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Launching
How a coin is created on Pons, step by step.
A launch is one transaction that you sign in your wallet (after one approval if the dev buy is in a token other than ETH). It calls Pons's launch contract, and everything in it happens together or not at all:
- Create the coin on Pons: name, ticker, logo and links, with a fixed supply of one billion and no mint, freeze or blacklist.
- Route the fees: for now creator fees go to your own wallet, with no extra creator tax and no creator buyback. Once the Sentipad fee vault is deployed, new coins will name the vault instead.
- Pick the pair: ETH by default, or an asset Pons has approved such as USDG or a Stock Token. Fees arrive in that asset.
- Dev buy (optional), in the same transaction. Pons's opening snipe tax (99% falling to zero over 5 seconds) doesn't apply to it.
The coin then trades on its Pons bonding curve. When the curve sells out (4.2 ETH for ETH pairs), it graduates: everything it collected becomes a Uniswap v4 full-range position whose liquidity is locked permanently. Nobody can withdraw it, the protocol included.
Activation
Once minds are live, a coin shows LAUNCHING until a verifier reads Pons's records on chain and confirms three things: the coin came from the Pons factory, its creator-fee recipient is the Sentipad fee vault, and it carries no creator tax. Until then a new coin simply trades on Pons, without a mind.
| Step | Who | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Upload image | Sentipad | Pins the image to IPFS. Its ipfs:// address becomes the coin's logo. |
| Read terms | Sentipad | Checks that Pons accepts launches from your wallet, reads the live fee, launch config and pair, and pins those terms in the call. |
| Approve | You | Only for a dev buy in a token other than ETH: lets the launch router take exactly that amount. |
| Sign | You | Sentipad dry-runs the launch, then your wallet signs it. |
| Confirm | Robinhood Chain | The transaction lands and the new coin's address is read from its launch event. |
What you pay
Pons's launch fee (0.0005 ETH at the time of writing; the live value is read on chain), gas and any dev buy, all from your own wallet. Sentipad never signs a launch on your behalf.