FAQ
Short answers, no jargon. Every one of them links to the page with the full detail if you want it.
Getting paid for a coin you launched
Section titled “Getting paid for a coin you launched”I launched a coin. How do I claim my fees?
Section titled “I launched a coin. How do I claim my fees?”On Merry Men, you don’t. There is nothing to claim and no button to press.
Every trade in your coin pays a fee and the biggest share of it is yours. Merry Men sweeps those fees out to you automatically. The money arrives in the wallet that launched the coin, and it keeps arriving for as long as anybody trades; there is no deadline, no expiry, and nothing to sign.
(One exception for now: coins on Stable and Arc need a single manual nudge, which anyone can give them, see below.)
How much do I actually get?
Section titled “How much do I actually get?”0.15% of every trade’s volume, buys and sells. The house takes 0.10%, and that is the whole split: someone trades 1 ETH of your coin, you earn 0.0015 ETH, every time, forever. The burned part of early sells goes to nobody: it destroys supply of your own coin.
It arrives in whatever people are trading with: ETH on Robinhood Chain, USDT0 on Stable, USDC on Arc. (Coins launched under earlier generations keep their launch-day deal instead, 0.90% of volume on a 1% fee; see Earlier generations.)
When does the first payout land?
Section titled “When does the first payout land?”Once about 0.0002 ETH of fees have built up on your coin. Under that, the gas to move the money would cost more than the money, so it waits and pays out later. Nothing is lost while it waits; unclaimed fees just sit and accumulate until the next sweep.
My coin is on Stable or Arc. Nothing has arrived.
Section titled “My coin is on Stable or Arc. Nothing has arrived.”The automatic sweep runs on Robinhood Chain today, so on those two the payout has to be triggered by hand. Anyone can do it with a single transaction, and it always pays you regardless of who sends it; the sender just covers the gas.
Ask us and we will run it, or do it yourself:
cast send <locker> "claimFees(uint256)" <positionId> --rpc-url <rpc> --private-key <any wallet>Your coin’s positionId comes from https://api.merrymen.wtf/coins/<address>,
and the locker addresses are on the
contract addresses page.
Can you change the split later, or take a bigger cut?
Section titled “Can you change the split later, or take a bigger cut?”No. Not for you, not against you.
Your coin’s fee numbers are written into the contracts it launched with, at the moment it is created. Those contracts have no owner and no setter, so there is no lever for anybody to pull, including us. A coin keeps the deal it launched with, forever. (That is also why coins from different generations have different numbers, see above.)
Can somebody else take my fees?
Section titled “Can somebody else take my fees?”No. Anyone is allowed to trigger a payout (that is deliberate, it is how the bot works), but the contract can only ever send the money to the recorded creator. Triggering it costs the sender gas and earns them nothing.
Can I hand my fees to someone else, or sell them?
Section titled “Can I hand my fees to someone else, or sell them?”Yes, both.
- Hand over: a two-step transfer where you nominate a new creator and they accept. Nothing moves until they do, so a typo cannot burn your income.
- Sell: the fee-stream market lets you sell the future income for ETH, escrow-free.
See Community takeovers.
Where can I see what I have been paid?
Section titled “Where can I see what I have been paid?”The fees page on merrymen.wtf lists what creators have been paid and every recent payout, and each one links to the transaction on the explorer.
Launching
Section titled “Launching”Why do I need an X account to launch?
Section titled “Why do I need an X account to launch?”On the current generation the launch contract refuses to mint without a signed proof that your X account controls the launching wallet. That is the product: every coin on the board traces to a real X identity, recorded on-chain at launch. Linking takes one tap and Merry Men never posts as you. There is no unverified way to launch.
Why is the sell fee so high at the start?
Section titled “Why is the sell fee so high at the start?”It’s the anti-dump curve. Sells start at 5% (or 2% / 10%, you pick at launch) and ease down to a permanent 1% over roughly an hour. Everything above the small 0.25% quote leg is burned: paid to nobody, destroyed supply of the coin itself. Sniping the launch and dumping ten minutes later is expensive; buying and holding costs 0.25%. See Fees.
What are launch gates?
Section titled “What are launch gates?”An optional choice at launch for how the first minutes trade: Open (block one, anyone), Game (frozen while players compete in a tap-trading round for capped priority buys), or Verified only (a 10 to 60 minute window where every trade needs a verified X account). Every gate ends in normal open trading, permanently; an on-chain ceiling guarantees no coin stays gated. See the overview.
Can I buy my own coin at launch?
Section titled “Can I buy my own coin at launch?”Yes, openly. You can bundle a first buy inside the launch transaction; nothing can trade before it fills, so you can’t be sniped buying your own coin. It is capped at 5% of supply, pays the pool at the opening price like any other buy, and is publicly labeled as the creator’s first buy. It is not a free allocation.
The coin itself
Section titled “The coin itself”Can I pull the liquidity?
Section titled “Can I pull the liquidity?”No, and neither can we. The liquidity position is locked permanently at launch; that is the whole point of the design, and it is why there is no migration step to get rugged in. See Launch mechanism.
Do I have to do anything to keep earning?
Section titled “Do I have to do anything to keep earning?”No. There is no staking, no re-upping, no position to manage. The pool trades, the fee accrues, the sweeper pays you.
Do I keep any of the tokens?
Section titled “Do I keep any of the tokens?”Only what you buy like anyone else. The full supply goes into the locked pool at launch: no team allocation, no reserve, no vesting contract. Your bundled first buy is exactly that: a buy, at the market’s opening price, capped and labeled.
Someone says my coin is a rug. Can it be?
Section titled “Someone says my coin is a rug. Can it be?”Not by the mechanisms people usually mean. The token has no owner, no mint, no pause, no blacklist and no tax, and the liquidity cannot be withdrawn. What is absolutely still possible: the price going to zero because nobody wants it, or a large early holder selling. Read Risk disclosures before you tell anyone it is safe.