Fees
Hoodl’s fee model is simple: a 1% fee on every trade — no token taxes, no migration fee, no hidden skims. That single 1% is what funds both the protocol and the creator split.
The 1% trade fee
Section titled “The 1% trade fee”Every buy and sell pays the Uniswap V3 pool’s 1% fee (100 basis points). Because Hoodl launches tokens at Uniswap’s 1% fee tier, the pool fee is the protocol fee — there’s no custom fee math layered on top. That 1% is split:
| Slice | Share of the fee | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol | 30% (30 bps) | The Hoodl treasury |
| Creator pool | 70% (70 bps) | Up to two recipients you choose |
The 70% creator pool is the social part — split across up to two recipients, each an X handle or wallet, with basis points summing to 100% of the pool. Unlinked handles accrue to a claimable escrow.
The 0.5% swap fee
Section titled “The 0.5% swap fee”Trades made through the Hoodl Swap surface pay a separate 0.5% fee to the Hoodl treasury. It’s taken from the swap output, on top of whatever the underlying pool charges, and is how the app itself is funded — the 1% pool fee above funds the creator split; this funds the product.
- It applies to any swap routed through the Swap surface, including swaps of imported tokens.
- The quote you see is already net of the fee, and it’s shown as a line item before you confirm.
- It’s collected on-chain by Uniswap’s UniversalRouter (a
PAY_PORTIONon the output) — nothing is skimmed on transfer, and moving a token wallet-to-wallet is unaffected.
Paid in the quote asset
Section titled “Paid in the quote asset”Fees accrue in both sides of the pool (the token and the quote asset). Before paying recipients, Hoodl swaps the token side into the quote asset (ETH or USDG), so you’re paid in something liquid rather than in the memecoin itself. That swap is bounded by a price oracle (a time-weighted average price) so it can’t be executed at a manipulated price.
Creation fee
Section titled “Creation fee”Launching a token carries a small anti-spam creation fee, paid to the treasury — friction to deter junk launches, not a revenue engine. The amount depends on your quote asset:
| Quote asset | Creation fee |
|---|---|
| USDG | 1 USDG |
| ETH | 0.0005 ETH (≈ $1) |
It’s a fixed amount that the protocol owner can adjust. You can optionally add a dev-buy (buying the first slice of your own supply) in the same transaction — that’s a normal trade, not a fee.
Why the fee is flat
Section titled “Why the fee is flat”The 1% is flat and fixed at launch. A Uniswap V3 pool’s fee tier is immutable once the pool is created, so a token can’t have a fee that declines with market cap the way a bonding-curve launchpad might. Hoodl chose the proven flat-fee model over a curve; only the split of the fee is configurable (via your recipients), never the total.
What there isn’t
Section titled “What there isn’t”- No token transfer tax — Hoodl tokens are plain ERC-20s. The 0.5% swap fee is charged by the Swap surface at trade time, not by the token, so transfers and third-party venues are unaffected.
- No migration/graduation fee — there is no migration.
- No hidden skims — beyond the pool’s 1% and the disclosed 0.5% swap fee (both shown before you confirm), Hoodl adds nothing. Trading a Hoodl token on another venue pays only that venue’s costs.