Fees
Fees
Who pays what, and where every fee ends up.
A creator picks one fee at launch, from 1% to 10%, and traders pay exactly that on every buy and sell, on the curve and in the pool. The fixed 0.3% protocol fee comes out of it. Hooks the creator adds can charge more, and everything is shown on the token page, so traders always know what a trade costs before they make it.
How your fee is split
| Your fee | Protocol | Creator keeps | Traders pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 1% |
| 2% | 0.3% | 1.7% | 2% |
| 5% | 0.3% | 4.7% | 5% |
| 10% | 0.3% | 9.7% | 10% |
The Uniswap pool has no LP fee of its own, so after graduation a trade costs the same as on the curve. Hook fees such as the dynamic fee, sell tax or holder dividends come on top only when the creator turns them on. Tokens launched before this change keep the fees they launched with.
All fees
| What | How much | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | A small flat fee in ETH, shown in the launch form | Protocol, used to buy back and burn $HOOK |
| Protocol fee | Fixed 0.3% of every trade, curve and pool | Protocol, used to buy back and burn $HOOK (a blueprint author can take part of it on the curve) |
| Your fee | Set by the creator, 1% to 10%, on every trade, curve and pool. The 0.3% protocol fee comes out of it | The creator (all of it except the 0.3%) |
| Pool fee | None: the Uniswap LP fee is 0 for launches from the site | Hook fees below add to it only when the creator turns them on |
| Dynamic fee | From 0, rising to at most 10% on large trades | The locked liquidity |
| Sell tax decay | Up to 20% extra on sells at open, fading to 0 | The locked liquidity |
| Volatility fee | Up to 5% extra inside a busy block | The locked liquidity |
| Snipe tax | Set by the creator, up to 25%, during anti-snipe | Curve: added to the pool at graduation. Pool: a pot, or the protocol |
| Pool buy cuts | LP rewards, pots and your fee: up to 20% together (a referral is paid out of your fee) | In-range liquidity, pots, creator (and referrer, from the creator fee) |
| Holder dividends | Set by the creator, 0.5% to 10%, on every trade | Token holders, pro-rata to their balance, in the quote asset |
| Limit orders | 0.1% of the quote side, fixed when you place the order (on top of the pool’s own fees) | Protocol |
| Limit-order keeper fee | A small ETH amount per order, paid when you place it; refunded if you cancel | Whoever fills the order, or returns it after it expires (normally the Robin Hook keeper), for the gas |
| Buyback | Up to 15% of sells, together with your fee | Saved, then spent buying and burning the token |
Limits that protect traders
Hook fees have hard ceilings in the contract, not just in the form. All hook cuts together take at most 25% of each side of a trade, and the pool's LP fee (base fee plus any hook surcharge) is capped at 30%, so no mix of hooks can make a token impossible to trade.
What the creator earns
- Their fee, minus the 0.3% protocol share, on every curve and pool trade. Pick 1% and keep 0.7%.
- The paired-asset side of any LP fees the locked liquidity earns, from hook fees such as the dynamic fee.
What the protocol does with its share
The launch fee and the 0.3% protocol fee buy back and burn $HOOK, the official Robin Hook token.
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