Fee Structure
Base.meme operates on Base with following fee structures setup. Below is a summary of each fee, and its rate.
1. First Buy Fee
How it's charged: Collected as an extra fee from first buyer of the coin. Note: Create on Base.meme is completely free. First buy fee is charged on whoever first bought the created coin.
Base
0.0015 ETH
2. Trading Fee (Bonding Curve Phase)
Fee Rate: 2%
Creator
1%
Creator's Referrer
0.2%
Trade Referrer
0.2%
Base.meme
0.6%
3. Seeding Fee (Liquidity Pool Creation)
How it's charged: Deducted from the liquidity pool at the time of pool creation.
Base
0.15 ETH
Uniswap
V3 or V4 pool
4. LP Fee (After Graduation)
Fee Rate: Depends on when the coin was created: - For coins created on or after December 5, 2025 (Uniswap V4): 2% of each trade. - For coins created before December 5, 2025 (Uniswap V3): 1% of each trade. LP Token Handling: After liquidity is added, LP tokens are held by the token's bonding curve contract and cannot be withdrawn or transferred, ensuring permanent liquidity lock.
Uniswap V4 pools (coins created on or after December 5, 2025)
Creator
1%
Creator's Referrer
0.2%
Trade Referrer
0.2%
Base.meme
0.6%
Uniswap V3 pools (coins created before December 5, 2025)
Creator
0.5%
Creator's Referrer
0.1%
Base.meme
0.4%
Example Scenarios
These examples illustrate how fees are charged and distributed at different stages of a coin's lifecycle on Base.meme.
All examples use 1 unit trade amount for demonstration purposes
Token Creation
First Buy Fee
0.0015 ETH
To Base.meme
Bonding Curve
Trading Fee (2%)
0.02 ETH (for 1 ETH trade)
Creator: 0.01 ETH
Creator's referrer: 0.002 ETH
Trade referrer: 0.002 ETH
Base.meme: 0.006 ETH
Pool Creation
Seeding Fee
0.15 ETH
To Base.meme
After Graduation (Uniswap V4)
LP Fee (2%)
0.02 ETH
(for 1 ETH trade)
Creator: 0.01 ETH
Creator's referrer: 0.002 ETH
Trade referrer: 0.002 ETH
Base.meme: 0.006 ETH
After Graduation (Uniswap V3)
LP Fee (1%)
0.01 ETH
(for 1 ETH trade)
Creator: 0.005 ETH
Creator's referrer: 0.001 ETH
Base.meme: 0.004 ETH
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