What a Pons launch costs on Robinhood Chain right now

A Pons launch on Robinhood Chain costs about 0.00059 ETH right now, roughly $1.60 with ETH at about $2,680. That is the Pons launch fee of 0.0005 ETH plus about 0.00009 ETH of gas. Almost all of it is the launch fee: gas on Robinhood Chain sits close to its floor of 0.02 gwei, so the chain's share is about 25 cents. These figures were measured on the chain on 30 September 2026.

Pons is a memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, Robinhood's Arbitrum layer 2 on Ethereum (chain id 4663), and a busy one: in one-minute samples taken every hour on 30 September, it saw about six launches a minute. This guide breaks the cost of one into its parts, shows what a dev buy adds on top, and explains why Robinhood Wallet's gas sponsorship does not change the price of a launch.

The launch fee: 0.0005 ETH

Every Pons V2 launch pays a flat launch fee to the Pons factory, in the same transaction that creates the token. The factory contract states it itself: its launchFee() reads 0.0005 ETH, and launches sent straight to the factory on 24 August, 1 September, 11 September and 30 September all carried exactly that amount.

The fee does not depend on the token's name, supply or anything you choose in the launch. Every Pons V2 token starts with the same supply of 1,000,000,000 on the same bonding curve, so there is nothing to size.

Gas: about 0.00009 ETH at today's price

A launch creates a token contract and its curve, which makes it a heavy transaction. In a sample of 46 launches spread across 30 September, a launch sent straight to the factory used about 3.6 million gas, and one sent through the router that launches and buys in one go about 3.8 million. At 0.0226 gwei, the price that day, a launch paid a median of about 0.00009 ETH in gas, around $0.24.

Robinhood Chain's gas price has a floor of 0.02 gwei, and it stays close to it. In hourly samples over the week to 30 September, the base fee had a median of 0.024 gwei and never went above 0.052 gwei. It does move when the chain is busy. From 1 to 4 September the median base fee rose to between 0.37 and 0.48 gwei, with an hourly peak above 6 gwei, and the same launch cost 0.0013 to 0.0017 ETH in total, around $3.50 to $4.60 at today's ETH price. So the real variable in a launch's cost is the chain's traffic on the day, not the launch fee.

You can see the price right now on the Robinhood Chain gas tracker, which reads it from the chain every few seconds, along with what a plain transfer costs.

What Robinhood Wallet's gas sponsorship covers

On 1 July, Robinhood announced that for 90 days gas fees on Robinhood Chain were "on us", including swaps and bridge transactions, for people using Robinhood Wallet. On 7 August it lowered the minimum for sponsored transactions from $5 to $0.50, with the sponsorship running until 29 September. On 29 September, the day it was due to end, Robinhood extended it: swaps of more than $0.50 made through Robinhood Wallet stay free of gas until 31 December.

That programme is Robinhood paying the gas on its own wallet's swaps. It was never a waiver for the chain as a whole, and it does not cover a Pons launch: launches sent to the Pons factory pay their own gas. In the same sample of 46 launches, 38 went straight to the factory or its launch-and-buy router, with the sender paying the gas.

So the extension changes nothing for a launch, and neither will its end on 31 December. What it keeps is a free swap for a buyer who trades through Robinhood Wallet; everyone else pays gas at the same fraction of a cent.

A dev buy on top

A launch can include a first buy of your own token, in the same transaction, before anyone else can buy. It is optional. Its ETH goes into the bonding curve, and the curve takes its 1% fee on it, like on any buy.

As an example, a 0.1 ETH dev buy gets about 55.6 million tokens, 5.56% of the supply, and with the launch fee you sign for 0.1005 ETH plus gas. The Pons fees and launch calculator works this out for any amount, reading the curve's settings and the launch fee from the Pons factory itself, and shows how far the buy takes the token toward graduation.

What trading costs after the launch

None of these is paid at launch, but they are part of what running a Pons token means:

• The curve fee. Every buy and sell on the bonding curve pays 1%.
• The pool fee. Once the curve has raised 4.2 ETH, the token graduates to a Uniswap V4 pool, where trades pay 1% too.
• The creator tax. A creator can add a tax of up to 10% on trades, paid to the creator. It is optional, and every buyer can see it.
• The split. The Pons factory splits the trading fees 70% to the creator and 30% to the protocol.

A token's liquidity is locked for good when it graduates; there is more on that in how Pons V2 locks liquidity.

Check the numbers yourself

Every figure here can be read from the chain, and they change: the launch fee is a setting in the factory, and gas moves with traffic. The Pons fees and launch calculator reads the factory live, and the gas tracker reads the chain's gas price. After a launch, the Robinhood Chain rug checker shows any token's Pons status, graduation progress, liquidity lock, taxes and owner.

A launch costs little, so anyone can launch. Most Pons tokens never reach graduation, and a launch's cost says nothing about what a token will be worth.