Fees

Every fee Candle charges, in one place.

The total cost of a transaction also depends on network fees, its market phase, execution venue, and whether a bridge is involved. The transaction quote and wallet confirmation control for a specific trade; review the amount spent, minimum received, price impact, network costs, and bridge or application fee before signing.

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Platform fees

Activity	Fee
Bonding curve buy or sell	1%
Same-chain swap	0.5%
Cross-chain swap	1%
Token launch	No Candle platform fee; network/account costs apply
Migration at graduation	0
Believer NFT mint	Free
Agent-built transaction (dev buy or trade)	1% Free, 0.5% Believer, 0.25% Pro, free on Max
Agent base-pair swap (SOL, USDC, CNDL against each other)	0, every tier

Tip

Believer is a 0.5% discount versus Free. Agent-built Believer trades pay 0.5% instead of the 1% Free rate. Web same-chain Believers pay the same 0.5% (not free). Cross-chain web swaps stay at 1% for every web trader and are not a Believer discount. A referred account still pays 10% less on those rates. See the agent schedule below for Pro and Max.

Note

The agent fee applies only to transactions the agent API itself builds: a launch’s dev buy and an agent trade, on either chain. It is additive, on top of the requested amount, ceil-rounded so a nonzero amount is never taxed to zero. A transaction an agent hand-builds and broadcasts itself, bypassing the API, pays only the normal curve fees above and none of this one. Two rates sit below the tier rate: converting between base assets is free at every tier, and a referred account pays 10% less on every trade (not on launch dev buys), so a referred Pro pays 22 bps rather than 25. See Agent access & API keys for the tier table.

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Which asset the fee comes out of

Candle’s swap fee is always taken on the canonical side of a trade — SOL, USDC, ETH or USDG — and never out of the token you are buying.

• Buying a token: the fee is taken from what you spend, before the swap.
• Selling a token: the fee is taken from what you receive.

If you pay with a token that is not one of the canonical assets — a memecoin you already hold, for instance — the fee comes out of that input. The rule is that the fee never touches the token you are acquiring.

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Fees Candle does not receive

These are charged by third parties, not by Candle:

Source	Fee
Solana network	Network transaction fees
Hood network	Network gas
Meteora DAMM v2 pool	0.5% on graduated Solana tokens
Uniswap v3 or v4 pool	0.3% static tier on Candle Hood pools
Jupiter	Routing, where a route uses Jupiter
Relay	Bridge costs on cross-chain routes

Pool fees on graduated tokens are charged by the pool to anyone trading it, on Candle or anywhere else.

Launch fee distribution

Launch fees and post-graduation liquidity fees may be divided among Candle, a creator or nominated streamer, and the CNDL-staker program according to the launch configuration and chain-specific contracts.

On Hood, each launch receives a dedicated fee-splitter clone. The canonical splitter factory fixes Candle’s share at 50% and assigns the other share to the creator or nominated streamer. A payout that cannot be delivered immediately remains claimable instead of blocking the other party’s distribution.

The creator-selected CNDL-staker allocation is a percentage of token supply, not an additional trading fee.

Note

Third-party wallets, RPC providers, aggregators, and liquidity venues can charge or route fees independently of Candle. Review the wallet confirmation and route quote together.

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Staking

Action	Cost
Staking $CNDL	Free, nothing locked on entry
Standard unstake	Free, settles in 7 days
Instant unstake	20% of the unstaked amount

See $CNDL for how staking rewards work.

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Where fees go

Platform fees accrue to Candle treasury addresses. Fee collection addresses are receive-only public addresses; Candle publishes them in the codebase rather than holding fee balances in operational wallets.

Candle may change its fees. Material changes are announced in advance where practical, and the current fees are always the ones on this page. See section 6 of the Terms of Service.