Anti-Sniper Protection
Exponential fee decay on your liquidity pool deters sniper bots during the critical first minutes of your launch. Fees go to your locked liquidity.
What it does
Anti-sniper protection uses Meteora's fee time scheduler to start your pool with high trading fees that decay exponentially over time. Snipers who buy in the first seconds pay massive fees, while legitimate buyers who wait a few minutes pay normal rates.
- Exponential fee decay — fees drop sharply in the first minutes, then gradually normalize
- Sniper fees go to your pool — and you can claim them from your locked liquidity
- No extra cost — anti-sniper is configured as part of pool creation
Presets
- Light — 5% starting fee, decays to 0.25% over 15 minutes
- Standard — 15% starting fee, decays to 0.25% over 30 minutes (recommended)
- Aggressive — 50% starting fee, decays to 0.25% over 60 minutes
How it works
When you create a liquidity pool on the Liquidity Lock page, toggle on Anti-Sniper Protection and choose a preset. The pool is created with the fee scheduler built in — no separate transaction or cost needed. The fee starts high and decays exponentially, meaning most of the decay happens in the first few minutes.
Why exponential decay?
Snipers attack in the first seconds of a pool going live. Exponential decay front-loads the high fees exactly when snipers strike. A 15% fee in the first 30 seconds drops to ~3% after 5 minutes and reaches the standard 0.25% after 30 minutes. Legitimate buyers who wait even a few minutes barely notice the difference.