When a coin is paired with an X, YouTube, Twitch or Facebook Page account, or with a company domain, the owner of that account earns the paired share of every trade, even if they have never used this site. Their share waits in an escrow until they prove they own the account. This page explains how that works and what keeps it safe.
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The escrow#
- Each account gets one escrow wallet, shared by every coin paired with it. The escrow is a normal Solana wallet; its address is locked in each coin’s on-chain split.
- The platform holds the escrow’s key, encrypted on its server, until the owner claims. The escrow always keeps the small rent-exempt minimum so it stays a valid recipient for every coin.
- The “waiting” amount on Rewards is the escrow balance plus the paired share of fees not distributed yet.
How to claim#
X, YouTube, Twitch and Facebook
Sign in
Open Rewards and continue with the platform the coin is paired with. For YouTube, use the Google account that owns the channel. For Facebook, use an account that is an admin of the Page.Choose a wallet
Your connected wallet is filled in, or paste any Solana address. If you have no wallet, press “Make me a new wallet”: it is created in your browser and its private key is shown once. Save it before you claim; it is never sent to the site.Claim
Press Claim. Everything in your escrow is sent to your wallet. You need no SOL: the small network fee is paid from the escrow itself.
Sign-in sessions last one hour and are used only to prove ownership. Each provider appears only if the platform has set it up; until then, escrowed shares simply stay safe.
Companies
In the Companies section of Rewards, enter the domain and your payout wallet, add this TXT record to the domain’s DNS, then press Verify domain:
pairpad-verify=<your wallet address>
Once the record is found, everything in the escrow is sent to that wallet. Whoever controls the domain’s DNS can verify, so keep your DNS account secure.
After you verify#
- New coins paired with your account put your wallet directly in their split, so you are paid on-chain with no escrow.
- Older coins still pay into your old escrow, because their split is locked. The worker forwards that money to your wallet automatically once at least 0.005 SOL has built up, so you never need to come back.
- Verified accounts are no longer subject to the 30-day expiry.
The 30-day rule#
An unclaimed escrow is held for 30 days, counted from when the first real fee arrives in it (not from the launch, and not from the small rent deposit made at launch). When the 30 days are over and nobody has claimed, everything in the escrow is swept to the platform treasury. The clock then restarts with the next fee, so new fees get a full new 30 days.
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Claim window | 30 days from the first fee (the platform can change this) |
| What is swept | The whole escrow balance, minus the rent-exempt minimum |
| Where it goes | The platform treasury |
| After a sweep | The window restarts when the next fee arrives |
| Verified accounts | Never swept |
Important
Why a handle change cannot steal your fees#
Handles can be renamed, and an old handle can be registered by someone else. Escrows are tied to the account itself, not just to the name:
- Permanent account id. When the escrow is created, the platform records the account’s permanent id (X user id, YouTube channel id, Twitch user id or Facebook Page id) if it has that provider’s API set up. YouTube channel ids are permanent on their own.
- Only that id can claim. If you rename your handle, you still see and claim your escrow when you sign in. If someone else takes your old handle, they are refused: “Only the original account can claim.”
- The first verification binds the handle. Once an account has verified a handle, a different account can never verify it again.
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