RiskMemecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value. Nothing here is financial advice.
pons in one minute
pons is a launchpad on Robinhood Chain where anyone can create a coin with a fixed supply and trade it at once, with no code. A new coin starts on a bonding curve and later moves to a Uniswap pool.
Is pons owned by Robinhood?
No. Robinhood built the chain, and anyone can deploy on it. pons is an independent project run by its own team, Pons Labs. A coin launched on pons isn't issued, checked or backed by Robinhood.
The bonding curve
A bonding curve is a contract that sells a new coin at a price that rises as more is bought. There's no order book and no pool to fund: buyers trade against the curve from the first second.
- The curve holds the coin's supply and quotes a price from how much has been sold.
- Buying moves the price up, selling moves it down.
- Most launches are paired with ETH. pons also allows other pairs it has approved, such as USDG, cbBTC and tokenized stocks.
Graduation
When buyers have filled the curve, the coin graduates: for an ETH pair that's 4.2 ETH. What the curve collected becomes the liquidity of a Uniswap V4 pool, and that liquidity is locked for good, so neither the creator nor pons can pull it out. Trading carries on in the pool.
Fees and the creator tax
pons takes about 1% of every trade, on the curve and in the pool. On top of it, each coin has a creator tax of 0–10% that its creator chose at launch.
How the creator tax works
- The creator sets it once, at launch. It can't be raised afterwards.
- It's charged on buys and sells, in the asset the coin is paired with.
- It collects for the creator's wallet, which claims it on pons.
- A coin with a high tax costs more to trade, so check it before buying: it shows on the coin's page.
A launch or trade sent through memetools also pays our fee: 1% of the buy or sale, or 0.25% with Pro. The whole list is in the Documentation's fees.
The anti-snipe tax
To blunt bots that buy a coin the instant it appears, pons taxes buys in a launch's first seconds: 99% at the start, falling to zero over five seconds.
- The creator's own first buy is part of the launch and isn't taxed this way.
- A launch can name wallets that are exempt. memetools's Snipe launch uses this for the launcher's own bundle wallets.
- Exemptions are written into the launch, so anyone can read which wallets had them.
How a Snipe launch works, step by step, is in Launch a memecoin on Robinhood Chain.
pons the launchpad, PONS the token
pons also has a token of its own, PONS. This guide is about the launchpad. You don't need the token to launch or trade a coin on pons.
Nothing here is a view on any token's price. Memecoins are highly speculative, and most lose nearly all their value.
Ways to use pons
You can launch on pons's own site with a browser wallet, or through a tool that builds the same launch for you.
- pons's site: connect a wallet such as MetaMask and fill in the form.
- memetools: launch from a wallet kept in your browser, with the name and image filled from a post or a live token, a first buy, and optional Snipe buys from your bundle wallets. See the launch guide.
Either way you need ETH on Robinhood Chain first. How to bridge to Robinhood Chain covers getting it there from Solana, Ethereum or BNB Chain.