Creator fees & allocation
The 2% default and the 75/25 split, explained with concrete amounts.
The creator fee
The creator fee is selected at launch and defaults to 200 basis points, or 2%. One basis point is 0.01 percentage points. The requested range is 1–300 basis points.
This is a trading creator fee. It is not a tax imposed by Minted on ordinary wallet-to-wallet transfers. Pump protocol and liquidity-provider fees are separate and may increase the total cost of a trade.
Split collected fees
The allocation applies to creator fees actually collected in CARDS. It does not apply to total trading volume, a quoted fee estimate, or unclaimed fees. The two destinations are the reward treasury and the MINT buyback treasury.
| Collected creator fees | Cards: 75% | MINT buybacks: 25% |
|---|---|---|
| 100 CARDS | 75 CARDS | 25 CARDS |
| 1,000 CARDS | 750 CARDS | 250 CARDS |
| 10,000 CARDS | 7,500 CARDS | 2,500 CARDS |
Per-launch accounting
Balances are accounted for by launch, network, asset, and budget bucket. A purchase reserves its budget before execution so the same available balance cannot fund two concurrent purchases.
Confirmed transactions create receipts. A failed or expired preparation is not counted as money spent, while an uncertain submitted transaction is reconciled before its reservation is released. Integer base units avoid floating-point rounding in treasury arithmetic.
Other costs
Operating expenses are funded separately from the 75/25 creator-fee allocation. Marketplace execution and conversion are subject to their actual transaction constraints; a displayed card price is not a promise that a purchase can complete at that price.