Reward tokens

Most tokens earn their creator a fee. A reward token instead earns its holders: a percentage of activity is collected and handed back to everyone holding the token, pro-rata. It is the “reflection” / “tax token” pattern, built honestly - but the mechanism that collects the tax is not the same on every chain, and that changes what the feature can truthfully promise.

A Solana reward token is minted with Token-2022, the newer SPL token program, carrying a 3% transfer fee that is immutable - the rate authority is set to null at mint, so nobody, ever, can change or remove it. Because the fee lives in the token program and not in a pool, it applies to every single transfer:

• a buy or sell on the token’s Raydium pool,
• a swap on any other venue that lists it (Orca, Jupiter routing, a new pool),
• a plain wallet-to-wallet send.

There is no way to route around it, because there is no “around” - the tax is a property of the token, not of a particular market. That is the whole appeal of the Solana version, and it is genuinely not reproducible on an ERC-20.

Program

Token-2022

Transfer fee

3.00% (300 bps)

Rate authority

null (immutable)

Applies to

every transfer

Pool

Raydium CLMM

Supply

~970M

A reward token is a custom-pair launch: it opens directly into a Raydium CLMM pool at market, with no bonding curve. It has to be - a Meteora curve creates its own base mint and leaves no place to attach a transfer fee, so the reward model and the curve are mutually exclusive by construction, not by choice. (Supply is ~970M rather than the usual ~1B because the pool has to gross up its own deposit against a mint that taxes it.)

This is the honest part most “reflection” tokens gloss over. Collecting the 3% is automatic and trustless - the token program withholds it on every transfer, no keeper required. Getting it to holders is a separate, active process:

• the withheld fee accrues in the launch token itself, wallet by wallet;
• a platform keeper periodically harvests it, swaps it into the token’s reward asset (its LP pair - SOL, or a pair you elected), and distributes that to holders.

On Robinhood Chain, BSC, Base and Arc a token is a plain ERC-20 opened directly into a single-sided hooked pool (Uniswap V4; on BSC also PancakeSwap Infinity). An ERC-20 has no transfer hook the platform can trust to tax arbitrary sends - a fee-on-transfer token that tried would break composability and get de-listed. So on EVM, “rewarding holders” can only draw from the one place the platform does control: the token’s own official pool. A trade on some other DEX, or a plain wallet-to-wallet send, contributes nothing - the platform never sees it. That is the real, permanent difference from Solana, and this page will not blur it.

Within that limit the live model pays every holder, with no staking. Pick the reward fee model at launch and your entire creator fee slice - a fixed 3% of every buy and sell on the official pool - is routed to holders pro-rata by the token balance they simply hold. A platform keeper settles it every ~15 min, skipping a cycle whose pot hasn’t cleared a dust floor so a payout’s cost is never a meaningful fraction of what it moves. Holder shares are read on-chain from live balances, so the keeper cannot inflate a share or divert a payout to itself.

Holders are paid the launch token itself unless the creator elects one of these. Every conversion runs in the keeper’s ~15-minute cycle through the named DEX; a pair-quoted launch pays its quote asset directly instead, without any conversion. The gas coin is a payout option only where the reward stack pays it natively (ETH on Robinhood, USDC on Arc); on Base and BSC it is not.

• A reward token cannot expand cross-chain. Ever. Its 3% is enforced by its Solana mint; a bridged copy on another chain would be a plain token paying no tax, so expansion would quietly route volume to a venue where holders earn nothing - and neither bridge shape even survives the mint. See Cross-chain expansion. If you elect expansion, the reward model is removed from the form, not merely disabled.
• The 3% is permanent. Set at mint, rate authority null. You cannot lower it later to court traders, and you cannot raise it to squeeze them. Buyers can verify this on-chain.
• The tax hits every send, including yours. Moving reward tokens between your own wallets pays 3% too. There is no allowlist.

Live - Solana reward tokens are live on mainnet. The Token-2022 mint, the grossed-up direct-to-pool launch, reward-aware pool registration and the payout keeper run in production. The authority that withdraws the withheld fee is the fee-router program’s PDA - non-custodial, chosen once at mint time, immutably - and the full loop including that PDA withdraw has been proven on mainnet. The client signed off the fee wording and the payout cadence on 2026-08-22: payouts every 15 minutes, gated by a dust floor, with the disclosure quoted above.

The EVM holder-reward model is Live on Robinhood Chain, Arc, Base and BNB Smart Chain (on BSC on both the PancakeSwap Infinity and the Uniswap V4 venue, each proven with a real holder-reward launch on 2026-09-19) - native launches (elect a payout asset from the chain’s shelf, or compound in the launch token) and, on Robinhood and Base, currency / stock pair launches paid in the pair directly, including Robinhood’s 157 fx currency pairs. The keeper runs the ~15-minute cycle in production on every chain, paying its gas in that chain’s native coin, and the holders / creator split is set at launch. The one piece still rolling out is electing an fx currency as the payout for a native Robinhood launch, which needs a keeper conversion route through USDG. Not available on Ronin (coming soon) at all.