Pons on Robinhood Chain: How the Launchpad Actually Works

Pons is a memecoin launchpad, a platform where anyone can create a new token and let people trade it on a bonding curve from the moment it exists, built specifically on Robinhood Chain. It launched July 14, 2026, and by September 2 it had already passed pump.fun, the long-standing leader among Solana launchpads, in daily revenue. This guide covers the chain itself, how to get funds onto it, exactly how the fees work, and what your real odds are if you're launching rather than just trading. If any term here is unfamiliar, check our glossary.

What Robinhood Chain actually is

Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer-2 network built by Robinhood, identified on-chain as chain ID 4663. Pons runs on top of it. Because it's a standard EVM-compatible chain, you don't need a special wallet built for Pons specifically. Any regular Ethereum-compatible wallet, such as MetaMask or Rabby, works once it's connected to the network.

How to get ETH onto the chain

The canonical way onto Robinhood Chain is to bridge ETH from Arbitrum through portal.arbitrum.io/bridge. That route doesn't charge a bridging fee beyond normal network gas, but withdrawing funds back out through the same canonical bridge takes a 7-day challenge period, a standard security window for this style of rollup bridge, during which your funds are effectively locked in transit. If you don't want to wait a week to move funds back, fast bridges such as Relay or Across will do it faster for a small fee. Which route makes sense depends entirely on how soon you might need to withdraw.

What it costs to launch, and how trading fees are split

Creating a new token on Pons costs 0.0005 ETH. Once it's live, every trade against it pays a 1% pool fee, split 70% to the token's creator and 30% to the protocol. Of that 30% protocol share, 80% is used to buy back and burn the PONS token. In other words, roughly 24% of every trade's total fee eventually goes toward buying back and burning PONS, on top of the 70% the creator keeps directly. (What happens to the remaining share of the protocol's cut isn't specified in the sourcing available to us.)

If you're the one creating a token rather than trading an existing one, see our separate guide to launching a token on Pons, including the graduation odds below.

Why there are anti-sniper rules

Pons restricts trading in the first few blocks after a token launches: only the token's creator can buy during block 0, and buys are capped at 5% of supply for the following two blocks. That's a direct response to how fast automated trading has gotten. Professional sniper bots, running specialized infrastructure, can execute end-to-end in around 50 milliseconds; even an amateur sniper bot runs 430 to 680 milliseconds. Without a limit like this, the fastest bots would simply buy up a large share of every new token's supply before a human, or a slower bot, could react at all. See our statistics page for more on sniper-bot speed.

Graduation: the number that matters most

A token "graduates" on Pons once its bonding curve reaches 4.2 ETH raised. In practice, only about 1.1% to 1.55% of tokens launched on Pons ever hit that mark. The overwhelming majority of launches simply never gain enough trading activity to get there. That statistic should shape how you think about buying anything brand-new on the platform: most new launches are not on a path to graduating, let alone becoming a lasting token.

How big Pons has actually gotten

On September 2, 2026, Pons passed pump.fun in daily revenue for the first time: $5.95 million in fees against $544 million in 24-hour volume, with nearly 25,000 tokens launched that single day. Cumulatively, the platform has produced roughly 646,000 tokens from about 167,000 creators. For context, a separate Solana-based launchpad called Stonkfun also passed pump.fun in daily revenue, on September 6, 2026, a different chain and a different platform, but a sign of how fast the competitive landscape among launchpads is shifting. See our memecoin trading statistics page for the fuller picture across all three.

What's actually risky here

• The chain is new. Robinhood Chain launched in July 2026, so it has far less of a track record than established networks.
• The 7-day challenge period on the canonical bridge means you either plan ahead for withdrawals or pay a fast-bridge fee to skip the wait.
• Graduation is rare. At roughly 1.1% to 1.55%, buying a brand-new Pons launch speculatively is a fundamentally different bet than buying an already-established token.