About

Pons is a non-custodial token launchpad built for Robinhood Chain, where anyone can deploy a fixed-supply token and its trading pool in a single transaction. Launches trade against WETH in a locked pool and graduate once a WETH threshold is reached. Trading fees are split between the token creator and the protocol, with the majority of the protocol's share routed into automated PONS buybacks.

History

Pons is a permissionless token launchpad built exclusively for Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum-powered Ethereum Layer-2 that Robinhood took to public mainnet on July 1, 2026. The interface is operated by Pons Labs, LLC and was created by a pseudonymous developer known onchain as MEADGod, previously associated with RootsFi. The design thesis was deliberately narrow: rather than building a chain-agnostic launchpad, Pons optimized every part of the flow (creation, pricing, graduation, fee routing) for a single ecosystem, and paired an aggressive creator fee split with protocol buybacks so that launch activity feeds directly back into the PONS token.

In the first version, creating a launch deployed the token and its Uniswap v3 WETH pool in one transaction with liquidity locked automatically, with no bonding curve and no later migration. Each launch used a fixed supply of one billion tokens, a 1% pool fee, and a 0.0005 ETH launch fee, graduating once 4.2 ETH was paired in the locked pool. Contract addresses, onchain events, and pricing math are published in the Pons docs.

• July 1, 2026: Robinhood Chain public mainnet goes live
• July 2026: Pons deploys on Robinhood Chain days after mainnet, launching through what is now the legacy factory
• July 11, 2026: rival launchpad Noxa halts new token launches; Pons absorbs most of the displaced activity and becomes the busiest launchpad on the chain within days
• July 16, 2026: Pons Labs, LLC terms of use take effect
• July 21, 2026: Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev follows the Pons founder's account, drawing wider market attention to the platform
• August 2026: Pons ships v2, replacing the instant-pool model with an ETH-denominated bonding curve, graduating into a permanently locked Uniswap v4 pool via a custom hook, and adding support for pairing against tokenized equities
• August 5, 2026: Uniswap Labs launches its own Robinhood Chain launchpad, pools.trade, and out-launches Pons on its first day; Pons records 7,210 launches and $52.14M volume that day
• August 2026: cumulative platform activity passes 266,000 launches, $1.86B in volume, $2.94M in protocol revenue, and $12.51M in creator earnings across roughly 87,000 unique deployers

Fee mechanics are snapshotted per token at launch and never change afterward. Tokens from the legacy factory keep a 90/10 creator/protocol split; current launches use 70/30. Eighty percent of the protocol's share funds an automated TWAP buyback of PONS routed to the burn address, with the remaining 20% covering infrastructure and team costs. The team has stated the buyback mechanism is not yet immutable and is intended to become decentralized and automated in a future release.