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What is the creator tax?
On pons, a coin's creator chooses a creator tax of 0% to 10% at launch. It's added to every buy and sale of that coin, on top of pons's own fee of about 1%, and paid to the coin's fee recipient.
It's the pons version of a creator fee. Unlike pump.fun, where every coin pays its creator the same share, on pons each creator names their own rate.
Can the creator tax be changed?
The creator tax is set once, when the coin launches, and it can't be raised afterwards.
- Choose it before you approve the launch: in memetools it starts at 2%, and you can set anything from 0% to 10%.
- Buyers can see it on the coin's page, so a high rate is visible to everyone who might trade.
- Who receives future fees can be redirected to another wallet, according to Datawallet's write-up of pons.
Where do creator fees collect?
Creator fees don't arrive in the creator's wallet with each trade. They build up and are swept into one shared escrow contract, where each fee recipient has a balance it can withdraw.
- While the coin is on its bonding curve, its fees build up in the curve.
- After graduation, they collect through the hook on the coin's Uniswap pool.
- From there they're swept into pons's V2 fee escrow, at 0xd3afeb2a57f70ef218aa82451c51b2fb0416ac9e on Robinhood Chain.
- The escrow keeps one balance per fee recipient, covering every coin that wallet receives fees from, before and after graduation.
The escrow holds ETH for ETH-paired coins. A coin paired with another asset pays its creator in that asset.
How are creator fees claimed?
The fee recipient claims by sending a transaction from its own wallet to the escrow, which pays out that wallet's balance. Datawallet's write-up of pons says creators can withdraw at any time.
- Only the fee recipient's wallet can claim its balance, so keep that wallet's key safe.
- A claim is a transaction like any other, so it pays gas in ETH.
- The balance covers all of that wallet's coins at once: one claim, not one per coin.
memetools's web app shows and trades your pons coins but doesn't have a Claim button yet. If you launched from a memetools wallet, you can show its private key in Wallets and import it into a wallet that can claim on pons. Never paste a key into a site you don't trust.
What is the creator buyback?
pons lets a creator send part of their fees to buying back the coin instead. Datawallet's write-up says those bought-back tokens are locked and released over five years, not burned.
memetools launches with the buyback off, as pons's own site does by default, so the whole creator tax goes to the fee recipient.
How does it compare with pump.fun?
pump.fun pays every creator a fixed share of its own fee: 0.30% of trades on the bonding curve. pons instead adds a tax the creator chooses, from nothing to 10%.
| pons | pump.fun | |
|---|---|---|
| Creator earns | A tax it sets, 0–10% | 0.30% on the curve, more after graduation |
| Traders pay | About 1% plus the tax | 1.25% on the curve |
| Set by | The creator, at launch | pump.fun's fee schedule |
| Claimed from | A shared escrow on Robinhood Chain | pump.fun, by the creator's wallet |
pump.fun's side, including holder rewards, is in pump.fun creator fees. The full fee picture on pons is in pons fees, explained.
Risks
Creator fees depend on people trading the coin, and most memecoins stop trading within days. Nothing here is financial advice.
- Fees only build up while the coin has volume. Most coins earn their creator very little.
- A creator tax paid by buyers is still a cost to them: say plainly what rate the coin has.
- Lose the fee recipient's key and nobody can claim its balance for you.
- pons can change how its contracts work. These details were checked on 14 November 2026.