Buybacks and burns
Buybacks let a creator use part of their fee earnings to purchase and burn their own launch's meme token. They are optional, off by default and funded only from the creator's share.
A buyback is not a dividend, a basket redemption, a guaranteed price-support mechanism or a promise that supply reduction increases the token's value.
Funding comes first
The creator chooses an allocation between 0% and 100% of future creator fee accrual. Since creators receive 70% of official-pool fees, a 100% allocation commits that entire creator share, not the platform's 30%.
Already-committed funds cannot become claimable by turning the setting down or off. Future changes affect future accrual only. Changing fee recipients also leaves existing commitments intact.
Basket backing, holder balances and locked liquidity principal are unavailable to the programme. The executor has no authority to redirect those assets or burn tokens from a holder's wallet or the pool.
Two burn paths
| Committed currency | Intended behavior |
|---|---|
| The launch's quote asset | After opening tax ends, buy the same meme through its approved pool and burn the purchase atomically |
| The launch's meme token | Burn those earmarked fee tokens directly; report separately from market purchases |
| Unsupported currency | Keep it accounted for until an approved bounded conversion exists |
A market purchase must be followed by an actual reduction in totalSupply in the same transaction. Sending purchased tokens to an address labeled “burn” without reducing supply does not satisfy this rule. If the burn fails, the purchase reverts.
Why execution may wait
Price/history, slippage, maximum size, interval and minimum-balance guards can defer a batch. Applicable ordinary fees and any active first-30-second buy caps still apply. Ending the opening tax does not necessarily end the separate recipient-cap window.
A failed execution preserves the committed balance. A permissionless execute action uses the same bounds; being permissionless does not mean a caller chooses an arbitrary recipient, pool or spend amount.
Resulting trading fees accrue normally for a later batch. They do not trigger recursive buying within the same execution. The platform pays keeper gas rather than secretly deducting it from committed token balances.
What to inspect
Creator tools should show allocation, committed amounts per currency, claimable remainder, execution limits or defer reason, transactions and cumulative burns. Distinguish purchased-and-burned tokens from directly burned fee tokens.
Keep original issuance, current supply and total burns separate. Discovery must exclude known programme buybacks from volume ranking while labeling their activity elsewhere. A high transaction count from automated buybacks should not masquerade as organic community demand.
No amount or timing of buybacks is guaranteed. Low fee accrual, illiquidity, a guard or a transfer failure can prevent execution. The complete executor, fee and burn integration remains subject to validation.