Raydium Just Made Life Much Better for Solana Builders

If you are a builder, launchpad operator, or anyone creating tokens on Solana, you are going to want to hear about this. Raydium has rolled out a new feature called Fee Share that quietly solves one of the biggest frustrations in the ecosystem. I am genuinely impressed by how clean and helpful this is, so I wanted to break it down for you in a simple way.

What is Fee Share Exactly?

Fee Share allows platforms, launchpads, and token creators to set their own custom creator fee when they launch a new liquidity pool on Raydium. This fee sits on top of the normal swap fees and LP fees. Once enabled, the platform earns a small percentage from every trade that happens in that pool for as long as the token exists and keeps trading. The earnings can be collected in SOL, USDC, or any token they prefer, and it all happens transparently on chain.

Why this is actually a big deal

Until now, platforms that generated significant trading demand on Solana faced a structural economic hurdle. Historically, founders had two unattractive options for capturing downstream revenue. They could fork an existing automated market maker or build one from scratch. Both paths are expensive, introduce significant smart contract risk, and fragment liquidity across the chain.Without those high risk engineering projects, the economics are simple and unfavorable. Once a token graduates and trading migrates to a decentralized exchange, the platform that originated that demand stops earning entirely, no matter how much volume those pools go on to generate.Fee Share changes the game. Creators and platforms can now keep earning from their tokens even after they have grown and moved to the open market. No need to build their own decentralized exchange or push users onto clunky alternatives. Liquidity stays deep on Raydium, and everyone gets to keep participating in the upside.

How Simple Is It to Use?

The fee rate is set right at the moment the pool is created. It works automatically alongside Raydium’s existing fees nothing gets taken away from LPs or the protocol. Fees build up on chain and can be withdrawn anytime. It is currently permissioned only approved platforms can activate it clean B2B setup.

To give you a sense of the numbers here is what it could look like at 100 million dollars in lifetime trading volume:

• 10 bps equals 100000 dollars
• 25 bps equals 250000 dollars
• 50 bps equals 500000 dollars
• 100 bps equals 1000000 dollars

That is meaningful revenue that keeps flowing as long as people are trading the token.

Already Live With Some Big Names

Metaplex, Bonkfun, and Trendsdotfun are the first platforms live on Fee Share. All tokens created via the Metaplex App auto migrate liquidity to Raydium constant product market maker pools, with Bonkfun and Trendsdotfun pools earning from every swap on Raydium.More integrations are coming, and Raydium is actively inviting other platforms to join.

What Does This Mean for $RAY Holders?

This is genuinely positive for $RAY. Fee Share does not reduce the existing protocol fees that go to the Raydium ecosystem. Instead, it makes Raydium significantly more attractive to launchpads and creators. More platforms using Raydium means more tokens, more liquidity pools, and ultimately higher overall trading volume across the decentralized exchange.Higher volume equals more protocol revenue equals stronger RAY buybacks and better rewards for people who stake their tokens. It strengthens Raydium’s position as the main liquidity hub on Solana and creates a nice long term flywheel for token holders.

Who Should Care?

If you are running a launchpad, building a token platform, or working on any project that deploys liquidity on Solana, this is worth looking into. The Raydium team is open to collaborations just email collab at raydium.io and they will walk you through it.

This feels like the kind of quiet but important infrastructure upgrade that helps the entire Solana ecosystem grow healthier. It shows Raydium is thinking beyond just today’s volume and focusing on long term alignment between builders, traders, and the protocol itself.I am excited to see which platforms jump on this next.