How the Fan Bonus Pool Works: Getting Paid on Every Trade
The full breakdown of the 0.5% per-trade bonus that pays shareholders instantly — math included.
Owning creator shares doesn't just expose you to price moves — it also earns you a cut of every trade other fans make in that stock. That cut comes from the fan bonus pool, and it's paid out instantly, trade by trade. Here's exactly where the money comes from and how your share of it is calculated.
Where the money comes from: the 5% trade fee
Every buy and every sell on Celebrity Stocks carries a 5% trade fee. That fee is split three ways:
- 2.5% of the trade goes to the creator as revenue share.
- 2.0% of the trade goes to the platform.
- 0.5% of the trade goes to the fan bonus pool.
On a buy, the remaining 95% goes into the market reserve that moves the share price up the curve — the same reserve that guarantees you can always sell back, as covered in How Share Prices and Dividends Work. On a sell, the fee comes out of the sale proceeds instead.
How the pool is paid out
The fan bonus pool isn't saved up for later. The moment a trade happens, that trade's 0.5% is split among the stock's existing shareholders, in proportion to how many shares each one holds. The person making the trade is always excluded — you never earn a bonus from your own trade.
- Fan bonus pool = trade value × 0.5%
- Eligible shares = all shares held in that stock, minus the trader's own
- Your bonus = pool × (your shares ÷ eligible shares)
The math, step by step
Say a creator's stock has two shareholders: Alex holds 600 shares and Bree holds 400 — 1,000 shares between them. Now Maya comes along and buys $1,000 of shares. Here's the full money flow:
- Trade fee: $1,000 × 5% = $50, so $950 goes into the market and buys Maya's shares.
- Fee split: $25.00 to the creator, $20.00 to the platform, and $5.00 to the fan bonus pool ($1,000 × 0.5%).
- Alex's bonus: $5.00 × (600 ÷ 1,000) = $3.00.
- Bree's bonus: $5.00 × (400 ÷ 1,000) = $2.00.
Alex and Bree see those bonuses land in their wallets immediately, tagged as a fan bonus in their activity. Maya earns nothing from this trade — not from the shares she just bought, and not from any shares she already held — because the trader is always left out of their own trade's payout.
Sells feed the pool too
The bonus isn't only for buys. If Bree later sells $200 worth of shares, that sale carries a $10 fee — and $1.00 (0.5% of $200) goes straight to the other shareholders, again split by their share of the stock. Every trade in either direction pays the fans who stay holding.
The fine print
- You can't tip yourself. The trader is excluded from their own trade's pool — even the very first buyer of a brand-new stock earns nothing back from their own purchase.
- The pool always pays out in full. Each bonus is computed to four decimal places, and any rounding remainder goes to the largest shareholder, so the payouts always add up to the exact pool amount.
- No eligible holders, no payout. If a trade has no other shareholders to reward (like the first-ever buy in a new stock), that trade's bonus simply isn't distributed.
- It's separate from dividends. Dividends are funded from the creator's own earnings and paid out as their pool accrues; the fan bonus comes out of the trade fee and pays instantly. You can earn both on the same shares.
The takeaway: the longer you hold, and the more actively a creator's stock trades, the more of these small instant bonuses stack up in your wallet. Find a creator whose community is busy in the marketplace, and every one of their trades pays you a little for being there first.
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