Overview
STARTUP launches tokens on the pons curve on Robinhood Chain — the same contracts, the same liquidity — and adds what pons does not have. The creator launches from their own wallet in one transaction; the dev buy from that transaction lands in the STARTUP vault and is released on a schedule the creator chose at launch, which can never change afterwards.
Four things a STARTUP launch adds on top of pons:
- Vault. The dev buy is the team supply. It leaves the vault only by time lock, linear vesting, market-cap milestones, or as drops to holders.
- Fees that burn. Creator fees and creator tax from pons are swept into the vault: 80% is paid to the creator, 20% buys back and burns $STARTUP.
- Dev notes. A one-way feed only the creator wallet can write to.
- Boardroom. A private room for the top 50 holders with proposals the creator answers.
Wallet & sign-in
Click Connect in the header and pick a wallet. Browser wallets that announce themselves (MetaMask, Rabby, OKX and others) are listed automatically; WalletConnect appears when the platform has it enabled.
After connecting you sign one message. It proves you control the address, costs no gas and sends no transaction. The session lasts seven days; Sign out ends it.
The wallet must be on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). If it is not, the header shows a Switch button that asks the wallet to add or switch the network.
Creating a launch
Open Create. A launch needs:
- Image — any PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF. It is cropped to a 500×500 square in your browser before upload; drag the preview to choose the crop.
- Name, symbol (2–8 characters), tagline, description.
- Website and X account — both required (pons itself has no website field; STARTUP writes it into the launch). Telegram is optional.
- Dev buy — ETH spent on the curve in the launch transaction. The tokens it buys are the team supply and are delivered straight to the vault. It is exempt from the snipe tax.
- Creator tax — 0 to 10% on every trade, on top of the 1% pons curve fee. It goes to the vault and is paid out under the 80 / 20 rule.
- Holder fee sharing — pons’ option: when on, half of the creator bucket of the curve fee is bought back and locked for holders.
- Snipe tax exemptions — wallets your team buys with in the first 3 seconds after launch.
- Release tranches that add up to 100% of the team supply (see The vault).
Launch sends one transaction to pons from your wallet: 0.0005 ETH launch fee plus the dev buy. When it is mined, STARTUP records the token, the vault schedule and starts indexing trades. Nothing in the vault configuration can be edited later.
Trading on the curve
Trades go straight to the pons bonding curve from your wallet. It is a constant-product curve with a 1.68 ETH phantom reserve, so the price is a deterministic function of how much ETH the curve holds. Every trade shows the exact fees before you confirm: the 1% pons fee, the creator tax and, in the first three seconds after launch, the snipe tax.
At 4.2 ETH raised the launch graduates: pons seeds a Uniswap v4 pool on Robinhood Chain and trading continues there. Your STARTUP token page keeps working — notes, boardroom, vault and drops do not depend on where the token trades.
Fees & $STARTUP burn
The STARTUP fee is collected by the BuybackBurner contract. It has no withdraw function: ETH that lands there can only become burned $STARTUP. More volume on any launch means less $STARTUP in circulation.
The vault
The dev buy is delivered to the STARTUP vault inside the launch transaction (pons’ launch call takes a recipient, and STARTUP sets it to the vault). From there it is released according to the tranches chosen at launch. A launch can combine several tranche types; their percentages add up to 100% of the team supply.
The Vault tab on every token page shows the schedule as a chart, each tranche’s progress, what has been released and what is still locked. Released team tokens are claimed by the creator wallet from the same tab.
Holder drops
A drop tranche rewards the biggest holders, scaled by how long they have held. Every parameter is set by the creator at launch and shown on the Drops tab.
weight = balance^α × (1 + (T_max − 1) · min(1, days_held / horizon)) share = weight / Σ weight over eligible wallets
Selling any amount resets the hold timer. At the end of each epoch a snapshot fixes the weights; settled epochs show a Claim button for eligible holders.
Dev notes
A one-way feed on the token page. Only the creator wallet can post; posts are signed and cannot be edited. Tags: UPDATE, SHIP, MILESTONE, ALERT. Holders can upvote.
Boardroom
A private room for the top 50 wallets by balance. Sign in, open the Boardroom tab and enter — your seat is checked against live balances when you enter and on every message. Fall below the cutoff and the seat lapses until you are back in.
Members post messages and proposals. Proposals collect upvotes; the creator marks them accepted or declined. The creator can post in the room as well.
Network
Contracts
FAQ
No. Tranches, percentages and drop rules are written at deploy and are immutable.
To the BuybackBurner, which can only buy $STARTUP and send it to the burn address. There is no treasury wallet to spend it from.
Yes. It is a normal pons launch — it appears on ponsfamily.com and trades there too. STARTUP adds the vault, drops, notes and boardroom around it.
No. It is a message signature, not a transaction.
Seats follow live balances. Buy back above the cutoff and re-enter.
No. A drop is a vault tranche and has to be part of the launch configuration.