Getting paid
How and when you get paid, covering the take-rate, the monthly payout schedule, and the approval-to-chain flow.
You earn on every billable impression and click your zones serve. Earnings accrue to your balance as events settle, and once a month we pay that balance out to you automatically, there is nothing to request.
The take-rate
We keep a flat 20% of what an advertiser pays, and you receive the other 80%. That split is published and applied to every transaction. It is not a range, and it does not change based on volume. It's the whole reason a one-event-log exchange can reconcile: the same event that bills the advertiser credits you, minus the take.
The monthly schedule
- When. Payouts are generated on the 5th of each month (UTC). The few days' lag lets us finish reviewing the prior month's traffic before money moves.
- How much. Your full cleared balance at generation time. Very large balances may be split across months (the per-payout maximum rolls the remainder into next month's payout).
- Your threshold. On the Payouts page you can set a minimum balance. If your cleared balance is under it (or under the $0.10 system minimum) on the 5th, no payout is generated and the balance simply carries forward, and nothing is lost.
- Where it goes. Save your USDC-on-Base payout address first. The saved address is where your payout is sent. Without one, no payout can be generated, and your balance carries forward until you add one.
Review and sending
- Approval. Every generated payout is still reviewed and approved by an admin before it sends. While it waits in the queue, the amount is reserved against your balance so it can't be double-spent.
- On-chain. Once approved, the payout is sent on-chain and the transaction hash is recorded against it. You can follow that hash on a block explorer to confirm the funds arrived, the same hash we reconcile against.
Timing
Because payouts are approved by a person, the 5th is when your payout is generated, not when it arrives. Once approved and broadcast, arrival depends on the network. If a payout ever fails to send, or is declined, for example over a bad address, the reservation is released back to your balance and it is picked up again in a following monthly run.