90/10, instant, on-chain — always visible
Most platforms publish a take-rate slide once a year. iBird publishes the math: the fee breakdowns below come live from the running Fee Engine, and every payout event is timestamped on a public Hedera ledger topic anyone can audit.
Where every HBAR goes
90% of every tip lands in the creator's wallet instantly. The 10% treasury share funds the network. No follower threshold, no delayed payout schedule, no eligibility program.
Posting and other actions carry a service fee charged on the action's cost (Hedera network + storage). It is never a cut of what a creator earns from tips.
Current rates, straight from the engine
Fetched at page render from the public /fees/breakdown API — the same service that settles real transactions. USD at the live HBAR rate.
| Action | Network | Storage | Service fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post | 0.001731 ℏ | 0 ℏ | 0.000865 ℏ (~$0.000065) | 0.002596 ℏ |
| Thread | 0.174788 ℏ | 0 ℏ | 0.087394 ℏ (~$0.006565) | 0.262182 ℏ |
| Post with media | 0.001731 ℏ | 0 ℏ | 0.000865 ℏ (~$0.000065) | 0.002596 ℏ |
Every event on a public ledger topic
Every post, tip and fee receipt iBird settles is also published to one Hedera Consensus Service topic with a consensus timestamp that cannot be backdated or edited. Auditors replay it from Hedera's public mirror node and see the same events our systems settled.
- Topic
- 0.0.9920911
- Latest event
- #1119
- Consensus time
- 2026-09-13 16:48:26 UTC
Probe above is fetched live from the mirror node at render — sequence #1119 is the newest event iBird published when this page was served.
See the actual earnings these rules produce on /creators/earnings — weekly and lifetime creator tip totals, confirmed on-chain. How this compares to other platforms: /creators-payouts-2026.
Payout questions
What is iBird's payout split?
Tips are settled 90/10: 90% goes to the creator instantly as HBAR, 10% is the platform treasury share. The split is enforced by the same code path that settles every confirmed on-chain tip — there is no separate promo rate and no eligibility gate that changes the math.
Does iBird take a cut of creator earnings beyond the 10%?
No. The platform service fee is charged on the cost of an action (Hedera network fees plus storage) — never as a percentage of what a creator earns. A tip of 10 HBAR puts 9 HBAR in the creator's wallet; the fee engine's cut comes from the sender's action cost, not from the payout.
How can I verify the payout math myself?
Three ways, all independent of this page: (1) the fee breakdowns above are served live from the running Fee Engine API at /fees/breakdown — query it yourself; (2) every post, tip and fee event is timestamped on the public Hedera Consensus Service topic 0.0.9920911, readable via the public mirror node API; (3) each confirmed tip is a real HBAR transfer with a transaction ID inspectable on HashScan.
Why is a public HCS topic stronger than a transparency report?
A transparency report is written by the platform after the fact and can omit anything. A consensus timestamp on a public topic cannot be backdated, edited, or quietly deleted — auditors replay the topic from the mirror node and get the same sequence of events iBird's systems settled.
Are the numbers on this page self-reported?
The fee math is fetched live from the Fee Engine API (the same service that settles real transactions), and the latest-event probe is fetched live from Hedera's public mirror node. If either service is unreachable the page shows the failure rather than a cached claim.
Live data · testnet · rates from the running Fee Engine at render time