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Pons $PONS
What PONS actually is — the Pons launchpad token on Robinhood Chain, not a Robinhood Markets product — with live market data, a verified timeline, and the one dataset nobody else has: the 46 PONS copycats that paid DexScreener for promotion.
Robinhood Chain
DexScreener Contract 0x39dBED3a2bd333467115dE45665cC57F813C4571
By DXT Tools Research · updated Aug 30, 2026
PONS is the token of Pons, a non-custodial token launchpad on Robinhood Chain operated by Pons Labs, LLC. On 30 August 2026 it reached an all-time high around $205M market cap — and here is what the payment records show: per DexScreener's own orders API, PONS bought exactly one standard Dex Paid profile, on 13 July 2026 (launch week), and nothing since: the same records list zero boosts and no ads (ads surface only inconsistently in that API — and our own around-the-clock tracking has seen none either). Meanwhile 46 imitator tokens using its name have been buying DexScreener promotion. Both records are on this page, live.
Media shorthand calls PONS "Robinhood Chain's top memecoin", but its documented mechanics are those of a fee business: launches on the pad cost 0.0005 ETH, every pool charges a 1% trading fee split 70/30 between the token creator and the protocol, and the protocol has stated that most of its share funds buy-and-burn of PONS. More than a quarter of the 1B supply had been burned by late August (sources put it between 27% on 12 Aug and ~28.5% on 25 Aug).
PONS live market data
Pulled from the public DexScreener API and refreshed continuously; liquidity and volume are summed across all pools where PONS is the base token.
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What PONS actually is
Pons is a launchpad: anyone can deploy a token on Robinhood Chain through it for a 0.0005 ETH fee, and trading in every Pons pool carries a 1% fee, of which 70% goes to the token's creator and 30% to the protocol. Pons Labs has said that roughly 80% of the protocol's share is used to buy PONS on the market and burn it — a policy the team itself describes as not yet set in stone, so treat the ratio as intent, not guarantee.
That buyback is why PONS trades less like a meme and more like a bet on Robinhood Chain's launch activity: more launches → more fees → more burn. By late August 2026, protocol-revenue trackers ranked Pons among the top launchpads by 30-day revenue. The flip side is the same: activity migrating elsewhere hits the token directly, which is precisely what the early-August drawdown looked like (see the timeline).
The founder is a pseudonymous developer known as Ozzy (@MEADGod), previously of RootsFi on Berachain; the team is not doxed. The name "Pons" itself has no documented explanation — anything you read about its origin is community lore.
PONS is not a Robinhood token
The single most important fact for anyone arriving from a headline: PONS is not issued by Robinhood Markets. It is not tokenized HOOD stock and not an official network token — it is a third-party project deployed on Robinhood's permissionless chain, the way thousands of tokens are deployed on Ethereum without being "Ethereum's token". Coverage that reviewed the question put it plainly: operating on Robinhood Chain does not, by itself, establish any partnership or endorsement.
Two events feed the confusion. On 21 July 2026 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev followed Pons founder @MEADGod on X; PONS jumped triple digits within a day and its market cap briefly passed $39M — but a follow is not an endorsement, and none followed. Two days later, on 23 July, Tenev's X account was hacked to promote a fake "VLAD" token that had been launched through Pons less than an hour earlier; the attacker made off with an estimated $1.2–1.3M. Pons's own contracts were not exploited, but the episode is the clearest possible warning: on a permissionless launchpad, the platform working as designed and you getting scammed are not mutually exclusive.
And a rule that covers every case: any token claiming to be an "official Robinhood" token is a scam.
Verified timeline
- 1 Jul 2026 — Robinhood Chain (an Ethereum L2 on the Arbitrum stack) goes live, unveiled at Robinhood's London event; the launch announcement quote comes from Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood's SVP & GM of Crypto.
- ~13 Jul — the Pons launchpad launches on the chain, days after rival NOXA paused new launches (11 Jul).
- ~15 Jul — the PONS token starts trading; all-time low $0.003317 follows on 17 Jul (CoinGecko).
- 21 Jul — Vlad Tenev follows @MEADGod; PONS spikes, market cap briefly above $39M. Same day is Pons's record for launch activity: 21,689 tokens deployed in 24 hours (The Defiant).
- 23 Jul — Tenev's X account hacked; a fake VLAD token launched via Pons is pumped from the account, netting the attacker an estimated $1.2–1.3M.
- 27 Jul — local price peak around $0.066.
- 6 Aug — down to $0.0213 (−68% from the peak) after Uniswap's competing launchpad out-launched Pons on its first day on the chain (The Defiant).
- Aug — recovery on fee revenue, ongoing burn (27%+ of supply by mid-August), and integrations including cbBTC and Chainlink CCIP.
- 30 Aug — new all-time high; market cap around $205M measured by our tracker, ~$207M per CoinGecko.
What our DexScreener tracking shows
DXT Tools records every paid action on DexScreener — Dex Paid profiles, boosts, ads — across 18+ chains, around the clock. Two findings about PONS stand out.
PONS bought one profile at launch, then stopped. DexScreener's official orders record (shown in the live section above) lists a single approved Dex Paid profile dated 13 July 2026 — launch week — plus a community-takeover order placed on 18 July that was cancelled. The same records list zero boosts; ads surface only inconsistently in that API — none are listed for PONS, and our own tracking has recorded none. Our own continuous tracking of Robinhood Chain, which began on 18 August 2026, has recorded zero paid actions by the PONS contract inside that window. A run to $205M carried by one $299-tier profile and not a single boost is genuinely rare in this market, and worth remembering when you evaluate smaller tokens whose whole chart runs on paid visibility.
Its imitators paid instead — 46 of them by 30 August 2026, and counting. Tokens named PONSER, PONSTER, PONSION, PONSGENTS and dozens more have bought DexScreener promotion hoping to catch spillover attention from the real thing. The most recently active are in the table below (the table caption carries the live count); click a row for that token's full paid history. If you remember one thing from this page: the ticker is not the token — check the contract address.
Robinhood Chain paid activity right now
The chain PONS lives on is itself one of the busiest we track: over 1,500 paid DexScreener actions on Robinhood Chain in the last 7 days. The freshest ones:
Where PONS trades
On-chain, PONS trades on Robinhood Chain DEX pools (Uniswap-deployed pools carry most of the liquidity; the live table above lists them by size). Centralized listings as of late August 2026 include LBank and MEXC (confirmed), with CoinMarketCap also listing BingX and Ourbit as venues.
Whatever the venue: paste the contract address, not the ticker. The copycat table above is dozens of reasons why.
Frequently asked questions
Is PONS an official Robinhood token?
No. PONS is the token of the Pons launchpad, a third-party project by Pons Labs, LLC on Robinhood Chain. It is not issued by Robinhood Markets, is not tokenized HOOD stock, and any token claiming to be an "official Robinhood" token is a scam.
Did Vlad Tenev endorse PONS?
No. On 21 July 2026 he followed the Pons founder on X, which the market traded as a signal — but a follow is not an endorsement, and two days later his account was hacked to promote a fake token launched through Pons. Treat celebrity-signal rallies accordingly.
What is the PONS contract address?
The real PONS on Robinhood Chain is 0x39dBED3a2bd333467115dE45665cC57F813C4571. Our tracker has recorded 46 differently-addressed tokens imitating the name by 30 August 2026 (the live table keeps the current count) that bought DexScreener promotion — always verify the address.
Is PONS a memecoin?
Headlines call it one, but mechanically it is a fee-earning launchpad token: 1% trading fees on every Pons pool, with the protocol's share largely used to buy back and burn PONS. Over a quarter of the supply had been burned by late August 2026.
Has PONS paid for DexScreener promotion?
Once, at launch: DexScreener's official orders API shows a single approved Dex Paid profile dated 13 July 2026, plus a cancelled community-takeover order from 18 July, and zero boosts. (Ads surface only inconsistently in that API — none listed for PONS — and our own tracking has recorded none.) Every one of the 46 paid promotions we have tracked around the name came from imitator tokens, not PONS.
Where can I buy PONS?
On Robinhood Chain DEX pools (the live table on this page lists them by liquidity), or on centralized exchanges — LBank and MEXC confirmed, BingX and Ourbit per CoinMarketCap. This is not financial advice; verify the contract address first.