atomic-fee-economics

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atomic-fee-economics

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Use when the user is reasoning about pump.fun creator-fee economics — when to collect, what threshold to use for the watch-collect loop, how to compare collect cost vs accrual rate, when to consolidate vs let fees accumulate, or whether a coin's fee stream is worth the operational cost. Triggers on "is it worth collecting", "what MIN_COLLECT_SOL should I use", "fees vs tip cost", "break-even point", "collect frequency", "fee curve", "creator fee economics", or "creator rewards math".

atomic-fee-economics — pump.fun creator-fee economics

A pump.fun coin's creator earns a percentage of every buy + sell into the coinCreatorVault PDA. Collecting those fees costs SOL (Jito tip + tx fee + the operational overhead of running a watcher). This skill helps the operator make the cost/benefit call: how often to collect, what threshold to set, when to stop bothering.

The core trade-off

Every collect cycle costs roughly:

Cost component	Typical value
Jito tip	0.001–0.01 SOL (median ~0.005)
Tx fee + priority	~0.00001 SOL (negligible)
Destination ATA rent (only first time per token)	~0.002 SOL one-time
Operator attention / watcher uptime	Variable; if running watch-collect, ~$0 marginal

Round to ~0.005 SOL per collect cycle as a working estimate. That's your break-even per cycle.

If MIN_COLLECT_SOL is set too low, you collect frequently but burn most of the proceeds on tips. If set too high, fees accumulate slowly but each collection is net-positive — and the SOL sitting in the vault is at risk if the creator key is leaked.

Picking MIN_COLLECT_SOL

For atomic-watch: