$ ro0t docs creators

Creator earnings

What you earn as a creator, where it sits, and how to get it into your wallet.

updated 2026-09-04

Where creator money comes from

Creators do not get a share of the token supply and do not get to withdraw liquidity. They get a share of trading fees, paid in WHYPE, forever.

Fee	When	Creator share	In plain terms
Gateway fee, 0.25% of every buy and sell	Before bonding	35%	0.0875% of pre-bond volume
Pool fee, 1% on the HYPE side of every buy	Always (before and after bonding)	50%	0.5% of buy volume that reaches the pool
Pool fee on sells (taken in tokens)	Always	0%, burned	Reduces supply instead
Sniper guard surcharge	First 60 s	0%	Goes to stakers and treasury only
Bond bonus	After bonding	Up to 1 HYPE total	Comes out of the treasury's 15% of pool fees on your token

The rest of each fee goes to RO0T stakers and the protocol treasury. Full splits are on Fees, exactly. The splits are constants in the contracts; nobody can change them for tokens that already exist.

Escrow: half of pre-bond earnings wait for the bond

Before your token bonds, every fee that reaches you is split in two: 50% is claimable immediately, 50% goes into escrow (money held by the contract for you until a condition is met). The condition is bonding.

Token bonds: the whole escrow becomes claimable in the same transaction.
Token misses the 30 day deadline and gets time-unlocked instead: the escrow goes to RO0T stakers. You keep everything that was already claimable, and you keep earning your 50% of pool fees afterwards.

After bonding (or unlocking), there is no escrow. New fees are 100% claimable as they arrive.

The escrow is why launching a token and abandoning it is not lucrative: a creator who never gets the token to 100 HYPE forfeits half of what they earned on the way.

The bond bonus

After bonding, the treasury's 15% share of pool fees on your token is redirected to you until it adds up to 1 HYPE. It is not a payment from anyone's pocket; it is the treasury giving up its first 1 HYPE of income on tokens that reached the target. Once 1 HYPE has been paid, the treasury share goes to the treasury again. Tokens that time-unlock never earn it.

How the money actually reaches you

1
A trade happens
The gateway sends its 0.25% straight to the FeeSplitter contract in the same transaction, tagged with your token. Pool fees behave differently: HyperSwap holds them inside the liquidity position until someone collects.
2
Pool fees are collected
Anyone can call InitLocker.collect(token) (there is a button on the operator console at /ops, and any wallet can call it from an explorer). It also happens automatically inside the transaction that bonds or unlocks the token. Collecting sends the WHYPE side to the FeeSplitter and burns the token side. The caller cannot redirect anything.
3
The FeeSplitter keeps your balance
For each token it tracks three numbers: claimable, escrow, and bonus claimable. All three are public and shown on your profile.
4
You claim
Go to /profile. The table lists every token you created with its status and balances. Press Claim on a row. This calls claimCreator(token), which pays claimable + bonus in one transfer. Anyone can call it, but the money always goes to the payout address, never to the caller.
5
It arrives as WHYPE
The payout wallet receives WHYPE, the ERC-20 form of HYPE. It is worth exactly one HYPE each and can be unwrapped at any time. If you do not see it in your wallet, add the WHYPE token address from Contracts.

› first day of a token

During the day, 60 HYPE of buys and 10 HYPE of sells (measured as HYPE the pool paid out) went through the gateway, all after the guard window.

Gateway fee: 0.25% × (60 + 10) = 0.175 HYPE. Your 35% = 0.06125 HYPE.

Pool fee on buys: the buys sent 59.85 HYPE to the pool (60 minus the gateway fee); 1% of that is 0.5985 WHYPE. Your 50% = 0.29925 HYPE.

Total earned: 0.3605 HYPE. Claimable now: 0.18025. In escrow until bonding: 0.18025. If some of those buys happened inside the first 60 seconds, the guard surcharge on them went to stakers and treasury, not to you.

› after bonding, a typical day

500 HYPE of volume, half buys. Buys send 250 HYPE to the pool; 1% is 2.5 WHYPE of fees. Your 50% = 1.25 HYPE per day. The treasury's 15% (0.375 HYPE per day) comes to you as bonus until 1 HYPE has been paid, so on the first three days you receive about 1.6 HYPE per day, then 1.25.

The 250 HYPE of sells paid their 1% in tokens, which were burned. Nobody earns WHYPE on that side.

The payout address

You chose it in the launch form; by default it is the wallet that launched. It is public: the launch event records it and every change emits an event.
Only the current payout address can change it, by calling setPayout on the FeeSplitter (there is a button on your profile when you are connected as the payout). The creator wallet has no special power here once it stops being the payout.
It cannot be set to the zero address. A "burn fees" mode is planned as a separate feature.
Every change emits a PayoutChanged event, so holders can see if fees were redirected.

Editing your token's info (logo, banner, description, links)

Name and symbol are written into the token contract and never change. Everything else lives in the metadata file, and the creator wallet can replace that file at any time from the profile page: open your token's row, press edit info, change what you like, and confirm. The site uploads the new file to IPFS and your wallet signs one updateMetadata transaction.

The update costs a flat 0.5 HYPE, paid in the same transaction and sent to the protocol treasury. The fee is there to stop constant re-branding, not to make money: for comparison, DEX Screener charges about $299 for its "Enhanced Token Info" (logo, banner, links), which at recent HYPE prices is several HYPE. The fee can be changed by the timelock; the current value is always shown on the edit form.

note

Only the creator wallet can edit info, even after the payout address has been changed. Every edit emits a MetadataUpdated event, so holders can see the history.

Your opening buy

If you bought up to 5% of supply at launch, remember that everyone can see it, and the token page shows how much the creator wallet has bought and sold directly. Selling all of it early is the fastest way to lose a community. The launch form told you the price drop a full dump would cause; it gets smaller as more people buy.

note

Creator fees are not a promise from ro0t. They are a rule inside an immutable contract that splits whatever WHYPE it actually receives. If nobody trades, there is nothing to split. The site shows gross volume and the WHYPE actually received side by side so you can check the math yourself.

Next: RO0T token →