How creator fees work on pons, and how to collect them

Trades on the bonding curve pay 1%, split between the protocol and the creator. On top of that a creator can set an optional tax of up to 10%, fixed permanently at creation.

After graduation the source changes but the principle does not: swaps in the Uniswap v4 pool pay a fee charged by the pons hook rather than by the pool itself, and the creator's share is carved out of it.

Fees accrue to an escrow contract keyed on the recipient address rather than on the token. That has a useful consequence: earnings from every launch a creator made accumulate in one balance and are withdrawn in one call.

It also means the recipient is the address that launched the token, permanently. Launch from a different wallet and the fees follow that wallet, not you.

After graduation, fees first accumulate inside the hook rather than in the escrow. Moving them across can require an internal swap — converting token-denominated fees into the quote currency — and that operation is restricted to an operator the protocol runs.

So a graduated launch can show fees that exist and are yours but are not yet claimable. They appear in the escrow once the protocol sweeps them, and there is nothing a creator can do to speed that up.

The escrow exposes a balance for the recipient and a claim that sends the whole of it. Both are ordinary contract calls; the only requirement is gas, which on Robinhood Chain is negligible.

Worth remembering before you retire a wallet: the fees are tied to the address that launched, and moving to a new dev wallet leaves the old balance where it was.