One Token, 11 Pools, Seven Charging 80%+ Fees

I pulled every liquidity pool under all twelve tokens on today's Robinhood Chain hot board. The result is something I have not seen written up anywhere: eight of the twelve tokens have pools charging 20% or more in fees — 22 pools in total, topping out at 90%.

Today's golden dog is the worst case. $ASHIBA has 11 pools, seven of them charging 50% or more — 80.273% (twice), 81%, 80.22%, 80.867%, USDG 50%, USDG 90%. Only one pool is real: ASHIBA / NVDA, holding 93.7% of the token's entire liquidity.

Route a buy into one of those seven and eighty to ninety percent of your money is gone on entry. That is not slippage — it is a fee parameter written into the pool when it was deployed. Here is how to spot them.

Snapshot: 2026-09-09 00:09 UTC, from Robinhood Chain per-token pool listings.

The crime scene: $ASHIBA's eleven pools

Three details worth stopping on:

• Only the first pool is real. $133,078 out of $142,021 total — 93.7%. The other ten combined hold under $9,000.
• The high-fee pools appeared within minutes of the real one. Main pool at 14:23:58; the 80.273% pool at 14:28:30 — four and a half minutes later.
• The last row is the strangest. An ASHIBA/NVDA pool with zero liquidity that nonetheless recorded $9,974.99 of 24h volume across 58 buys and 2 sells, created at 14:23:30 — 28 seconds before the real pool. Fifty-eight buys, two sells, pool empty. That row speaks for itself.

What an 80% fee pool does to your order

In a constant-product pool, the fee is a parameter set at deployment, stored in the pool contract, and deducted from your input amount at swap time. Normal tiers are 0.3% and 1%; occasionally 4% or 5%.

An 80% fee means: you send $100, $80 goes straight to the fee (to the liquidity providers, i.e. whoever created the pool), and $20 actually swaps. A 90% fee takes $90.

Worse, it applies in both directions. If you somehow get in, you pay it again to get out. 80% in plus 80% out leaves you with 4% of what you started with.

These pools typically hold a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. They are not built for you to trade in — they are scattered across routing paths waiting for a misrouted order. Nails on the road.

It is not just $ASHIBA

The API caps at 20 pools per token, so tokens marked "20+" may carry more. 22 is a floor, not a ceiling.

The pattern is clean: the newer and hotter the token, the more traps it carries. $ASHIBA (10 hours), $WORKS (6 hours) and $RUBEN (17 hours) account for 15 of the 22. Meanwhile $PONS, $AI, $CASHCAT, $PAIR and $DELTA carry none — not because they are inherently safer, but because their routing paths are already saturated with real liquidity, so scattering nails there does not pay.

The 60-second check before you buy

1. Look at how many pools the token has and how concentrated liquidity is. A healthy structure has one dominant pool ($ASHIBA: 93.7%). If liquidity is spread across a dozen small pools, slow down.
2. Read the fee tag on the pool you are routing through. On Robinhood Chain the pool name carries the fee — "ASHIBA / WETH 80.273%". Any double-digit fee is a question; anything over 20% is a trap. Normal is 0.3% or 1%, occasionally 4–5%.
3. Check the quote asset. $ASHIBA's real pool quotes against NVDA; $WORKS and $RUBEN quote against WETH. Wrong quote asset plus a high fee is a nail pool with near certainty.
4. Buy small, sell part of it back. A few dollars of cost buys you a confirmed round trip. It is the only empirical test.

On the BigPump hot-token trading page the chart, trades and pool information sit on one screen, so this check does not require four browser tabs.

Why these pools exist at all: anyone can create one

This is basic DEX design. Any address can create a pool for any two tokens and set its own fee. No permission from the token's team, no review process. The people behind $ASHIBA very likely did not deploy the seven 50–90% pools sitting under their token — and they did not need to, because whoever did, did not need them.

This is also why "I clicked the link on the official site" is not protection. The link points at a token address; which pool your swap routes through is decided by the aggregator and your slippage setting.

How BigPump-launched tokens differ — and where they do not

Worth being precise about this. Launching on BigPump:

• During the bonding-curve phase, the token does not trade in any DEX pool at all — only on the curve, at a flat 1% pool fee (95% platform / 5% creator). There is no wrong pool to route into.
• At 4 ETH of cumulative real ETH the token graduates automatically: the contract creates a Uniswap V2 pool and sends the LP tokens to the burn address. That pool cannot be pulled by anyone.
• After graduation, creator tax (1/3/5/10%, split four ways across treasury / burn / dividends / liquidity, summing to 100%) and holder dividends take effect.

But to be clear: after graduation, anyone can still create additional pools for that token, including high-fee ones. That is a property of the chain, not something any launchpad can close. What a launchpad can guarantee is that the official pool's LP cannot be withdrawn. The four checks above still apply to every token on every chain.

FAQ

Are 80% fee pools legitimate? Can they be delisted?

They are smart contracts; there is no delisting mechanism on a DEX. The fee is a public parameter anyone can read. The problem is not that it is hidden — it is that almost nobody looks.

Will slippage protection save me?

Not reliably. Slippage protection bounds price deviation; the fee is deducted from your input before the swap. A tight slippage setting may cause the transaction to fail, which is a good outcome — but do not treat it as your only defence.

What was the $0-liquidity pool with $9,975 of volume?

Created 2026-09-08 14:23:30 UTC (28 seconds before the real pool), 58 buys and 2 sells in 24 hours, zero liquidity now. We have no transfer-level evidence about what occurred and state only the figures. The pattern itself is a reason to leave.

What fee tier should I consider normal?

On Robinhood Chain: 0.3% and 1% are standard; some projects use 2–5%. Above 10%, ask why. Above 20%, treat it as a trap.

Which tokens carry the most traps today?

$ASHIBA (7), $WORKS (5), $RUBEN (3) — which are also the three youngest tokens on the board at 10, 6 and 17 hours old.

Data from Robinhood Chain per-token pool listings, 2026-09-09 00:09 UTC; the API returns at most 20 pools per token. Not investment advice — memecoins can go to zero.

Disclaimer: memecoins are extremely volatile and most go to zero. This article is not financial advice. Do your own research and only spend what you can afford to lose.