Fees and budgets

pump.fun pays a creator fee on every trade of a coin (0.30% on the bonding curve at the time of writing). Because the coin's creator is its vault, these fees gather for the coin. The platform collects them into the vault whenever $10 have gathered. They stay in SOL.

1. Refund

If the launcher prepaid, the first fees repay those 0.5 SOL.

2. Creator share

After release and above $55,000 market cap: 30% of what remains.

3. Build budget

65% of the rest: pays the stations and updates of this game.

4. Hosting reserve

15%: pays this game's multiplayer servers.

5. Prize pool

10%: paid to the best players, in SOL.

6. Platform

10%.

A build is charged what it used: model usage, generated images and sounds, and the time of the machine it ran on. The cost of each station is shown on the coin's page and booked against the coin's build budget. A station cannot start without budget and cannot spend more than its cap.

Design

starts with $2 available, spends at most $5

Prototype

starts with $5 available, spends at most $10

Assets

starts with $14 available, spends at most $30

Release 1.0

starts with $9 available, spends at most $20

Refunds to launchers, prizes and creator shares are paid in SOL out of the coin's vault. Each payout is released by the platform before it is sent, and its transaction is recorded.