Fees

Every fee on Salvo is charged in USDC and shown in dollars. This page lists all of them.

Creation fee

Launching a token costs $1.50, paid by the creator in the launch transaction, going to the team. Each member of a pair or trio pays its own $1.50.

Trading fee

While a token trades on its curve, every buy and every sell pays a fee on the USDC side: 1.30% for a single, 1.50% for a pair, 1.70% for a trio. The fee is a fixed 1.10% base plus 0.20% for each token launched together.

The 1.10% base splits four ways:

The 0.20% per token is the salvo burn: it buys and burns the launched tokens themselves, split equally across every member, the traded token included. A single burns itself, a pair burns each of its two tokens, a trio each of its three.

The creator's choice. At launch the creator can slide their 0.35% down, to zero if they want. Whatever they give up is added to their own token's burn, from the 0.20% floor up to 0.55%. Set once, immutable, shown on the token page as neutral data.

Referrals. A trade that arrives through a referral link pays the referrer 0.25%. With no referrer the trader pays the same total; that 0.25% burns $SALVO instead. Passing your own address counts as no referrer, so every trade costs the same whether or not the caller knows the trick.

The Safety Pool. 0.10% of every trade accrues on-chain. Payouts come later, by a published policy, only for provable exploits of Salvo's own contracts, never market losses. It is not insurance.

Graduation

Graduation is free. No fee is taken when a curve sells out and moves to a pool.

After graduation

The fee does not change. A graduated token trades in a Uniswap v4 pool that runs the Salvo hook, one immutable contract shared by every Salvo pool, which takes the same 1.30%, 1.50% or 1.70% on the USDC side and routes it exactly as the curve did: the 1.10% base to the same four destinations, the 0.20% per member to the salvo burn. The pool's own LP fee is zero and the locked liquidity earns nothing on its own. Burns and payouts continue for the life of the token.

Pair with

A salvo's extra members do not have to be tokens you launch. They can be outside assets: bitcoin on Arc, EURC, a tokenized stock, another creator's graduated Salvo token, or $SALVO. The fee is the same 0.20% per member and the trader pays the same 1.50% or 1.70%. What differs is where that slice goes. A sibling or $SALVO is bought and burned. Any other outside asset is bought and paid to your token's holders, in proportion to what they hold, to claim whenever they like. The token itself always burns its own 0.20%.

Buys and sells

Every fee on this page is charged on both directions, always in USDC. On a buy it comes out of the USDC you spend; on a sell, out of the USDC you receive. Tokens are never taken as a fee, so every burn and every payout is USDC buying something.

The opening minute: snipe tax

Buys pay a 100% snipe tax for about the first 3 seconds, falling to zero over about 60 seconds (Full) or 30 seconds (Light); the creator picks one at launch. Sells are never taxed. While the window is open, the buy panel shows the live rate and a block countdown.