> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.aura.markets/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Creator Rewards

> Earn a tier-scaled share of the trading fee on every market you create, paid in USDT automatically at resolution.

Create a market that people want to trade and you earn a slice of every trade on
it, for the entire life of the market. Your slice is set by your staked \$AURA tier.

## What you earn

Between **1% and 30%** of the 2.5% trading fee, scaling with tier:

| Tier       | Creator's cut of the trading fee |
| ---------- | -------------------------------: |
| Degenerate |                              30% |
| Diamond    |                              22% |
| Platinum   |                              16% |
| Gold       |                              11% |
| Silver     |                               7% |
| Bronze     |                               3% |
| Iron       |                               1% |

Paid in USDT. The remainder flows to the treasury, which funds liquidity
rewards, dispute incentives, referral payouts, and development.

<Note>
  Your cut is the **lower** of your tier when you proposed the market and your tier
  now. Staking more after the fact does not retroactively raise your take, and
  unstaking below your propose-time tier does lower it. See
  [Tier structure](/tokens/tier-structure).
</Note>

## How it gets paid

Fees accrue inside the market contract on every fill and sit there until the
market resolves. Once it resolves yes or no, your share is sent to your wallet
automatically.

There is nothing to claim, no button to press, and no deadline to miss. The
payout destination is the creator address recorded on the market at proposal time
and it cannot be changed afterwards, which is also why it cannot be redirected by
anyone else.

<Warning>
  A market that never resolves never pays. If a dispute returns `TOO_EARLY`, the
  market goes back to trading and your accrued fees stay locked until it reaches a
  real resolution. That is not a loss, just a delay.
</Warning>

## Making this worth doing

Your earnings are a percentage of volume, so the whole game is attracting volume.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Stake before you propose, not after">
    Your cut is fixed at propose time by your tier. Proposing at Iron and
    staking to Degenerate the next day leaves you on 1% for that market forever.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Write rules that cannot be argued with">
    Ambiguous resolution criteria are the main reason markets end up disputed,
    and a disputed market pays 10% of its fees to voters instead of building your
    reputation. Name the exact source and the exact condition. See
    [Creating markets](/markets/creating-markets).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick questions with a natural audience">
    Volume follows interest. A market about something nobody is arguing about
    will not trade, no matter how cleanly it is written.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Give it enough time to trade">
    A market that resolves in two days has two days to accumulate volume. Longer
    horizons generally accrue more, as long as the question stays interesting.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Seed your own liquidity">
    A market with an empty book does not attract traders. Quoting it yourself
    also earns [liquidity rewards](/programs/liquidity-rewards), so the two
    programs compound.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Costs and limits

|                         |                                                                |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Proposals per wallet    | 25 open at a time                                              |
| ALPH deposit            | Refundable storage rent, returned when the market is torn down |
| Minimum tier to propose | See [Tier structure](/tokens/tier-structure)                   |
| Acceptance              | Proposals go to a governance vote before becoming markets      |

Proposing is not the same as creating. Your proposal has to pass a
[governance vote](/governance/proposal-voting) before it becomes a market, and
only accepted proposals earn anything.

## Next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Creating markets" icon="pen-to-square" href="/markets/creating-markets">
    The mechanics of writing and submitting a proposal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tier structure" icon="layer-group" href="/tokens/tier-structure">
    What each tier costs and what it unlocks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Binary market best practices" icon="circle-half-stroke" href="/tutorials/binary-market-best-practices">
    How to write a yes-or-no question that resolves cleanly.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Liquidity rewards" icon="layer-group" href="/programs/liquidity-rewards">
    Earn again by quoting your own market.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>