Community take-over
How the creator role moves, and how long you get to see it coming.
The creator role is an income stream: 70% of a token's trading fees for as long as it trades. Moving that role is moving money, so it is worth being exact about who can move it and how long it takes.
Two ways the role moves
You can name a successor at any time. Separately, the platform owner can name one over your head — that is the community take-over, and it exists for a reason: a token whose creator has disappeared would otherwise pay fees to an unreachable wallet forever.
Neither one is an instant transfer. Both are nominations, and nothing happens until the named address accepts it. Nobody can push the role onto a wallet that never asked for it.
A take-over is public for seven days first
The platform's nominee cannot accept until seven days have passed. The countdown is visible on your token's page the whole time.
That delay does not prevent a take-over — it puts one in the open before it happens, so you and anybody holding your token can see it coming rather than finding out afterwards. If you are watching, you can hand the role to somebody of your own choosing during that window instead.
Said plainly rather than buried: with seven days' notice, the owner can move a token's future fee income to an address of their choosing, without the creator agreeing to it.
Nothing else is reachable that way — not the token's supply, not its locked liquidity, not anybody's balance, and not fees already credited. Only who future fees go to.
If you both nominate somebody
- If you nominated before the platform did, your choice takes precedence for fourteen days. Only your nominee can accept during that window, even after the platform's seven days are up.
- After that, precedence lapses and it becomes a race between the two named addresses — whoever accepts first gets it.
- Nominating after the platform has carries no precedence at all. Otherwise a creator could keep renewing it indefinitely and a take-over could never happen.
- Precedence is about priority, not validity. An uncontested nomination stays acceptable however long ago you made it, so an honest handover that takes a month is not quietly voided.
Money does not follow the role
Anything already credited to you stays yours, and whoever takes over cannot reach it. You can still claim it after handing the role on.
The exception is fees that have built up but have not been claimed yet: those go to whoever holds the role when they are next claimed. Claim before you hand over — see Locked liquidity.