Fees end-to-end

The whole cascade in one picture

Every trade on a coin's pool pays a flat 1%. Because trades flow in both directions, the fee accrues in both assets: the quote currency from buys, tokens from sells. Each side has its own destiny, and both are settled automatically at every harvest. (On ETH-quoted chains the quote side is ETH; on USD-native chains it is dollars.)

Where the fee is born: inside Uniswap V3

Diggers coins do not trade on a bonding curve or an in-house matching engine. Every coin is a real Uniswap V3 pool, with the quote currency on one side and the coin on the other. The launchpad creates and owns that pool at launch, which is what makes Diggers able to run a full market from the very first second of a coin's life.

At launch, the entire 1 billion supply is placed as a single liquidity position spanning from the launch price all the way up. The Diggers launchpad is the only liquidity provider that will ever exist for the pool, and its position can never be withdrawn: only the fees it earns can be collected. That is the technical meaning of "liquidity locked forever" on Diggers, and it is also why the fee machine below can exist at all.

Uniswap charges the fee on the asset going intothe pool. When someone buys, the quote currency goes in, so the fee is taken in the quote currency. When someone sells, tokens go in, so the fee is taken in tokens. V3 does not send that fee anywhere: it credits it to the liquidity position's internal fee-growth accounting, where it simply accumulates, trade after trade, in both currencies at once. The pool is the vault; the fees sit inside it until the launchpad collects.

The rate itself is stored in the pool as millionths (Uniswap's native unit): 1% is 10,000 millionths, and every Diggers coin uses exactly that tier. It is baked into the pool's identity at launch. There is no function anywhere in the system that can change a coin's fee: not the creator, not the team, not a governance vote.

One fee, two currencies

Because buys pay in ETH and sells pay in tokens, the pool is always holding two growing piles. They are handled by completely different rules, on purpose: the ETH side is income for people, the token side is fuel for the coin's own economy.

The ETH side: creators eat first

The ETH half is the income stream. 70% of it goes to the coin's creator reward table: up to 10 wallets with 1e18-precision shares, set at launch by the creator (a solo creator simply holds 100% of the table). At harvest the ETH is pushed to each wallet directly, in the same transaction. There is no claim page, no vesting cliff, no minimum payout to reach. If a push fails because a recipient is a broken contract, that share is credited to a claimable balance instead so one bad address can never block the other nine (see auto harvesting).

The remaining 30% is the platform team share. That is the whole ETH split: creator table and platform team, nothing else. There is no slice skimmed for the $GEM or $DIG airdrops, because the $GEM airdropis allocated by lifetime digging points, not by taxing trades. A creator can also choose to redirect part of their own 70% into their coin's buyback, turning some of their rewards into a standing burn.

The reward table itself has one owner: the coin's fee owner, which starts as the creator. The fee owner can re-arrange the table (new wallets, new shares, still up to 10 rows summing to 100%), hand the ownership to someone else, or renounce it to freeze the table forever. Coins created through quick launch renounce at birth, so their table is sealed from the first block. What the fee owner can never touch: the pool fee, anyone's already-accrued fees, or the token side.

The token side: burn and the pot

The token half never becomes anyone's income. At launch the creator chose a burn share, anywhere from 0% to 100%. At every harvest that fraction of the collected tokens is destroyed on the spot: sent out of existence, subtracted from total supply, gone. There is no mint function on any Diggers coin, so every burn is a one-way ratchet: supply only ever goes down. The burn share is the one dial that stays adjustable: the coin's burn owner (the creator, until renounced) can retune it for future harvests, and renouncing ownership freezes it forever. Past burns are past: no setting can ever un-burn a token.

Whatever is not burned is parked on the token contract itself as the Daily Contest Pot: the prize that the coin's top 10 traders by digging points split every 24 hours, paid in the coin itself. With the default 50/50 setting on a 1% coin, every trade effectively burns 0.5% and contributes 0.5% to tomorrow's prize.

This is why volume is life on Diggers. Every trade simultaneously pays creators, shrinks supply, and fattens tomorrow's prize. The fee is not a toll on the way out, it is the engine.

When do fees actually move?

Fees accrue inside the pool continuously but move in batches, at harvest time. Every trade routed through Diggers first checks the pool's pending fees: past 0.001 ETH or a single token, the harvest fires inside the same transaction and everyone is paid before the swap even settles. On an active coin that means creators earn essentially in real time.

Coins that do most of their volume on other apps (external routers, aggregators, bots) skip that automatic checkpoint, because the check lives in the Diggers trade path. Their fees still accrue safely in the pool; they just wait. Anyone can call harvest on any coin at any time, and the coin's fee recipients get a dedicated "Harvest fees" button on the coin page showing exactly how much ETH is waiting. One click, everyone paid.

Worked example: $100 through a coin

A trader buys $100 of a coin with the default 50% burn share. Every coin charges a flat 1%. Here is the entire journey of that one dollar of fee:

The token side mirrors it on sells: a $100 sell on the same coin skims $1.00 worth of tokens, burns $0.50 of them forever, and adds $0.50 to the Daily Contest Pot. Every trade you make also scores digging points toward the daily contest and your lifetime $GEM allocation, at no extra cost.

What nobody can do

The fee system has no admin keys worth stealing. For clarity, the complete list of things that are impossible, for everyone including the Diggers team:

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