The mechanics
How fees actually work
Every transaction on a vampchain generates two kinds of real revenue. Here's where each one goes, and when it's actually claimable.
Two kinds of revenue
A tip, and a burn
Gas on a vampchain splits into two pieces, and they behave completely differently.
Tips
A small tip on top of every transaction accrues as real balance. Every so often it's swept out and becomes claimable.
Base fee
The rest of the gas fee is destroyed outright — standard Ethereum rules. Nothing sits anywhere to sweep, but we keep an exact running count of it, and that count is what becomes claimable.
Split three ways
Every claim pays three parties, automatically
Whichever kind of revenue it is, once it's claimed it splits the same way: a third to whoever created the chain, a third to the protocol, and a third into a wallet dedicated to keeping the chain funded.
Creator
Protocol
Runway
Every claim splits into three equal shares. Any leftover wei from rounding (0–2 of them) tops off the runway share — nobody else is ever shorted.
No single address can redirect this or block another party from getting paid — every recipient is looked up live from the contract itself, never chosen by whoever submits the claim.
Timing
When it becomes claimable
Tips
Accrues continuously, swept roughly every 24 hours (each sweep, its own claimable signature) → claimable any time after.
Base fee
Burns continuously, running total re-signed whenever it grows (one signature, always the latest) → claimable any time.
Who actually does this
Public, but not anyone's job
Claiming is technically open to anyone — nothing about it is gatekept, since the payout always lands on the same three fixed addresses no matter who submits it. In practice it's usually the chain's creator, or a small admin script, pulling revenue in whenever it's worth the gas to do so.