Launchpads
Six protocols, three chains, and which one a token belongs to.
A launchpad sells a new token from a bonding curve: the price rises with every buy, and once enough supply has sold, the remaining tokens and the coin raised are moved into a normal DEX pool. That last step is called graduation.
The console speaks six of them. A chain can carry more than one, and which launchpad a token belongs to is a property of the token, not of the chain. Every tool asks the chain rather than assuming; see Venues.
At a glance
| OneMeme | four.meme | Flap | Genius | Faze | PONS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chain | BSC | BSC | BSC and Robinhood | BSC | Arc | Robinhood |
| Supply | Your choice of tier | 1 billion, fixed | 1 billion, fixed | 1 billion, fixed | 1 billion, fixed | Set by the launch config |
| On the curve | Tier dependent | 80% | 80% | 71.43% | 77.78% | Config dependent |
| Graduates at | 10 or 16 BNB | 18 BNB for a BNB curve | 16 BNB on BSC, about 5 ETH on Robinhood | 15 BNB raised | 6,500 to 15,500 USDC, you choose | Config dependent |
| Graduates to | PancakeSwap V2 | PancakeSwap V2 | PancakeSwap V2, Uniswap V2 | PancakeSwap Infinity | Uniswap V4 pool | Uniswap V4 pool |
| Raise assets | Coin, USDT, stocks, gold | Coin and its own list | Coin | Coin and 468 approved assets | Coin, or the launchpad's own token | ETH and approved equities |
| Taxes you set | Yes | No | Fixed at 0% buy, 1% sell | No | No | No |
| Curve fee | 1% | 1% | 1% each way | 2% each way | 1% each way | Config dependent |
| Opening tax | Optional | Optional | No | 99% for 15s, per address | 99% for 3s, per address | Yes, per address |
| Second shape | V3 pool launch | None | None | None | None | None |
On BNB Smart Chain
OneMeme
The chain's native launchpad here, and the only one that lets you configure taxes and a bonding-curve tax at launch. You pick a graduation tier, 10 or 16 BNB, or a non-coin raise asset such as USDT, a tokenised stock or gold, in which case the protocol's own tier applies.
It also offers a second launch shape: a V3 pool launch, where the whole supply goes straight into a locked concentrated-liquidity position instead of onto a curve. Those tokens never graduate, because they were never on a curve; they trade through the Core from the first block, and the creator's fees accrue in the locked position and can be claimed from Tokens.
Metadata is pinned to IPFS by the deployment, so a logo is optional and a launch works without one.
four.meme
Its parameters are not yours. 1 billion supply, 80% on the curve, and a graduation target four.meme sets: 18 BNB for a BNB curve, and whatever its config says for any other raise asset. What you choose is the identity, the raise asset and the buys.
Creation is a joint operation. four.meme's backend signs the launch parameters, and only then will its contract accept the transaction, so the sequence is API first and chain second. The token's address is fixed by that signature before anything is sent, which is what lets the buys be signed in advance and land in the same block.
The console launches the plain, untaxed variant. four.meme's own website launches a taxed clone from a different factory, at a different address, and the two are not interchangeable.
An image is required: four.meme hosts the artwork itself and will not sign a launch without one.
Flap
The ancestor of OneMeme's contracts, still running and still maintained. 1 billion supply, 80% on the curve, graduates to PancakeSwap V2.
Flap makes two different tokens, and the switch in the Tax panel picks between them. They are not one token with a setting: each has its own template, its own entry point and its own address suffix, and the choice cannot be changed after the launch.
The taxed token is the default and the one Flap's own site launches. It refuses a zero tax, so if you take it, it carries one. What it will accept was found by simulating creates against the live contract rather than read from the docs:
| Rate per side | 0, or between 1% and 10% |
| Step | 0.5% above the 1% floor |
| Both sides zero | Refused |
| Duration | At least 24 hours |
| Split | Tax wallet, liquidity, burn and holders, in any mix totalling 100% |
| Dividends | Accepted, provided the launch names a qualifying holding of at least 10,000 tokens |
The default is the smallest it will take, 0% buy and 1% sell, and the form lets you set anything else inside those rules along with the wallet the tax is paid to.
The untaxed token carries no tax on either side and nothing to split. It costs one thing: a per-address buy quota of 2% of supply, fixed at creation, which the taxed token does not have. A bundle can still take a larger share, because the quota counts per wallet rather than per launch, but it needs enough wallets to do it. On BNB Smart Chain the untaxed token also raises the chain's coin only, and the form says so rather than letting the launch fail.
About 3% of Flap launches are untaxed, so a token without a tax is unusual enough that traders may read it as a signal either way.
Raise assets. Flap opens curves against a long list of them, not only the chain's coin: stables, BTCB, gold, and the tokenised equities. The console asks the Portal which ones it has enabled on each load and shows only those. Your wallets still pay in the chain's coin whatever the curve raises, because the Portal swaps on the way in, so nothing about funding changes.
An asset only appears once the console has proved a launch on it would be accepted. It simulates one against the live Portal on each load, which is also where the graduation figure under each asset comes from. That is a stricter test than the Portal's own enabled flag, which on BNB Smart Chain lists assets whose create then reverts.
The token address is mined locally for the suffix the chosen template requires, which takes a
second or two: 7777 for the taxed token and 8888 for the untaxed one. Flap enforces it, and the
suffix is how anyone reading the chain can tell the two apart. An image is required; Flap pins the
metadata itself.
Genius
The newest of the four on this chain, and the closest relation to PONS on the other: one curve contract per token rather than a shared portal, and a curve that opens at a phantom reserve instead of at zero, so the first buy is priced against a real book.
Its parameters are not yours. 1 billion supply, five sevenths of it for sale on the curve and the other two sevenths held back to seed the pool, a 2% fee on every trade, and graduation once the curve has really raised 15 BNB. What you choose is the identity, whether buyback and burn is on, where the creator's share of the fee accrues, and the buys.
It graduates into a PancakeSwap Infinity pool, which is neither a V2 pair nor an ordinary V3 pool. Nothing in this console trades one first hand, so a graduated Genius token routes through the aggregator, which does reach it.
What it raises
Genius will open a curve against the coin or against any of 468 approved assets: the stables, Ondo's tokenised equities and ETFs, and a handful of meme tokens. The launch form has a searchable picker for them, built from the factory's own approval events rather than a list kept here, so an asset approved tomorrow appears without a deploy.
The choice changes the terms. The supply and the 2% fee belong to the launch config and are the same either way, but the graduation threshold and the opening reserve belong to the asset: against the coin this curve graduates at 15, against USDT at 10,000.
The wallets do not have to be funded in it by hand. Token Launch offers to buy the raise asset for them out of the coin they already hold, and does it before the launch rather than inside it: a swap only lands within its slippage, and a buy sized against an amount that arrived a little short would revert and take the whole bundle with it. So the wallets convert, the chain is asked what they really hold, and the launch is planned from that.
Each wallet swaps only what it is about to spend, keeps its gas, and is skipped entirely if it already holds enough. The price is checked in both directions first, at a real size, and a market too thin to go through is refused rather than used: measured across ten of these assets, nine keep 98 to 100% of a round trip and one keeps 1.4%.
A curve raising anything but the coin is still a launch this console can create and then not trade. Selling from Tokens, the Bundler and the volume bot all spend the chain's own coin, so none of them can reach it until the token graduates. No platform fee is charged on such a launch either: the fee is only ever taken in the coin.
Creation costs a flat 0.002 BNB on top of your own first buy. There is no creator tax to set: this deployment caps it at zero and refuses a launch that asks for any. Buyback and burn cannot be turned off either: a launch with it off is refused, so the console sends it on and says so.
Where the 2% goes
Measured on a 1 BNB buy against a live curve, reading the curve's own fee balances before and after:
| Leg | Of the trade | Of the fee |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 1% | 50% |
| Genius | 0.5% | 25% |
| Buyback and burn | 0.25% | 12.5% |
| You, the creator | 0.25% | 12.5% |
Both legs pay it. A round trip that moves the price not at all still ends at 96.04% of what it started with: 1 BNB in came back as 0.9604.
The opening fifteen seconds
Genius charges a 99% tax on every buy for the first fifteen seconds, decaying as the window closes, and it is charged per address rather than per curve. A wallet that walks into that window keeps about 1% of what it spends. Measured on a fork of BSC: a fresh wallet spending 0.3 BNB in the launch block received 454,163 tokens where the creator received 46,711,153 for the same money.
Two things make a launch from here survivable anyway.
The creator is exempt without asking, so your own first buy inside the create transaction fills at full price. And the creation call carries a list of addresses the curve will not tax, so Token Launch puts your buyer wallets on it: they buy at the same price you do, whether they land in the same block or a block later.
That list is written once, at creation, and holds at most 32 addresses. It cannot be added to afterwards, by anyone. A launch with more than 32 funded wallets leaves the extras out rather than sending them in at 99%, and says so on the form before you start. They can buy through the Bundler once the window closes.
The Bundler refuses a Genius token that is still inside its window, and names the seconds left on it. There is nothing a slippage setting can do about a 99% tax; the only thing that helps is the clock.
The tax is not burned and not returned to the curve. It lands in the same pot as the ordinary trading fee and is split the same four ways, so it is revenue rather than a deterrent with the proceeds thrown away. It also decays fast: a curve reporting 99% charged 12.37% two blocks later.
Address convention
Genius's own site mines launch addresses ending in 6666. It is not enforced, and plenty of live
launches do not carry it. The console does not mine for it: unlike Flap, the address here depends
on the whole parameter struct and not on a salt alone, so there is nothing to iterate locally. The
address is asked of the factory before anything is signed, and that prediction is exact.
On Robinhood Chain
PONS V2
The chain's own launchpad. Tiers, fees and the approved raise assets are read live from its factory rather than restated in the console, so a change on their side shows up here without a deploy. A PONS token can raise in ETH or in any tokenised equity the factory approves, and it graduates into a Uniswap V4 pool.
PONS is unusual in two ways. The creation and every bundled buy are wrapped into one transaction paid for by the creator, which is the only atomicity available on a chain with no bundle market. And it applies the snipe tax described in Chains, with an exemption list capped at 32 addresses.
Because the creator pays for every buy inside that one transaction, bundle wallets need no balance of their own on a PONS launch. They receive tokens and no coin, which is why selling one later usually needs the gas top-up option in Tokens.
A curve that raises an ERC-20 rather than ETH cannot be bundled on PONS: the buyers are funded inside a single transaction and an ERC-20 approval cannot be arranged mid-call. The form says so when you pick such an asset.
Flap
Also deployed here, beside PONS, with the same recipe as on BNB Smart Chain: a 0% buy and 1% sell tax token. The curve is much shallower and it graduates at roughly 5 ETH, into Uniswap V2.
The plain, untaxed shape exists on this chain but carries a per-address buy cap of 2% of supply, which silently refunds anything over it. That is why the console uses the tax shape here too.
On Arc
Arc carries two launchpads and they are not two settings of the same thing. Argus has no curve at all: a launch mints its supply into one locked Uniswap V4 position above the opening price, and buys walk the price up through it. Faze is a bonding curve in the ordinary sense, and it is the only one on this chain.
Faze
A Faze launch mints exactly 1,000,000,000 tokens with no creator allocation and no way to mint more. 777,777,778 of them, seven ninths, sell along the curve; the remaining two ninths are held back to seed the Uniswap V4 pool the coin graduates into.
You choose how much it raises, inside a band the contract enforces: between 6,500 and 15,500 of the chain's coin. Faze's own site offers a ladder at 6,500, 8,500, 10,500, 12,500 and 15,500, and the console shows the same rungs beside a free field. A target outside the band is refused on chain, so the form checks it before the button.
The curve is calibrated so that the supply for sale runs out at exactly the moment the raise fills. There is no leftover, no shortfall and no gap: the buy that completes the curve also builds the Uniswap V4 pool, seeds it with the raise, and burns the position so the liquidity can never be pulled. All of that happens inside that one transaction, so a Faze coin is always tradable somewhere. Genius has a two minute window where its token trades nowhere; Faze has none.
The trade fee is 1% each way. Of that, 70% is the creator's and 30% is the launchpad's. Creating a coin costs 0.001 of the chain's coin, and that fee is always in the coin even when the curve raises something else.
Raising something other than the coin
A Faze curve can raise an approved ERC-20 instead, and today exactly one asset is approved: Faze's own token. Picking it changes the band, because the band belongs to the asset rather than to the launchpad.
Everything else carries on working. A wallet holding only the chain's coin can still buy such a coin, still sell it, and still be used in a bundle or a volume bot: the console swaps through Faze's own Uniswap V4 pool on the way in and on the way out. That costs two extra transactions on each side and the pool's spread on each swap, which is real money, and the panels say so rather than hiding it.
No platform fee is charged on a launch or a bundle that spends anything but the chain's coin. The fee is only ever taken in the coin, and billing an ERC-20 amount as though it were the coin would charge several times the real value.
The opening seconds
Faze taxes buys for the first three seconds after the curve opens. The rate starts at 99% and decays to the ordinary 1% over those seconds, per address. Measured on a fork, in the same block: a wallet on the launch's exemption list received 4,991,183 tokens for 20 of the coin, and one that was not received 49,717. That is 1.02%.
Two things take the sting out of it, and the console uses both.
The launch names one wallet that must make the first buy, and until that buy lands the curve refuses everyone else outright. Not taxed, refused. So nothing can get between the creation and your opening buy, which is the gap a bundle exists to close on other chains. Arc has no bundle market at all, and this is what takes its place.
The launch also names up to 30 addresses the tax does not apply to. The console puts the creator and every buying wallet on that list. The list is written into the creation call and can never be added to, so a wallet past the limit is dropped from the launch rather than sent in at 99%, and the log says which.
The wallet that opens the curve is never taxed, even if it is not on the list: it is the buy that starts the clock.
Argus
The chain's first launchpad, and the one every other Arc page in this console is built around. There is one shape of token and nothing to choose about its curve, because it has none. See Venues for how the console tells an Argus launch from a Faze coin from an ordinary pool.
Picking one
On a chain with more than one, Token Launch opens with a Launchpad picker, each option carrying that launchpad's own mark. Choosing changes every panel below it, because each protocol fixes a different set of things and leaves a different set to you.