Collecting your fees
How your 75% share actually reaches your wallet — the automatic sweep, the manual button, changing where fees go, and what to check if nothing has arrived yet.
The short version: you do not have to do anything. There is no claim step, no balance held on your behalf, and nothing that expires if you never come back. Fees are paid straight to a wallet address.
The rest of this page is for when you want it sooner, want it somewhere else, or want to know why nothing has shown up yet.
Where fees sit before they reach you
Trading fees do not go straight to your wallet at the moment of each trade. They accrue inside the pool, in its locked liquidity position, until something collects them.
That is not a Runitup decision — it is how AMMs work everywhere. A pool has no way to push money out on its own; a collect function has to be called. So "collecting fees" means calling that function, and there are two ways it gets called.
1. Automatically — the default
The Keeper sweeps every pool on the site once an hour and pays out to whoever the recipients are at that moment. It collects when a pool has built up:
| Rule | Meaning |
|---|---|
| More than $10 uncollected | The normal case. At a 1% fee that is $1,000 of trading volume. |
| More than $0.25 sitting for 14 days | The safety net, so a coin that goes quiet still gets paid. |
An active coin clears the first rule several times a day and is paid several times a day. A quiet one is paid on the second. Nothing is required from you for either.
2. Manually — when you want it now
On My Launches, each of your coins has a Collect pool fees button. It calls the same function the Keeper does, immediately, with no threshold — any amount, however small.
The only difference is who pays the network fee for the transaction: you, instead of us. That is the entire trade-off. Useful when you are sitting just under $10 and would rather have the money now than wait.
It cannot clash with the automatic sweep
Fees exist once. If you collect a moment before the Keeper runs, it finds nothing left in your pool and skips it. There is no way to be paid twice, and no way for the two to interfere with each other.
What actually lands in your wallet
Not dollars, and usually not one asset. A pool accrues fees in the quote asset and in your own coin, depending on which direction people traded, and each side splits 75 / 25 on its own.
So a collection typically pays you some ETH and some of your own token, in one transaction. What you are actually paid in explains why, and why it is not a fixed half-and-half.
Changing where your fees go
The fee recipient is set at launch — defaulting to the wallet you launched from — and it is the one thing on chain you can change afterwards. (The artwork, description and links can change too, but those are off-chain and cost nothing — see Editing your token.) On My Launches, under Fee recipient, enter a new address and confirm the transaction.
Uncollected fees follow the new recipient
Collection pays whoever the recipient is at the moment it runs, not who it was when the fees were earned.
So if fees are sitting uncollected in the pool and you change the recipient, those fees go to the new address once collected. If that matters — you are handing a coin over, or splitting with someone — press Collect pool fees before changing the address, so the old balance is settled under the old recipient.
Where to see what you have earned
- My Launches — every coin you have made and what it has earned, broken down per asset rather than as one blended figure.
- Your public profile — lifetime earnings across all your coins.
- The token page — the live on-chain fee rate, read from the contract rather than from what was typed into a form.
Earnings are shown per asset on purpose. ETH and your own token are different units, and adding them into a single number would be inventing one.
Nothing has arrived — what to check
Work down this list in order:
- Has it traded? Fees come from trades, not from launching. A coin with no trades has earned nothing, and that is the usual answer.
- Is it under the threshold? Under $10 of fees, the Keeper waits — unless the balance has been sitting for 14 days. Press Collect pool fees if you would rather not wait.
- Are you looking at the right address? Fees go to the fee recipient, which is not necessarily the wallet you are connected with. Check it on My Launches.
- Did the recipient change? If someone changed it, later collections pay the new address — including fees earned before the change.
- Is it an Advanced token? Those split their tax on every trade as it happens, so there is never a pending pool balance to collect. There is nothing to sweep and nothing to press.
You are never locked out of this
Collecting is permissionless. The contract lets anyone call it, and it pays the recipients the contract knows about regardless of who called — so no one can redirect your fees by collecting them for you.
That means the automatic service is a convenience, not a dependency. If the Keeper stopped running tomorrow, your fees would keep accruing in the pool exactly as before, and the button on My Launches would still work. Your money cannot be held hostage by a service going down, ours included.