How to launch a meme coin on Robinhood Chain: a step-by-step guide

Robinhood Chain is Robinhood's own blockchain, an Arbitrum layer 2 on Ethereum with chain ID 4663, live on mainnet since July 2026, and Pons is a meme coin launchpad built on it. A launch on Pons takes one wallet signature: Pons creates the token, puts it on a bonding curve where it trades from the first second, and once the curve has raised 4.2 ETH, moves its liquidity into a Uniswap V4 pool that stays locked for good. There is no contract to write and no liquidity to add yourself.

This guide covers what you need before you start, what a launch costs, how a Pons token lives from launch to graduation, and the steps, on your own or with Modus.

What you need

• A wallet on Robinhood Chain. MetaMask or any EVM wallet, with the network added. How to add Robinhood Chain to MetaMask has the settings.
• ETH on Robinhood Chain, for the launch fee, gas and any dev buy. The official route is the Arbitrum bridge from Ethereum, which takes about 10 minutes. In the US, outside New York, the Robinhood app can also send ETH straight to Robinhood Chain.
• An image, square, for the token's page.
• A name, a ticker and a short description, plus the links you want on the page: X, Telegram, website.

What it costs

• The launch fee: 0.0005 ETH. It is read from the Pons factory contract at launch, and Pons can change it; that was the figure on 27 September 2026.
• Gas, which is small on a layer 2.
• Your dev buy, if you make one: an optional purchase of your own token in the same transaction.

Traders pay the rest. Every trade pays a 1% fee, on the curve and later on the Uniswap V4 pool, plus the creator tax you set at launch, anywhere from 0 to 10%. The protocol takes 30% of the 1% fee and the creator gets the rest, together with all of the creator tax. The Pons V2 docs describe the full fee policy.

How a Pons token works

Every token launched on Pons V2 has the same rules:

• A fixed supply of 1,000,000,000. Nobody can mint more, and there is no allocation for the creator or a team.
• A bonding curve first. The token trades against the curve contract, which prices it with a constant-product formula: every buy pushes the price up, every sell pushes it down.
• Snipe protection at launch. For the first 5 seconds, buys pay a snipe tax that starts at 99% and falls to zero, so bots can't take the supply at the opening price. Your own dev buy, made in the launch transaction, is exempt.
• Graduation at 4.2 ETH. For a token priced in ETH, the curve closes once it has raised 4.2 ETH (the current setting), and anyone can trigger the move to Uniswap V4.
• Liquidity locked for good. The Uniswap V4 position is held by the Pons launch locker, and nobody can withdraw it. Is liquidity locked on Pons? explains how to check.

How to launch a meme coin on Robinhood Chain, step by step

1. Decide what the coin is for. A coin with a reason to exist, a product, a community, a running joke with a following, outlives one launched only to be traded. How to launch a token covers that decision.
2. Add Robinhood Chain to your wallet and fund it with ETH on Robinhood Chain.
3. Prepare the image and the metadata. Buyers see the image and the description first.
4. Choose the creator tax. It is fixed at launch. A high tax makes every trade more expensive, and traders avoid tokens that are expensive to trade; tokenomics explained covers why.
5. Decide on a dev buy. It gives you an opening position, it is public, and buyers can see how much the creator holds.
6. Launch on Pons and sign. On ponsfamily.com, one signature creates the token and puts it on the curve. The launch and a dev buy go in the same transaction.
7. Share the contract address from your official accounts only. Copycat tokens with the same name appear within hours.
8. Run the community from the first minute. Answer questions, remove scam links, and post what you are building. Growing a token community covers the daily work.

Launching on Robinhood Chain with Modus

Modus launches on Pons from a chat, as part of the same project as the product the coin belongs to.

1. Describe the coin, or pick the Robinhood Pons memecoin preset in the Token Launcher. A Pons launch needs an image; attach one or have Modus generate it.
2. Read the recap: name, ticker, description, links, the quote asset (ETH unless you ask for one of the approved tokenized assets), the creator tax, an optional dev buy, and the launch fee, read live from the Pons factory.
3. Sign once. Your own wallet signs the launch; with a dev buy, the launch and the buy are one transaction. Modus never holds your keys.
4. Run it from the chat. A status card shows the price, the progress toward graduation and your claimable creator fees. You can trade on the curve and, after graduation, on the Uniswap V4 pool, and claim your fees from the same chat.

Pons runs on mainnet only, so the launch fee, any dev buy and every trade spend real ETH. The Pons page in the Modus docs has the details.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to launch a meme coin on Robinhood Chain?

The Pons launch fee was 0.0005 ETH on 27 September 2026, plus gas and any dev buy you choose to make. Traders pay the trading fees.

Can I test a launch first?

Not on Pons: it runs on mainnet only, and there is no Pons on Robinhood Chain's testnet. You can deploy a classic ERC-20 to the testnet first; Modus supports that path.

When does a Pons token graduate?

When its bonding curve has raised 4.2 ETH, for a token priced in ETH. Its liquidity then moves to a Uniswap V4 pool that stays locked.

Can the creator pull the liquidity?

No. Before graduation there is no pool, and after graduation the Uniswap V4 position is held by the Pons launch locker for good.

Will my coin make money?

Nobody can promise that. What a coin's creator fees bring depends on how much people trade it. On pump.fun, the largest launchpad of this kind, the weekly share of coins that graduate has stayed below 2 percent.