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# Creator Rewards & Fees

Every trade of a Clanker token pays a fee that is split between the token's creator and Clanker. Creators claim their part as rewards on clanker.world or through the API.

## Clanker v5

A Clanker v5 token has no LP fee. Every trade in its launch pool pays a buy tax or a sell tax, and that tax funds Clanker's fee, the creator's rewards and any holder dividends, burn or integrator share the creator chose at launch.

### How it works

The creator sets a buy tax and a sell tax at launch, each between 1% and 10% of the trade. Each trade's tax is split in this order:

1. **Clanker fee**: Clanker takes the larger of 10% of the tax and 0.5% of the trade, and at most 1% of the trade.
2. **Creator share**: the rest of the tax goes to the creator's side. The creator can send part of it to:
   * [Holder Dividends](/documentation/tokens/holder-dividends.md): paid to holders above a minimum balance.
   * [Token Burns](/documentation/tokens/token-burns.md): burned in the token itself.
   * **Integrator**: a share for an integrator address.
3. **Reward recipients**: whatever is not sent to dividends, burn or an integrator goes to the token's reward recipients, split by their reward percentages.

Dividends, burn and the integrator share are percentages of the creator share (the tax after the Clanker fee), and together they can be at most 100%.

Rewards and dividends are paid in the pair token: native ETH for an ETH pair, USDC for a USDC pair. The burn share is taken in the token itself.

### Sniper fee

If the creator turns on the sniper fee at launch (the form's **Sniper tax** toggle, on by default), trades in the first 20 seconds after launch pay a higher total fee. It starts at 99% and falls to the normal tax by the end of the 20 seconds. All of the sniper fee goes to Clanker. The creator's own launch buy does not pay it.

### Examples

How the Clanker fee changes with the tax on a 1 ETH buy:

| Tax | Tax paid | Clanker fee | Rule applied              | Creator share |
| --- | -------- | ----------- | ------------------------- | ------------- |
| 1%  | 0.01 ETH | 0.005 ETH   | 0.5% of trade (minimum)   | 0.005 ETH     |
| 5%  | 0.05 ETH | 0.005 ETH   | Both rules give 0.005 ETH | 0.045 ETH     |
| 8%  | 0.08 ETH | 0.008 ETH   | 10% of tax                | 0.072 ETH     |
| 10% | 0.10 ETH | 0.01 ETH    | 10% of tax, at the 1% cap | 0.09 ETH      |

Below a 5% tax, the 0.5% minimum applies, so Clanker's part of the tax is larger. From a 5% tax up, Clanker takes 10% of the tax.

How a whole tax is split: a token has a 5% sell tax and sends 50% of the creator share to holder dividends. Someone sells for 1,000 USDC.

| Step              | Amount    | Calculation                                    |
| ----------------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Tax paid          | 50 USDC   | 5% of 1,000 USDC                               |
| Clanker fee       | 5 USDC    | Larger of 10% of tax (5) and 0.5% of trade (5) |
| Creator share     | 45 USDC   | 50 − 5                                         |
| Holder dividends  | 22.5 USDC | 50% of 45                                      |
| Reward recipients | 22.5 USDC | The rest of the creator share                  |

### Claim rewards on clanker.world

v5 rewards collect in the FeeEscrow. It holds one balance per recipient and currency for all of that recipient's v5 tokens, and a claim pays the whole balance.

1. Open the token's Admin page: `https://www.clanker.world/clanker/TOKEN_CONTRACT_ADDRESS_HERE/admin`.
2. In the **Claim Rewards** card, connect the reward recipient's wallet and claim.

A past recipient, or an integrator, claims its balance from the **Tax Fees** card on its [clanker.world profile](https://www.clanker.world/profile).

### With the API

`GET /api/creator-earnings/{tokenAddress}` returns the unclaimed FeeEscrow balances of the token's current reward recipients. See [Creators](/documentation/api-reference/public/creators.md), and [Fees](/documentation/api-reference/public/fees.md) for a token's fee history.

## Clanker v4 and earlier

### How it works

Creators of older tokens earn rewards from trading volume. When a standard Clanker token is deployed, the supply not used by extensions goes into single-sided Uniswap LP positions (the initial LP). Each swap in that pool pays an LP fee to the initial LP. Creators earn nothing from LP positions or pools that other holders add later.

Claim creator rewards on the token's Admin page: `https://www.clanker.world/clanker/TOKEN_CONTRACT_ADDRESS_HERE/admin`. A claim always pays the reward recipient. Who can start it depends on the version:

* **v4**: rewards wait in the fee locker, and the token side and the pair side are claimed separately. On clanker.world the claim buttons show only to the reward recipient's wallet, unless that recipient turned on letting any wallet claim.
* **v2, v3 and v3.1**: anyone can start the claim, and the rewards always go to the reward recipient, not to the wallet that started it.
* **v1, and v0 tokens with their own locker**: only the token's creator can claim.

See the [FAQ](/documentation/resources/faq.md) for more on finding your tokens and claiming.

### Clanker fee

On v4 tokens, Clanker's fee is 20% of the creator's LP fee, charged on top of it:

Total swap fee = creator LP fee + (creator LP fee × 0.2)

| Creator LP fee | Clanker fee | Total swap fee |
| -------------- | ----------- | -------------- |
| 1%             | 0.2%        | 1.2%           |
| 2%             | 0.4%        | 2.4%           |
| 3%             | 0.6%        | 3.6%           |

On v3.1, Clanker takes 20% of the LP fee, and the creator and interface share the other 80% (see [LpLockerv2](/documentation/references/core-contracts/v3.1/lplockerv2.md)).

## Related

* [Unclaimed Rewards Balance](/documentation/tokens/unclaimed-rewards-balance.md) to check a balance.
* [Managing a Token](/documentation/tokens/managing-a-token.md) for the other Admin page tools.
* [v5 contracts](/documentation/references/core-contracts/v5.md) and [Deployed Contracts](/documentation/references/deployed-contracts.md) for contract details and addresses.
* [Token Deployments](/documentation/tokens/token-deployments.md) to deploy a v5 token.