$POP

Launch a token

Launching costs a flat fee in ETH for gas-token reasons, and nothing else. Everything you choose in this form is permanent, so it is worth understanding before you sign.

1. Identity

Name, ticker, description, image and socials are stored on-chain, in the token contract itself, not in our database. If this site disappeared, your token's metadata would still be readable by anyone. Images are referenced by URL; use an IPFS link (Pinata, web3.storage) if you want the image to be as durable as the rest.

2. Quote token

Pick which graduated Pons token your launch trades against. This choice decides who your natural audience is: buyers need that token to buy yours, and your fees flow in it.

Each quote shows how many launches it has hosted and how much of it has been burned by those launches. Picking a quote with an active community is usually worth more than picking the largest one. See quote tokens.

3. Your fee

You can charge 0% to 2% on every trade, forever, on the curve and on the pool after graduation. This is on top of the protocol's 1% base fee, and it is yours.

There is no vesting, no cliff, and no claim deadline. Fees accumulate to a claimable balance you withdraw whenever you like, from the token page or your creator dashboard.

4. Cashback mode

Optionally route part of your take somewhere else. This never increases what traders pay; it only changes where your share goes. The four options and their tradeoffs are covered in fees & cashback. The create form draws a live diagram of the split as you move the sliders.

5. Dev buy (optional)

You can buy your own token in the same transaction that creates it. Your address, your fee recipient, and any bundle wallets you declare are exempt from the anti-snipe tax, so your opening buy clears at the honest price while bots in the same window do not.

If your dev buy is larger than the curve can fill, the excess is returned to you in the same transaction, so you are never charged for tokens you did not receive.

What happens when you sign

  1. The launch is simulated first. If it would fail, you see why instead of losing gas.
  2. The exact economics you were quoted are pinned into the transaction. If anything moved between quoting and confirming, the launch reverts rather than proceeding on different terms.
  3. Your token and its bonding curve are deployed, and trading opens immediately.

Anti-snipe window

For the first few seconds, buys pay a tax that starts near 100% and decays to zero. Sniping bots that front-run your announcement pay most of their spend as fees, which flow to you and your cashback mode, while a human buying a minute later pays nothing extra. Exempt wallets (yours, plus up to 32 you declare) never pay it.

Things you cannot change later

  • Your fee percentage.
  • Your cashback mode and its share.
  • The quote token, supply, and graduation threshold.
  • The token's name, ticker, and on-chain metadata.

The only thing you can change is which address receives your creator fees, and only you can change it. Nobody can change it for you, which also means that if you lose the key, those future fees are gone. That tradeoff is deliberate; see trust & security.

Something unclear or wrong? The contracts are the source of truth, and every claim here is checkable on /proof.