin and burn it, and 20% stays in the treasury to pay for running aio. Nothing is bought until the platform coin is live.

on a 1 SOL trade: aio earns 0.0025 SOL. The split is done on aio's revenue in batches, not trade by trade; at 80% that is 0.002 SOL for the buyback and 0.0005 SOL for the treasury.
when it starts: Only once the buyback is switched on and the platform coin is live, and no sooner than 24 hours after that coin launches. If the buyback is switched on before the coin exists, its share waits in a separate buyback wallet and is spent over 30 days once buying starts.
status now: Switched on and collecting. The platform coin is not live yet, so nothing is bought: the buyback share waits in a separate buyback wallet.
what counts: SOL revenue only. Fees aio earns in other tokens stay in the treasury and are not split.

The steps, the caps and every transaction are on the buyback page.

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Other costs

The trade fee is the main one. These are the others you can meet.

launching a coin: 0.05 SOL, paid once to aio's treasury. It covers the roughly 0.03 SOL of account rent aio pays to create the coin, plus a margin. One wallet can make 5 paid launches per 24 hours. Some optional launch types that are not switched on yet add their own account rent on top.
network fees: Solana charges a small network fee on every transaction, and a priority fee when the network is busy. You pay it on the transactions you sign, such as a trade or the launch payment. aio's treasury pays it on claims.
claiming fees: Free. The smallest claim is 0.01 SOL, because opening a claim costs about 0.002 SOL of account rent.
after graduation: When a curve has raised its target, the coin graduates: it moves to a regular Raydium pool. From then on trades pay that pool's own fee, which Raydium's pool settings decide, not aio. aio's own trade box can route a graduated coin through Jupiter on mainnet and add a 0.5% referral fee, of which Jupiter keeps 20%. That is not switched on yet.

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Good to know

The rates on this page are aio's configured defaults. aio can change its platform and creator rates on chain later, and Raydium can change its own; a quote always uses the rates that are live.
Fees waiting for an X account or a GitHub user are held by aio until they are claimed. After 90 days without a claim they go to aio's treasury. Fees for a wallet never expire.
A named X or GitHub account can decline a coin. That coin's fees then go to aio's treasury on the next daily sweep.
If aio's early-buy check links one of a coin's first buyers to its launcher, the coin's creator fees are withheld, and go to the treasury once 90 days have passed since launch.
Unclaimed fees swept to the treasury do not count toward the buyback split, because they were owed to recipients.
After a coin graduates, creator fees from its Raydium pool keep building up for the same fee wallet, and aio collects them together with the curve fees, so they are paid out with the same claim.
A coin paired with a token other than SOL pays its fees in that token.
Being named as a recipient does not mean that person endorses the coin.

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The words

bonding curve: The pool a new coin starts on. It sells a fixed number of coins at a price that rises with each buy and falls with each sell.
graduation: The moment a curve has raised its target. The coin then moves to a regular Raydium pool.
creator fee: The part of the trade fee that goes to whoever the launcher named, not to aio.
fee wallet: A wallet aio creates for one coin. The coin's creator fees collect there until they are paid out.
treasury: aio's own wallet. It receives aio's share and pays the network fee on claims.
buyback: aio using part of its own revenue to buy its platform coin. See the buyback page for how and when.
sweep: Moving fees nobody may or did claim from a fee wallet to the treasury.

The fee on a trade

aio curve coins: the fee split

Where the creator's share goes

What aio does with its share

Other costs

Good to know

The words