Pons Surpasses Pumpfun And Robinhood Chain in Daily Fees

Pons, the dominant token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, posted $5.95 million in 24-hour fees on September 3, according to DefiLlama data. That figure marked a new all-time high for the protocol, ranking it fourth across all tracked protocols globally, while topping Pumpfun's $4.64 million and Robinhood Chain's own $4.45 million over the same period.

A Launchpad Built on Robinhood Chain's Early Momentum

Pons is not an official Robinhood product. It is a separate, non-custodial protocol that deployed on Robinhood Chain shortly after the network went live. Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Orbit Layer-2 that reached public mainnet on July 1, 2026. The chain's early economics helped: Robinhood waived gas fees for 90 days from July 1, making high-frequency token deployment cheap. After rival launchpad Noxa halted new launches in mid-July, Pons absorbed a large share of remaining activity.

Cumulative fees have reached $56.77 million, while cumulative protocol revenue stands at $12.25 million. Fees should not be treated as protocol revenue or token-holder earnings: DefiLlama separately reported $1.11 million in daily protocol revenue alongside the headline fee figure. Pons now accounts for roughly 50% to 80% of activity on Robinhood Chain, making it the backbone of the network's speculative economy. The chain Robinhood built to trade tokenized equities has become the main venue for memecoin issuance.

Fee Model, Burns, and the $PONS Token

The platform routes 70% of fees to token creators and retains 30% for the protocol, a structure that has kept builders on the platform rather than migrating to competitors. On the protocol side, a portion of revenue is directed into $PONS buybacks and burns. As of late August 2026, approximately 28.5% of the original one billion $PONS supply has been permanently burned. It is worth noting that the buyback mechanism operates primarily through Pons v1, while v2, which now handles the majority of volume, does not direct fees into buybacks in the same way.

Pons and FLORK were added to Binance Alpha on September 2, 2026. Pons is currently available only through Binance Alpha 1.0, and Binance did not announce spot-market listings for either token on its main centralized exchange. The token had gained more than 270% over seven days and over 1,800% during the previous 30 days when the data was captured.

One structural risk remains: Robinhood's 90-day gas waiver is set to expire around the end of September 2026, and much of the current volume is tied to speculative memecoin activity rather than the tokenized real-world assets the chain was originally built to support.

Sources:
DefiLlama: Pons Fees and Revenue
crypto.news: Binance Alpha adds PONS and FLORK as fees hit $5.95M
The Crypto Times: Pons Is the Top Launchpad by Fees on Robinhood Chain