Pons, a permissionless token launchpad built on Robinhood Chain, said it recorded the highest user-paid fees among onchain launchpads during a 24-hour period ending early Tuesday, with more than $500 million in trading volume. The project’s official account posted the claim at 02:22 UTC on September 1, 2026, as Robinhood Chain recorded one of its strongest fee days and $PONS traded near fresh highs, according to DeFiLlama data. Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum Orbit Layer-2 (scaling network built on Arbitrum technology), reached public mainnet on July 1, 2026. It generated about $2.66 million in application revenue in a recent 24-hour window, ranking ahead of Ethereum and behind only Solana, according to an earlier The Crypto Times report citing DeFiLlama data from late August 31. Memecoin infrastructure, rather than tokenized brokerage products, has driven most of the chain’s activity. Pons is the largest launchpad in that segment, although DeFiLlama-linked dashboards recently showed Pons V2 daily volume closer to $80 million. A Pons-shared chart separately reported combined fees paid across listed launchpads of $82.59 million over 24 hours, highlighting that official posts and aggregator dashboards measure different metrics. Pons launched days after Robinhood Chain’s mainnet and operates without custody of user funds. Creators deploy a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens from their own wallets, while liquidity is locked at graduation. Version 1 used locked Uniswap v3 WETH pools; Version 2, introduced in early August, adopted a bonding curve (pricing model that changes with demand) and graduation into a permanently locked Uniswap v4 pool through a Pons hook (smart-contract extension controlling pool behavior). Launches generally charge a 1% trading fee, with about 70% going to creators and 30% to the protocol. Pons says most of its share funds automated $PONS buybacks and burns. The team said creators had earned more than $25 million in trading fees by 00:26 UTC on September 1, payable in ETH, USDG or stock tokens, and reported $4 billion in cumulative platform volume the previous day. Messari’s August notes put earlier cumulative volume near $1.86 billion and creator earnings near $12.5 million, indicating late-August acceleration rather than a direct contradiction. Robinhood’s 90-day gas waiver from July 1 reduced deployment costs, while Pons gained activity after rival launchpad Noxa halted new launches in mid-July. DeFiLlama data showed Pons processing a majority of chain launchpad volume by late July. $PONS has a maximum supply of 1 billion, no ongoing emissions and a lower circulating supply because buybacks are sent to a burn address. Pons said 29% of total supply had been burned on August 29, leaving roughly 710 million tokens outstanding on major market-data sites. CoinGecko daily history showed closing prices near $0.078 on August 24, $0.117 on August 27 around the KuCoin listing, $0.312 on August 30 and $0.4002 on August 31, after an intraday high of $0.4438. At 10:30 AM UTC on September 1, the token traded near $0.43, with market-cap prints around $307 million and daily token volume often above $100 million. Listings on LBank, Poloniex, MEXC, BTSE, BingX and Gate.io expanded access beyond Robinhood Chain DEX pools. Research notes have linked the rally to usage rather than a new token unlock, while also warning that fee income is concentrated in speculative launches and that creator payouts reduce the portion available for buybacks. Uniswap Labs launched pools.trade on Robinhood Chain on August 5 and briefly exceeded Pons in daily token count with a lower trading fee and no protocol take. Pons responded with Version 2, real-world-asset quote assets and creator payouts in the pairing token. Tokenized stocks and ETFs represented about a quarter of recent Pons curve volume in one Bitquery-based late-August review, with tokenized Nvidia among the largest quote assets. Pons also asked users on August 31 which additional stock tickers to add. The 90-day gas waiver is due to expire around the end of September, potentially changing the economics of more than 10,000 daily deployments if users resume paying gas. Pons remains the busiest launchpad on a young network whose activity is still dominated by short-lived tokens, despite Robinhood Chain’s rapidly growing total value locked and DEX volume. The platform combines a deflationary token, expanding real-world-asset pairs and officially reported volume in the billions, while competition and a possible cooling in memecoin activity remain key considerations.