Chains & venues

Live on mainnet - the home venue, and the reason degen.zone exists in this form. Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Orbit rollup with full EVM equivalence, ETH as gas, and roughly 100 ms blocks, so the site feels live rather than “pending…”.

• Model: direct-to-V4, no curve and no graduation. A Robinhood mainnet launch deploys the token straight into a single-sided hooked Uniswap V4 pool: the full supply becomes the pool’s single-sided liquidity at launch and the liquidity position is burned to 0xdead, so the market exists from block one. There is no bonding-curve phase, no 4-ETH target and no separate graduation step. The pool’s fee hook charges the creator’s chosen swap fee on every trade (the pool’s own LP fee is zero).
• The only chain with stock-native features. Tokenized equities (NVDA, AAPL, SPY and more) settle here as ordinary ERC-20s with on-chain Chainlink price feeds - a property of the chain, not a partnership. It is why the equity tape, the VS·SPY benchmark, the pay-fees-in-stock rail, and the in-app bridge & swap all point here. See Tokenized equities.
• Holder rewards, buyback-and-burn and custom LP pairs. A Robinhood token can pay its fee stream to holders in ETH, USDG, a tokenized stock or a verified custom ERC-20, or spend it on buyback-and-burn (see Reward tokens). It can also launch against a quote other than ETH - USDG, one of 44 tokenized stocks, or a custom ERC-20 - with an ETH zap so buyers still pay in ETH (see Custom LP pairs).
• The PONS venue. Robinhood also hosts the third-party PONS v2 launchpad (USDG, stock and native-ETH pairs on a curve that graduates into a Uniswap V4 Meme-hook pool). degen.zone launches and bundles onto PONS through its own bundler, and graduated PONS tokens trade in-app through a permissionless swap router (buy with ETH or the quote, sell; the quote you see is the fill, including PONS’s 1% base fee and creator tax). Board chip: PONS.
• Currency: ETH. Launch fee 0.002 ETH (about $5) on the direct and pair launchers, read live from the contract and shown before you sign. Bundling wallets at launch adds an opening-bundle fee of 0.004 ETH (about $10), charged once per bundled launch and shown before you sign. The pool and its fees are denominated in ETH.
• Explorer: Blockscout at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com. Every launched token is verified automatically (Sourcify + Blockscout).

Live on mainnet since 19 Sep 2026 - BSC is EVM with BNB as gas, and it is degen.zone’s first three-venue chain: the creator picks the liquidity venue per launch in the wizard (the “Liquidity venue” control under the chain tiles). All three run the direct-to-pool model - no curve, no graduation, market from block one. The two hooked venues (Uniswap V4, the default, and PancakeSwap Infinity) are live-proven with real holder-reward and buyback-and-burn launches; the third, a plain PancakeSwap V3 pool, trades the per-trade fee hook for the venue every BSC bot and chart already supports. BSC brings the largest retail memecoin audience outside Solana, plus Binance’s tokenized stocks as a reward payout.

• PancakeSwap V3 (listed first). A plain, hookless PancakeSwap V3 pool - the one every BSC bot, sniper and chart tool already supports. No per-trade creator fee: the creator picks the pool fee tier (0.25% or 1%), the LP position is held forever by degen.zone’s fee vault, and the creator earns 65% of the position’s LP fees (after PancakeSwap’s 32% protocol share) - about 0.44% of every trade on the 1% tier. No reward-token or buyback-and-burn models here. Board chip: V3. Deep-link: /launch?chain=bsc&venue=v3.
• Uniswap V4 (default): canonical hooked pool. The exact stack Robinhood, Arc and Base run, deployed on BSC with zero Solidity changes. Same launcher, router and bundler interfaces on all three venues - the venue only decides which address set a call goes to. Board chip: V4. Deep-link: /launch?chain=bsc&venue=v4.
• PancakeSwap Infinity. PancakeSwap’s V4-style hooked pool singleton, where BSC liquidity and the Binance tokenized stocks (bStocks) live. degen.zone ported its fee hook, launcher, bundler and swap router to Infinity’s Vault-and-pool-manager model; the port was audited in-house before deploy (see Security & audits). Board chip: Infinity. Deep-link: /launch?chain=bsc&venue=infinity.
• Currency: BNB, never ETH. Launch fee 0.00685 BNB (about $5). Bundling wallets at launch adds an opening-bundle fee of 0.0137 BNB (about $10), live on both launchers from day one through the fused launch-and-bundle path. Both fees are read live from the picked launcher and shown before signing (“Opening bundle fee … BNB”), and go to the platform treasury inside the launch transaction. On the Infinity stack the fee setters are capped on-chain at 0.5 BNB, so a fee can never be set absurdly high. Note that USDT and USDC on BSC are 18-decimal Binance-Peg tokens, not 6.
• What pays out to holders. A reward token pays holders in the launch token itself by default, or in an elected asset converted from the BNB fee stream each cycle. On the Uniswap V4 venue (converted through Uniswap V3 on BSC): USDT, BTCB or ETH (BEP-20). On the Infinity venue (converted through PancakeSwap V3): USDT, CAKE, BTCB, ETH (BEP-20), plus the Binance tokenized stocks NVDAB, AAPLB and TSLAB. CAKE and the bStocks are Infinity-only because they have no usable Uniswap V3 pool on BSC. There is no BNB payout option (the gas coin has no ERC-20 view) and no canonical-V4 payout route here (that route is Arc-only).
• bStocks disclosure. Every bStock tile in the wizard reads: “Issued by Binance; transfers route through the issuer’s compliance module, which can restrict transfers”. The tokens are 18-decimal, priced by on-chain Chainlink feeds (NVDA, AAPL and TSLA in USD). The token tracks the share; it is not the share.
• Vanity addresses are creator-bound on Infinity. The Infinity launcher binds every non-zero CREATE2 salt to the creator (the salt’s first 20 bytes must equal the creator’s address, else it reverts), so a pre-announced vanity address cannot be hijacked by someone else deploying at it first. The grinder searches the remaining 96 bits; salt 0 means no vanity. The Uniswap V4 launchers accept any salt, as before. See Vanity addresses.
• Trading in-app. BSC tokens trade through degen.zone’s own swap router for the token’s venue: the Infinity router settles through PancakeSwap’s Vault, the V4 router through the Uniswap PoolManager.
• What BSC does not have yet. Custom LP-pair quotes (the pair suite is not deployed on BSC, so every launch is paired against BNB; a custom reward asset by pasted contract address is allowed), stock-quoted pairs, and cross-chain expansion (built, not live anywhere). Stock exposure on BSC is the bStocks as reward payouts on Infinity launches only.
• Explorer: BscScan. Tokens are verified automatically (Sourcify + BscScan through the Etherscan V2 API).

Live on mainnet since 18 Sep 2026 - Base is EVM with ETH as gas, and it runs canonical Uniswap V4. Because V4 is native to Base, the Robinhood direct-to-V4 stack runs there as configuration rather than new code: a Base launch deploys straight into a hooked Uniswap V4 pool, with no curve and no graduation.

• Model: direct-to-V4, no curve and no graduation. Full supply single-sided into a hooked Uniswap V4 pool at launch, liquidity position burned to 0xdead, market from block one. The pool carries degen.zone’s fee hook, so the creator-set swap fee (0.5%-5%) runs on every trade with the 0.35% platform + referral add-on on top.
• Coinbase-stock custom pairs. A Base launch can be quoted in USDC or in one of the Coinbase tokenized stocks AAPLc, NVDAc, GOOGLc, MSFTc or TSLAc (8-decimal tokens with Chainlink “Coinbase” feeds). A stock-quoted pair pays the quote to holders directly, no swap. TSLAc has no ETH zap route yet, so buyers pay in TSLAc itself. See Custom LP pairs.
• Holder rewards and buyback-and-burn. Both live. A reward token pays the launch token by default, or an elected asset converted from the fee stream through Uniswap V3: USDC, cbBTC, or the Coinbase stocks AAPLc, NVDAc and GOOGLc. Native ETH is not a payout option on Base.
• Currency: ETH. Launch fee 0.002 ETH (about $5); bundling wallets at launch adds an opening-bundle fee of 0.004 ETH (about $10), charged once per bundled launch. Same native coin as Robinhood - no BNB-style symbol trap.
• Explorer: Basescan. Tokens are verified automatically (Sourcify + Basescan through the Etherscan V2 API).

Live on mainnet since 26 Sep 2026 - Ethereum is the chain canonical Uniswap V4 is native to, and the one our direct-to-V4 stack was written against in the first place. It ported with zero Solidity changes: the same launcher, bundler, swap router and fee hook that run on Robinhood, Base and Arc, pointed at Ethereum’s PoolManager. One venue, ETH-quoted, no curve and no graduation.

• Model: direct-to-V4, no curve and no graduation. Full supply single-sided into a hooked Uniswap V4 pool at launch, the liquidity position burned to 0xdead, market from block one. The pool carries degen.zone’s fee hook, so the creator-set swap fee (0.5%-5%) runs on every trade with the 0.35% platform + referral add-on on top - identical to Base.
• Opening bundles: yes, caller-funded only. Bundling wallets into the launch runs atomically inside launchAndBundle, exactly as on the other direct chains. There is no own-funds (permit) bundler, and the reason is the chain rather than the roadmap: Ethereum’s canonical WETH9 (0xC02aaA39…756Cc2) is the 2017 contract and has no permit function, so the EIP-2612 rail the permit bundler needs does not exist here. Base has the same gap for the same reason.
• Holder rewards and buyback-and-burn: Coming soon A founder scope decision for this chain, not a missing capability - the reward and burn stacks are not deployed on Ethereum, so a launch here takes its swap fee as creator earnings. Both models are live on Robinhood, Base, BSC and Arc; see Reward tokens.
• No custom LP pairs yet. Every Ethereum launch is paired against ETH. The pair suite’s fee hook and routers are deployed, but its launcher is not, and a pair venue has no entry point without one - so there is nothing to quote a launch against but the native coin. Coming soon
• No PONS equivalent. PONS is a third-party launchpad on Robinhood Chain and has no Ethereum deployment, so Ethereum offers one venue where Robinhood offers two. Nothing is missing here - the venue simply does not exist on this chain.
• Currency: ETH. Launch fee 0.002 ETH (about $5) on the direct launcher; bundling wallets at launch adds an opening-bundle fee of 0.004 ETH(about $10), charged once per bundled launch, and a later bundle through the standalone bundler carries the same 0.004 ETH. All three are read live from the contract and shown before you sign - identical to Base, because the rule is per dollar and both chains quote in ETH. The pool and its fees are denominated in ETH.
• Uniswap’s protocol fee switch is live here. Ethereum is the first chain we run on where Uniswap’s own protocol fee can be switched on. Our fee rails were fork-proven with it armed at its 0.1% maximum and they hold, so creator earnings do not depend on an exemption we happen to enjoy elsewhere.
• Explorer: Etherscan. Tokens are verified automatically (Sourcify + Etherscan through the V2 API).

Live on mainnet - Arc is Circle’s USDC-native Layer 1 (EVM, mainnet live since 16 Sep 2026), and its defining property is that USDC is the gas token: fees, liquidity and creator earnings are all denominated in dollars, with no native-coin price in between. Arc runs canonical Uniswap V4, so it uses the same direct-to-V4 launch model as Robinhood Chain. Standard launches (with dev buy, multi-wallet bundle and vanity addresses), holder-reward launches and buyback-and-burn launches are all open.

• Model: direct-to-V4, no curve and no graduation. The same shape as Robinhood: a launch deploys the token straight into a single-sided hooked Uniswap V4 pool paired against native USDC, the liquidity position is burned to 0xdead, and the market exists from block one. The fee model is identical too - the creator picks a 0.5%-5% swap fee, with the flat 0.35% platform + referral add-on riding on top (see Fees & earnings).
• Everything is priced in dollars. Because the pool’s quote side is USDC, a token’s price, its liquidity depth and the creator’s accrued fees are all dollar figures natively - no mental FX from ETH or BNB.
• Holder-reward and buyback-and-burn are live. Both run on the canonical-V4 reward stack deployed on Arc mainnet: a reward token accrues its fee stream and pays holders in native USDC or in the token itself; a burn token spends the stream buying itself back and burning the result. What Arc does not offer: stock/equity pairs, custom LP pairs, and reward payouts in other tokens.
• No cross-chain expansion. LayerZero runs no endpoint on Arc, so - like Ronin - an Arc token can neither send nor receive an expansion until that changes upstream.
• Currency: USDC. Gas, the pool and its fees are all denominated in USDC. The launch fee is 5 USDC (the dollar is the native coin, so “about $5” is exactly 5 USDC) and bundling wallets at launch adds an opening-bundle fee of 10 USDC, both read live from the launcher and shown before you sign. Standard EVM wallets (MetaMask, Rabby, …) work unchanged.
• Explorer: arcscan (Blockscout). Tokens are verified automatically (Sourcify + Arc Blockscout).

Coming soon - Ronin is EVM (the gaming chain behind Axie), with RON as its native coin. Its DEX is Katana, a Uniswap-V3 fork, so a Ronin token would run the classic bonding curve and graduate to a Katana V3 pool. Graduation needs a small Katana-specific branch that isn’t deployed yet, which is why Ronin is not open.

• Graduation venue: Katana V3. A Uniswap V3 fork; there is no V4-class hooked venue on Ronin, so Katana is the venue (there is no hooked pool to elect).
• No cross-chain expansion - ever. LayerZero runs no endpoint on Ronin, so a Ronin token can neither send nor receive an expansion. This is a fact about LayerZero, not our roadmap.
• Currency: RON, not ETH. Same native-symbol care as BNB.

Live - Solana is not EVM, so it is a genuinely different machine under the same product. It also offers the most launch shapes of any chain:

• Native SOL pair → a bonding curve. Launching against SOL opens a Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve (DBC) - the Solana analog of the EVM curve - which graduates into a Meteora DAMM v2 pool.
• Custom (non-SOL) pair → no curve. Picking a pre-listed pair token opens a Raydium CLMM pool that trades from block one, with no curve and no graduation. This is also how reward tokens and curated pairs launch. It costs a little more (a two-transaction open and unrecoverable position rent) and a thinner slice of volume reaches the launch than on the SOL path.
• pump.fun bundle mode. A separate mode that creates the token on pump.fun’s own curve with a disclosed atomic bundle - see pump.fun bundles.
• Different wallet, one account. You connect a Solana wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack) alongside your EVM wallet. Addresses are base58, SPL tokens have 6 decimals (reward tokens use Token-2022), and selling is a single signature - no approvals.

A chain that is listed but not launchable (Ronin today) shows a waitlist action instead of a launch button: connect a wallet, join, and you are notified when the venue opens. The waitlist is keyed to your wallet, and the API refuses signups for chains that are already open - so the list only ever contains people actually waiting.