Pons, the Robinhood Chain launchpad
IN SHORT
Pons is the dominant token launchpad on Robinhood Chain — roughly four times the launch activity of Bags, the other main option. Its factory deploys a new token straight into a locked Uniswap V3 pool paired against WETH at the 1% fee tier, in one transaction.
Two things follow from that design: your token is a standard AMM pair from block zero, so ordinary Uniswap tooling works on it immediately; and the launch call can carry a creator buy that executes in the launch block, which no other buyer is permitted to enter.
What happens when you launch on Pons
A single call to the factory does all of the following, atomically — if any part of it would fail, none of it happens:
- Deploys the ERC-20 with your name, symbol, image and social links.
- Creates a Uniswap V3 pool pairing it against WETH at the 1% fee tier.
- Locks the liquidity position in a locker contract, so the pool cannot be pulled.
- Optionally executes your creator buy, inside the same transaction.
Because step 4 happens in the launch transaction itself, it lands in the launch block — and the launch block accepts no other buys. There is no race to win.
Locked liquidity, claimable fees
The distinction that matters here: the liquidity position is locked, but the fees it earns are not. The locker holds the V3 position so nobody can withdraw the pool, while trading fees accrue against it and can be claimed by the creator. You give up the ability to rug and keep the ability to earn.
The restriction window
Pons enforces a launch-restriction period configured per launch. During it there are per-wallet and per-transaction caps on buy size, and in the launch block only the creator’s buy can execute. This is the chain’s built-in anti-snipe mechanism — it does not stop people buying after your launch, but it bounds how much any one actor can take at the opening price.
A detail that catches integrators out: on an Arbitrum Orbit chain, block.number inside a contract returns the L1 block estimate, which advances roughly every 12 seconds rather than at L2 speed. A restriction window of a few blocks is therefore minutes of wall-clock time, not milliseconds. Anyone timing a launch against it needs to measure in L1 blocks.
Graduation does not move your liquidity
Pons reports graduation progress against a threshold of paired principal — around 4.2 ETH. On many launchpads crossing a threshold triggers a migration into a new pool. Here it does not: trading happens in the same Uniswap V3 pool before and after, so graduation is a label on progress rather than a change in where the token trades. Practically, that means there is no migration event to plan around or get caught by.
Pons vs Bags
| Pons | Bags | |
|---|---|---|
| Initial venue | Locked Uniswap V3 pool, live at launch | Bonding curve, graduating to a pool later |
| Standard AMM tooling from block zero | Yes | Not until it graduates |
| Creator buy in the launch transaction | Yes | Via the curve’s own create-and-buy call |
| Relative launch activity | Roughly 4× Bags | The smaller of the two |
Bundling a Pons launch
Pons gives you one guaranteed uncontested buy — the creator buy in the launch block. Getting an allocation spread across many wallets needs one more step, and there are two ways to do it:
- Take everything in the launch buy, then distribute. The creator buy acquires the whole allocation uncontested, and the tokens are handed out to your wallets afterwards.
- One router multicall. Many swaps batched into a single SwapRouter02
multicall, each paying out to a different wallet — atomic, so all of them land or the call reverts.
BundleZeus does both. See how to launch a token on Robinhood Chain for the full sequence, or what a bundler actually guarantees.
Frequently asked questions
What is Pons?
Pons is the dominant token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, running roughly four times the launch activity of Bags, the other main option. Its factory deploys a new token directly into a locked Uniswap V3 pool paired against WETH at the 1% fee tier, all inside a single transaction.
Does Pons lock liquidity?
Yes. The Uniswap V3 liquidity position created at launch is held by a locker contract rather than by the creator, so the pool cannot be pulled. Trading fees earned by that position still accrue to the creator and can be claimed from the locker.
Can you buy your own token at launch on Pons?
Yes. The launch call accepts a creator buy that executes inside the same transaction that deploys the token and pool. Because the launch block is creator-only, that buy cannot be contested — it is the single safest way to acquire an allocation at the opening price.
What is graduation on Pons?
Graduation is the point at which a launch crosses a threshold of paired principal, around 4.2 ETH. Importantly it does not migrate liquidity — trading continues in the same Uniswap V3 pool throughout, so graduation is a status label rather than a liquidity event.
Is Pons the same as Bags?
No. Pons deploys straight into a live Uniswap V3 pool, so the token is a standard AMM pair from block zero. Bags starts tokens on a bonding curve which graduates into a pool later. Pons carries substantially more launch activity of the two.
Launch on Pons with a bundle
Simulation is free and the whole flow can be rehearsed on the testnet at no cost before you commit anything on mainnet.