Is liquidity locked on Pons? How Pons V2 locks liquidity on Robinhood Chain

Yes. On Pons V2, a token's liquidity is locked permanently when it graduates, and there is nothing for the creator to lock by hand. Before graduation there is no liquidity pool at all, so there is nothing to lock or pull. The confusion comes from the older Pons V1 and its locker, which is what much of the documentation still describes.

Pons is the memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, Robinhood's Arbitrum Orbit L2 (chain id 4663). This guide explains what happens to a Pons token's liquidity from launch to graduation, what exactly sits in the locker, and how to check a lock yourself.

On the curve: there is no pool to lock

Every Pons V2 token launches with a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 onto a bonding curve. Buys and sells trade directly against the curve contract, which prices the token with a constant-product formula and a small phantom reserve, so the opening price is not zero. Each trade pays a 1% curve fee, plus the creator's tax if the creator set one (0 to 10%, fixed at launch).

Because trades go against the curve rather than a liquidity pool, there is no LP position during this phase. Nobody holds an LP token, so there is nothing that could be locked, burned, or pulled.

At graduation: liquidity is locked for good

A curve graduates when it has raised its threshold: 4.2 ETH for a token priced in ETH, and a different amount for the other approved quote assets. Graduation takes two permissionless transactions. The first, graduate(), closes the curve. The second, createGraduatedPool(), creates the Uniswap V4 pool.

That pool is seeded with a full-range Uniswap V4 position, and the position is held by the Pons V2 launch locker, a contract at 0x267444d099b10fb5ed7c3cc7b7c767adca574952 on Robinhood Chain. It stays there: the liquidity is permanently locked, and neither the creator nor anyone else can withdraw it.

Here is how the 1,000,000,000 supply splits along the way:

• 5/7 of the supply (about 714 million tokens) is sold on the curve.
• 10/49 of the supply (about 204 million) seeds the locked Uniswap V4 position, together with the quote the curve raised.
• 4/49 of the supply (about 82 million) stays locked in the same locker contract for good.

After graduation the token trades on the Uniswap V4 pool, which runs with the Pons hook. The pool's trading fees are split between the creator and the protocol; the Pons docs give the current split as 70% to the creator and 30% to the protocol.

Why people search for "the Pons locker"

Pons V1 worked differently. A V1 launch created a Uniswap V3 pool straight away and locked it at launch, and a locker contract held that liquidity and managed the fee shares. Much of the public Pons documentation still describes that V1 flow, which is likely why people search for "Pons liquidity lock" and "Pons locker".

V1 no longer accepts launches. New tokens go through V2: a bonding curve first, then a permanently locked Uniswap V4 position at graduation.

How to check a Pons token's lock yourself

You do not have to take anyone's word for it, including ours. Everything is onchain.

1. Find the token on the Robinhood Chain explorer by its contract address.
2. Check its phase. A token still on the curve has no pool yet, so there is nothing to lock. A graduated token trades on a Uniswap V4 pool.
3. Check the locker. Open the locker contract, 0x267444d099b10fb5ed7c3cc7b7c767adca574952, which holds the graduated tokens' Uniswap V4 positions and the locked 4/49 of each supply.

What locked liquidity means, and what it does not

Locked liquidity removes the oldest rug pull: a creator pulling the pool's liquidity and leaving holders with a token nobody can sell. On Pons V2 that cannot happen after graduation, and before graduation there is no pool to pull.

It does not protect the price. Holders, including early buyers, can still sell whenever they like, and the price will follow. Most curve launches never graduate at all: on pump.fun, the largest launchpad of this kind, the weekly share of tokens that graduate has stayed below 2 percent. A lock is a floor under the pool, not a promise about the token. What keeps a token alive is a product people use and a community that stays, which is the argument of how to launch a token.

Launching on Pons with Modus

Modus launches on Pons V2, so the lock is part of every Pons launch it makes. You do not configure it and you cannot turn it off.

1. Describe the token in the chat, 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. Confirm the recap: name, symbol, description, quote asset (ETH unless you ask for one of the approved tokenised assets), creator tax, and an optional dev buy. The launch fee is read live from the Pons factory.
3. Sign once. The launch is one wallet signature; with a dev buy, the launch and the buy are one atomic transaction, and your dev buy is exempt from the snipe tax that protects the first seconds of a launch.
4. Follow it from the chat. A status card shows price, graduation progress, and your claimable creator fees. You can trade the token on the curve and, after graduation, on the Uniswap V4 pool, and claim your fees from the same chat.

Every transaction is signed from your own wallet, and Modus never has access to your keys. Pons runs on mainnet only, so the launch fee, any dev buy, and every trade spend real funds. The Pons page in the Modus docs covers the details, and tokenomics explained covers what a fixed-supply curve decides for you.

Frequently asked questions

Can a Pons creator remove the liquidity?

No. Before graduation there is no pool; after graduation the Uniswap V4 position is held permanently by the Pons V2 launch locker.

Is there an LP token to burn?

No. A Uniswap V4 position is not a fungible LP token, and on Pons it is held by the locker contract, not by the creator.

Do I need to lock liquidity myself when I launch on Pons?

No. Locking happens automatically at graduation. On a classic DEX launch you add liquidity and lock or burn the LP yourself; on Pons there is no such step.

Does locked liquidity make a token safe to buy?

No. It rules out the creator pulling the pool, but the price still moves with every sale, and most tokens never reach graduation. Nobody can promise a token's price.