Where the pack fee goes
Every pack pays a 0.50% pack fee, inside its price. Where it goes depends on the buyer:
The creator gets no pack fee on their own machine. A creator earns pack fees only as somebody else’s referrer. A Fan coin machine is the exception: its 2% pack fee pays its creator 1.20%, the referrer 0.30% and Gabox 0.50%. With no referrer, the creator also gets the referrer’s 0.30%.
How a referral is bound
- A buyer can name a referrer on a purchase while they have none yet.
- The first valid referrer is bound to the buyer’s wallet for ever, across every machine.
- A buyer cannot refer themselves.
- After that, the link cannot change. A purchase that names a different referrer fails, so the app does not send one.
- The buyer pays the same price with or without a referrer. The buyer pays the small rent of the new link account.
Claiming pack fees
Pack fees collect per wallet and per quote token in an earnings account. The fee tokens wait in a shared fee account for that quote token.claim_earningspays all unclaimed fees of one quote token to the wallet. A wallet that earned in two quote tokens claims twice.- A SOL claim arrives as SOL.
- Creator pack fees from the earlier fee model also stay claimable this way.
- Nobody can claim a Mega Pack balance with
claim_earnings. It is only paid out to the coin’s holders.
Creator earnings
On a new-coin machine, a creator earns from trading, not from packs:
Older coins are coins launched before 29 October 2026. A coin keeps the fees it launched with.
These fees are held by Meteora, outside Gabox’s
claim_earnings. The app’s Creator earnings panel collects them for you. Trading fees depend on trading that may never happen.
On a Machine recharge machine, the machine receives these fees. All or part of them refill its prize pool. The creator claims the rest on their profile.
See What a pack costs for the full fee table.