Robinhood Chain launchpads compared: Pons, Pools.trade, hood.fun and the rest

Robinhood Chain has roughly fifteen launchpads competing, and three that matter. Pons.family is the incumbent — no bonding curve, 1% trading fee, 0.0005 ETH to launch. Pools.trade, built by Uniswap Labs and live since 5 August 2026, charges zero to launch and 0.25% on trades. hood.fun runs a conventional curve that migrates into a locked Uniswap v3 pool. Everything else is either niche or gone.

Three facts before the comparison, because the wrong version of each is everywhere. Noxa.fun is dead — it stopped issuing tokens on 11 July 2026 and its site went dark on 13 July. You cannot launch a token on pump.fun on Robinhood Chain; what pump.fun added on 8 July 2026 was cross-chain trading and routing, not issuance. And Locksley is an editorial and data site covering this chain, not a launchpad, whatever the listicles say.

The comparison table

"Not published" means exactly that: the venue does not state the figure in reachable documentation, and we are not going to fill the gap with a plausible-looking number. Fee schedules on this chain move, so check the venue before you deploy.

Sourcing note on the Pons figures: they rest largely on a single source of the kind that dominates 2026 launchpad coverage. The mechanism is well documented; the exact split is thinner than we would like.

Three regimes in nine weeks

The reason no credible comparison of this market existed before now is that it kept being replaced.

From mainnet on 1 July 2026 until 11 July, Noxa.fun was effectively the whole issuance layer, accounting for roughly 75% of chain deployments — around 60,000 launches and about $12M in fees in under two weeks. Then it halted new launches on 11 July and went dark on 13 July, blaming bot spam, then routing 100% of trading fees to creators, then citing a Cloudflare issue. The community split between calling it a soft rug and calling it FUD, and no conclusive fraud finding has been published either way. CASHCAT fell 33% in 24 hours on the exit. Rival Vlad.fun went offline days later citing an "internal integrity issue." Tokens already launched on Noxa still trade — residual volume around $10.5M per 24 hours — but nothing new is issued. The full sequence is in what happened to Noxa.

From 13 July to 5 August, Pons dominated. On 27 July 2026 it processed 1,651,979 trades in 24 hours, which was about 54% of all Robinhood Chain transactions that day, on $116.8M of volume — roughly 80% of launchpad volume. It created 12,384 tokens that day, 73% of the chain's daily total. The $PONS token was around $54M market cap.

Since 5 August, Pools.trade has been taking that share. Uniswap Labs launched it with $73.6M of day-one Uniswap v4 volume on Robinhood Chain — more than Uniswap v4 did on Ethereum mainnet the same day, at roughly $47.2M — and about 6,000 tokens on day one. Cumulative volume including contract-level traders who used it before the interface shipped passed $150M. Within days it held roughly 50% of launchpad volume and 40% of new tokens. UNI rose 11.06% on the announcement day.

Both are still large. As of 31 August 2026, DefiLlama put Pons's seven-day fees at $16.13M — higher than pump.fun's $14.3M, which makes it, on that measure, the highest-fee launchpad in crypto that week. That number needs its companion: seven-day revenue was only $2.84M. The gap is money passing through to creators rather than being retained, which is a very different business from pump.fun's.

Pons.family: the one with no bonding curve

Pons is genuinely mechanically different from almost every launchpad in the category, and the difference is worth understanding before you judge the fees.

There is no bonding curve. A Pons token launches with a fixed 1 billion supply and a live liquidity pool from block one. Buys and sells happen in that same pool, forever. There is no phase change, no threshold to cross, no migration event.

What Pons calls "graduation" is 4.2 ETH of paired WETH by default — but nothing migrates when it happens. It is a status flag, not a mechanical event. If you have internalised how graduation works on pump.fun, where crossing a threshold triggers an atomic move to a different venue, that intuition does not transfer. The general concept and its variations are covered in what graduation means on a launchpad.

Fees are a 1% pool trading fee plus a 0.0005 ETH launch fee, split 70% to the creator and 30% to the protocol. Of the protocol's share, 80% reportedly goes to PONS buybacks — reported rather than confirmed, so treat it as a claim. Creator rewards accrue inside the token's locked position and can be claimed at any time.

The reason to be careful with Pons is not the mechanism. It is the domains. Only ponsfamily.com is confirmed by the project's own documentation at docs.ponsfamily.com. Meanwhile ponsdotfamily.com, ponslaunchpad.com — which advertises "167,000+ launched" — and a separate "Pons Launchpad Robinhood" site all rank in search results for the same queries. Getting that wrong means connecting a wallet to a site you have no reason to trust. We go through the mechanism and the domain problem in detail in what Pons.family is.

Pools.trade: Uniswap competing with its own customers

Pools.trade is the launchpad Uniswap Labs built on the chain where Uniswap already handles roughly 85% of DEX volume. That is worth stating plainly, because it changes the competitive read: the venue every other launchpad migrates into now runs a launchpad.

It offers two modes. Crowd Launch opens a four-hour window during which bids are filled on a time-weighted average price, a design intended to defeat bundling and sniping by removing the advantage of being first in the block. It carries a $10,000 minimum fully diluted valuation to graduate — if the launch does not reach it, funds are refunded. Instant Launch is a conventional bonding curve, live immediately, with no minimum.

The fee model is the aggressive part. There is no launchpad fee at all. Trading carries a 0.25% LP fee, against roughly 1% as the standard elsewhere on this chain, and that fee autocompounds into locked liquidity rather than being extracted. Creators can optionally take 0.05% out of the 25 basis points; the default split runs roughly 20% creator and 80% back into liquidity. Every pool is a standard Uniswap v4 pool with permanently locked liquidity that the creator cannot remove.

That last property is the substantive buyer-side difference. On most launchpads, whether liquidity can be pulled is a question you have to answer per token. On Pools.trade it is answered by the venue. It does not stop a creator selling their own allocation into the pool, which remains the more common way people lose money. Full detail in what Pools.trade is.

hood.fun and the conventional model

hood.fun runs the model most traders already know: a fair bonding curve that, on completion, auto-migrates the token into a locked Uniswap v3 pool, with creators told they "earn fees for life" from that position. A community-coin mode routes fees to holders instead of the creator.

By issuance it was third on the chain on 17 July 2026, deploying 6,471 tokens in 24 hours against Pons's 11,547 and Flap's 9,935, on a day when 42,709 tokens were created chain-wide. It sits between Pons's no-curve design and Pools.trade's zero-fee design as the familiar option, and familiarity is a real feature when you are asking strangers to work out how to buy. See what hood.fun is for the migration mechanics.

The stock-paired cohort: Flap, Bankr, Long

The genuinely novel mechanism on this chain is not a fee model. It is pairing memecoins against tokenised equities rather than against ETH or a stablecoin, so a token's price is quoted in NVDA or TSLA or AAPL.

Long (long.xyz) introduced it on 14 July 2026, and its AI/NVDA pair became the chain's single largest volume source. Bankr followed on 20 July with more than 90 stock and ETF tokens available as pairs, doing $5.6M of 24-hour volume on 27 July 2026. Flap.sh approaches it from the other side, paying out stock tokens to meme holders; originally a BNB Chain venue, it now runs on four chains, with seven-day fees of $2.68M as of 31 August 2026 and close to 100% revenue capture — it retains what it charges rather than passing it through.

The risk here is structural and under-discussed: crypto trades continuously and equities do not. A memecoin paired against a stock token over a weekend is priced against an instrument whose underlying market is shut, and spreads widen accordingly because the issuer carries inventory risk across the gap. Memecoin-and-stock pairs hit $46.1M in a single day by 23 July 2026 across GME, WSB, AMC, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, TSLA and SPCX. We unpack the timing and oracle mismatches in stock-paired memecoins explained.

Note also that Robinhood Stock Tokens themselves are restricted from US persons, along with Canada, the UK, Switzerland, the UAE and sanctioned regions. If you cannot access the pair asset, the venue is not available to you regardless of what its interface shows.

The imports: Bags, Clanker, Virtuals

Three venues arrived from other chains rather than being built here.

Bags was the first major Solana launchpad to go multichain onto Robinhood Chain. Its distinguishing feature is creator-fee routing: creators earn 1% of every trade, and that fee can be split across up to 100 creators, apps or wallets — the cleanest mechanism in the category for tokens with multiple contributors. Solana still accounts for roughly 91% of its fees, so Robinhood Chain is a second market rather than its home. See what Bags is.

Clanker ported from Base. It is an AI agent that deploys tokens directly into Uniswap v4 pools with no bonding curve at all, taking a fixed 20% of the creator LP fee charged per swap while the creator keeps 80%. It deployed 908 tokens in 24 hours on 17 July 2026 — real, small.

Virtuals brought AI-agent tokens, deploying 1,168 in the same window. We have no reliable 2026 fee or volume data for it anywhere, so treat its scale as unknown rather than inferring it from token counts.

Which should you use

If you want the deepest liquidity and the most traders already looking, that has been Pons for most of the chain's life, and on fees it was still the largest launchpad in crypto in the week to 31 August 2026. Verify the domain before you connect anything.

If your buyers care most about not being rugged, Pools.trade, because permanently locked, creator-unremovable Uniswap v4 liquidity removes one entire category of concern without your having to prove anything. The zero launch fee and 0.25% trading fee are the cheapest terms on the chain by a wide margin.

If you want a launch with a floor, Pools.trade's Crowd Launch, whose $10K minimum FDV refunds participants if the launch fails to reach it. That is unusual and it favours buyers.

If you want the model everyone already understands, hood.fun — a curve, a graduation, a migration into a locked v3 pool.

If your token has several contributors to pay, Bags, for the hundred-way fee split.

If the pairing itself is the idea, Long or Bankr, with the weekend-liquidity problem understood in advance and the US restriction on the pair asset checked.

And if none of the above — if you want a fixed supply, locked liquidity and no bonding curve or creator-fee machinery at all — a launchpad is the wrong tool and a direct deployment is the right one.

What this comparison does not tell you

It does not tell you which venue gives your token the best chance, because no venue does. The overwhelming majority of tokens launched anywhere never reach a decentralised exchange, and choosing well between launchpads changes your fee bill and your buyers' safety, not the base rate.

It does not carry fee figures the venues do not publish, and several do not. It does not rank on graduation rates, because no comparable per-venue graduation data exists for this chain — and single-point graduation figures quoted without a measurement window are close to meaningless anyway.

And it will date quickly. This market changed hands twice in nine weeks. Our per-venue analytics track launch, graduation and volume data continuously, based on tokens indexed by Meme Central rather than the whole market, and the live cross-venue feed shows what is actually launching right now.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best launchpad on Robinhood Chain?

There is no single answer, and anyone giving one is selling something. Pons has the deepest activity, Pools.trade has the cheapest fees and permanently locked liquidity, hood.fun has the most familiar mechanics, and Bags has the best creator-fee splitting. Choose on the property that matters to your token, not on volume rankings.

Can I 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 own app, meaning you can buy and sell them there without bridging. Token creation on pump.fun remains Solana-side. Any guide describing a pump.fun launch flow on Robinhood Chain is describing something that does not exist.

Is Noxa.fun still working?

No. Noxa halted new launches on 11 July 2026 and its site went dark on 13 July, after roughly $12M in fees across about 60,000 launches in under two weeks. Tokens launched on it before the shutdown still trade, but the venue issues nothing new. No conclusive finding of fraud has been published.

Which Pons domain is the real one?

Only ponsfamily.com, confirmed by the project's documentation at docs.ponsfamily.com. Several look-alikes rank in search, including ponsdotfamily.com and ponslaunchpad.com. Reach the site from the documentation or a bookmark rather than from a search result, and never connect a wallet to a domain you arrived at through an advertisement.

Why does Pons charge 1% when Pools.trade charges 0.25%?

Different business models. Pons passes most of its take to creators — $16.13M of seven-day fees against $2.84M of revenue as of 31 August 2026 — so the 1% funds creator payouts. Pools.trade routes its 0.25% back into locked liquidity rather than extracting it, and Uniswap Labs benefits from the pool activity regardless. See how launchpad fee splits work.

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If you want fixed supply and locked liquidity without a bonding curve

Every venue above is built for launch-and-churn issuance, and that is the wrong shape for a token meant to exist in a year. MintPlus — from Team Finance, part of TrustSwap, which also builds Meme Central — deploys a fixed-supply token with liquidity locked through Team Finance at creation, on Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Polygon, Base and BNB. What it does not give you is the thing launchpads are actually for: there is no curve, no built-in audience, and no venue pushing your token in front of traders. You bring the distribution.

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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.