Uniswap Labs Acquires PONS Token for Long-Term Alignment

Uniswap Labs has purchased PONS, the token of the memecoin launchpad operating on Robinhood Chain, according to an announcement from the launchpad on Thursday. The acquisition is described as a move for “long‑term alignment” and deepens the partnership between the two projects.

Details of the Purchase

Both Uniswap Labs and Pons did not disclose the number of tokens transferred, the purchase price, the timing of the transaction, or the wallet address holding the tokens. Pons also did not clarify whether the tokens were bought on the open market or allocated directly.

Rival Launchpad Activity

Uniswap Labs launched its own launchpad, Pools.trade, on Robinhood Chain on August 5, charging a 0.25% fee per trade and no fee to launch a token. By the end of August, Pools.trade was generating about $38,553 in daily fees, compared with $4.89 million in fees for Pons V2.

Pons Performance Metrics

• Fees earned in the last 24 hours: $5.95 million
• Fees earned over the past 7 days: $28.83 million
• Fees earned over the past 30 days: $40.84 million
• Protocol revenue retained: $1.11 million daily

Pons has outperformed other launchpads, including Solana’s pump.fun, in daily fees since late August.

Uniswap V4 Activity on Robinhood Chain

Uniswap V4 recorded $1.6 billion in 24‑hour volume across all chains, with Robinhood Chain contributing $901.5 million. The deployment on Robinhood Chain holds $207 million in total value locked and generated $7.72 million in fees in the past day.

Token Market Data

• PONS price: $0.5013 (up 17.5% in 24 hours)
• Market cap: $357.1 million; rank: 118
• All‑time high: $0.5242; 24‑hour low: $0.3476
• UNI price: $6.28 (up 7.9% in 24 hours, up 36.1% in 7 days)
• UNI market cap: $3.92 billion

Supply Mechanics

Pons directs roughly 80% of its protocol fees toward buying back PONS tokens. To date, 29.34% of the total supply has been burned, leaving a circulating supply of about 712.1 million tokens out of a 1 billion maximum.

Broader Context on Robinhood Chain

The chain, launched by Robinhood to trade tokenized equities, has seen rapid growth in memecoin issuance and launchpad activity. It surpassed Ethereum in daily application revenue on August 29 and now hosts new stock‑token pairs such as UPS, SNAP, LULU, PFE, and JNJ.