RiskMemecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice.
At a glance
Both are bonding-curve launchpads where a coin is created in one transaction and graduates to an exchange pool. They differ in the chain, the fees, how creators are paid and how early buyers are treated.
| pump.fun | pons | |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | Solana | Robinhood Chain |
| Fees and gas paid in | SOL | ETH |
| Fee to create a coin | None (about 0.02 SOL network deposit) | 0.0005 ETH, plus gas |
| Supply | 1 billion | 1 billion |
| Trading fee on the curve | 1.25% | About 1%, plus the creator tax |
| Creator earns | 0.30% of trades | A tax of 0–10% it sets |
| First-seconds rule | None | Anti-snipe tax, 99% falling to zero in 5 seconds |
| Graduates at | About 85 SOL | 4.2 ETH |
| Graduates to | PumpSwap | A Uniswap V4 pool, liquidity locked |
Cost to launch
Both cost a few dollars before your own buy. pump.fun charges no creation fee but Solana takes a deposit; pons charges 0.0005 ETH and gas.
- pump.fun: about 0.0225 SOL in network deposits when launching through memetools, and no fee to pump.fun.
- pons: 0.0005 ETH to pons, plus gas in ETH.
- Through memetools, on either: 1% of the buys made at launch, or 0.25% with Pro. A launch with no buy pays us nothing.
Trading fees
A trade on pump.fun's curve always costs 1.25%. A trade on pons costs about 1% plus whatever creator tax that coin has, so it ranges from about 1% to about 11%.
- On pump.fun every coin on the curve has the same fee, so there's nothing to check per coin.
- On pons the creator tax differs coin by coin. Look at it before trading.
- pump.fun's own web and mobile apps add a 0.45% Platform Fee. Trades sent through other interfaces don't pay it, but pay that interface's fee.
- After graduation, pump.fun's fee falls as the coin's market cap grows, to 0.30% for the largest. pons keeps its fee and the coin's tax in the Uniswap pool.
The details are in pump.fun fees and What is pons?
What creators earn
pump.fun pays creators a fixed share: 0.30% of trades on the curve, rising to as much as 0.95% after graduation. On pons the creator names their own tax, from nothing to 10%.
- A pump.fun creator can give that income to holders instead, as holder rewards. It's chosen at launch.
- A pons creator's tax can't be raised after launch.
- A high tax pays more per trade but makes the coin dearer to trade, which buyers can see.
More in pump.fun creator fees.
Launching with several wallets
On Solana, your wallets can buy inside the coin's first block, as a bundle. Robinhood Chain has no bundles, so on pons they buy the moment the launch confirms, as a Snipe.
| pump.fun bundle | pons Snipe | |
|---|---|---|
| Your wallets | Up to 20 | Up to 20 |
| When they buy | In the coin's block (up to 12), or right after | Right after the launch confirms |
| Early-buyer tax | None | Exempt, by being named in the launch |
| If the launch fails | No buy is sent | No buy is sent |
| Visible on chain | Yes | Yes, including the exemption |
See pump.fun bundle launches and the Robinhood Chain launch guide.
Which to launch on
Launch where the people you expect to trade the coin already hold funds. A coin on Solana is bought with SOL, and one on Robinhood Chain with ETH.
- pump.fun is the larger and older market, with the most traders and tools watching new coins.
- pons is newer, and its anti-snipe tax makes a launch's first seconds expensive for bots.
- Some memes are launched on both. They're then two separate coins, and each needs its own buyers.
- Moving funds between the chains takes one bridge.
Neither launchpad makes a coin worth anything. Memecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice.