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How token fees become clipping campaigns.

1Overview

Clipped turns a token's creator fees into a clipping campaign. Instead of fees accruing to a wallet and sitting there, they fund creators who cut your token into short-form video and post it across TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and X.

The shape of it:

  1. A token launches on pump.fun with its creator fees pointed at Clipped.
  2. Every trade generates creator fees, which accrue on-chain.
  3. Those fees become the campaign's budget — real money, visible on the token's page.
  4. Clippers post edits of the token and submit them.
  5. Verified views are paid out of the budget.

Nothing here is custodial in the usual sense: the fees sit in a pump.fun fee vault that the chain controls, and the campaign spends from what has actually accrued.

2Supported venues

Tokens launch on pump.fun. That is the only venue right now, and it is deliberate: pump.fun's fee-sharing program is what makes the whole thing work, because it lets a coin's creator fees be split to named wallets at launch and verified by anyone reading the chain.

Clips are posted on:

PlatformFormat
TikTokVertical short-form
YouTube ShortsVertical short-form
Instagram ReelsVertical short-form
XNative video

3Directing fees

A pump.fun coin has a fee sharing config: a small account listing the wallets that receive its creator fees, and what share each one gets in basis points. Directing fees to Clipped means naming our wallets in that config.

There are three ways to do it, all on the Launch page:

Launch — create the coin here and the split is written into the launch itself. Two transactions, approved once.

Register — the coin already exists and you have already pointed its fees at us on pump.fun. Paste the mint and we verify the routing on-chain before adding it.

Walletless — launch anywhere, point the fees at the campaign wallet, and the coin is picked up automatically. Nothing to submit and no wallet to connect.

This is written once. pump.fun's update_fee_shares_v2 can only be called a single time per coin, and it cannot be reversed. A mistake here is permanent, which is why registration verifies the routing on-chain rather than trusting a form.

4The 80/20 split

Creator fees are split two ways:

ShareDestinationPurpose
80%Campaign walletPays clippers per verified view
20%Buyback walletBuybacks and burns

The split is enforced on-chain, not by us. Both shares are written into the coin's fee sharing config at launch, so anyone can read the config and confirm where the fees go without taking our word for it.

5How campaigns work

A campaign's budget is the creator fees its token has earned. It is not a number we set — it grows as the token trades and shrinks as clippers are paid.

Campaigns run on Whop, which handles submissions and payouts to creators. A token's page shows whether its campaign is live: a token can be routing fees to Clipped and accruing budget before a campaign has been created for it, so Not live means there is nothing to clip for yet, not that the token is inactive.

6Getting paid to clip

Find a campaign on Explore. The budget tells you what is behind it; campaigns are ranked by budget so the best-funded work is first.

  1. Cut a short vertical clip featuring the token.
  2. Post it to TikTok, Shorts, Reels or X from your own account.
  3. Submit the link to the campaign.
  4. Get paid per verified view once it is checked.

You are paid for views, not for posting. A clip nobody watches earns nothing, and a clip that takes off earns in proportion.

7How views are verified

View counts come from the platform the clip was posted on, read after a settling period rather than at the moment of submission. Views that a platform later removes are removed here too.

This is the part that has to be strict. Paying per view creates an obvious incentive to inflate views, so submissions are checked against the platform's own reported figures and clips that cannot be verified are not paid.

8How claims work

Creator fees do not arrive in a wallet automatically. They accrue in a pump.fun fee vault tied to the coin, and someone has to trigger a claim to move them.

That first hop is permissionless — anyone can trigger it, and it costs only the transaction fee. A token's page shows both halves: what has already been claimed and what is still sitting in the vault. The campaign budget is the sum, because both are the campaign's money.

9Buybacks and burns

The 20% share funds buybacks. Fees routed there are used to buy the token back off the market and burn the supply, so trading activity feeds back into the token rather than only out of it.

Like the campaign share, this destination is written into the fee sharing config on-chain and is readable by anyone.

10Registering an existing token

If your coin already exists, you do not need to relaunch it. Point its creator fees at the campaign wallet on pump.fun, then paste the mint into the Register tab on the Launch page.

No wallet connection is needed. Redirecting the fees is itself the proof of ownership — only the coin's creator can do it — and we verify that routing by reading the chain before the coin is added.

11Stopping a campaign

The fee split cannot be undone. update_fee_shares_v2 is single-use, so once a coin's fees are pointed at Clipped they stay pointed there for the life of the coin.

What can stop is the campaign: a campaign can be paused or closed, and unspent budget stays in the vault rather than being spent elsewhere.

12If a token is not registering

Registration fails for a small number of specific reasons.

"This coin has no fee sharing set up yet." The coin has no fee sharing config at all. Set it up on pump.fun first, then register.

"This coin's creator fees are not routed to the campaign." The config exists but does not name our campaign wallet. Check the address matches exactly — it is shown on the Launch page, and one wrong character is a different wallet.

"That does not look like a mint address." The mint is a 32–44 character base58 address. A pump.fun URL or a transaction signature will not work; copy the contract address itself.

Never name a fee sharing config as a shareholder. Shareholders must be plain wallets. Fees sent to a config are permanently stranded — nothing can move lamports back out of one, and the split cannot be rewritten to fix it.

13Glossary

Mint
A token's contract address on Solana. The permanent identifier for the coin.
Creator fees
A share of every trade, paid by pump.fun to whoever the coin's fee sharing config names.
Fee sharing config
The on-chain account listing which wallets receive a coin's creator fees, and what share each gets.
Fee vault
Where creator fees accrue before they are claimed. Balance is visible on-chain.
Basis points (bps)
Hundredths of a percent. 8000 bps is 80%; shares must total 10000.
Campaign budget
The creator fees available to pay clippers — claimed plus unclaimed.
Verified view
A view confirmed against the hosting platform's own reported count, after a settling period.
Clipper
Someone who cuts and posts short-form video of a token and is paid per verified view.