{ "title": "Robinhood Chain team launches, October 2026", "url": "https://unisongo.com/desk/robinhood-chain/2026-10", "published": "2026-11-12", "window": { "start": "2026-10-14", "end": "2026-10-27" }, "source": "Unison (unisongo.com)", "license": "CC BY 4.0, attribution \"Unison (unisongo.com)\"", "summary": [ "329 of 14,952 direct-deploy coins (2.2%) and 116 of 9,259 Pons coins (1.3%) launched with a team: 3 or more wallets receiving the coin in the transaction that opened trading.", "The 329 direct team launches put 3,054 ETH in at launch. The median launch put in 5.2 ETH across a median of 5 wallets, about 1.04 ETH per wallet.", "They came from 159 sending addresses. 23 of them launched twice or more, and 7 launched five times or more.", "From 20 to 27 Oct, 8.4% of non-team Pons launches had outside wallets buying in the first 3 blocks (about 0.3 s). On those launches the median share of supply bought that early was 10.7%.", "Team launches drew more buyers: a median of 107 on direct deploys against 14 without a team. This is a correlation, not a cause." ], "method": [ "Source: Unison’s own Robinhood Chain launch index (holder records per coin), with every team-launch transaction and receipt read from the official RPC node and decoded.", "Team launch: 3 or more wallets receive the coin in the transaction that opens trading. On a direct deploy that is the first buy; on Pons it is the launch.", "Money in at launch: the ETH paid into the pool by the launch transaction’s swaps, cross-checked against the transaction value (2,904.6 against 2,906.3 ETH on the v4 launches).", "Front-loaded: wallets outside the launch transaction whose first buy landed in blocks 0 to 2 of trading. These can include the deployer’s own wallets buying in separate transactions; the index can’t tell them apart without tracing who funded them.", "Limits: the index reaches back to 14 Oct 22:35 UTC, and coins idle for 7 days are pruned from it. Direct team launches first appear on 17 Oct. Outcomes cover launches 1 to 6 days old.", "Launchpads with fewer than 100 coins in the window are left out. No wallet or contract address is published." ], "tables": [ { "id": "by-launchpad", "title": "Team launches by launchpad, 14 to 27 Oct", "head": [ "Launchpad", "Coins launched", "Team launches", "Share", "Avg wallets at launch" ], "rows": [ [ "Direct deploy", 14952, 329, "2.2%", 14.3 ], [ "Pons", 9259, 116, "1.3%", 4.7 ], [ "flap.sh", 8009, 3, "0.04%", 11.7 ], [ "Pools.trade", 555, "about 14", "about 2.5%", "see note" ] ], "note": "309 of the 323 Pools.trade launches with 3 wallets at launch are the launchpad’s own design (the creator, a fee contract and a protocol address), not teams. About 14 are real team launches, with 22 to 33 wallets each." }, { "id": "per-day", "title": "Direct-deploy team launches per day", "head": [ "Date", "Team launches" ], "rows": [ [ "2026-10-17", 6 ], [ "2026-10-18", 18 ], [ "2026-10-19", 8 ], [ "2026-10-20", 52 ], [ "2026-10-21", 33 ], [ "2026-10-22", 28 ], [ "2026-10-23", 25 ], [ "2026-10-24", 26 ], [ "2026-10-25", 68 ], [ "2026-10-26", 55 ], [ "2026-10-27", 10 ] ], "note": "27 October is a partial day: the study ran that day." }, { "id": "money-in", "title": "ETH in at launch, direct-deploy team launches", "head": [ "Measure", "Value" ], "rows": [ [ "Launches", 329 ], [ "Median", "5.20 ETH" ], [ "75th percentile", "15.5 ETH" ], [ "90th percentile", "22.0 ETH" ], [ "Mean", "9.28 ETH" ], [ "Total", "3,054 ETH" ], [ "Median wallets at launch", 5 ], [ "90th percentile wallets", 35 ], [ "Median ETH per wallet", "1.04 ETH" ] ] }, { "id": "who", "title": "Who sends team launches", "head": [ "Measure", "Direct deploy", "Pons" ], "rows": [ [ "Team launches", 329, 116 ], [ "Sending addresses", 159, 41 ], [ "Addresses with 2 or more", 23, 17 ], [ "Addresses with 5 or more", 7, 5 ] ], "note": "On direct deploys, 224 launches (68%) used the same launch contract code, deployed fresh each time, and 86 (26%) came from one address. On Pons, 61 of 116 went through one shared contract. Fresh addresses may belong to fewer people; funding links were not traced." }, { "id": "front-loaded", "title": "Front-loaded launches, non-team, 20 to 27 Oct", "head": [ "Measure", "Pons", "Direct deploy" ], "rows": [ [ "Launches", 8297, 13751 ], [ "Outside buys in blocks 0 to 2", "693 (8.4%)", "12,236, mostly dust" ], [ "Median supply taken, when front-loaded", "10.7%", "0.0002%" ], [ "90th percentile supply taken", "28%", "n/a" ], [ "10% or more of supply taken", 383, 75 ], [ "20% or more of supply taken", 189, 29 ] ], "note": "Direct-deploy counts for 10% and 20% are among the 1,696 launches with 3 or more early wallets." }, { "id": "front-loaded-daily", "title": "Launches with 20% or more of supply front-loaded, per day", "head": [ "Date", "Pons", "Direct deploy" ], "rows": [ [ "2026-10-20", 21, 5 ], [ "2026-10-21", 22, 5 ], [ "2026-10-22", 24, 2 ], [ "2026-10-23", 40, 3 ], [ "2026-10-24", 34, 1 ], [ "2026-10-25", 17, 2 ], [ "2026-10-26", 21, 10 ], [ "2026-10-27", 10, 1 ] ] }, { "id": "outcomes", "title": "What happened after, launches 1 to 6 days old", "head": [ "Launchpad", "Team", "Coins", "Median buyers", "50+ buyers", "Traded after 24 h" ], "rows": [ [ "Direct deploy", "No", 10055, 14, "32.0%", "2.9%" ], [ "Direct deploy", "Yes", 184, 107, "57.1%", "4.3%" ], [ "Pons", "No", 5561, 5, "9.2%", "10.0%" ], [ "Pons", "Yes", 69, 13, "18.8%", "29.0%" ] ], "note": "Traded after 24 h: any wallet’s first buy or a sale more than 864,000 blocks after trading opened. Correlation only: teams may pick coins, timing or budgets that would draw buyers anyway." }, { "id": "pons-graduation", "title": "Pons graduation, launches 1 to 6 days old", "head": [ "Team", "Coins", "Graduated", "Rate" ], "rows": [ [ "Yes", 69, 6, "8.7%" ], [ "No", 5574, 47, "0.84%" ] ], "note": "Thin sample: 6 team graduations. Read it as a direction, not a rate." } ] }