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# Dividend baskets
> Pick up to ten assets at launch, and your holders are paid in them - tokenized stocks, majors, ecosystem tokens - converted on-chain, automatically.
Most launchpads pay holder rewards in whatever the token trades against, or not at all. A BaseStonk launch designates a **basket**: up to ten assets, weighted however the creator likes, and every holder's dividends arrive as those assets. A token can pay its holders in NVIDIA, in gold ETFs, in cbBTC, in \$BSTONK, in an agent token - in any mix of them at once.
## How it works
1. **The creator picks the basket at launch** - up to ten assets with weights, from a menu of several hundred priceable tokens: tokenized equities and ETFs, majors and stables, Base natives, and admitted ecosystem tokens.
2. **Trading fees accrue to the distributor** in the pair currency, the same way every rewards wedge has always worked.
3. **The distributor converts on-chain.** Each slot derives its own route to its asset - through real pools, priced against a verified floor so a conversion can never quietly underpay. There is no keeper, no off-chain bot, and no protocol fee on conversions.
4. **Holders are paid in kind, pro-rata, automatically.** Delivery pushes as people trade. There is nothing to claim - though a permissionless `claim()` exists for anyone who wants their accrual immediately.
## The arithmetic - volume, not fee-share
The single most misread fact about BaseStonk dividends: **they are a
percentage of trading volume, not a cut of a pool's LP fee.** A creator
who routes 3% to holders is routing 3% of every dollar that trades -
which, over a year of ordinary activity, is a very large number relative
to the token's own market cap.
A $10,000 buy on that token sends **$300\*\* into the distributor, on that
one trade. Volume compounds daily; market cap does not have to.
The forward model, for a token paying its basket in tokenized stocks:
```text theme={null}
Expected annual stock delivered ≈ dividend % × expected annual volume
Expected annual yield ≈ that, divided by market cap
```
Worked through at a 3% holder share:
| Daily volume | Annual volume | Stock delivered to holders / year | At \$2M cap | At \$5M cap | At \$10M cap |
| ------------ | ------------- | --------------------------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| \$200k | \$73M | \~\$2.2M | 110% | 44% | 22% |
| \$500k | \$182M | \~\$5.5M | 275% | 110% | 55% |
| \$1M | \$365M | \~\$11M | 550% | 220% | 110% |
That \$2.2M is not more of the meme token - it is **real tokenized stock**,
converted on-chain and pushed to holders' wallets as people trade. That is
the entire pitch.
This is arithmetic, not a promise. Volume is the input the model cannot
guarantee: a token that stops trading stops paying. What the contracts do
guarantee is the percentage - the hook takes it inside the swap, the split
is immutable after launch, and the conversion to basket assets is
floor-guarded on-chain.
## The honest edges
* The basket is the creator's **preference, not a guarantee of which asset arrives**. A slot whose asset cannot be priced or routed at fill time pays out in the pair currency instead - visibly, never silently lost.
* Conversions are floor-guarded: a fill that would arrive below the verified fair value is refused and retried smaller, rather than accepted badly.
* An empty basket is simply the classic behaviour - dividends in the pair.
## Where to see it
Any token whose card carries the **BASKET REWARDS** tag pays a basket. Its token page shows the designated assets and weights, each holder's running totals per asset, and a breakdown of what has been received and what is waiting.
The platform's own token participates too: launches can route a share of their rewards into the $BSTONK basket vault, which holds a portfolio paid out to $BSTONK holders in kind.