Creator Fees

How the split works

Every swap against a Blend's pool — deposits, redemptions, arbitrage rebalancing and secondary trading — pays a swap fee. That fee is divided three ways:

• 70% to liquidity providers in the Blend's pool.
• 20% to the Blend's creator.
• 10% to the protocol, used for $BLEND buyback and burn.

What that means in practice

• Creator revenue scales with volume, not TVL. A Blend that people actively trade pays its creator more than a larger but dormant one.
• Fees accrue continuously and are claimable by the creator address that launched the Blend.
• The share is fixed at launch and cannot be raised later, so depositors cannot be re-priced after the fact.
• Creators cannot alter composition, pause the Blend, or withdraw depositor funds. The fee share is the entire creator privilege.

Why creators are paid at all

Curation is real work: choosing a coherent thesis, sizing weights sensibly, and attracting the volume that makes a Blend usable. Paying curators from flow — rather than from depositor principal — aligns them with the Blend staying active and trustworthy rather than with a launch-day extraction.