How pools.trade works
pools.trade is the Uniswap Labs launchpad on Robinhood Chain. It went live on 5 August 2026 and it produces most of the new-token activity on the chain. This page explains the two launch formats, the fee split, and what a creator actually earns.
Last verified: 2026-08-25
The rules that apply to every launch
Four things are fixed for every token that comes out of pools.trade, whichever format the creator picks.
- Fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 units. There is no mint function for the creator to use later. Supply does not change after launch.
- A Uniswap v4 pool. The token ends up in a standard v4 pool on the chain's PoolManager at
0x8366a39CC670B4001A1121B8F6A443A643e40951, not in a bespoke venue. - Permanently locked liquidity. Uniswap states that the tokens sit in a protocol-held pool that the creator cannot remove.
- A 0.25% pool fee that autocompounds. Fees flow back into the locked position, which deepens liquidity over time and narrows the spread.
Uniswap also states there are no launchpad fees. The 0.25% pool fee is the whole charge, and the creator's optional cut comes out of that same 0.25%, not on top of it.
Instant Launch
Instant Launch is the familiar bonding-curve format. The token is live immediately. The price climbs as people buy, and anyone can swap in and out at any time. There is no minimum to clear and no waiting window. If nobody buys, nothing happens and nothing is refunded, because nothing was raised.
Uniswap notes one anti-sniping property: the creator buys in the same block that the token launches. That closes the gap in which an outside bot could otherwise front-run the creator's own first purchase. It does not stop a bot from buying in the next block, and on a chain with 100-millisecond blocks the next block arrives fast. Instant Launch is therefore the format where early-block advantage matters most, and where a screener's new-pair feed latency is a real trading edge.
Crowd Launch
Crowd Launch is an auction. It runs for four hours. Every participant submits a budget rather than a limit price, and bids fill gradually across the remainder of the window. Uniswap describes the fills as time-weighted, which is the design's defence against bundling: an actor who wants the whole allocation cannot simply take it in one block, because the fill is spread over time. Earlier bids receive better prices.
Crowd Launch has one hard gate. In Uniswap's own words, the token is tradable if the launch reaches $10K FDV, and if it falls short, all orders are refunded. Fully diluted valuation on a 1-billion supply means a $10,000 FDV is a token price of $0.00001. That is a low bar by design; it exists to keep failed launches from creating dead pools, not to filter for quality.
The trade-off between the two formats is straightforward. Instant Launch gives immediacy and a thin book at the start. Crowd Launch gives a deeper opening book, because four hours of bids land in the pool at once, but it costs four hours and it can fail outright.
| Property | Instant Launch | Crowd Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Time to tradable | Immediate | 4 hours |
| Price discovery | Bonding curve, price rises with buys | Budget bids, filled over the window, earlier is cheaper |
| Minimum to succeed | None | $10,000 FDV |
| If it fails | Not applicable | All orders refunded |
| Opening liquidity | Thin at first | Deeper, from pooled bids |
| Supply | 1,000,000,000 fixed | |
| Pool fee | 0.25%, autocompounding into locked LP | |
| Creator fee option | 0.05% of volume | |
| LP withdrawable by creator | No | |
Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen.
The fee split, and what it pays
Read the fee as two pieces of the same 0.25%. If the creator elects the fee, 0.05% of trade volume goes to the creator and the remaining 0.20% autocompounds into the locked position. If the creator declines it, the full 0.25% compounds. Uniswap's wording is "receive 0.05% of the 25bps fee", which is loose English; the plain reading, and the one every secondary report uses, is 5 basis points of volume to the creator out of the 25 basis points charged. We flag the ambiguity because it matters to the arithmetic below.
| Daily volume | Creator, per day | Creator, per 30 days | Into locked LP, per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10,000 | $5.00 | $150 | $20.00 |
| $50,000 | $25.00 | $750 | $100.00 |
| $100,000 | $50.00 | $1,500 | $200.00 |
| $250,000 | $125.00 | $3,750 | $500.00 |
| $500,000 | $250.00 | $7,500 | $1,000.00 |
| $1,000,000 | $500.00 | $15,000 | $2,000.00 |
| $5,000,000 | $2,500.00 | $75,000 | $10,000.00 |
These are arithmetic, not observations. Multiply volume by 0.0005 for the creator share and by 0.0020 for the compounding share.
The honest read on that table is the shape of the distribution behind it. Launchpad volume is extremely concentrated: a small number of tokens carry most of the volume, and the long tail trades a few hundred dollars a day and then stops. A creator fee is a real revenue line only for the handful of tokens that sustain six-figure daily volume. For everything else it is a rounding error. Anyone selling "launch a token and collect fees" as a business plan is quoting the top of that table and ignoring the bottom.
What locked liquidity does and does not protect
Permanently locked LP removes exactly one failure mode: the creator cannot withdraw the pool's liquidity and leave holders with an unsellable token. That is a genuine improvement over the launchpad designs it replaces.
It does not make a token safe. Locked liquidity says nothing about who holds the supply. If the creator or a small group of early wallets holds a large share of the 1 billion units, they can sell into the locked pool and take the price down just as effectively as pulling liquidity would have. The distribution of the supply, not the state of the LP, is the number to look at. Our page on scams and safety covers how to check that, and the screener comparison lists which tools show a holder map.
Contracts
Read from verified contract pages on Blockscout on 2026-08-25:
- pools.trade entry contract:
0x0000ffffbe8efe702c8703ae3477ff5de3d319c0 - pools.trade token factory:
0x000000e200088d55c39a11f609e5f667729ad49b
If you are building against the launchpad, decode its events from real logs against the verified ABI on Blockscout. Do not copy topic hashes out of an article, including this one. We do not publish them for that reason.
What we could not verify. The exact bonding-curve formula used by Instant Launch, whether the creator fee election can be changed after launch, where the creator fee accrues and how it is claimed, the precise Crowd Launch fill schedule, and any total count of tokens launched to date. None of those are asserted above. The launch date is also less crisp than it looks: Uniswap's own post is dated 5 August 2026 and we use that, but several outlets report 6 August, which is probably a time-zone or announced-versus-public distinction rather than a real conflict.