Protocol fees

Whale.fun charges two protocol fees. Both are defined on-chain in a single PlatformConfig contract and can be verified by anyone at any time: • Creation fee — a small, network-set fee charged once when a token is launched, covering the on-chain cost of deployment. • Mint fee — 1% on top of the unit price. These protocol fees fund the maintenance and continued development of the platform: infrastructure, security audits, the vault template system, the FAC safety certification, and ecosystem growth. Every rate lives in one on-chain configuration contract, and any adjustment emits an on-chain event.

Holder-distribution growth: each trade seeds a minimal amount of the token to a few fresh addresses, naturally broadening the on-chain holder distribution. These addresses are excluded from the dividend register, so the mechanism never affects dividend efficiency.