Fee Structure

HookPad's launch factory takes no fee at all: launching costs 0 ETH beyond gas, and there is no protocol share of ordinary buy or sell tax. What creators earn is entirely theirs, enforced at the contract level rather than promised off chain.

Trading tax: creator-first, with two treasury carve-outs

You set a base tax between 1% and 10% when you launch. The hook dynamically cycles that rate against fixed tiers on every trade. Almost all of that tax is yours: on the buy side, every tier goes to the creator. On the sell side, two tiers in the cycle (7% and 5%) route to the protocol treasury instead of the creator; every other sell tier is yours. Your accrued tax builds up in ETH and is claimable at any time from your token's tax page.

Anti-snipe tax: a deterrent, not revenue

The first line of defense is a flat 60% tax charged on non-whitelisted buys during the first 5 seconds after launch. That tax goes entirely to the protocol treasury rather than the creator, but it exists to blunt sniping bots, not to generate ongoing revenue. It only applies in that short window and only to wallets you didn't whitelist.

Post-snipe cooldown: 30% to the creator

Once the anti-snipe window closes, the first 5 sells are taxed a flat 30%, an extra deterrent against immediate dumping. Unlike the anti-snipe tax, this cooldown tax goes entirely to the creator, not the treasury. The 6th sell onward drops into the normal sell cycle above.

Liquidity: burned, not shared

100% of every launch's liquidity position is minted straight to a dead address at creation. Neither the protocol nor the creator holds back any share of it. There's nothing to migrate, unlock, or rug: the pool is permanent from the first block.

On chain enforcement

All of this is enforced at the contract level: the hook contract computes and routes every tax split itself, so you can verify the numbers on chain rather than relying on an off chain promise.