Tokenomics
One 2% fee, split for impact, locked at launch - every trade does good.
Token Overview
Fee Structure
Every coin here, $SOW included, pays a 2% fee on its bonding curve (1% after graduation), split three ways and locked at launch:
Claimed by the public sow.fun vault and deployed as microloans for the coin's pledged borrower - receipts at every hop.
Claimed directly from the pool by whoever launched the coin - sow.fun never touches it.
Keeps the lights on: infrastructure, the fiat bridge costs, and the harvest pipeline.
Token Distribution
Everything outside the team's share belongs to the market. About 70% is sold on the bonding curve; the last 20% seeds the trading pool when $SOW graduates at 85 SOL raised, and that liquidity is permanently locked - it can never be pulled and keeps paying the 45/45/10 split at a 1% fee. No presale, no private round, no free team tokens.
Locked on Streamflow: a 1-month cliff, then unlocking linearly over 6 months. View the lock ↗
What the team's 10% is for
The team allocation works for the mission, not a cash-out. As tokens unlock, they go where they do the most good - things like:
Extra microloans beyond any coin's pledge, credited to the sow.fun Kiva team.
$SOW rewards for the creators whose coins fund the most borrowers.
Burns through the Furnace program, published on-chain.
Infrastructure, audits and development that keep the launchpad running.
The rules: nothing can move before the cliff - the Streamflow lock enforces it. After that, every move of team tokens is published in the public ledger with its transaction receipt.
Total supply 1,000,000,000, fixed at launch (mint authority revoked). Launching a coin costs a 0.035 SOL launch fee, enforced on-chain, which funds the vault and makes bot squatting expensive.
The Recycling Model
Unlike charity tokens where funds disappear, $SOW runs a recycling model:
Fees → Treasury
Trading fees accumulate in the public Solana treasury wallet.
Treasury → Kiva
Funds are deployed as Kiva microloans to vetted entrepreneurs.
Repayments → New Loans
When borrowers repay, capital gets reinvested - not withdrawn. One dollar, many lives.
Excess Fees & Creator Rewards
Coins usually raise more than their borrower needs. Once the launch borrower is funded, every extra dollar follows one public rule:
80% - The borrower queue
Funds up to 5 borrowers the creator lines up, in order. Borrowers who close or belong to another coin are skipped.
10% - $SOW burned
Half of the $SOW bought back with excess fees is burned. Every successful launch makes $SOW scarcer.
10% - Creator rewards
The other half pays the creator in $SOW for every borrower their coin fully funds. Real loans, not volume.
- ·If the borrower's loan fills or expires before a harvest, the money flows down the queue instead.
- ·If the queue is empty for 72 hours while money waits, sow.fun funds a borrower in the same category.
- ·Creator rewards are paid only when loans verifiably fund on Kiva.
$SOW is a launchpad coin too
No special treatment: $SOW launched through the same pool config as every other coin.
Its fees follow the same locked split: 45% to its pledged Kiva borrowers and 10% to operations. The 45% creator share belongs to the project and goes to the Genesis Vault.
The Genesis Vault goes back into the garden, as $SOW needs it:
- ·bonus borrower loans beyond the pledge
- ·buying back and burning $SOW
- ·community rewards
The mix stays flexible on purpose, but never quiet: every deployment is published in the ledger with transaction receipts, the vault's address is public, and it is never sold off silently.
In short: 55% of every $SOW trade is pre-committed (45 loans, 10 ops), and the remaining 45% works for the ecosystem in whichever form does the most good - with receipts.