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Notes from building on pons.
What the contracts actually return, what it costs, and where the documentation and the chain disagree. Written for people who would rather read the source than a summary of it.
1 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
What a token bundler actually does
A bundler creates a token and buys its opening supply from several wallets in one coordinated move. Here is what that means mechanically, and what it does not mean.
2 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
Robinhood Chain, from a launcher's point of view
Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Orbit L2 where the native asset is ETH. What that means for launching tokens: gas costs, transaction ordering, and how funds get on and off.
3 Sept 2026 · 8 min read
How the pons bonding curve prices a launch
A pons token mints entirely onto a bonding curve. How the price is set, what the phantom reserve does, and why the last buy before graduation behaves differently.
4 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
The pons snipe tax window is three seconds, not five
The documentation says five seconds. The deployed contract returns three. Here is how to read the real value, and why the difference decides whether a bundle lands inside the window.
5 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
The exemption list: 32 addresses, fixed at creation
pons lets a creator name up to 32 addresses that the opening tax does not apply to. The list is fixed when the token is created and can never be extended.
6 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
How many wallets should a bundle use?
Between 5 and 32 wallets, and the right number depends on position size, gas overhead and how much dispersion you actually need. The trade-offs, with numbers.
7 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Why one large buy costs more than several small ones
On a constant-product curve, a single large order pays a worse average price than the same amount split into pieces. The arithmetic, and where it stops being true.
8 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
A first-come sequencer changes what speed means
Robinhood Chain orders transactions by arrival, not by fee. What that rewrites for anyone who learned to trade on Ethereum, and what optimisation looks like instead.
9 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
What happens when a launch graduates
When the curve sells out, the launch becomes a Uniswap v4 pool with permanently locked liquidity. What changes for holders, and what closes earlier than you expect.
10 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
Bundling on an ETH chain versus on Solana
Jito bundles, priority fees and atomic execution on Solana against arrival ordering and pre-signed volleys on an Arbitrum Orbit chain. The mechanics are genuinely different.
11 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
How to launch a token on PonsFamily, start to finish
Everything a launch needs on PonsFamily: what the fields mean, what is fixed forever, what it costs, and the three decisions that cannot be changed afterwards.
12 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Why sniping a pons launch rarely works
The opening tax starts at 99% and decays over three seconds. Here is what a sniper actually pays at each point in that window, and why the arithmetic almost never works out.
13 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
Should you buy a token that was bundled?
Finding a bundle tells you a launch was organised, not that it was dishonest. Here is what separates a team holding a position from an exit waiting to happen.
14 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
How creator fees work on pons, and how to collect them
Creators earn a share of every trade on their token. Where that money sits, why part of it needs the protocol to move it, and how to withdraw the rest.
15 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Where bundle wallet keys live, and why it matters
Most bundlers hold your keys because signing thirty transactions in three seconds seems to require it. It does not, and the difference is the whole of your security model.
16 Sept 2026 · 7 min read
How pons compares to the launchpads people know
Four things pons does differently from the launchpads most people arrive from: the opening tax, the exemption list, locked liquidity, and a sequencer that ignores gas.
Enough reading?
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