Uniswap's Pools launchpad mints 6,000 tokens in Robinhood Chain debut

Uniswap's pools.trade launchpad minted 6,000 tokens on day one on Robinhood Chain, outpacing daily issuance at rivals Pons, Flap, and Bankr, per Entropy Advisors.

"Pools is built by Uniswap Labs," the firm's announcement said, while cautioning that it "has not independently reviewed or verified any token or project displayed" on the platform.

FRONG, the leading token, traded at $0.0121, up 31.9 percent, with a fully diluted valuation of $12.1 million and $1.1 million in liquidity. The platform recorded $20.6 million in 24-hour volume and $60.96 million in cumulative volume across 172,694 buys from 12,206 wallets and 152,183 sells from 10,942 wallets, with 12,141 holders, per pools.trade's index.

The launch extends Uniswap's fee-and-burn mechanism to Robinhood Chain, where the protocol collected $1.67 million in fees over 24 hours. Robinhood Chain holds $426.9 million in total value locked and processed $322.8 million in DEX volume on Aug. 4, per DefiLlama.

FRONG was minted on July 30, six days before the platform went live, using the same contracts that power pools.trade. The token's contract is a verified ERC-20 with a fixed 1 billion supply, and its Uniswap v4 pool was created in the same block as the token itself. The largest holder is Uniswap's v4 PoolManager with 3.4 percent of supply, which is the liquidity pool position.

Pools charges no launchpad fee. Each token opens a standard Uniswap v4 pool with a 0.25 percent LP fee that autocompounds into a protocol-held position the creator cannot withdraw. Creators can switch on an optional fee at launch and take 0.05 percent of that 25 basis points. Uniswap puts the industry comparison at "a fraction of the standard ~1% on other launchpads."

Two launch formats are available. Instant Launch goes live immediately on a bonding curve with no graduation requirement. Crowd Launch runs a four-hour window in which bids fill gradually and price moves with demand, using TWAP bids to blunt bundling; it graduates at a $10,000 launch FDV or refunds every order.

UNI traded at $4.03, up 3.8 percent over 24 hours, with a market capitalization of $2.52 billion, per CoinGecko. The token's rally from near $3.50 in mid-July coincided with the governance vote expanding Uniswap's fee-and-burn mechanism to v4 pools and Robinhood Chain.

The launchpad's debut on Robinhood Chain, which has leaned on memecoin trading since it opened, adds a Uniswap-backed venue to a network already dominated by token speculation. Whether pools.trade sustains its early issuance pace will depend on the quality of projects it attracts and the platform's ability to maintain security as volume grows.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.