How to launch a coin on Pons
Pons is the bonding-curve launchpad on Robinhood Chain. You create a coin with a dev buy, it trades on a curve, and it graduates to a locked Uniswap v4 pool at 4.2 ETH raised. Outsiders pay a snipe tax for the first five seconds.
How Pons works
A Pons coin trades on a constant-product curve with a virtual ("phantom") quote: 1.68 ETH on the default ETH config, read by Unison from the Pons factory on 27 October 2026. The supply is 1 billion coins, and Bitquery’s Pons API docs say 5/7 of it is sold on the curve. The curve takes a 1% fee on each trade.
What is the Pons snipe tax?
Outside buys pay a 99% tax at launch, and it falls to zero over about five seconds, according to Pons’s V2 docs. Wallets on the launch exemption list do not pay it. The list holds 32, and the launcher takes one, so 31 team wallets can buy tax-free.
By hand, step by step
- Get ETH onto Robinhood Chain. It pays for gas. See Robinhood Chain for the bridge.
- Create the coin on Pons with a name, ticker, picture and your dev buy. The dev buy is required: the launch always buys for the creator.
- To buy tax-free from other wallets, add them to the launch’s exemption list and buy right after the coin exists.
- Any wallet not on the list waits about five seconds for the tax to end.
With a team of wallets on Unison
Unison puts up to 31 team wallets on the exemption list, and they buy tax-free right after the coin is created. They are not in the same block as the coin. That flow is verified on a mainnet fork (28 October 2026).
Wallets beyond the 31 buy after the tax ends, with at least 6 seconds between buys. You run the coin and sell every wallet from one screen, then bring the ETH back to your main wallet. Unison is in closed beta.
What it costs
- Launch fee: 0.0005 ETH (Pons docs, and Unison’s reading of the factory on 27 October 2026).
- Curve fee: 1% of each trade. After graduation the hook collects the same rate, and the pool fee is 0 (Pons V2 docs).
- Gas: a Pons buy used at most about 150,000 gas on mainnet (19 October 2026). The launch with 31 exemptions measured 4.36 million gas on a mainnet fork (28 October 2026).
The launch cost calculator adds it up for your team size.
When does a Pons coin graduate?
A Pons coin graduates at 4.2 ETH raised on ETH launches, and its liquidity moves to a Uniswap v4 pool that is locked for good. Other quote assets have their own amount.
Few coins graduate. In Unison’s Robinhood Chain index, 47 of 5,574 Pons launches without a team graduated (0.84%), against 6 of 69 with a team (8.7%, a thin sample), for coins 1 to 6 days old on 27 October 2026. That is a correlation, not a cause. More in Robinhood Chain team launches, October 2026.
Creator fees on Pons
Pons V2 pays the creator what is left of the fee after the protocol share, plus an optional creator tax up to a cap, in ETH by default. Datawallet reports the protocol share as 30%. See How to claim creator fees.
Pons at a glance
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | Robinhood Chain | Pons docs |
| Block time | About 100 ms, measured by Unison on its Robinhood Chain index. Robinhood’s docs give no block time | Unison launch study |
| Curve | Constant product with a virtual ("phantom") quote, set per launch config. 1.68 ETH on the default ETH config | Unison, read from the Pons factory (getLaunchConfig) |
| Total supply | 1,000,000,000 (18 decimals). 5/7 of it is sold on the curve | Bitquery, Pons API docs |
| Creation cost | 0.0005 ETH | Pons docs |
| Graduation | 4.2 ETH raised on ETH launches. Other quote assets have their own amount | crypto.news, Pons V2 |
| Migrates to | Uniswap v4 pool with the Pons hook. Full-range liquidity, locked for good | Bitquery, Pons API docs |
| Trading fee on the curve | 1% | Unison, read from the Pons factory (getLaunchConfig) |
| Creator share | The fee left after the protocol share, plus an optional creator tax up to a cap. Paid in ETH by default | Pons V2 docs |
| Snipe protection | Buy tax of 99% decaying to 0 over 5 seconds. The creator, the fee recipient and up to 32 listed addresses are exempt | Pons V2 docs |
| Fee after graduation | The same fee rate, collected by the hook. The pool fee is 0 | Pons V2 docs |
| Buys that land with the coin | The creator’s buy goes in with the launch. On Unison: 31 team buys tax-free right after the coin is created, verified on a mainnet fork | Unison, read from the Pons factory (getLaunchConfig) |
Checked 12 Nov 2026. Every field, including the unverified ones: Pons in the Launchpad Atlas.
Questions
Can I launch on Pons without a bundler?
Yes. Pons runs your dev buy in the launch transaction. A bundler adds your other wallets.
Is there a Pons bundler?
Yes. Unison is one way to bundle on Pons, with up to 31 wallets tax-free right after the coin is created.
Do Pons team wallets buy in the same block as the coin?
No. They buy tax-free right after the coin is created, in later blocks.
Does graduating mean the coin is good?
No. It only means the curve sold out.