What has a token earned its creator?
Every Pons token can charge a creator tax, a cut of each buy and each sell on its bonding curve, paid to whoever launched it. The rate is set at launch and is public. So is every trade. Paste a contract address and this reads the token's own launch record off the chain, then the fees it has taken.
How this is worked out
The tax is on the curve, and it is an event. Each buy and each sell on a Pons bonding curve emits its own log carrying the creator's cut. The lifetime figure is the sum of those, in the asset the curve is quoted in, which is either ETH or USDG. Nothing here is estimated from a rate and a volume; it is the tax that was actually taken.
Two numbers, and the smaller one leads. A deployer can buy his own token, and when he does he pays his own creator tax to himself. That is circular, so the headline counts only tax paid by someone who is neither the deployer nor his fee recipient. The gross figure, which is what a block explorer would show you, sits beside it. Where the two are far apart, the token was largely trading with itself.
Curve phase only. When a token graduates it leaves the curve for a pool, and a pool charges its own fees on its own terms. Those are a separate stream and they are not counted here. A graduated token's real lifetime earnings are therefore higher than this page shows, and the page says so on the token rather than leaving you to guess.
Unclaimed is not earned. A curve also reports the creator tax sitting in it right now, waiting to be taken. That is a balance, not a total: it falls to nothing the moment the creator claims. Both are shown, and they answer different questions.
Where the numbers come from. All of it is read live from Robinhood Chain when you press the button, and none of it is stored. Two calls do the work: the factory resolves the token to its curve and its terms, then a single query returns every trade that curve ever made. The total is the sum of the tax on those trades. Nothing is estimated from a rate and a volume, and nothing is adjusted after the fact.
The unit is whatever the curve is quoted in. Most are ETH or USDG, but a Pons curve can be quoted in a tokenised equity, and one quoted in GOOGL is not quoted in dollars. Where this site holds no price for the asset, the fee is shown in that asset and left unconverted rather than guessed at.