How tiptok works

1Overview

pump.fun charges a creator fee on every trade and pays it to the coin's on-chain creator. tiptok sets that creator to a wallet reserved for the TikTok handle you choose. That is the entire trick: the fee is native to pump.fun, the recipient is the creator, and nothing is routed through a contract of ours.

Everything after that is mechanical. Fees accrue as the coin trades, an hourly job collects them and credits the handle in dollars, and once the balance clears $1.00 it becomes one queued Video Gift. Every step prints a paper receipt, and every $20.00 of lifetime fees prints another.

1. 1

   Someone launches a coin for @handle

   Name, ticker, image, and the TikTok handle. The launcher pays pump.fun’s normal costs.

2. 2

   Fees routed on pump.fun’s own rails

   In the same wallet approval you sign pump.fun’s fee-sharing config for the coin, with one shareholder at 100%: the tiptok fee wallet 22s9XTnCPyMbzAMqeDhhtQ89smuhXNJW4Uv2zdqxCqtd. It lands before any trade, is locked, and pump.fun shows it on the coin.

3. 3

   Fees accrue on-chain

   100% of the creator fee from every buy and sell flows to that account.

4. 4

   The hourly sweep credits dollars

   The SOL is moved to the treasury, the rate is frozen, the handle’s balance grows.

5. 5

   A Video Gift is sent

   Coins on one of the creator’s videos; they land as Diamonds and cash out like LIVE gifts.

2Launching a coin

You enter a TikTok @handle plus the usual coin fields and an optional first buy. The server tags the coin with that handle, pins the metadata, and builds a pump.fun create_v2 transaction plus a fee-sharing config that pays 100% to the tiptok fee wallet 22s9…Cqtd. Your wallet approves both at once; the server sends the split before any buy.

The creator is part of the instruction data, not just the account list, and the program copies it onto the bonding curve. After the coin page loads we read the curve back and show “fee redirect verified” only when the stored creator matches that account. Coins launched before the switch name the handle's own reserved wallet instead and verify against that.

3Where the fees go

pump.fun accrues creator fees into a program-owned vault keyed by the creator address. Before graduation the pump program collects; after graduation the pump-amm program pays into its coin-creator vault. Both are read together, so a coin keeps paying its creator across the graduation.

4The hourly sweep

Fees do not arrive continuously in dollars; they sit in the vault as SOL. At the top of every hour a job collects each handle's vault and moves the whole balance to the treasury in one transaction. The fee wallet signs the collect, the treasury co-signs and pays the network fee, so a vault never needs its own SOL for gas.

The SOL/USD rate at that moment is frozen onto a receipt and the dollar value is credited to the handle. Vaults under 0.001 SOL are left to grow rather than spent on transaction fees. A sweep can fail; a failed sweep credits nothing and is retried next hour, and the fees stay in the vault meanwhile.

5Getting paid in TikTok

Creators never log in and never hold a wallet. Money reaches them as TikTok Video Gifts, landing in the same balance their LIVE gifts do. When a handle's balance clears $1.00, the whole balance becomes one queued gift: dollars ÷ $0.0106 per Coin, floored to whole Coins.

1. 1

   Queue

   Balance ≥ $1.00 → one gift row, frozen at today’s Coin price.

2. 2

   Send

   tiptok sends the Video Gift on one of the creator’s videos.

3. 3

   Confirm

   The gift is marked sent with the video link, which prints on the receipt.

4. 4

   Cash out

   Coins land as Diamonds. The creator withdraws to PayPal or a bank from TikTok’s balance screen.

6TikTok's cut

A Coin costs $0.0106; TikTok pays creators $0.005 per Diamond, and one Coin gifted becomes one Diamond. So roughly half of every gift stays with TikTok. That is TikTok's cut, not ours, and it is printed on every receipt, profile and queue entry rather than folded into a “net” number.

7Receipts and milestones

Every money event prints a paper receipt with a number, a barcode and the frozen rate: one per sweep, one per gift, and one every $20.00 of lifetime creator fees. Milestone receipts are how a creator's coins keep showing progress between gifts, and each step is printed exactly once no matter how often the page is viewed.

8Custody and keys

Reserved fee wallets are created and signed through Privy's server wallets. Their private keys never touch our servers or database; we store the wallet address and a Privy wallet id mapped to the handle. The only transaction a fee wallet ever signs is the hourly sweep to the treasury.

9Held gifts and eligibility

Eligibility is TikTok's: Personal account, 18+, 10,000+ followers, in a supported region, with Video Gifts turned on in Creator Tools. If TikTok will not accept a gift, it is marked held with the reason, the dollars stay in the creator's balance, and it is re-queued the day they turn Video Gifts on.

Handles are matched case-insensitively. If a creator renames their TikTok account, the fees stay with the handle the coins were launched to; the handle a coin is tagged for cannot follow a rename.

10FAQ

Does the creator need to do anything before I launch?

No. The wallet is reserved automatically and fees accrue from the first trade. To receive a gift they need Video Gifts turned on in TikTok; until then the balance is held for them.

Can I launch a coin for a handle that already has coins?

Yes. All coins tipping the same handle pay into the same wallet and the same balance.

What if I typo the handle?

The creator is permanent on-chain. Check the live preview before signing; the handle you see there is the one that gets paid.

Why is the coin page’s “Paid” bigger than the gifts sent?

Because fees are the creator’s the moment they are generated. Paid counts everything generated; gifts show what has already been converted and sent.

Is this affiliated with TikTok or pump.fun?

No. TikTok is only the rail the gifts travel on; pump.fun is the launchpad and market.

11Glossary