Every term used around PonsFamily launches, each opening with a single sentence that stands on its own. Figures come from the deployed contracts rather than from documentation.
What happens when a token is created on PonsFamily.
Bundling
Buying the opening of a token launch with several wallets at once, all of them exempt from the launch tax.
On PonsFamily a creator names up to 32 addresses when the token is created, and the 99% opening tax does not apply to them. Buying with all of those wallets in the same moment is bundling. It acquires supply at the lowest prices the token will trade at, without paying the tax that makes being early expensive for everyone else.
The addresses a creator names at launch which the opening tax does not apply to.
Maximum 32 addresses, fixed at the moment the token is created. Nothing can be added later — not by the creator, not by the protocol. A wallet left off the list pays the full tax like anyone else, which is why the list is decided before launching rather than after.
The creator's own purchase, executed inside the launch transaction itself.
Because it rides in the same call that creates the token, nothing can trade before it. Not a race won — a race that does not exist. Every launch has one, which is why a single tax-free wallet in the opening is not evidence of a bundle.
Snipe tax
A tax on buying that opens at 99% and decays to nothing within three seconds of a launch.
It exists to make sniping unprofitable rather than to prevent it. Roughly a quarter of a purchase is still taken one second in, around three percent at two seconds, and nothing by the end of the window. Selling is never taxed by it. The deployed contract returns three seconds; the published documentation says five.
The first blocks after a launch, while the tax on buying is still material.
On Robinhood Chain blocks run at roughly a tenth of a second, so the three-second tax window covers a few dozen blocks. What happens in them decides who holds the cheapest supply, and it is all recorded on chain.
The curve
How a launch is priced before it graduates.
Bonding curve
A contract that acts as the counterparty to every trade, pricing a token by how much of its supply has been bought.
There is no pool to seed and no liquidity to provide. The curve will trade with anyone in either direction from the first second, and the price rises as supply is sold. On PonsFamily the entire supply is minted onto the curve at creation.
A virtual balance counted for pricing that nobody deposited and nobody can withdraw.
It is why the opening price is not zero. On the standard PonsFamily configuration it works out near 1.68 ETH, putting the first price around 1.68 × 10⁻⁹ ETH per token. Without it the first buyer would get the supply for almost nothing.
Also called: Virtual reserve
Graduation
The moment a bonding curve sells out and its reserves become a Uniswap v4 pool with permanently locked liquidity.
It happens when the curve has collected 4.2 ETH. Everything it holds seeds the pool, the position is minted full-range and transferred to a locker, and no withdrawal function exists for anyone — including the protocol. The token keeps the same address and the same holders; only the venue changes.
An optional cut of every trade, up to 10%, that a creator sets when the token is created.
Fixed at creation and cannot be raised on holders afterwards, which is the point of fixing it. It accrues to the launching address and is withdrawn from an escrow contract rather than paid out automatically.
The chain
What is different about Robinhood Chain.
First-come sequencer
An ordering rule where transactions are sequenced by arrival time rather than by the fee they pay.
Robinhood Chain works this way, which means paying more gas buys no advantage at all. The only thing that decides position is how fast a transaction leaves — so latency is worth optimising and bidding is not.
An Ethereum layer-2 network, chain id 4663, where PonsFamily launches run.
Blocks arrive at roughly a tenth of a second and gas costs a fraction of a cent, which makes a launch cheap enough that the fee stops being a consideration. It is a separate network: the same address on Ethereum holds a different balance.
CREATE2 prediction
Working out a contract's address before it is deployed, from the parameters it will be deployed with.
This is what makes bundling possible at all. A buy cannot be sent to a contract that does not exist yet, and waiting for the deployment to confirm burns the tax window. Predicting the address lets every buy be signed in advance, so they can be sent the instant the token exists.
