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How Auto-Claim Works: Limits, Fees and Your Way Out

Updated 2026-11-05

Short answer: auto-claim runs on rules built into Flare and Songbird, not on a contract of ours. Our bot can claim your delegation rewards and take the fee you agreed to. It can't move your coins, and you can turn it off at any time, even if this site is gone. This page sets out the limits, the worst case and the costs. To decide whether it's worth it for your wallet, read Auto-Claim, Explained.

What the service can do

  • Claim the delegation rewards of wallets that chose it. The bot checks every 6 hours, and rewards arrive each reward epoch (about every 3.5 days).
  • Take the fee shown before you agreed, from the rewards being claimed.
  • Skip a claim when your reward is smaller than the fee, or when the gas would cost more than the fee. Those rewards stay yours to claim by hand.

What it can't do

We also limit our own bot: its code will only sign reward claims, transfers of its earned fees to our fee wallet, and its one-time registration. That's our code, so it wouldn't stop a thief. The limits in the table are Flare's, and they would.

If our bot's key were stolen

The bot signs with a private key, so it's fair to ask what that key could do in the wrong hands.

A thief could:

  • Spend the bot wallet's gas money, usually 20 to 40 FLR and the same in SGB.
  • Stop claims, or run claims at odd times. Your rewards would still go to you.
  • Schedule a higher fee, up to the 100 FLR or 100 SGB limit. It couldn't start for about 10 days, and from then on it would come out of rewards as they're claimed.

A thief couldn't: touch the coins in your wallet, or redirect your rewards to their own wallet.

What we do about it: the key is held only as a secret on Cloudflare, our hosting provider, never in our code. The bot wallet holds gas money, and earned fees are moved out to a separate wallet. A weekly automatic check compares the fee on the network with the agreed fee, which is shorter than the 10-day delay. If the key were stolen, we'd post a warning on this site.

What you should do: we promise at least 30 days' notice of a fee rise, in the auto-claim box. If the fee ever goes up without that notice, turn auto-claim off.

Has this been audited?

No independent security firm has audited our bot or this site. The code has automated tests and AI-assisted security reviews, and that isn't the same thing. We don't run a smart contract of our own for auto-claim, so the on-chain rules above are Flare's.

What we charge, and how we earn

We take no share of your balance, your deposits or your rewards beyond the flat fee. Because the fee is flat, it takes a bigger share of small rewards. Fees aren't refundable, and the full rules are in our Terms of Service, section 8.

If Crypto Lighthouse disappeared

Nothing you own is held by us, so your coins stay in your wallet whatever happens to this site.

  • Claims would stop. Your rewards would wait, and they expire after about 90 days, so claim them by hand before then.
  • You can claim without us. Flare's own app is at portal.flare.network. Type the address yourself rather than following a link from a message.
  • Ignore "migration" messages. If anyone says this site has moved and you must connect your wallet or enter your seed phrase, treat it as a scam.

You don't have to turn auto-claim off if the site is gone, but you can. It's one transaction on the network's own contract.

  1. Type the explorer's address into your browser: flare-explorer.flare.network for Flare, or songbird-explorer.flare.network for Songbird.
  2. Search for the ClaimSetupManager contract. On Flare it's 0xD56c0Ea37B848939B59e6F5Cda119b3fA473b5eB. On Songbird it's 0xDD138B38d87b0F95F6c3e13e78FFDF2588F1732d.
  3. Open the Contract tab, choose Write, and connect the wallet that uses auto-claim.
  4. Find setClaimExecutors. Enter [] as the list of addresses, and leave any amount field at 0.
  5. Confirm in your wallet. It should show that contract, with 0 FLR or 0 SGB being sent.
  6. To check, choose Read, open claimExecutors, and enter your wallet address. The list should come back empty.

Do this

  1. Read the limits above before you turn auto-claim on.
  2. Glance at the fee in the auto-claim box when you visit.
  3. If it rises without notice, press Turn off.
  4. Save the two contract addresses above somewhere you'll find them later.