Snipe tax
A snipe tax is a launchpad fee on early buys that starts high and falls to zero within seconds, so bots gain little by buying first.
How it works
On Pons V2 a buy pays a tax of 99% at launch, decaying to 0 over 5 seconds: about 25% at 1 second and about 3% at 2 seconds. The creator, the fee recipient and up to 32 listed addresses are exempt.
Other launchpads do something similar with fees: Meteora DBC’s fee scheduler starts high and decays, and Four Meme’s X Mode lowers fees block by block.
Worked example
A 0.1 ETH buy on Pons 1 second after launch pays about 0.025 ETH in tax. At 6 seconds it pays none. That is why team wallets on Unison that are not on the exemption list buy at least 6 seconds apart.
Sources
- Pons V2 docs, read 12 Nov 2026.
- Meteora DBC fees, read 12 Nov 2026.
Related
- Front-loaded launch: A front-loaded launch is one where wallets outside the launch transaction buy a large share of supply in the first few blocks of trading.
- Launch block: The launch block is the block a coin is created in, and the only block where buys can land before anyone else has seen the coin.
- Spread buys: Spread buys are team wallets that buy one at a time after the launch block, on a schedule, instead of all at once.
Updated 12 Nov 2026. Source: Unison (unisongo.com). Launching a coin can lose money.