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Choosing programs
How a creator picks programs for a token, which ones can be gamed with many wallets, and why a small token may never pay a dividend.
You choose programs when you launch a token, and the choice cannot change afterwards. This page helps you pick, and tells holders what each choice means for them.
Which program fits your goal
| If you want to | Consider | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Reward people who keep holding | Diamond hands, Holder lottery | Games pay one winner or a few, not everyone |
| Punish selling | Diamond hands (strict), Jeet jail, Whale tax | A wallet that moves tokens between its own addresses can lose its place |
| Help small holders | Shrimp fund, Midcurve, Whale tax | These can be farmed with many wallets |
| Reward everyone the same | Flat dividend | Easiest to farm with many wallets |
| Attract new buyers | Gas money | Easy to farm with fresh wallets |
| Reward the biggest holders | Whale club | Only the top 100 holders are paid, weighted by average balance |
You can combine up to three programs, with at most one game. A mix of a game and a dividend gives long holders a chance at a prize while the dividend pays holders as well. A token runs all its programs on one cadence, and the launch form picks the slowest of the programs chosen. With a game in the mix, the dividend also pays weekly, not daily.
Small tokens may never pay a dividend
Each dividend has a per-wallet cap, a percentage of the cycle's pot. A cycle pays only if enough wallets qualify to share the pot under that cap: at least 100 divided by the cap in percent.
| Cap | Wallets needed | Programs |
|---|---|---|
| 5% | 20 | Whale club, Jeet jail |
| 3% | 34 | Midcurve, Whale tax |
| 2% | 50 | Flat dividend, Shrimp fund |
| 1% | 100 | Gas money |
With fewer qualifying wallets, the pot is not paid and rolls into the next cycle. A token with few holders can roll every cycle and never pay. Shrimp fund and Whale tax need even more holders, because they count only part of the holder base: the smallest 30% for Shrimp fund, the smaller half for Whale tax, and the middle 70% for Midcurve.
A very large token can roll too. When more than 20,000 wallets qualify, Flat dividend, Shrimp fund, Midcurve, Whale tax and Gas money roll.
Games have no minimum number of wallets. Their minimum is the pot: under $20, the draw is skipped and the pot rolls.
Farming risk
Several programs share the pot equally or by a flattened curve. Someone can split a balance across many wallets to collect more of the pot. The holding floors limit this but do not remove it. The per-wallet cap limits each wallet, not the number of wallets.
Programs that can be farmed: Flat dividend, Shrimp fund, Midcurve, Whale tax and Gas money. The launch form shows a note for them.
We measured this with the program engine in November 2026. The test used a made-up token with 200 other holders, a $25 floor and a 24 hour hold, and compared $500 in one wallet with $500 split into 20 equal wallets:
- Flat dividend. 20 wallets took about 9% of a cycle's pot. One wallet took 0.5%.
- Shrimp fund. One large wallet earned nothing, because it sits outside the smallest 30%. 20 wallets that pass the floor took about 30%.
- Whale tax. One large wallet earned nothing. 20 wallets took about 13%.
- Gas money. Close to linear until the cap. 20 fresh wallets took about 20%.
- Midcurve. Splitting often pushes wallets out of the middle band, so it did not reliably pay.
These are measurements of one shape of holder base, not limits. A real token can be better or worse, and the numbers have not been checked on real holders. If a token's pot is small, the cost of extra wallets can exceed the reward, but that is not a guarantee.
Related: Programs, Who is eligible, Trust and limits.