How Sheaf makes money
Sheaf’s protocol fee is paid when a share is made, never while it is held, redeemed or sold. Sheaf’s own filler earns its 0.15% on the dollar orders and sales it fills. Every fee is written into a basket when the basket is created, so the rate a buyer sees is the rate that basket will charge for as long as it exists.
0.10% of every share created goes to Sheaf. The basket’s creator sets their own fee. A filler earns whatever the buyer’s own ±2% band leaves it, and Sheaf’s filler waits for 0.15%.
Everything runs on devnet and testnets with test money today. The protocol fee is live on devnet for Solana baskets created since 9 Oct 2026 and on dollar fills through the EVM v2 and v3 desks, and the treasury has made its first claim. The rates are real; the revenue is not yet.
0.10%
of every share created, to Sheaf
Solana baskets created since 9 Oct 2026, and dollar fills on the EVM v3 desks, paid to a separate treasury key
0–1%
to the basket's creator
the composer suggests 0.25%
0.15%
what Sheaf's filler waits for
any filler may fill anywhere inside the ±2% band the buyer signs
0%
protocol fee to hold, redeem or sell
no yearly fee; redeem for the stocks or sell for dollars
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Who pays, for what
Four lines earn money. Two are paid where backed shares are made: the protocol fee to Sheaf and the creator fee to whoever created the basket. One is paid to whoever fills a dollar order, buying or selling. The last comes from launch markets, which sit beside the backed share rather than inside it.
Fees on a creation are paid in newly made shares, so the vault always receives the full recipe and what every share can redeem for never changes.
Protocol fee
0.10% of shares created
- Paid by
- Whoever creates shares: in kind, by dollar order or by a plan run
- Paid to
- Sheaf's treasury
- How
- Minted as new shares and accrued in the basket; anyone can send the claim, which pays only the treasury. The vault still receives the full recipe, so what a share redeems for is unchanged. Written into the basket when it is created and can never change.
- Status
- Live on devnet since 9 Oct 2026 for Solana baskets created from then on; baskets created before it carry none, for good. On EVM, dollar orders and plan runs through the v3 desks pay 0.10% to a separate treasury key the server does not hold (the earlier v2 desks paid it to the house key); in-kind EVM mints carry none, because the v1 baskets are immutable.
Creator fee
0 to 1% of shares created
- Paid by
- Whoever creates shares in that basket
- Paid to
- The basket's creator
- How
- Chosen once when the basket is created (the composer suggests 0.25%) and paid in new shares, never out of the vault.
- Status
- Live on devnet and on the five EVM testnets. Sheaf earns it only on the baskets it creates itself.
Filler margin
Any filler: anywhere inside the buyer's ±2% band. Sheaf's filler: 0.15% over fair.
- Paid by
- The buyer of a dollar order or a plan run
- Paid to
- Whichever filler delivers the stocks first
- How
- The auction offers a share count that starts 2% above fair and falls to the buyer's floor, 2% below it. Sheaf's filler fills once the dollars cover the stocks at fair plus 0.15%. Another filler can fill earlier for less, and the buyer gets that better count; one that waits longer earns more, up to the floor the buyer signed.
- Status
- Sheaf's 0.15% is a policy of its filler, not a program rule. It leaves orders under $5 to others and refuses to fill on stale prices. Anyone can run a filler; the script is in the repository.
Launch markets
40% of curve and graduated-pool fees, 1% at graduation, 1% of supply
- Paid by
- Traders of a basket's launch token on Meteora
- Paid to
- Sheaf's treasury; the creator gets another 40% and Meteora keeps 20%
- How
- Meteora takes its share of every trading fee first and the rest is split evenly, on the curve and in the permanently locked pool it graduates into. At graduation the treasury also takes a 1% migration fee and 1% of the token's supply.
- Status
- Live on devnet. A launch token is its own market and is not a basket share.
Monthly plans
Free to open and to run
- Paid by
- Nobody, beyond each run's own dollar order
- Paid to
- —
- How
- Each run is a dollar order, so the protocol fee, the creator fee and the filler's margin apply to every run exactly as to any other order. Whoever sends a due run gets back the small account deposit it paid to place the order.
- Status
- Live on devnet.
Holding and redeeming
Free
- Paid by
- —
- Paid to
- —
- How
- No yearly fee and no exit fee. Redeeming burns shares and returns the stocks themselves, rounded down, for Solana's network fee.
- Status
- Live. No yearly fee will be added without legal advice first.
Selling for dollars
No protocol fee. Any filler: anywhere inside the seller's ±2% band. Sheaf's filler pays fair less 0.15%.
- Paid by
- The seller, through the auction
- Paid to
- Whichever filler takes the shares first
- How
- A sell order is the dollar order run backwards: the dollars offered start 2% above fair and fall to the seller's floor over 90 seconds. The filler redeems the shares for the stocks and sells them.
- Status
- Live on devnet since 9 Oct 2026.
| Line | Rate | Paid by | Paid to | How it works | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protocol fee | 0.10% of shares created | Whoever creates shares: in kind, by dollar order or by a plan run | Sheaf's treasury | Minted as new shares and accrued in the basket; anyone can send the claim, which pays only the treasury. The vault still receives the full recipe, so what a share redeems for is unchanged. Written into the basket when it is created and can never change. | Live on devnet since 9 Oct 2026 for Solana baskets created from then on; baskets created before it carry none, for good. On EVM, dollar orders and plan runs through the v3 desks pay 0.10% to a separate treasury key the server does not hold (the earlier v2 desks paid it to the house key); in-kind EVM mints carry none, because the v1 baskets are immutable. |
| Creator fee | 0 to 1% of shares created | Whoever creates shares in that basket | The basket's creator | Chosen once when the basket is created (the composer suggests 0.25%) and paid in new shares, never out of the vault. | Live on devnet and on the five EVM testnets. Sheaf earns it only on the baskets it creates itself. |
| Filler margin | Any filler: anywhere inside the buyer's ±2% band. Sheaf's filler: 0.15% over fair. | The buyer of a dollar order or a plan run | Whichever filler delivers the stocks first | The auction offers a share count that starts 2% above fair and falls to the buyer's floor, 2% below it. Sheaf's filler fills once the dollars cover the stocks at fair plus 0.15%. Another filler can fill earlier for less, and the buyer gets that better count; one that waits longer earns more, up to the floor the buyer signed. | Sheaf's 0.15% is a policy of its filler, not a program rule. It leaves orders under $5 to others and refuses to fill on stale prices. Anyone can run a filler; the script is in the repository. |
| Launch markets | 40% of curve and graduated-pool fees, 1% at graduation, 1% of supply | Traders of a basket's launch token on Meteora | Sheaf's treasury; the creator gets another 40% and Meteora keeps 20% | Meteora takes its share of every trading fee first and the rest is split evenly, on the curve and in the permanently locked pool it graduates into. At graduation the treasury also takes a 1% migration fee and 1% of the token's supply. | Live on devnet. A launch token is its own market and is not a basket share. |
| Monthly plans | Free to open and to run | Nobody, beyond each run's own dollar order | — | Each run is a dollar order, so the protocol fee, the creator fee and the filler's margin apply to every run exactly as to any other order. Whoever sends a due run gets back the small account deposit it paid to place the order. | Live on devnet. |
| Holding and redeeming | Free | — | — | No yearly fee and no exit fee. Redeeming burns shares and returns the stocks themselves, rounded down, for Solana's network fee. | Live. No yearly fee will be added without legal advice first. |
| Selling for dollars | No protocol fee. Any filler: anywhere inside the seller's ±2% band. Sheaf's filler pays fair less 0.15%. | The seller, through the auction | Whichever filler takes the shares first | A sell order is the dollar order run backwards: the dollars offered start 2% above fair and fall to the seller's floor over 90 seconds. The filler redeems the shares for the stocks and sells them. | Live on devnet since 9 Oct 2026. |
There is no management fee and no fee switch: each basket's fees are part of its account and no instruction edits them. Sources, read 9 Oct 2026: Meteora, DBC fees; Sheaf, the Meteora lifecycle on devnet.
Where $1,000 goes
A buyer escrows dollars and names a floor. The auction offers a share count that starts above fair and falls toward the floor. Sheaf’s filler steps in when the dollars cover the stocks at fair plus 0.15%; a faster filler gives the buyer a better count and keeps less.
The shares the stocks create are then split once: most to the buyer, the creator’s fee to the creator, 0.10% to Sheaf. Nothing is taken after that.
A $1,000.00 dollar order into a basket with a 0.25% creator fee, filled by Sheaf’s filler
The other $4.99, drawn 200 times larger
- Creator
- $2.49
- Filler
- $1.50
- Sheaf
- $1.00
$995.01 + $2.49 + $1.50 + $1.00 = $1,000.00
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What a holder pays
A Sheaf basket costs something each time shares are made, whether by one order or by every run of a plan, and nothing a year. Leaving costs no protocol fee: redeem for the stocks, or sell for dollars and pay only the filler. Against smallcase that makes small monthly plans cheaper and large ones dearer. It is cheaper than a thematic ETF’s yearly fee, and dearer than a broad index ETF or five tokens bought by hand.
What the fee buys is one token, backed by the stocks and redeemable for them, held in your own wallet.
Sheaf, one dollar order
up to 0.50% · 0% a year
0.10% protocol, 0.25% suggested creator fee, up to 0.15% to Sheaf's filler. With no creator fee, up to 0.25%.
Sheaf, a monthly plan of ₹500 or ₹5,000
up to 0.50% every run · 0% a year
Every run is a new dollar order, so it pays the same fees every time, at any size.
Sheaf, in kind
0.35% · 0% a year
For someone who already holds the stocks: no filler and no route cost.
Sheaf, selling a share for dollars
up to 0.15% · 0% a year
No protocol fee. Sheaf's filler pays fair less 0.15%; any filler may pay more. Or redeem for the stocks themselves, free.
smallcase, a ₹500 SIP
1.77% every run · 0% a year
₹10 capped at 1.5% (₹7.50), plus 18% GST: ₹8.85 a run. Broker charges on top.
smallcase, a ₹5,000 SIP
0.24% every run · 0% a year
₹10 plus 18% GST, ₹11.80 a run. Broker charges on top. Indian stocks, not US.
smallcase, a ₹9,688 ($100) lump sum
1.22% · 0% a year
₹100 per buy order plus 18% GST, capped at 1.5%.
A thematic ETF (ARKK, BOTZ)
spread + brokerage · 0.68–0.75% a year
Expense ratios charged every year. The fund rebalances for you; a Sheaf basket never does.
A broad index ETF, or an issuer token like SPYx
spread + brokerage · 0.14% average a year
Cheaper than Sheaf for a broad index. If that is what you want, buy it; a Sheaf basket can hold SPYx too.
Five tokens on Jupiter's recurring orders
0.1% of what you spend · 0% a year
Cheaper than Sheaf per run. But each order needs at least $50 and each plan $100 in total, so five stocks a month start at $250; a Sheaf plan starts at $5. You hold five positions and keep the weights yourself.
Five tokens bought by hand on Jupiter
about 0.03% + network fees · 0% a year
Cheapest of all. Five positions to keep in balance yourself.
| Route | Each buy or sale | Each year | What is in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheaf, one dollar order | up to 0.50% | 0% | 0.10% protocol, 0.25% suggested creator fee, up to 0.15% to Sheaf's filler. With no creator fee, up to 0.25%. |
| Sheaf, a monthly plan of ₹500 or ₹5,000 | up to 0.50% every run | 0% | Every run is a new dollar order, so it pays the same fees every time, at any size. |
| Sheaf, in kind | 0.35% | 0% | For someone who already holds the stocks: no filler and no route cost. |
| Sheaf, selling a share for dollars | up to 0.15% | 0% | No protocol fee. Sheaf's filler pays fair less 0.15%; any filler may pay more. Or redeem for the stocks themselves, free. |
| smallcase, a ₹500 SIP | 1.77% every run | 0% | ₹10 capped at 1.5% (₹7.50), plus 18% GST: ₹8.85 a run. Broker charges on top. |
| smallcase, a ₹5,000 SIP | 0.24% every run | 0% | ₹10 plus 18% GST, ₹11.80 a run. Broker charges on top. Indian stocks, not US. |
| smallcase, a ₹9,688 ($100) lump sum | 1.22% | 0% | ₹100 per buy order plus 18% GST, capped at 1.5%. |
| A thematic ETF (ARKK, BOTZ) | spread + brokerage | 0.68–0.75% | Expense ratios charged every year. The fund rebalances for you; a Sheaf basket never does. |
| A broad index ETF, or an issuer token like SPYx | spread + brokerage | 0.14% average | Cheaper than Sheaf for a broad index. If that is what you want, buy it; a Sheaf basket can hold SPYx too. |
| Five tokens on Jupiter's recurring orders | 0.1% of what you spend | 0% | Cheaper than Sheaf per run. But each order needs at least $50 and each plan $100 in total, so five stocks a month start at $250; a Sheaf plan starts at $5. You hold five positions and keep the weights yourself. |
| Five tokens bought by hand on Jupiter | about 0.03% + network fees | 0% | Cheapest of all. Five positions to keep in balance yourself. |
On a monthly plan, Sheaf is cheaper than smallcase below about ₹2,360 a run and dearer above it (₹4,720 in a basket with no creator fee). Both charge nothing a year, where a thematic ETF charges every year.
For an Indian resident the larger cost is tax, not fees: tokenized stocks are taxed as crypto at 30% plus 1% TDS, against 12.5% on US shares held over two years through the overseas remittance route. Sheaf does not offer this to Indian residents today.
Rupees at ₹96.88 to the dollar today. Fees only: none of these counts taxes, the token's premium to the listed share, or a broker's own charges. Sources, read 9 Oct 2026: smallcase, fees and charges; Pensions & Investments, ARKK; Global X, BOTZ; ICI, fund fees in 2025; Jupiter, recurring orders; Jupiter, recurring order minimums; Decrypt, India keeps its crypto tax; Motilal Oswal, tax on US stocks for Indian investors; open.er-api.com, USD/INR.
What a share is, and is not
A fixed basket
Like a unit investment trust, the recipe is set once and never changes. Nobody rebalances it, adds a name or drops one: you hold exactly what you chose, and nobody trades your holdings.
Backed in kind
Every share is backed by the stocks in its own vault, created and redeemed for them by anyone. No price oracle is read.
Two ways out
Redeem for the stocks themselves at any time, or sell the share for dollars: a sell order is an auction where the dollars you receive start 2% above fair and fall to your own floor 2% below over 90 seconds, and any filler can take it. No protocol fee on a sale.
In your own wallet
A share is a token you hold yourself, not a line in someone's database. That is why it matters to wallets, and much less to a custodial exchange.
Why Sheaf’s filler waits for 0.15%
A filler has to buy every stock in the recipe before it can deliver them. On big US names that route is cheap: we measured it through Jupiter for a five-stock basket, and at $1,000 the round trip is under a tenth of a percent. One way is about half of that.
So 0.15% covers the route with a little left over, and the buyer pays far less than the 2% the band allows. Thin markets, like pre-IPO tokens, cost more to route; there the filler waits longer in the auction or does not fill, and the dollars go back.
What a filler pays to buy the stocks, measured
| Order | Round trip | One way, about | Left of 0.15% |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 | 0.057% | 0.121% | |
| $1,000 | 0.092% | 0.104% | |
| $5,000 | 0.166% | 0.067% |
An equal-weight basket of Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Alphabet and Amazon xStocks on Solana mainnet. Each leg was quoted through Jupiter with USDC in and straight back out, through this site’s fill-cost endpoint; nothing was executed. Read 9 Oct 2026. Thin pre-IPO tokens cost far more to route.
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What Sheaf keeps
On $1M of shares made, Sheaf keeps between $1,000 and about $4,500, depending on whether the buyer paid in dollars, whether Sheaf’s filler filled it, and whether the basket is one Sheaf created. On $1M sold back through its filler it keeps about $1,000 more. Redeeming pays nothing, so almost all of it comes from flow: money coming in, and holders who leave. We measure it by shares created a month, not by a forecast.
Sheaf’s take on $1M of shares created, or sold back
In kind, any basket$1,000
protocol $1,000 · filler — · creator —
Dollars, someone else's basket, another filler$1,000
protocol $1,000 · filler — · creator —
Dollars, someone else's basket, Sheaf fills$2,040
protocol $1,000 · filler $1,040 · creator —
Dollars, Sheaf's own basket, Sheaf fills$4,540
protocol $1,000 · filler $1,040 · creator $2,500
Sold back for dollars, Sheaf fills$1,040
protocol — · filler $1,040 · creator —
| How the shares were made | Protocol | Filler, net | Creator | Sheaf keeps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In kind, any basket | $1,000 | — | — | $1,000 |
| Dollars, someone else's basket, another filler | $1,000 | — | — | $1,000 |
| Dollars, someone else's basket, Sheaf fills | $1,000 | $1,040 | — | $2,040 |
| Dollars, Sheaf's own basket, Sheaf fills | $1,000 | $1,040 | $2,500 | $4,540 |
| Sold back for dollars, Sheaf fills | — | $1,040 | — | $1,040 |
Filler, net: the 0.15% margin less the measured one-way route cost at $1,000 orders (0.046%), before network fees and the cost of holding stock between fills. Creator: Sheaf earns the 0.25% only on baskets it creates; on anyone else’s it goes to them. The protocol fee arrives as basket shares; turning it into dollars means redeeming them and selling the stocks.
What covers the costs
about $30M
of shares created a month pays for a team of four at the fees live today, with Sheaf’s filler working under a licensed partner who keeps half its margin. From the protocol fee alone it would take about $54M.
Held in baskets, that is about $260M while new money keeps arriving, and about $1B once creations only replace holders who leave. All the xStocks in existence today come to $588M. So Sheaf only works as a standard across several issuers and chains, not on one issuer’s catalogue.
Arithmetic on fixed rates and a lean cost base, not a forecast.
At different sizes, illustrated
Protocol fee on every creation, four in five bought with dollars, and Sheaf filling seven in ten of those.
- $1M created a month
- $1,582 a month
- $10M created a month
- $15,824 a month
- $100M created a month
- $158,240 a month
For comparison, Symmetry’s documented example vault charges a 0.10% host fee on deposits and another on withdrawals, with the creator’s fees on top (Symmetry, fees). Sheaf charges no protocol fee on the way out; a seller pays only the filler.
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Who it is for first
Selling a basket token to retail one wallet at a time is slow and expensive, and plenty of basket products have tried. So Sheaf starts where people already hold tokenized stocks in their own wallets.
Wallets and front ends that already list xStocks
The first customer is a non-custodial wallet or onchain front end that already lists xStocks for people outside the US. Phantom added xStocks in the wallet, Jupiter lists them on its stocks screen, and Solflare has a page for each one. Their users hold the tokens themselves, so a basket has to be a real token in a real vault, which is exactly what Sheaf is.
A custodial exchange is a weaker fit, and we say so: it can build a basket out of its own ledger without a vault, and some already sell themes. Mudrex, for one, sells tokenized US stocks issued as bStocks on BNB Chain, which Sheaf’s vaults cannot hold today.
Sheaf earns the 0.10% protocol fee on every share created and the filler margin where its filler fills. The planned way a wallet earns more is an integrator fee field: the wallet sets its own fee on its users’ orders (our SDK would suggest 0.25%) and keeps 80% of it, and Sheaf keeps 20%, the split Jupiter uses for integrators. A monthly license applies only where Sheaf runs the pages and the plan keeper for a partner. Not built yet, and no agreement with any platform yet.
The issuer is a partner too: every Sheaf share created is demand for the tokens in its vault, bought on the issuer’s own markets.
Themes its users hold themselves
It lists single tokens today. With Sheaf it can offer a theme as one backed token in the user's own wallet, created and redeemed onchain, which is the thing a wallet cannot fake with a database row.
Monthly plans
A plan into a basket in one approval, run by anyone when due, filled by competing fillers. The habit of investing every month, pointed at US stocks.
A revenue share with no invoice
It creates the baskets, sets the creator fee (0–1%) and keeps it on every share created in them, paid by the program. A planned integrator fee field adds a fee on its users' orders, 80% to the wallet.
Fills it doesn't have to run
Sheaf's filler fills its users' orders at up to 0.15% over fair, inside the band each buyer signs. It can run its own filler or bring a market maker instead.
Sources, read 9 Oct 2026: Altcoin Buzz, Phantom adds xStocks; Jupiter, tokenized stocks; Solflare, SPYx; Mudrex, AMDB issued under bStocks; The Defiant, bStocks on BNB Chain; Jupiter, adding integrator fees.
And creators, who bring their own audience
Creators are the supply side and the cheapest distribution there is: a research community or a newsletter that creates a basket earns on what its own audience buys, so it brings them. Sheaf pays nothing to acquire those holders.
Honestly, the fee is small: at 0.25%, a creator earns $10,000 on $4M of shares created. And where selling a portfolio to the public needs a registration, as it does in India, a paid basket has to come from a registered creator or a licensed platform.
- Creator fee
- 0–1% of every creation in their basket, in new shares, for as long as it exists
- Launch market
- 40% of the curve's and the locked pool's trading fees
- Prediction market
- Creator fees on a "will it beat SPY this week?" market on Panta, if they open one
- What it costs them
- Nothing to create beyond Solana's rent; the recipe is fixed once written
Baskets that already exist
- Kraken, Crypto + xStocks Bundles ↗
Themes such as Big Tech + Crypto inside Kraken's app, rebalanced automatically, no trading fee for Kraken+ members. Kraken owns Backed, the xStocks issuer.
A Sheaf share is one token in the holder's own wallet, redeemable by anyone for the stocks, across issuers. Kraken and Backed are a natural partner: every Sheaf share created is demand for xStocks.
- Bitget Wallet, Basket ↗
A self-custody basket interface on Solana and Robinhood's chain, with recurring buys; themed memecoin baskets today.
Bitget's basket is a screen over swaps. A Sheaf share is backed in kind in its own vault and can be redeemed or sold for dollars by auction.
- Weave ↗
Thematic stock baskets on Robinhood Chain's testnet, with creators paid about 80% of a management fee.
Sheaf charges no yearly fee, runs buy and sell auctions and monthly plans, and is live on Solana and five EVM testnets. Weave's recurring creator income is a stronger hook for creators.
- Indexa ↗
A single token over a basket of tokenized stocks (MAG7, AI and others), redeemable for the stocks, USDC or SOL; entry and exit fees, a management fee and a protocol token ($INDX). Its site marked the indexes as previews, not yet launched onchain, when we read it.
The closest idea to Sheaf. Sheaf: no yearly fee, no protocol token, dollar entry and exit by auction with no oracle, monthly plans from $5, and vaults on six chains.
- Basket (basketsolana.xyz) ↗
One redeemable token over several Solana tokens; the baskets on its page are crypto (AI, DePIN, Solana, memes, staking). A tokenized-stock index has been reported, but we could not find it on its page.
The same primitive. Sheaf applies it to tokenized stocks, checks each issuer's powers, and runs a dollar path that reads no oracle.
- Backpack Securities ↗
An issuer, not a basket: about 200 tokenized US stocks on Solana, each designed to be redeemable one for one for the share.
A supplier Sheaf could hold, not a rival: once its keys are accepted, a Sheaf basket could mix Backpack stocks with xStocks. Not yet.
- Meteora StockLaunch ↗
Launch tokens on a bonding curve quoted in a Backpack stock; creators set a 0–50% fee that holders receive in the stock.
Beside Sheaf's launch markets, not its baskets: a StockLaunch token is priced in a stock, a Sheaf launch token from a backed basket's value. Neither token is a backed share.
From each product’s own page, read 9 Oct 2026. Where Sheaf sits: the self-custody, multi-issuer version, one backed token per basket, no yearly fee. Cesto, Peaks, Symmetry and issuer ETF tokens are compared on How it works.
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Numbers so far
These come from the program’s own events, its basket accounts and the launch pools, not from a spreadsheet. Every wallet the team uses is listed in the code, and the figures below say whose activity they are.
The protocol fee, as it is charged
- 1
- basket carries the 0.10% protocol fee
- 0.008197
- fee shares accrued and not yet claimed
Claims by the treasury
- 5zZHGfEU…YCyx8n ↗0.010245 shares9 Oct 2026, 11:50 UTC
Carrying it: MAG7. Baskets created before 9 Oct 2026 carry no protocol fee, for good, so the older baskets you see on the site pay the creator fee alone. Devnet shares, worth nothing.
Use
92.0%
Orders of $5 or more filled
one-off orders 86.8%, plan runs 93.5%; target 95%. Smaller orders are left to other fillers by design.
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Plans opened
monthly plans on the program
82.5%
One-off dollar orders
filled, 33 of 40; median 54 s to fill on a 90-second auction
91.3%
Plan runs
filled, 116 of 128; median 150 s on a 30-minute auction, by design
149
Orders filled, by filler
90 by Sheaf's filler, 59 by our second filler, which runs the published code with its own key; any filler may compete
75.0%
Sold back for dollars
filled, 9 of 12 sell orders; median 52 s on a 90-second auction
0.23%
What buyers paid Sheaf's filler over fair
median over 10 fills, against a policy of 0.15%; fills land on the first auction step at or past it, so slightly above. Our second filler: 0.09% over 35
423
Actions on the program
in test dollars on devnet
Launch markets on Meteora
- 3
- Launch markets on the curve
- 1
- Graduated to a locked pool
- 0.075
- SOL on open curves
- 0.0003
- Treasury fees not yet claimed, SOL
Read from the ledger (decoded from the program’s own events) and the launch feed (read from the pool accounts), on devnet with test money, at 9 Oct 2026, 20:04 UTC. Unfilled orders include test orders under the $5 Sheaf’s filler leaves alone, returned by design. QA baskets are left out of the launch counts. A dash means the number could not be read just now. One launch has gone from first buy to a locked pool: on a 1.126 SOL curve the treasury took about 0.0206 SOL, near 1.8% of it, plus 1% of the token supply (every signature).
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The market
Tokenized stocks are a few billion dollars held and more than fifteen billion traded a month, spread across chains. The larger prize is the habit of investing every month, which India shows at enormous scale.
$3.24B
of tokenized stocks held onchain, up 10.7% in 30 days, across 4.33M holders
rwa.xyz, tokenized stocks ↗$15.6B
of onchain tokenized-equity trading in September 2026, a record
CoinDesk, stablecoins and tokenized assets, October 2026 ↗42%
of that went through Robinhood ($6.57B); bStocks on BNB Chain did $5.42B, xStocks $2.11B
CoinDesk, stablecoins and tokenized assets, October 2026 ↗18%
of tokenized stocks held are xStocks ($588M of $3.24B), the one listed-stock issuer Sheaf's mainnet build accepts
rwa.xyz, tokenized stocks ↗$684M
of tokenized equity on Solana by mid-September, in more than 900,000 wallets
Solana Compass, Solana tokenized equity at $684M ↗₹32,297 cr
into Indian SIPs in August 2026, from 10.02 crore accounts: the monthly habit, at scale (about $3.3B)
Angel One, AMFI August 2026 SIP data ↗
Trading has spread across venues and chains: in September Robinhood did $6.57B, bStocks on BNB Chain $5.42B and xStocks, the issuer Sheaf’s Solana vaults hold, $2.11B. A basket standard has to sit where the stocks trade, which is why the same vault already runs on Robinhood Chain’s testnet and four other EVM chains beside the Solana program. On Solana, every creation in a basket made since 9 Oct 2026 pays the 0.10% protocol fee; on EVM, dollar orders and plan runs through the v3 desks pay it to a separate treasury key, and in-kind mints don’t.
The SIP figure shows the habit, not a market Sheaf can reach today. India’s fund route to US stocks is capped: SEBI’s $7B overseas limit for mutual funds is nearly used up, and fund houses paused new international SIPs this year. Tokenized stocks are no answer for residents yet: they are taxed as crypto, and whether they fit the overseas remittance rules is not settled.
Sources measure differently: rwa.xyz counts tokens distributed onchain, and CoinDesk's wider count puts tokenized stocks at $4.87B. Rupees at ₹96.88 to the dollar today. Sources, read 9 Oct 2026: Business Today, why mutual funds are stopping international SIPs; Vested, SEBI limits on overseas investment by mutual funds; open.er-api.com, USD/INR.
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What we still have to prove
The program works. What comes next is showing that people use it and come back, that the fee is charged and claimed, and that a wallet or front end will put it in front of its users. These are the targets, counted the same way as the numbers above.
- 01The fee, paid by someone elseFee shares accrued from wallets outside the team, and a claim of themThe first claim is shown above with its transaction.
- 02People using it30 wallets outside the team by 18 October; 350 in eight weeksCounted on the ledger, with every team wallet left out.
- 03They come back110 wallets with two actions a week apart, in eight weeksRetention, not sign-ups. A plan with two filled runs counts.
- 04Plans that keep running50 plans from outside the team with at least two filled runsRead from plan runs and fills on the ledger.
- 05Fills that land95% or more of orders of $5 or more filled; one-off orders in under 60 secondsPlan runs are measured separately: their 30-minute auction is slower by design.
- 06The margin, publishedWhat buyers and sellers actually paid Sheaf's filler, near its 0.15% policyRead from the fills against fair at the moment of filling, shown under Numbers so far.
- 07More than one issuerOndo and Backpack accepted beside xStocks, so a basket can mix issuersToday the mainnet build covers about 18% of tokenized stocks held.
- 08One platformA written reply from a wallet or front end that lists xStocksEven "send the SDK". It is the payer the model depends on.
- 09Fill cost at size, on mainnet pricesUnder 0.25% round trip at $5,000 for liquid basketsMeasured today at 0.166% for five big US names.
- 10Safe to hold real moneyAudit, multisig upgrade authority, legal opinionBefore any real token sits in a vault. Not before.
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Trust and the law
Sheaf runs on devnet and testnets with test money, and no real token will sit in a vault before an outside audit, a multisig upgrade authority and a legal opinion. A token backed by a basket of securities can look like a fund to a regulator, so on mainnet Sheaf would serve people outside the US only, through platforms that carry their own license and checks, and may limit who can create or hold shares. xStocks are not offered in the US, the UK, Canada or Australia, and a basket inherits that. Their issuer keeps the power to pause transfers and move tokens, as regulated tokenized stocks do; the program accepts those powers only from known issuers, and if one used them on a vault, the shares backed by it would be short.
On mainnet, licensed market makers and partner platforms fill the orders and carry the license. Sheaf runs the protocol.
A Sheaf share would itself likely be a regulated instrument in the EU and elsewhere. It launches only inside a licensed partner’s offering, after a legal opinion. Which jurisdiction comes first is still to be decided.
Today the mainnet build accepts two issuers’ keys: xStocks and PreStocks, and PreStocks stay out of a first mainnet release. That is about 18% of tokenized stocks held (xStocks, $588M of $3.24B). Ondo, the largest issuer, and Backpack are next. Until then, an xStocks freeze would pause redemption of every basket holding the frozen token.
Sources, read 9 Oct 2026: Kraken, xStocks availability; rwa.xyz, tokenized stocks.
- Where it runs
- Devnet and five EVM testnets, at mainnet prices
- Real money
- None, and none before audit and legal opinion
- Who, on mainnet
- Non-US users only, through licensed platforms
- Who fills, on mainnet
- Licensed market makers and partner platforms
- Price oracle
- None, for creating, redeeming or buying
- Issuer powers
- Accepted only from known issuers; disclosed
- Issuers accepted, mainnet build
- xStocks and PreStocks; Ondo and Backpack next
- Launch jurisdiction
- To be decided, with a licensed partner
- Fees after creation
- Fixed per basket; no instruction changes them
Check it yourself
Every fee above is either in the program or in the house filler’s published policy, and every outside figure links to where we read it on 9 Oct 2026. If a number here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Built by Rohan Borade, solo, in India. GitHub ↗