Claiming fees

If a coin tagged your X or GitHub account, its creator fees are already yours. Claiming takes a sign-in and one signature. You never need ETH: the transaction pays for itself out of the payout.

The three-minute version#

1. 1
   Sign in

   Use the X or GitHub account that was tagged. Dibs asks for the minimum: your account id and username. It cannot post, read your messages or see your email.
2. 2
   Connect any wallet

   Fresh or old, empty or full. It just needs to be able to sign a message. The claim page shows everything waiting for you: ETH and any stock fees.
3. 3
   Press Claim

   You sign one message (free, not a transaction). Dibs submits the payout; a network fee of a few cents is taken out of it, and the rest lands in your wallet seconds later.

What the signature does#

The message you sign names the handle and your wallet address, plus a one-time nonce. It proves you control that wallet, so a typo or a pasted address can never send your money to a stranger. Dibs then issues a 10-minute attestation (an EIP-712 signature from its attestor key) that the Dibs factory checks on-chain before it binds your wallet to the handle and pays out.

Once bound, future claims don't even need the signature. Fees keep arriving as the coin trades; come back any time and press Claim. If the amount waiting is smaller than a few times the network fee, the page says “accumulating” and waits until paying it out makes sense.

Changing wallets#

Sign in again and claim with a different connected wallet. Dibs issues a new attestation and the factory rebinds. Every payout from then on goes to the new wallet. Nobody can do this without both your account login and a signature from the new wallet.

Stock fees#

Coins paired with a tokenized stock pay their fees in that stock. The claim page lists each asset with its own amount, and the sponsored claim pays each of them. Your wallet ends up holding the stock tokens directly.

Edge cases#

For what the contracts allow and forbid, see Vaults & security.