How TubePaid works

TubePaid is a fee bridge. A pump.fun coin names a YouTube creator, its creator fees accrue to a wallet reserved for that handle, and the dollars are forwarded to that creator as YouTube Super Thanks. The creator never signs up.

The launcher provides a YouTube @handle, the standard coin fields (name, ticker, image) and an optional first buy.

• A Solana wallet is reserved for the handle the first time a coin names it. Its key is encrypted at rest.
• The coin metadata is pinned to IPFS through pump.fun's own endpoint.
• The pump.fun create_v2 transaction sets the coin creator to the reserved wallet. The launcher signs it in their browser wallet. The first buy, if any, rides in the same transaction.
• Several coins can name the same handle. They all pay into the same vault.

Venue: pump.fun on Solana mainnet. Costs: pump.fun's standard create and trade fees. Those are pump.fun's, not ours.

pump.fun charges a creator fee on every trade. Before graduation the pump program collects it; after graduation the pump-amm program pays it into the coin-creator vault. TubePaid reads both together.

Fees belong to the creator from the moment they are generated, swept or not. TubePaid takes nothing from creator fees. There is no TubePaid token; any claim otherwise is fake.

A cron job (0 * * * *) runs at the top of every hour. It collects each vault into its reserved wallet, forwards everything to the treasury (the treasury pays the gas), and freezes the SOL/USD rate at that moment. Vaults under 0.001 SOL are skipped. Each handle keeps its own dollar ledger.

When a handle's balance reaches $2.00, one Super Thanks is queued for the whole-dollar amount, capped at $500.00 per send. Cents roll over. The Super Thanks is purchased on the creator's most recent public video and appears as a highlighted comment from @usetubepaid.

Path: balance → Super Thanks queued → sent on the latest video → counted in YouTube Studio → paid through AdSense.

YouTube keeps 30% of every Super Thanks. The creator receives 70%. Example: $100.00 in fees → $100.00 Super Thanks → $70.00 to the creator, $30.00 kept by YouTube. That cut is printed on every receipt.

• Sweep receipt: printed when a sweep confirms on Solana, with the transaction signature.
• Super Thanks receipt: printed when sent, stamped with the video link.
• Milestone receipt: printed once at $20, $40, $60 and so on of lifetime fees.

Fee wallets are server wallets encrypted at rest. The only transactions they ever sign are the hourly collect and the forward to the treasury. The treasury is a plain address whose key never touches the server; a separate hot wallet only pays the gas.

YouTube only accepts Super Thanks on channels that:

• are in the YouTube Partner Program,
• have Super Thanks turned on in Studio → Earn → Supers,
• have comments enabled on the target video,
• are in a supported region and not set as made for kids.

If a send is rejected, it is marked held with the reason. The dollars stay in the balance and the send retries once the channel qualifies. Handles are matched case-insensitively and survive channel renames; coins stay tied to the original handle.

Does the creator need to do anything before launch? No. The wallet is reserved automatically and fees accrue from the first trade. To receive a Super Thanks they need it turned on in YouTube Studio; until then the balance is held for them.

Can I launch for a handle that already has coins? Yes. All coins paying the same handle pay into the same wallet and the same balance.

What if I typo the handle? The creator is permanent on-chain. Check the live preview before signing; the handle you see there is the one that gets paid.

Why is "Paid" bigger than Super Thanks sent? Because fees are the creator's the moment they are generated. Paid counts everything generated; Super Thanks shows what has already been converted and sent.

Is this affiliated with YouTube or pump.fun? No. YouTube is only the rail the money travels on; pump.fun is the launchpad and market.

• Creator fee: pump.fun's per-trade fee paid to a coin's on-chain creator.
• Fee wallet: the Solana wallet reserved for one YouTube handle, the coin's on-chain creator.
• Vault: the pump.fun program-owned account where creator fees accumulate.
• Sweep: the hourly collect and transfer that turns vault SOL into a dollar credit.
• Super Thanks: YouTube's paid highlighted comment. The rail the money arrives on.
• Held: a Super Thanks YouTube will not accept yet. The dollars stay with the creator.
• Milestone: a receipt printed every $20 of lifetime fees.