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Why Fuelgauge
The problem with creator fees, what Fuelgauge changes, who it is for, and what $GAUGE does.
Fuelgauge gives a pump.fun coin a public budget. Its creator fees go into a vault that can only pay named, capped budget lines, every payment is a receipt anyone can check, and a gauge shows how many days of work the fees have paid for.
#The problem
Every trade of a pump.fun coin pays its creator a fee. Today that fee lands in a wallet the creator controls, and holders cannot see what happens to it. It might pay for servers and development. It might fund the creator's next coin, or a quiet exit.
So "we're building" is a promise nobody can check. A team that spends every lamport on its product looks exactly like one that doesn't, and holders are left guessing from tweets.
#What Fuelgauge changes
- A budget, in public. The creator names up to 8 budget lines: who gets paid, how much, how often. Servers, developers, art, AI compute.
- A vault that can only pay that budget. Each line becomes an on-chain Squads spending limit with one payee and a cap per period. On a locked vault, the default, nothing else can ever move the SOL, the creator included.
- A split nobody can redirect. pump.fun's own fee sharing sends 95% of the coin's creator fees to the vault and 5% to the $GAUGE burn, and pump.fun locks it.
- Receipts and a gauge. Every SOL in and out of the vault is shown on the coin's page, read from Solana. The gauge reads days funded: the vault's balance against the whole budget.
- Checks, every cycle. Fuelgauge re-reads the coin, its split and its vault on chain every few minutes. If anything stops matching, the coin is flagged in public and its payments stop.
- A sunset for abandoned fees. If no budget line is paid for the idle period (60 days by default), the vault's SOL buys the coin back and burns it, instead of sitting unused forever.
The money rules are enforced by Solana programs, not by Fuelgauge. See Trust model for exactly what is enforced where.
#Who it is for
Creators who are building something get a way to prove it. "Our fees pay for servers and devs, here are the receipts" is stronger than any roadmap post. Setup takes a few minutes from the wallet that created the coin and costs only Solana network fees and rent. See the Quick start.
Holders and traders get a coin page to check before they trust a coin, without trusting anyone: every number on it links back to Solana. See Reading a coin page.
New launches can make the vault before the coin exists and launch with the split already in place, so the fees never touch a plain wallet. See Launching a new coin.
#What $GAUGE does
$GAUGE is Fuelgauge's token, and it has one job: 5% of every listed coin's creator fees buys $GAUGE and burns it. That share is written into each coin's locked pump.fun split, so it cannot be switched off coin by coin.
$GAUGE's own creator fees run through its own public budget vault, which pays Fuelgauge's servers and development with receipts like any other coin. The platform plays by its own rules. See $GAUGE and the burn.
#Why it is different
- The utility is accountability itself. Most utility tokens promise a product that might ship. Fuelgauge works the day a coin lists, and every pump.fun coin has creator fees it could account for.
- Nothing to trust that you cannot check. Budgets, payments, splits and locks are all on chain, and the docs show how to check each one yourself.
- The burn grows with use, not with hype. Each coin that lists adds its 5% to the $GAUGE burn for as long as it trades.
- Abandoned fees do not rot. The sunset turns an idle vault into a buyback and burn of the coin itself.
#What it is not
- Not a safety rating. A listing shows where a coin's fees can go and where they went. It says nothing about the team's work, the product or the price.
- Not a promise of returns. How much $GAUGE is bought and burned depends on how many coins list and how much they trade. Nothing on this site is investment advice.
- Not custody. Fuelgauge never holds a coin's fees. Its keeper is never a member of any vault and can only trigger payouts and automatic lines.
See Risks for the full list.