How to Launch a Token on Pons, Step by Step

Launching a token on Pons is deliberately cheap and fast. That's the entire point of a launchpad. It is also, precisely because of that, a long shot. Roughly 646,000 tokens have been launched on Pons by about 167,000 creators, which works out to nearly four launches per creator on average, and only somewhere between 1.1% and 1.55% of all launches ever reach the platform's graduation threshold. Read that number twice before you read the rest of this guide: the steps are easy, the odds are not in your favor, and nothing here changes that math.

What you need before you start

• A standard EVM wallet: MetaMask or Rabby both work.
• ETH on Robinhood Chain. If you don't have any there yet, bridge it from Arbitrum at portal.arbitrum.io/bridge. See our full Pons and Robinhood Chain guide for the bridging details, including the 7-day withdrawal window on the canonical route.
• A little extra ETH beyond the 0.0005 ETH launch cost, to cover gas.

Step by step

1. Bridge ETH to Robinhood Chain if you haven't already, using the canonical Arbitrum bridge or a faster paid option like Relay or Across.
2. Connect your wallet to Pons.
3. Fill in your token's basic identity: name, ticker symbol, an image, and typically a short description or social links. Exact fields shown on screen may vary; follow the interface.
4. Pay the 0.0005 ETH launch fee (plus gas) to deploy the token.
5. Block 0 is yours alone. As the creator, you're the only one who can buy during this first block.
6. The next two blocks cap every buy at 5% of supply, before trading opens fully to anyone.
7. If the bonding curve reaches 4.2 ETH raised, the token graduates. Almost none do.

How creator earnings actually work

Every trade against your token pays a 1% pool fee, and you receive 70% of it as the creator, for as long as people keep trading. There is no payout for simply launching. Earnings exist only if and while real trading activity continues, which is exactly why the graduation rate matters so much. A token nobody trades earns its creator nothing beyond the initial cost of creating it.

Getting your earnings back out

If your token does trade and you build up creator earnings on Robinhood Chain, moving that ETH back to Arbitrum goes through the same bridge mechanics covered in our Pons and Robinhood Chain guide: the canonical bridge back takes a 7-day challenge period, while a fast bridge like Relay or Across gets it there sooner for a small fee. Plan for that lag the same way you would for your initial deposit: it applies to withdrawing earnings, not just funding your account.

Common mistakes first-time creators make

• Underfunding the wallet. The 0.0005 ETH launch cost is separate from gas, so leave enough ETH in your wallet to cover both, or the transaction can fail.
• No way for buyers to verify you're the real creator. Linking a token to a genuine, checkable social account or project page is the difference between something people can trust and something that looks like every other anonymous launch.
• Treating the block-0 window as a strategy instead of a courtesy. It exists so a creator can establish an initial position, not as an invitation to set up an exit at everyone else's expense.
• Assuming effort changes the odds much. A good name, image, and description help, but they don't change the base rate: most launches, well-presented or not, never graduate.

Do this responsibly

A launchpad makes it trivial to create a token; it does nothing to make that token honest. Don't misrepresent what a token does, promise buyers returns, or use the creator-only block-0 window to set up a buy you plan to dump on people who trust the project. In many jurisdictions, deceptive marketing of a token can carry real legal exposure, separate from the ordinary financial risk of trading. Treat launching a token as, at most, a cheap experiment or a genuine community project, never as a reliable way to make money, given that roughly 98.5% to 98.9% of launches never even reach graduation.