Fees
Bonding-curve trades cost a flat 1.25% (0.95% protocol + 0.30% creator). After graduation, fees follow a dynamic 17-tier schedule that drops as AVAX reserves grow, rewarding deeper liquidity with lower costs.
SnowForge charges trading fees that are split between the protocol, token creator, and liquidity providers. Fees decrease as liquidity grows.
Bonding Curve Fees
During the bonding curve phase, every buy and sell is charged a 0.95% protocol fee plus a fixed 0.30% creator fee. Total cost: 1.25% per trade, identical for every token launched on SnowForge.
The 0.30% creator fee is routed to a creator-selected destination (see Custom Fee Destinations below). When a creator picks Add Liquidity, that 0.30% effectively acts as an LP boost — the fee stays in the pool's reserves. For every other destination there is no separate LP fee during the bonding curve phase, since liquidity is managed by the curve itself.
Buy & Burn (Launch)
The creation fee (currently 0.25 AVAX) is not paid to the protocol — it is used inside the create transaction to buy and burn tokens from the new pool. Protocol revenue on this swap still comes from the standard bonding-curve fee.
Creators can raise the burn amount above the minimum, up to 50% of the graduation target, to launch with stronger deflation. A larger burn means fewer tokens in circulation and a higher starting price for the dev buy that runs immediately after.
Custom Fee Destinations
Creators choose where their custom fee flows during token creation. Available destinations:
- Creator — fees route directly to the creator wallet. Simplest model, creator keeps 100% of the custom fee. Paid out in AVAX pre-grad, WAVAX post-grad.
- Diamond Cut — fees flow into a per-pool staking vault. Holders stake the launch token with a lock duration (0 / 30 / 90 / 365 days, multipliers 1× / 2× / 3× / 4×) and accrue WAVAX rewards weighted by
amount × multiplier. Creators stake on the same terms as anyone else — no special treatment. - Buyback & Burn — every trade triggers an internal buyback using its own fee via the pool's curve math (pre-grad) or AMM math (post-grad). Tokens are sent to 0xdead. No bots, no external swap, no waiting for a threshold: fees & burn on the same tx. Dust too small to mint a whole token rolls forward to the next trade.
- Add Liquidity — fees are retained inside the pool's reserves. Pre-grad the fee AVAX pads
reserveQuote(deeper backing, bigger initial LP at graduation). Post-grad the fee WAVAX stays in the SnowPair's balance and is folded intoreserve1, permanently growing the value of the LP tokens that were burned at migration. No payout ever — the pool just keeps getting deeper. - No Custom Fees — traders pay only the baseline protocol fee.
Destination type is chosen at pool creation and cannot be changed afterwards. Fees are carried across graduation — the same mechanism keeps running on the SnowPair after migration.
Graduated (SnowDex) Fees
Once a token graduates to SnowDex, fees are determined by a dynamic 17-tier schedule. As the pair's AVAX reserve grows, the protocol slice and the destination slice both decrease, rewarding deeper liquidity with lower costs. Between tiers, fees are linearly interpolated, so there are no abrupt jumps.
The Destination column below is the part that flows to the creator-selected fee destination (Creator, Diamond Cut, Buyback & Burn, or Add Liquidity). The underlying rate is the same regardless of which destination the creator picked — only where it ends up differs.
| Tier | AVAX Reserve | Protocol | Destination | LP | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0.25% | 0.80% | 0.20% | 1.25% |
| 2 | 500 | 0.25% | 0.75% | 0.20% | 1.20% |
| 3 | 750 | 0.25% | 0.70% | 0.20% | 1.15% |
| 4 | 1,000 | 0.25% | 0.60% | 0.20% | 1.05% |
| 5 | 1,500 | 0.20% | 0.55% | 0.20% | 0.95% |
| 6 | 2,000 | 0.20% | 0.50% | 0.20% | 0.90% |
| 7 | 3,000 | 0.20% | 0.45% | 0.20% | 0.85% |
| 8 | 4,500 | 0.20% | 0.40% | 0.20% | 0.80% |
| 9 | 6,500 | 0.20% | 0.35% | 0.20% | 0.75% |
| 10 | 9,000 | 0.15% | 0.30% | 0.20% | 0.65% |
| 11 | 12,000 | 0.15% | 0.25% | 0.20% | 0.60% |
| 12 | 16,000 | 0.15% | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.55% |
| 13 | 21,000 | 0.15% | 0.15% | 0.20% | 0.50% |
| 14 | 27,000 | 0.10% | 0.15% | 0.20% | 0.45% |
| 15 | 34,000 | 0.10% | 0.10% | 0.20% | 0.40% |
| 16 | 42,000 | 0.10% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.35% |
| 17 | 50,000+ | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.30% |
Limit Order Fees
Both buy and sell limit orders charge two small AVAX fees:
- Deposit fee — a flat AVAX amount paid when you create the order (currently 0.001 AVAX). This covers the cost of on-chain escrow storage and is non-refundable.
- Execution fee — a percentage of AVAX at execution time (currently 0.5%). For buy limits this is deducted from the escrowed AVAX before the buy. For sell limits this is deducted from the AVAX proceeds after the sell. Only the actual gas cost is paid to the executor—any surplus becomes protocol revenue.
Buy limit example: deposit 1 AVAX → 0.001 deposit fee → 0.999 stored → 0.5% execution fee (0.004995) → 0.994005 used for the buy.
Sell limit example: deposit tokens + 0.001 AVAX → tokens escrowed, deposit fee kept → sell produces 1 AVAX → 0.5% execution fee (0.005) → 0.995 sent to your wallet.
TWAP Order Fees
TWAP orders use the same fee structure as limit orders. Each order charges two small AVAX fees:
- Deposit fee — a flat AVAX amount paid when you create the order (currently 0.001 AVAX). Non-refundable.
- Execution fee — 0.5% deducted from each slice. For buy orders, this is deducted from the escrowed AVAX before each buy. For sell orders, this is deducted from the AVAX proceeds of each sell.
Standard bonding curve or SnowDex trading fees also apply on every slice, just as they would for a regular trade. See the TWAP Orders page for more details.
Creator Earnings
During the bonding curve phase, creators who pick the Creator destination earn the fixed 0.30% creator fee on every trade, paid out immediately in AVAX. Choosing a different destination (Diamond Cut, Buyback & Burn, Add Liquidity) routes the same 0.30% elsewhere — the rate is the same across every token, only the destination differs.
After graduation to SnowDex, creator fees follow the dynamic tier schedule above — highest at early liquidity levels (up to 0.80%), bottoming out at 0.05% at deep liquidity. This incentivizes creators to promote their token early.
LP Fees
After graduation, every swap includes a constant 0.20% LP fee. This fee stays in the pair's reserves rather than being extracted, so it directly grows the liquidity pool and benefits all LP holders proportionally.