TREADSTONE does not tax your token and does not charge you to launch. It earns the same way any Uniswap liquidity provider earns: from the trading fees the pool generates. Because the launch position is locked in the protocol's locker, those fees route through a public fee router and split by a published, on-chain formula: the protocol's share is fixed, and the creator sets their own share at launch. This page states the mechanics exactly, with worked examples, and it is honest about the limits.
What it costs to launch
Launching costs network gas plus a small fixed anti-spam amount of 0.0005 ETH. That amount is a spam deterrent, not a launch fee or a revenue model. It exists to make it expensive to flood the factory with junk launches, and it is set far below the value of a real launch so a genuine creator barely notices it. TREADSTONE takes no percentage of your token, and there is no per-trade platform fee.
No transfer taxes, ever
TREADSTONE tokens have no transfer tax. A buy is a plain Uniswap swap and a sell is a plain Uniswap swap. We never insert a percentage that is skimmed on transfer. Transfer taxes are the mechanic behind many honeypots, and they also break Uniswap V3 concentrated liquidity, so they are banned from the template outright.
Where the revenue actually comes from
Every swap against a 1% pool pays a 1% fee to the in-range liquidity providers. At launch, the locked position is the liquidity, so those fees accrue to it. The position NFT lives in the locker, and the locker collects the accrued fees and hands them to the fee router, which splits them.
That is the entire model. We make money by being the liquidity provider and then sharing what the LP position earns. We do not need a transfer tax, and we do not need a custom router that bots would simply bypass.
The split: 30% protocol, 70% creator bucket
Collected LP fees divide into a fixed protocol share and a creator bucket:
| Share | Recipient | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 30% | Protocol | The protocol treasury |
| 70% | Creator bucket | Split by the creator between take-home and reinvest, see below |
The 30% protocol share and the 70% creator bucket are fixed constants in the fee router. What is not fixed is how the 70% bucket divides. At launch, the creator picks one number: the reinvest share, anywhere from 0% to 70% of total fees. Whatever they do not reinvest is their take-home. The choice is made once, at launch, and is then immutable for the life of the token.
- Take-home goes to the creator's claimable balance, which they pull to their own wallet anytime.
- Reinvest goes back into this same token's own permanently locked liquidity, making its pool deeper over time. It is never a buyback or a burn of any platform token, the creator can never withdraw it, and it is accounted for on-chain with events like every other leg.
The default, if the creator leaves the dial alone, is a 10% reinvest, so the split is 30% protocol, 60% creator take-home, and 10% reinvest. A creator who sets reinvest to 0 takes the full 70%. One who sets it to 70% takes home nothing and routes the entire bucket into locked liquidity.
If a launch has a referrer
A launch can name an interface referrer, for example the frontend that helped create it. When it does, the referrer's 10% is carved out of the protocol share only, never the creator's:
| Branch | Protocol | Referrer | Creator bucket |
|---|---|---|---|
| No referrer (default) | 30% | 0% | 70% |
| Referred | 20% | 10% | 70% |
Adding a referrer never reduces what the creator or the reinvest leg receive. It only moves 10 points from the protocol share to the referrer.
Worked examples
Suppose a token's pool does 1,000,000 dollars of trading volume. The 1% pool fee on that volume is 10,000 dollars. At the default split (30 / 60 / 10):
- Protocol: 3,000 dollars
- Creator take-home: 6,000 dollars
- Reinvest into the token's locked liquidity: 1,000 dollars
If that same creator had set reinvest to 0, the 10,000 dollars would divide into 3,000 dollars protocol and 7,000 dollars creator take-home, with nothing reinvested. The protocol share is 30% either way. Only the split of the creator's 70% bucket changes.
This describes how the machine divides a fee, not what anyone will earn. Volume is not promised and not predictable. The examples only show the arithmetic of the split.
The honest caveat: external LP dilution
The numbers above assume the locked launch position is all of the in-range liquidity, which is true at launch for most tokens. It stops being true as soon as outside liquidity providers add to the same pool and range.
When they do, the pool's fees are shared across all in-range liquidity pro-rata, so the launch position earns a smaller slice than before. Creator fees come from the launch position's share of pool fees, not from a permanent tax on every future trade. Early volume, when the locked position is most or all of the liquidity, is the richest window. We state this plainly because transparency is the product. We do not promise a fixed cut of all future volume to anyone.
Claims are permissionless and on-chain
Two on-chain steps move fees to the people entitled to them, and both are permissionless.
- Collect and distribute: anyone can trigger the collection of accrued fees and their split. This means a creator is never stuck waiting on us to crank fees, and it means the reinvest and protocol legs cannot silently stall.
- Claim: each recipient pulls their own claimable balance to their own wallet. A creator claims only to themselves, from any client, with no dependency on this website.
The treasury address, the fee split, and the locker address are public, and every distribution and claim emits an on-chain event, so the full accounting is auditable by anyone at any time.