How to create a memecoin on Robinhood Chain

You launch through a native venue — Pons.family, Pools.trade or hood.fun — or you deploy an ERC-20 yourself and pair it into a Uniswap pool. Pons charges a 0.0005 ETH launch fee and a 1% pool fee; Pools.trade charges no launch fee at all. Gas is ETH and cents-scale. You cannot create a token on pump.fun on Robinhood Chain, whatever you have read.

That last point first, because the wrong answer is circulating widely.

No, you cannot launch on pump.fun on Robinhood Chain

On 8 July 2026, pump.fun added trading and routing for Robinhood Chain tokens inside its app. That means a pump.fun user can buy and sell a Robinhood Chain token without bridging. It does not mean pump.fun deploys tokens on Robinhood Chain, and it never has. Token creation on pump.fun remains Solana-only.

The confusion is understandable — the announcement landed the same week the chain's memecoin activity went vertical, and several sites compressed "pump.fun supports Robinhood Chain" into "you can launch on pump.fun on Robinhood Chain". If a guide tells you to open pump.fun's create page and select Robinhood Chain, that option does not exist.

The chain you are deploying to

Robinhood Chain went live on mainnet on 1 July 2026. It is an Arbitrum Orbit L2 settling to Ethereum, with roughly 250ms block times, and it uses ETH as its gas token — there is no separate chain token to acquire.

The parameters you need to add it to a wallet manually:

Network Name:    Robinhood Chain
RPC URL:         https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com/
Chain ID:        4663
Currency Symbol: ETH
Block Explorer:  https://robinhoodchain.blockscout.com

Robinhood Wallet supports the chain natively with no configuration. MetaMask and Rabby need a manual custom-network add — how to add Robinhood Chain to MetaMask covers the exact steps, including why the Chainlist route may currently fail.

This chain became a memecoin chain fast. Memecoins were 79.2% of its volume in the week ending 27 July 2026 (CoinGecko), and 42,709 tokens were created in a single 24-hour period on 17 July 2026. Uniswap handles roughly 85% of DEX volume on the chain, which is the structural fact that shapes every launch venue on it.

The venues, and what each actually charges

Every "not published" in that table is literal. hood.fun does not publish a fee schedule, and neither Flap nor Bankr publishes a launch fee. We are not going to estimate one. Open the venue's create flow, connect a wallet, and read the cost the confirmation screen shows before you sign — that number is current and no published table is.

Pons is the incumbent and the most structurally unusual. There is no bonding curve and no migration event: fixed 1 billion supply, liquidity live from the first block, and buys and sells in the same pool forever. Its "graduation" at 4.2 ETH of paired WETH is a status flag, not a mechanical change. As of 31 August 2026 it took $16.13M in 7-day fees — higher than pump.fun's $14.3M — against only $2.84M in revenue, meaning most of the take passes through to creators. One warning: several near-identical domains rank for its name. Only ponsfamily.com is confirmed by official documentation. Verify the domain before you connect a wallet. What is Pons.family covers the mechanism.

Pools.trade launched on 5 August 2026 from Uniswap Labs and took roughly 50% of launchpad volume and 40% of new tokens within days. Two modes: Crowd Launch runs a four-hour window with TWAP bidding designed to defeat bundling and refunds contributors if a $10,000 minimum fully diluted valuation is not reached; Instant Launch is a classic bonding curve, live immediately, no minimum. Every pool is a standard Uniswap v4 pool with permanently locked liquidity the creator cannot remove. What is Pools.trade has the detail.

hood.fun runs a fair bonding curve that auto-migrates into a locked Uniswap v3 pool and advertises fees to the creator "for life", with a community-coin mode that routes fees to holders instead. It created 6,471 tokens in the 24 hours to 17 July 2026. Its fee schedule is the gap: unpublished. What is hood.fun covers what is known.

Stock-paired launches are the mechanism unique to this chain. Flap, Bankr and Long let you price a memecoin against NVDA, TSLA or AAPL rather than against ETH or a stablecoin. It is genuinely novel and it carries a genuinely novel risk: crypto trades 24/7, equities do not, and the mismatch creates timing and oracle behaviour that has no analogue elsewhere. Stock-paired memecoins explained covers it before you launch into one.

One venue you will still see recommended: Noxa is dead. It halted new launches on 11 July 2026 and the site went dark on 13 July after roughly $12M in fees across around 60,000 launches in under two weeks. Any guide still listing it as an option was written before that and never updated. The Noxa collapse explained covers what happened and why it matters for how you pick a venue.

Launching through a venue, step by step

1. Add Robinhood Chain to your wallet using the parameters above, or use Robinhood Wallet, which needs no configuration.

2. Fund the wallet with ETH. It is both the gas token and the base pair for most launches. Bridging routes vary enormously in speed — Across fills in around two seconds, while the native Arbitrum bridge has a withdrawal challenge period of seven days by Robinhood's documentation and 6 days 8 hours as measured on-chain by L2BEAT.

3. Pick the venue against your priority. Lowest cost and locked-by-default liquidity: Pools.trade. Highest creator fee share and the largest existing trader base: Pons. Fee-for-life with automatic migration: hood.fun. A stock pairing: Flap, Bankr or Long. Robinhood Chain launchpads compared sets them against each other properly.

4. Verify the domain before connecting. Pons in particular has confirmed squatting on lookalike domains, and one of them advertises a launch count to look established.

5. Read the confirmation screen. Robinhood Chain publishes no official gas figures, and every source describes costs qualitatively as cents-scale. Since 9 July 2026 Robinhood covers gas above $5 on swaps in Robinhood Wallet on Robinhood Chain — a standing policy, wallet swaps only, not deployments.

6. Fill in name, ticker, image and socials, then sign. The token is live.

Deploying directly instead

Robinhood Chain is a standard EVM chain, so a plain ERC-20 deploys exactly as it would anywhere else. You deploy the contract, create a Uniswap pool, and lock or burn the LP tokens yourself.

The reason to do this is control — supply, pairing, pool depth and lock terms are all yours. The reason not to is that you get no launch feed and no audience, on a chain where tens of thousands of tokens can appear in a day.

If you deploy directly, locking the LP is not optional in any practical sense: until you do, you can withdraw the whole pool, and every buyer can see that. How to lock liquidity — and why buyers check covers the process.

What this guide does not tell you

It does not tell you Robinhood Chain is a safe place to hold value. As measured by L2BEAT it does not reach Stage 0: critical contracts can be upgraded by an externally owned account, fraud proofs rely on two whitelisted validators, the sequencer is centralised with MEV capability, and an authorised filterer can force any transaction hash to fail, including force-included transactions. That is a serious set of caveats and almost nobody writes about it. Is Robinhood Chain safe? explains what each of those means in practice.

It does not price the venues that do not publish fees. It does not give you a dollar gas figure, deliberately.

And it does not tell you launching here is easier than launching anywhere else. It is cheap and fast, which is why the chain saw over 42,000 tokens created in a day at peak. Cheap and fast is the condition, not the advantage. For the cross-chain view, how much does it cost to launch a memecoin and how to create a memecoin cover the full picture; per-venue launch and volume data sits in the Meme Central analytics hub; and TrustSwap's Robinhood Chain hub carries chain-level guides alongside this one. Creator fee income is taxable when received in most jurisdictions — see do you pay tax if you launch a memecoin.

Frequently asked questions

Can you launch a token on pump.fun on Robinhood Chain?

No. On 8 July 2026 pump.fun added trading and routing for Robinhood Chain tokens inside its app, so they can be bought and sold there without bridging. Creation on pump.fun is Solana-only and has never been otherwise. To deploy on Robinhood Chain you need a native venue such as Pons, Pools.trade or hood.fun, or a direct ERC-20 deployment.

What is the cheapest way to launch on Robinhood Chain?

Pools.trade charges no launch fee as of 31 August 2026, so your only cost is gas, which is cents-scale on this chain. Pons charges 0.0005 ETH. But the launch fee is the smallest line item in any launch; what you commit to liquidity and distribution decides the outcome, and Pools.trade's Crowd Launch mode changes that shape more than the zero fee does.

Which token do I need for gas on Robinhood Chain?

ETH. Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Orbit L2 that settles to Ethereum and uses ETH for gas directly, so there is no separate chain token to acquire. Chain ID is 4663. Since 9 July 2026 Robinhood covers gas above $5 on swaps made in Robinhood Wallet on this chain, though that applies to wallet swaps rather than contract deployments.

Is Pons or Pools.trade better for a launch?

They optimise for different things. Pons pays creators 70% of a 1% pool fee and has the larger existing trader base, but the launcher pays 0.0005 ETH and the creator fee is the draw. Pools.trade takes nothing at launch, locks liquidity permanently so you cannot remove it, and its Crowd Launch mode refunds contributors below a $10,000 FDV floor.

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Fixed supply with the lock built into creation

Robinhood Chain launchpads each make the liquidity decision for you, in ways that differ sharply — permanently locked on Pools.trade, a live pool you do not control on Pons, unpublished terms on several others. If you would rather set those terms yourself, MintPlus — Meme Central's sibling product, built by TrustSwap — mints a fixed-supply token with liquidity locked through Team Finance at creation, and Robinhood Chain is one of the five networks it supports alongside Ethereum, Polygon, Base and BNB. What it does not give you is the thing a launchpad's feed provides: there is no audience attached, and on a chain producing tens of thousands of tokens a day, distribution is the hard part.

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Nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice. Memecoins are extremely high-risk: most lose most of their value, and the majority of tokens launched never reach a decentralised exchange at all. Never spend money you cannot afford to lose entirely. Meme Central does not recommend any specific token. Data described as Meme Central's own reflects tokens indexed by Meme Central and is not whole-market data.