Answer
How do I claim pump.fun creator fees?
You claim pump.fun creator fees by sending the collect instruction for each vault the coin has — one for the bonding curve, a separate one for PumpSwap after migration — because the fees accrue on-chain and are never pushed to your wallet.
Two vaults, two instructions
A coin that has migrated has two places where creator fees can sit. Before graduation the fees accrue in the bonding-curve vault; after migration they accrue in a PumpSwap vault. Those are different accounts under different programs, so one collect call does not sweep both.
In practice a collect that returns almost nothing is a sign the balance is in the other vault. Check which side of the 85.0054 SOL line the coin finished on before concluding the fees are missing.
Permissionless means anyone can pay the transaction fee to trigger a collection — it does not mean anyone can redirect the money. The recipient is fixed by the coin's on-chain state.
- Bonding-curve vault: fees from trades before graduation.
- PumpSwap vault: fees from trades after migration.
- One collect instruction per vault; clearing one leaves the other untouched.
- Permissionless to call, fixed beneficiary: the recorded fee recipient.
Why unclaimed fees are not banked
A fee that has accrued but has not been collected is not in your wallet. It cannot be spent, moved or used to pay the next transaction, and it does not grow where it sits.
The part people get wrong is the address. The vault credits an address, not a person, so the claim is only as good as control of that address.
Collecting is itself a transaction, so it costs a network fee. A vault holding less than that fee is not worth clearing yet; wait until a few trades have stacked up.
- No interest accrues in the vault.
- Unclaimed fees will not cover a wallet short of SOL for fees.
- Lose the key to the fee-recipient wallet and the fees stay where they are.
How to check what is owed
The practical approach is to read the coin's page and the creator-fee dashboard for the wallet, then collect once the balance is worth the transaction fee. Nothing expires, so collecting monthly beats collecting after every trade.
Two things are worth confirming before you send anything: that the fee recipient is a wallet you hold keys for, and that the coin has actually traded. A coin with no trades has a vault balance of zero, and no instruction will change that.
Waiting costs you nothing in principal, but it also gains nothing — the balance only moves when a trade happens or a collection lands.
- Confirm the fee recipient is a wallet you control.
- Collect both vaults if the coin has graduated.
- Batch one collection session rather than one transaction per trade.
Related questions
Are creator fees paid automatically?
No. They accrue in a vault and need a collect instruction; nothing arrives in the wallet on its own.
Can someone else collect my fees?
Anyone can send the instruction, but the proceeds go to the fee recipient recorded for the coin, so a third party cannot redirect them.
Do I have to claim before the coin graduates?
No. Bonding-curve fees stay claimable after migration, but they sit in the old vault and still need their own collect call.
Where to go next
- What is the pump.fun creator fee?
- What happens when a coin graduates?
- The full launch guide: costs, socials, 21-day runway
- Every question we have answered
If the brand and the page are what is stopping you
Mint a Brand draws the icon, banner and stickers, builds the token site on its own subdomain and prepares the launch for your wallet to sign, for $30. Your wallet pays the network fee and is the creator of record.
Sources
Checked 2026-10-31 · nothing here is financial advice, and most meme coins go to zero.