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# Earnings

## 🤑 **Earnings for Creators**

Degen lets you launch a meme token in seconds with **zero upfront cost** and **real passive earnings** every time your token gets swapped.

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### 📬 **Mailbox Money: Earn on Every Trade**

Degen doesn’t just launch memes – it turns them into **revenue machines**.

Every swap made through the Degen frontend sends a slice of swap volume **directly to your wallet**.

✅ No claiming\
✅ No staking\
✅ No waiting

Just **automatic, passive income**.

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### 💰 **Swap Fee Breakdown (X1 + Solana via XDEX)**

* **Total Fee:** 0.28%
  * **0.23%** → Shared with LPs + protocol
  * **0.05%** → **Mailbox Money** *(paid directly to you, the token creator)*

⚠️ *Mailbox Money only applies to swaps made through the Degen frontend. Trades on external sites (Phantom, Jupiter, etc.) bypass royalty routing.*

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### 💸 **Mailbox Money Calculator**

| Swap Volume     | You Earn (0.025%) |
| --------------- | ----------------- |
| 1,000 SOL/XNT   | 0.5 SOL/XNT       |
| 10,000 SOL/XNT  | 5 SOL/XNT         |
| 100,000 SOL/XNT | 50 SOL/XNT        |

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### 💵 **One-Time Graduation Bonus**

When your token **graduates from the bonding curve** to XDEX’s main swap pool, a **1 SOL or 90 XNT fee** is deducted from liquidity and split:

* **0.5** SOL/ 45 XNT → To you, the token creator
* **0.5** SOL/ 45 XNT → To Degen

This is a **one-time reward** for successfully launching a meme that reaches critical mass.

⚠️ *Skull holders get the **entire 1 SOL /*** **90 XNT** *graduation bonus.*

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### ✅ **TL;DR**

📬 **Mailbox Money:** Earn every time your token is traded\
💵 **Graduation Bonus:** Get 0.5 SOL / 45 XNT when your token graduates\
🎯 **You win both ways – per-trade and milestone payouts**