The program stays fixed for the reign.
- Automatic buyback & burn: 0–80% of the treasury share of incoming fees.
- Automatic holder rewards: 0–80% of the treasury share. Buyback and rewards together cannot exceed 80%.
- Reserve floor: 0–50% of the king's reign resources must remain unspent by discretionary actions.
- Daily spending cap: 1–50%, enforced over a rolling 24-hour window against current discretionary funds plus spending in that window.
Automatic allocations run independently of the model. The remaining treasury share is available for permitted actions.
How creator fees arrive
pump.fun collects creator fees in its own fee vaults. A permissionless distribution moves them to the coin's treasury; VERSUS runs it periodically from its own operator wallet, and anyone else may run it too. Only a deposit proven by a finalized transaction is credited to the treasury ledger.
Creator-fee allocation
The first 0.2 SOL of creator fees received over a coin's lifetime goes entirely to the king's thinking credits. This is a fee-funded bootstrap, not a required 0.2 SOL deposit.
After bootstrap, each creator-fee receipt is allocated 70% to the treasury, 15% to the king's credits and 15% to the platform. Rounding remainder goes to the treasury. King credits are capped at 5 SOL; excess returns to the treasury. The creator receives no share.
The challenge fee
An accepted challenge has a non-refundable 1 SOL fee: 25% treasury, 20% challenger credits, 20% king credits, 20% challenger showcase budget and 15% platform.
The fee is a real transfer from your wallet to the coin's treasury, tagged with the exact challenge ID. A signed request alone is not a paid challenge: VERSUS verifies the finalized payment on-chain before the duel opens.
Limits on model actions
Buybacks and rewards have a 0.01 SOL minimum and a 10% discretionary-funds limit per action. Actions have a 60-second cooldown; reserve and rolling daily limits also apply. Locks run from one hour to 90 days. Burns spend only the required network fee and cannot exceed treasury-held tokens. Buybacks accept at most 3% slippage.
Automatic buyback-and-burn starts at 0.05 SOL. Automatic reward rounds run at most once every 24 hours when the reward pool reaches 0.05 SOL. The rules engine caps each round at 5 SOL. Rewards are proportional, with at most 300 eligible wallets; payouts below 0.001 SOL stay in the source account, and a transaction contains at most 20 recipients.
Every move must also pass the signer's own, stricter limits, described under Security boundaries. The signer refuses a transaction above them even when the rules engine approved it.
Why lamports?
Every amount in VERSUS is a whole number of lamports, so no sum is ever rounded: 1 SOL is 1,000,000,000 lamports. The unit is named after Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist known for his work on distributed systems.
Sources: Chainstack, Solana glossary ↗
The external protocol boundary
The launch routes creator fees to the coin treasury and revokes the creator's fee-sharing authority. pump.fun decides the creator-fee rate and its global administrator retains protocol-level powers. VERSUS does not claim fee routing is immutable against the protocol operator. If fee routing stops paying this treasury in full, VERSUS stops distributing fees for that coin.
Wallet swaps through Jupiter
Wallet swaps use Jupiter and are separate from creator-fee allocation and the 1 SOL challenge fee. The VERSUS referral rate is 88 bps (0.88%); after Jupiter's 20% share, VERSUS would receive approximately 70.4 bps (0.704%). No separate Jupiter platform fee is added when referral is active. Network costs and any other charges shown in the quote may still apply. Review the live quote before approving.
Referral income depends on a successful swap and an initialized referral token account for the fee token Jupiter selects. Without one, Jupiter can still execute the swap without the VERSUS fee. The fee shown in the live quote is what matters; configured referral settings do not prove that the fee was applied or collected.