Creator Fees

Creator fees are earned from the markets you create. Each time a participant takes a position in your market, up to 2.5% of the position amount is allocated toward your fees — split equally between a base reward (1.25%) and an arbitration reserve (1.25%).

This page covers when those fees become available, how to claim them, and how they differ from referral fees.

For a detailed breakdown of how the two fee components are calculated, see Creator Earnings.

When fees become available

Creator fees have two components, and they unlock at different times.

The base reward unlocks when you submit your first settlement. Until you take that action, the accumulated base reward remains locked in the market contract. If you miss the settlement deadline, it is forfeited — it does not carry over or become available later.

The arbitration reserve becomes available after the market resolves, and only if the market did not enter arbitration. If the market reaches arbitration, the reserve is used as part of that process rather than returned to you.

In practice, this means your fees may arrive in two separate moments: one after you settle, and one after the market is fully resolved.

How to claim

Creator fees are not pushed to your wallet automatically. They follow a pull-payment model: you initiate the withdrawal when you are ready.

Each market holds its own fees separately. If you have created multiple markets, you claim from each one individually. There is no aggregated claim across all your markets in a single action.

You can claim the base reward as soon as settlement unlocks it, without waiting for the market to resolve. The arbitration reserve, if returned to you, requires the market to reach a resolved state first.

What affects your total

Your creator fee total across a market depends on:

• How much participation the market attracted. Fees accumulate per position placed. More participation means more accumulated fees.
• Whether you settled on time. Missing the deadline forfeits the base reward entirely, regardless of how active the market was.
• Whether the market entered arbitration. If it did, the arbitration reserve is not returned to you.

There is no minimum participation threshold for fees to accumulate. Even a market with modest activity generates creator fees proportional to that activity.

Creator fees vs. referral fees

These are two separate fee streams that can both be active at the same time.

Creator fees come from markets you created. Every position placed in your market contributes to your creator fees, regardless of who placed it or how they found the market.

Referral fees come from positions placed by users who entered a market through your referral link — and only for that specific market. Referral fees are not limited to markets you created; you can earn referral fees on any market you share.

If you create a market and also share it with a referral link, both fee streams run simultaneously: you earn 2.5% as the creator and 2.5% as the referrer for participants who came through your link — up to 5% of each position amount, which is the full entry fee.