How awarded works

Anyone can launch a coin through awarded and name a redditor. The coin is an ordinary pump.fun coin — same curve, same trading, same graduation. Every trade pays a creator fee, and awarded turns that fee into Reddit Gold awarded to one of the named redditor’s posts. Gold is real money inside Reddit: the Contributor Program pays it out to a bank account.

The redditor never connects a wallet, never logs into awarded and never holds a token. If they do nothing at all, the Gold still lands.

1. 1

   Name the redditor

   Type a username or paste a profile link; it is normalised to u/name. Check the spelling — the name is written into the coin’s record and cannot be changed after launch.
2. 2

   Describe the coin

   Name, ticker, image, and an optional website (defaults to awarded). The image is resized in your browser and pinned through pump.fun’s IPFS endpoint, so it looks the same on pump.fun and here.
3. 3

   Optional first buy

   Up to 10 SOL, sent right after the create lands so you are the first holder. Slippage is set by pump.fun.
4. 4

   Sign

   Your wallet signs the transactions together: create_v2 with you as creator; a fee-share transaction that calls pump.fun’s fee program (createFeeSharingConfig + updateFeeShares) to hand 100% of creator rewards to the awarded fee account; and, if you added one, the buy. Create and fee-share cannot travel in one transaction — together they exceed Solana’s 1,232-byte limit.

Every awarded launch creates the coin’s fee-sharing config and sets a single shareholder — the awarded fee account — at 100%, using pump.fun’s own fee program. This is the same record pump.fun’s coin page shows under creator rewards, so what pump.fun displays and what the chain does agree. The mapping from mint to redditor lives in awarded’s database and is printed on every coin page.

Fee account

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Set by

createFeeSharingConfig · updateFeeShares (10,000 bps)

Config address

PDA seeded "sharing-config" + mint under pump.fun’s fee program

Verified how

The coin page reads the bonding curve and the fee-sharing config from chain and checks the fee account is the only shareholder.

Can it change?

pump.fun locks the shares once set — neither the launcher nor the redditor can move them afterwards.

After graduation

The same config keeps receiving creator fees from the pump.fun AMM pool.

1. 1

   Fees are collected

   awarded collects what has settled in the fee account for each coin, prices it in USD at that moment and credits the named redditor’s balance. The rate used is frozen on the receipt.
2. 2

   Gold is bought and awarded

   Once a balance reaches $1.99 — the price of one Gold — Gold is awarded to one of the redditor’s recent posts by awarded. Reddit has no gifting API, so awards are sent by hand and each one is marked on its receipt with the post it landed on.
3. 3

   Reddit pays out

   The Gold sits in the redditor’s Contributor balance and Reddit pays it out to their bank once it passes $10.00. If they are not enrolled yet, the Gold still shows on the post and converts as soon as they enrol.

Fees generated

Read from the coin’s pump.fun creator vault on chain: what is waiting there now plus every distribution seen leaving it, priced in USD

Treated as paid

30% of fees generated — a coin that has generated $1,000 shows $300 paid to its redditor

Accruing

The other 70%, shown as the balance building toward the next award

Receipts

Every whole Gold the 30% share covers gets its own numbered receipt on the coin, the profile and Payments

When receipts say more

The receipt ledger wins — if Gold actually sent exceeds the assumed share, the real figure is shown

Price of 1 Gold

$1.99 on reddit.com

Paid to a Top Contributor

$1.00 per Gold (5,000+ karma in the last 12 months)

Paid to a Contributor

$0.90 per Gold (100–4,999 karma)

Reddit’s cut

about 50% at the payout step

Minimum award

$1.99 in fees (1 Gold); remainders carry over

Reddit payout threshold

$10.00

Every figure on the site is quoted at the Top Contributor rate and every receipt prints Reddit’s cut plainly. Gold is never rounded up.

Gold receipt

One per award: Gold count, what the creator keeps, Reddit’s cut, the SOL/USD rate used, and the post it landed on.

Milestone receipt

One every $20.00 of creator fees a redditor has generated, so the lifetime figure is documented before the Gold is sent.

Fee receipt

A collection from the fee account: the SOL moved and the USD it was worth at that moment.

Status

queued waiting to be sent · sent with a post link · held when Reddit will not accept it, with a note

Receipts are numbered, permanent and public — see Payments. Held receipts never count toward a total.

pump.fun creator fee

100% forwarded to the named redditor as Gold

awarded’s cut of creator fees

None

Network fees + first buy

Paid by the launcher

Reddit’s cut

Taken by Reddit when Gold converts to cash — see Gold math

awarded token

There is none. Anything claiming to be one is not ours.

1. 1

   Open the coin on Solscan

   Find the bonding curve account. Its creator field should be the fee-sharing config PDA, not a wallet.
2. 2

   Open the fee-sharing config

   It is owned by pump.fun’s fee program. The shareholder list is one entry: the awarded fee account at 10,000 bps. The coin page reads exactly these bytes.
3. 3

   Check pump.fun

   pump.fun’s own coin page shows creator rewards routed to the same config — the label and the chain agree.

The fee account is public on Solscan; every collection out of it matches a fee receipt.