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How Recur works

Every coin pays a 3% fee on each buy and sell. Creators and the team take none of it: after Meteora's protocol share, it all comes back as burns, a SOL exit reserve, loss protection and airdrops to holders who bought high. Here's exactly how.

Recur is a coin launchpad on Solana. Every coin has a fixed 1B supply and trades in its own Meteora pool from the first second, paired with SOL, a stablecoin or one of 120+ tokenized stocks. Unlike Pons or pump.fun, none of the trading fee goes to the creator or the team. Every buy and sell pays 3%; after Meteora's protocol share, all of it goes back to the people trading: burns, a SOL exit reserve, a fund that covers losses, and airdrops to holders who are underwater.

01How it works

  1. 01Launch

    One transaction mints the coin and opens its Meteora bonding-curve pool against the quote you pick (SOL, USDC, NVDAx…). Every coin starts at a $2.5k market cap, whatever the pair.

  2. 02Trade

    The pool itself charges 3% on the quote side of every buy and sell: 3% of what you pay on a buy, 3% of what you receive on a sell. It applies on Recur, Jupiter or any other app.

  3. 03Route

    Recur's fee wallet claims the fees from every pool and splits them into five buckets: it buys back and burns, swaps to SOL for the reserve and protection wallets, and funds the airdrop wallet.

  4. 04Give back

    Holders who are underwater get airdrops continuously, sellers at a loss can claim coverage, anyone can exit into the OTC reserve, and supply keeps shrinking.

Every buy & sellany coin, pair or app3%Meteora pool3% quote-side fee0% creator · 0% teamProtection fundconverted to SOL→ Loss claims · SOL40%OTC reserveconverted to SOL→ No-slippage exits30%Platform buyback & burnquote → SOL → $RECR→ $RECR burned10%Coin buyback & burnquote → this coin→ Coin burned10%High-entry airdropkept in the quote asset→ Underwater holders10%
Meteora keeps its protocol share (20% of the fee, 16% on trades built by Recur). Recur's fee wallet claims the rest from every pool and splits it. The protection fund and OTC reserve always receive SOL, whatever the pair.

02The 3% and where it goes

Meteora keeps its protocol share of the 3% (20% of the fee, or 16% on trades Recur builds, because the fee wallet is the referral). The rest, 80–84% of every fee, is split the same way for every coin:

  • 40%Protection fundCovers part of realized losses: up to 60% by hold time (70% on rugs), scaled by how much the coin paid into the fund.SOL
  • 30%OTC reserveA SOL wallet you can sell coins into without slippage. Coins that pay more get higher limits.SOL
  • 10%Platform buyback & burnBuys the platform token on the open pool and burns it.SOL → platform token
  • 10%Coin buyback & burnBuys this coin back in its own pool and burns it.Quote → this coin
  • 10%High-entry airdropPaid out continuously to holders whose average entry is above the current price.Quote asset

03Worked example: a coin that generates $10,000 in fees

At 3%, $10,000 of fees means about $333,333 of trading volume. Meteora's protocol fee takes $2,000; here is exactly where the other $8,000 goes, and the same coin at $20,000 of fees ($666,667 volume). Every number simply doubles.

A coin that generated
$10,000
in fees ≈ $333,333 of trading volume at 3%
$2,000 Meteora protocol fee → $8,000 split below
Protection fund40%
$3,200→ $6,400 at $20k

Pays back realized losses on this coin, drawn in proportion to what it paid in. At the 60% tier, $3,200 covers about $5,333 of losses.

OTC reserve30%
$2,400→ $4,800 at $20k

SOL in the reserve wallet. This coin earns $4,800 of no-slippage sell capacity (2× credit).

Platform buyback & burn10%
$800→ $1,600 at $20k

Buys RECR on its pool and burns it.

Coin buyback & burn10%
$800→ $1,600 at $20k

Buys this coin in its own pool and burns it. Supply only goes down.

High-entry airdrop10%
$800→ $1,600 at $20k

Shared by holders whose average entry is above the price, weighted by how far underwater they are.

Everything Recur collects stays with the community. $0 goes to the creator and $0 goes to the team. Meteora keeps $2,000 as its protocol fee ($1,600 if every trade went through Recur). The $5,600 for the fund and reserve lands as SOL even if the coin trades against USDC or a stock token.

04Who benefits

Take the same coin, with $333,333 of volume and $10,000 of fees, and follow five traders.

A
Ava, the early seller
Coin buyback

Bought at launch and sold at 4×. She doesn't need anything back: the buybacks that lifted the price came partly from fees.

B
Ben, who bought the top
Protection fund

Bought near the peak, held 7 hours, sold at a $120 loss. That's the 6 h+ tier: up to 60%, so $72 requested, paid in SOL. It's then scaled by the coin's funding ratio for that epoch and capped at 5× the fee he paid.

C
Cara, still holding underwater
High-entry airdrop

Her average entry is above the current price, so she receives airdrops as fees come in. If the price recovers above her entry she rotates out, and newer high-entry buyers rotate in.

D
Dev, the whale exiting
OTC reserve

Wants out of $400 worth without crashing the chart. He sells into the OTC reserve at TWAP with no slippage, up to the coin's limit, and gets SOL. The pool price doesn't move.

E
Every holder, and every RECR holder
Double buyback & burn

$800 of this coin and $800 of RECR are bought on the open pool and burned. Supply only goes down.

05Compared with Pons, pump.fun and dividend tokens

Same volume for everyone: $333,333. What does each model collect, and where does it go?

Recur
Pons
pump.fun
Reflection / dividend tokens
Fee per trade
3% of the quote side (Meteora pool fee)
1% pool fee
~1.25% bonding curve (0.95% protocol, 0.30% creator)
1–3% (2% here)
Fees at this volume
$10,000
$3,333
~$4,167
$6,667
Creator take
$0
$2,333 (70%)
~$1,000 (unless in Holder Rewards mode)
Varies by token
Team / protocol take
$0 to Recur · $2,000 Meteora protocol fee
$200 (20% of the protocol's 30%)
~$1,583 (protocol revenue not used for buybacks)
—
Buyback & burn
$1,600 (platform token + the coin itself)
$800 of PONS
~$1,583 of PUMP (about half of protocol revenue)
None
Returned to people who lost
Up to $3,200 via the protection fund
$0
$0
$0
Exit liquidity
$2,400 SOL reserve, $4,800 of OTC sell capacity
The pool only
The pool only
The pool only
Who gets the "dividend"
$800 to holders underwater, weighted by how far
Nobody
Holders by balance & hold time ($20 min) in Holder Rewards mode
All holders by balance, whales first
Share of fees that comes back to traders and holders
  • Recur80%

    80–84% after Meteora's protocol share: burns, exit reserve, loss cover, airdrops

  • pump.fun · Holder Rewards62%

    ≈38% buybacks + 24% creator share streamed to holders by balance

  • Pons24%

    PONS buybacks; 70% goes to the creator

Why this split is better for traders. Pons pays creators first; a trader gets nothing back unless they also hold PONS. pump.fun's Holder Rewards and classic reflection tokens pay a dividend by balance, so the biggest wallets collect most of it and the people who lost money get nothing. Recur charges more per trade, but every dollar it collects is aimed at the people who need it: the ones underwater, the ones who sold at a loss, and anyone who needs to exit size. Burns still reward every holder.

Figures as of Oct 2026 from public docs; pump.fun changes its fees often. Sources: Pons docs, Coinpaprika: launchpad fees, Crypto Briefing: pump.fun Holder Rewards, DefiLlama: PUMP.

06Quote assets

SOL, stablecoins and 120+ stocks, always settled to SOL

A coin can pair with SOL, stablecoins (USDC, USDT, EURC…) or more than 120 tokenized stocks and pre-IPO tokens: xStocks, Backpack stocks, PreStocks and Tessera. The pairing is fixed at launch.

Every pair starts at a $2.5k market cap and graduates at $30k, measured in USD. Each quote gets its own Meteora config, created at the quote's live USD price, so a coin paired with NVDAx starts at the same dollar value as one paired with SOL. Prices on the site are always shown in USD.

Fees are collected in the quote asset. When the fee wallet splits them, the protection fund and OTC reserve shares are always converted to SOL, so both are one shared SOL balance whatever the pair. The coin buyback uses the quote directly, the RECR buyback goes through SOL, and the airdrop is paid in the quote.

Many tokenized stocks are Token-2022 mints. Meteora only accepts a Token-2022 quote once it has issued that mint a token badge, so a pair can be listed but not yet launchable.

07Anti-snipe

A launch-window fee that pays holders

For the first 6 seconds after launch the pool's fee starts at 99% and decays exponentially to the normal 3%. It's Meteora's fee scheduler, so it applies to every buy and sell in that window, and the extra lands in the same five buckets: snipers end up paying holders. The creator's own first buy, bundled into the launch transaction, pays only 3%.

99%
0s
55%
1s
31%
2s
17%
3s
10%
4s
5%
5s
3%
6s+

08Graduation

From the curve to DAMM v2 at $30k

Before graduation a coin trades on a Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve. When the curve completes, at a $30k market cap, Meteora migrates its liquidity into a DAMM v2 pool with the same 3% quote-side fee. Nothing changes for holders: same coin, same fee, same five buckets.

The migrated LP position is permanently locked to Recur's fee wallet. Nobody can remove the liquidity; the fee wallet can only claim the trading fees it earns, which go into the buckets like every other fee.

09OTC reserve

30% of fees, as no-slippage exit liquidity
  • 30% of every fee, converted to SOL, goes to one shared reserve wallet. Each coin is credited with what it contributed.
  • Sell limit = 2× the SOL a coin's fees contributed, minus what holders have already sold into it. It stays at 100% while the coin keeps paying fees (3 days), then fades linearly to 5% over the next 27 days. Coins that pay more get higher limits; dead coins get next to nothing.
  • One coin can draw at most 10% of the reserve at a time, and one wallet at most 5% of it per coin per day.
  • Sellers are paid at the lower of spot and the 30-minute TWAP; buyers of the reserve's inventory pay the higher. Pumping the price for a few blocks doesn't help. OTC opens 30 minutes after launch.
  • OTC trades carry the same 3%, paid to the fee wallet in the same transaction and split like any other fee. SOL paid by inventory buyers restores that coin's credit.
  • Atomic settlement. Every OTC trade is one Solana transaction signed by both you and the reserve wallet: your coins in, its SOL out. It settles completely or not at all, and the signed quote expires within a minute.

10Protection fund

40% of fees, covering realized losses

40% of every fee, converted to SOL. It only covers realized losses: you sold below your average entry. How much comes back depends on three things: how long you held, how much the coin paid into the fund, and how big the fund is.

1. Hold time sets an "up to" rate. Markets are fast, so the tiers are minutes and hours. A coin flagged as a rug (creator or linked wallets dumped) gets 70% whatever the hold time. The most any loss can be covered is 70%.

up to0%
< 5 min
up to25%
5–30 min
up to45%
30 min – 6 h
up to60%
6 h+
up to70%
Rug-flagged coin

then × the coin's funding ratio for that epoch, capped at 5× the tax you paid

2. Each coin can only draw its share of the fund. Every epoch has a budget (at most 15% of the uncommitted fund). A coin gets a slice of it in proportion to what that coin has paid into the fund: its contributions divided by everyone's. If its traders' requests add up to more than the slice, they are paid pro-rata. Coins that paid little in fees cover little; dead coins cover almost nothing.

Funding ratio, worked through
Coin A paid in
20 SOL
of the 200 SOL ever paid into the fund
So it can draw
10%
of each epoch's budget (15% of the fund)
This epoch
3.0 SOL
for coin A's traders, out of a 30 SOL budget

If coin A's traders request 6.0 SOL of cover that epoch, each is paid 50% of their request. A coin that paid almost nothing into the fund can cover almost nothing, however big the fund is.

  • Each claim is capped at 5× the tax that wallet paid on that coin.
  • Claims are batched into epochs at least 6 days apart. An epoch can commit at most 15% of the uncommitted fund. The protection wallet's balance and every payout are public on-chain.
  • Each epoch is computed from public trade data with the same open-source policy code the site uses. You claim in a transaction you co-sign with the protection wallet. Claims expire after 60 days and return to the fund.
  • Excluded: creators on their own coins, protocol addresses, and wallet clusters that wash-trade.
  • Losses are measured in SOL at the time of each trade, so they are comparable across pairs.

11High-entry airdrop

10% of fees, to the holders who bought highest
  • 10% of every fee, kept in the coin's quote asset, paid out continuously, within seconds of the trades that pay it.
  • Recipients are holders whose average entry is above the current price, weighted by how far underwater they are (balance × (entry − price)). There is a minimum of about $20 so dust wallets don't dilute it.
  • The set is recomputed on every pass, every few seconds. When the price rises, holders now in profit drop out and newer high-entry buyers rotate in. When it falls, more holders qualify.
  • Coins received by transfer count with a zero cost basis, so moving coins to a fresh wallet can't fake a high entry.
  • Airdrops are pushed to your wallet from the airdrop wallet. If a transfer fails, the amount stays owed to you and is retried on the next pass.

12Treasury wallets

Plain Solana wallets, not custom programs

Recur deploys no programs of its own. Trading runs entirely on Meteora's pools; the money that comes back lives in four ordinary Solana wallets run by the Recur backend:

  • Fee wallet claims every pool's fees (and owns the locked LP after graduation), then buys back, burns, converts to SOL and moves each bucket to its wallet.
  • OTC reserve holds the SOL you can sell into and co-signs every OTC trade.
  • Protection fund holds the SOL for loss claims and co-signs every claim.
  • Airdrop wallet holds each coin's airdrop share in its quote asset and pushes it out continuously: a holder's share is sent as soon as it's worth more than the network fee to move it.

Every balance and transfer is public. Here they are, live:

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13FAQ

Why 3% when Pons charges 1%?

Because none of it is extracted by the launchpad. A 1% fee where 70% goes to the creator returns nothing to traders. 3% where everything after Meteora's protocol share comes back funds an exit reserve, loss coverage, airdrops and two buybacks.

Does the creator earn anything?

Not from fees. Creators earn the way everyone else does: by holding. They get the first buy at the launch price with no anti-snipe surcharge.

Can I farm the protection fund by wash trading?

Each round trip costs about 6% in fees. Coverage is capped at 5× the fee you paid, short holds earn little or nothing, each coin can only draw what it paid into the fund, epochs have a hard budget, and linked wallets are excluded. That limits abuse; it can't rule it out entirely.

Why does my coverage depend on the coin?

Because each coin can only draw its share of the fund, in proportion to what it has paid in. A busy coin that generated lots of fees can cover its traders well; a coin that paid little covers little, and a dead coin covers almost nothing. That stops quiet coins from draining what active coins paid for.

What happens to a dead coin's OTC credit?

It fades to 5% over about a month of no fees. The SOL stays in the shared reserve, where active coins can use it.

Do trades through Jupiter or other apps pay the fee?

Yes. The 3% is part of the Meteora pool itself, so every swap pays it no matter which app sends it.

Can liquidity be pulled?

No. Before graduation the supply sits in Meteora's bonding curve, which nobody can withdraw from. At graduation it migrates to a DAMM v2 pool whose LP position is permanently locked.

Why backend wallets instead of on-chain programs?

Meteora already provides audited pools, fees and migration. Keeping the fund logic in a backend means no new program to audit or upgrade, and policies like coverage tiers can evolve. The trade-off is trust: the wallets are controlled by Recur's keys, so their balances and transfers are public for anyone to check.

14Risks

Read this before you trade
  • Protection is discretionary and capped. It is not insurance. Payouts depend on the fund's size, the epoch budget and the published rules. A coin can lose more than any coverage returns.
  • The fund wallets are custodial. The OTC reserve, protection fund, airdrop and fee wallets are ordinary Solana wallets controlled by Recur's backend keys. You are trusting the operator's key handling and its off-chain calculations of airdrops and claims. Every balance and transfer is public, but no program enforces the policy.
  • Meteora takes a protocol share. 16–20% of every 3% fee goes to Meteora, not to the buckets.
  • Token-2022 quotes. Many tokenized stocks are Token-2022 mints; a pair only works once Meteora has issued that mint a token badge.
  • Coins are issued by their creators, are highly volatile, and may have no value. Listing is not an endorsement.
  • Tokenized-stock quote assets carry their issuer's risks and may be restricted in some jurisdictions.

Recur is built on solana and uses Meteora's pool programs. It is not affiliated with Meteora or with any tokenized-stock issuer.