fomo creator rewards, explained

What they are

fomo’s help centre: “Creator rewards are a share of fomo’s trading fee, paid to a fomo user each time a token is traded through fomo. Despite the name, it isn’t tied to who launched the token.” Its Terms call them “Creator Rewards” and note they are “sometimes referred to as ‘trader rewards’”.

The share “goes to the person whose activity led to the trade: someone trades after opening your post, your profile or your position, and the share is yours.” fomo is a social app. Every trade shows in a public feed, and users post theses on their positions, so a popular post can earn from other people’s trades. fomo adds: “Active perps traders on fomo can receive a share from other users’ token trades as well. Your own trades never pay you one.”

Creator rewards next to referrals

	Referral earnings	Creator rewards
Earned when	Someone you referred trades	Someone trades after opening your post, profile or position
Rate	25% of their trading fees	Not published
Lasts	While the referral link stands (fomo can change the share)	Per trade; no standing link
Both apply to the same trader	The two shares are paid together and shown under Referrals
Paid	USDC to your cash balance	Same

Both come out of fomo’s fee. The trader pays nothing extra.

How they pay

• Solana: paid “inside the other trader’s own transaction, straight into your fomo cash balance”, as many small credits. There is nothing to collect, and no single transfer matches the total.
• EVM networks (Base, BNB Chain, Monad, Ethereum, Robinhood Chain, Arc, Elysium): your app collects them when you open fomo, at most once every 12 hours, as one transfer.
• Where to see them: the Rewards screen (Portfolio tab, Rewards). “Total earned” combines referral earnings and creator rewards. It is what you have earned, not a balance, and can run ahead of what has reached your cash balance.

What fomo doesn’t publish

• The rate. No help article or page we read gives the share.
• How “led to the trade” is decided, for example how long after opening a post a trade still counts.
• Totals. DefiLlama’s referral figure for fomo counts only EVM referral shares. It leaves out creator rewards and Solana referral shares, which never pass through fomo’s fee wallet. So there is no public measure of how much fomo pays in creator rewards.

The “Trading rebate” is something else

fomo’s release notes for October 9 to 16, 2026 say “Solana cashback is now labeled ‘Trading rebate’ in transaction history.” No help article explains its terms, so we can’t say who gets it or how much, and we leave it out of every fee calculation.

What the Terms say

Section 8.2 of the Terms (October 26, 2026) governs these rewards. fomo can change or end them, and rewards must not be misrepresented: you “must not misstate a reward’s source, rate, availability, reliability”, or claim fomo guarantees earnings. Section 8.3(i) adds: “No Program promises a future token, airdrop, or equity award.”

Earning from other people’s trades also means encouraging them. Most small tokens lose most of their value, and a post that leads followers into a losing trade still pays its author.