Fees
Every trade pays a fee on its SOL side: taken from the SOL you spend on a buy, and from the SOL you receive on a sell. The fee splits two ways: a creator share, and a protocol share that funds referral rewards and LP payouts. Rates fall as the token's market cap grows: young tokens pay more, established ones pay less.
| Market cap | Creator | Protocol, LP, and incentives* |
|---|---|---|
| Under 10k SOL | 1.00% | 2.00% |
| 10k SOL and up | 0.80% | 1.70% |
| 20k SOL and up | 0.60% | 1.40% |
| 40k SOL and up | 0.40% | 1.10% |
| 60k SOL and up | 0.30% | 0.70% |
| 80k SOL and up | 0.25% | 0.50% |
| 100k SOL and up | 0.20% | 0.30% |
* Up to 0.20% of each trade pays LPs. The LP rate scales with the share of pool liquidity that real LPs provide, so with no LPs it is zero.
- The creator share lands in the creator's wallet at trade time. There is nothing to claim.
- Referral rewards and the referred-trader discount are paid from the protocol share.
- Launching itself carries no protocol fee.
- During the anti-sniping window, early buys pay the decaying fee described under Launch protection on top of these rates. All of it goes to the creator.
Permissionless integration referrals
An external client can set its payout wallet as the public swap's referrer and receive the default 15% of Tribe's protocol fee without an account or approval. At the common under-10k-SOL tier, with no real LP liquidity, that works out to approximately 0.30% of the trade's SOL side. The reward splits the existing protocol fee and does not add a new trader fee.
This integration referral is separate from the invite-based referral tree. It has one payout wallet per swap, no trader discount, no multi-level split, and no 180-day attribution window. See Permissionless swaps for the default and performance tiers.