How Stoke works
What you pay, what is permanent, and who holds what.
The short version
Stoke launches ordinary pump.fun coins with one addition: each coin's creator fees are split by a rule written to pump.fun's fee sharing program at launch. 70% goes to the coin's creator, 25% is used to buy $STOKE and burn it, and 5% goes to Stoke.
- 70% Coin creatorPaid straight to the launcher's wallet
- 25% Buy & burn $STOKEBought on the market, then destroyed
- 5% StokeKeeps the lights on
The percentages divide the coin's creator-fee revenue. They are not a share of its market cap, its supply or the full value of each trade.
What you pay
| Item | Amount | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| Launch fee | 0.05 SOL | Stoke. Charged only in the transaction that freezes the split. |
| Network fees and rent | about 0.03 SOL | Solana, for the new accounts your coin needs. |
| Initial buy | 0 to 50 SOL | Optional. Buys your own coin in the transaction that creates it. |
Launching
- Connect a Solana wallet and fill in the coin's name, symbol and artwork.
- Approve two transactions. The first creates the coin on pump.fun, with your initial buy if you set one, so nobody trades before you. The second writes the split and pays the launch fee.
- Stoke reads the split back from chain. Only if it matches, with the edit authority revoked, is the coin listed here.
If the second transaction fails, your coin exists as a normal pump.fun coin and the launch page offers a button to finish freezing the split.
What is permanent
Each coin's recipient list and percentages. Writing the split revokes the authority to edit it, so neither you nor Stoke can change who gets paid or how much. Changing Stoke's split later only affects coins launched after the change.
Who holds the funds
Your 70% is paid by pump.fun's program straight to your wallet whenever fees are distributed. Anyone can trigger that distribution; Stoke's crank does it on a schedule.
The burn share is paid to the burn wallet, a wallet whose key Stoke's crank holds. Between rounds that balance is controlled by the operator. A frozen split and public receipts do not make it trustless: you are trusting the operator to run the buy and burn. You can check that it happens on the Burns page, where every round links to its buy and burn transactions.
The burn
Each round the crank spends the burn wallet's balance, less a small reserve for transaction fees, buying $STOKE on its bonding curve or, once it graduates, on its PumpSwap pool. It then burns every token it bought, which reduces the total supply. A burn is not a promise about price.
Risks
Coins launched here are highly speculative and most lose value. Stoke depends on pump.fun's programs; if they change, launching or distributing may stop working. Nothing here is financial advice.