Documentation
How it works
Pad is a launchpad on Pons v2 where every fee gets a job.
What is Pad?
Pad launches tokens through the Pons v2 factory on Robinhood Chain. A creator deploys a token, the public buys it from a bonding curve, and once the curve is bought out the launch graduates into a Uniswap v4 pool whose liquidity is locked permanently.
What Pad adds is the vault. On plain Pons, creator fees go to a wallet. Here they go to a per-token vault with one job, chosen at launch: lock liquidity, buy back and burn, pay stakers, or pay holders.
Launch lifecycle
Create, trade the curve, graduate, pool. There is no path where a creator decides to do something different halfway through. Graduation happens inside whichever purchase finishes the curve. If that automatic step does not complete, anyone can push the launch forward.
Fee engines
At launch you pick one strategy. Creator fees land in a vault that belongs to that token. A cycle runs every five minutes for as long as the vault has gas. Before graduation the vault can only buy on the curve; liquidity waits until there is a pool to add it to.
Locked Liquidity
After graduation, every cycle buys the token with half the fees and adds both halves to the Uniswap v4 pool as a full-range position owned by the dead address. Before graduation the fees wait in the vault.
Buyback & Burn
Fees buy the token, on the curve before graduation and in the v4 pool after it, and send every token bought to the dead address. Supply only goes down.
Staking
Holders stake tokens in the vault and are paid the fees pro-rata, in the launch's pair asset. ETH for an ETH launch, the stock token for a stock pair. Unstake whenever you want.
Dividends
Fees are paid to every wallet holding the token, pro-rata to its balance, in the launch's pair asset. No staking, no claim button.
Launching a token
Fill in the details
Upload an image (stored on IPFS), choose a name and symbol, write a description, and optionally add social links.
Pick the pair asset
Native ETH, or any asset Pons has approved: USDG, cbBTC or a tokenised stock such as TSLA or SPY. Buyers pay in it, the pool pairs with it, and the vault pays out in it.
Pick the terms
Choose a fee strategy and, optionally, a creator tax up to the Pons cap. Optionally add an opening buy and team wallets that skip the snipe tax. All of it is fixed at creation.
Sign two transactions
First a little ETH to the token's vault so it can pay gas. Then the launch itself: your wallet pays the Pons launch fee and is the deployer, and the vault is set as the creator fee recipient. With an opening buy the launch goes through the Pons launch-and-buy router in one transaction.
Trade the curve
Anyone can buy and sell against the curve, right from the token page. A snipe tax starts at 99% and decays to zero over five seconds.
Graduate
When the curve sells out, a Uniswap v4 pool is created and its liquidity is locked permanently. If the automatic step stalls, anyone can push graduation forward.
Contracts
Pad talks to the live Pons v2 stack on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663).
FAQ
Is this Pons v1?
No. Pad launches through the Pons v2 factory. Tokens start on a bonding curve and graduate into a locked Uniswap v4 pool.
Which pair should I pick?
ETH is the default and the simplest. A stock or dollar pair ties the launch to that asset: if TSLA falls, a TSLA-paired token falls with it, and its payouts are in TSLA. The list only offers assets Pons has approved right now.
Who holds the fees?
Each token has its own vault wallet. Pad holds its key encrypted on the server, because the vault has to sign every cycle without you. The token and the launch fee never pass through Pad; the fees do, and every move they make is a public transaction in the token's log.
Is there a platform fee?
Yes, a fixed share of what the vault claims, shown on every token page. The rest goes to the strategy. Pons takes its own protocol share before fees reach the vault.
Can I change the strategy, tax or pair later?
No. Pair, creator tax, strategy and graduation terms are fixed at creation.
What happens to fees?
Every five minutes the vault sweeps fees from the curve or pool into the Pons escrow, claims them, and runs the strategy you picked: lock more liquidity, buy back and burn, pay stakers, or pay every holder. Payouts are in the pair asset. You do not have to press anything.
What if someone takes over the token?
Pons lets the community move the creator fee recipient after a delay. If that happens, fees stop reaching the vault and the strategy stops. The token page warns while a takeover is pending and once fees point elsewhere.
Can the liquidity be pulled after graduation?
No. The graduation pool is locked by Pons, and the positions the liquidity strategy adds are owned by the dead address. Not you, not Pons, not us.
Pons v2
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