Fund Your Own Pool, or Graduate at 4 ETH?

Ten new tokens launched on Robinhood Chain today. All are 0 hours old, they hold $56,675 in combined liquidity — an average of $5,668 each — and every one of them recorded zero 24-hour volume. Ten people each put a few thousand dollars into a pool, and nobody came.

On the same day, across the hot board's twelve tokens, eight carry 22 pools charging 20% or more in fees, topping out at 90%. Today's golden dog $ASHIBA has eleven pools; seven of them charge 50% or more.

Together those two data sets describe the two real costs of launching a token: you fund the initial liquidity yourself, and once you have, anyone can create pools on your token. This is for people about to launch — what you are actually choosing between.

Snapshot: 2026-09-09 00:09 UTC. Product figures from BigPump's product facts.

What today's new tokens actually face

$56,675 total, $5,668 average (up from $4,775 yesterday). Every dollar of it came from the person launching. And with zero 24h volume across all ten, that money is currently sitting in pools doing nothing.

Yesterday's list is worth remembering too: it contained two tokens both called BF4 with entirely different contract addresses.

Path one: deploy your own pool — four things you own

1. The initial liquidity, entirely out of pocket

Today's average is $5,668. Once it is in the pool you cannot casually remove it — removing it is a rug and the token dies instantly. So it is effectively sunk. If the token does not take off, that money sits there (all ten of today's launches did zero volume).

2. The fee tier, which you set once and cannot change

The fee is written into the pool at creation. Too low and you earn nothing; too high and nobody trades. And it is immutable.

3. The LP tokens — which means everyone is watching you

This is the critical one. Deploy your own pool and the LP tokens sit in your wallet by default, meaning you can withdraw the liquidity at any time. You know you won't. Buyers don't. So the first thing any informed buyer checks is whether the LP is locked and for how long. If it isn't, they don't buy.

4. Everyone else's right to create pools on your token

This is the sharpest part of today's data. The $ASHIBA team almost certainly did not deploy the seven 50–90% fee pools sitting under their token — but those pools exist, and they appeared within four and a half minutes to eight hours of the real one:

• Main pool ASHIBA / NVDA: created 2026-09-08 14:23:58, holding $133,078 — 93.7% of the token's total liquidity
• ASHIBA / WETH 80.273%: 14:28:30 (4 min 32 s later)
• ASHIBA / WETH 81%: 14:28:03
• ASHIBA / USDG 90%: 15:39:19
• Plus an ASHIBA / NVDA pool with $0 liquidity that recorded $9,974.99 of 24h volume on 58 buys and 2 sells, created at 14:23:30 — 28 seconds before the real pool

You launch a token; someone else scatters nails on it; and buyers who step on a nail blame your project. No launchpad can prevent this — it is a property of an open DEX.

Path two: a bonding curve — three structural swaps

BigPump is a Tax-NFT bonding-curve launchpad on Robinhood Chain (chainId 4663, gas paid in ETH). One-click launch, no code. It changes three things:

1. You do not fund initial liquidity

During the curve phase the token does not trade in any DEX pool — it trades on the bonding curve. The 1.5 ETH virtual reserve only sets the starting price; it is not money you provide. That $5,668 average cost does not apply to you.

2. The contract creates the pool and burns the LP

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.

Meaning: you, the platform, and anyone else are all unable to withdraw that pool's liquidity. Buyers do not have to trust you — they check where the LP went. That converts "will the founder rug" from a trust question into a structural one.

3. Curve-phase fees are fixed, so you are not guessing

The curve charges a flat 1% pool fee, split 95% platform / 5% creator. Graduation takes a one-time 5% of the pool's ETH (same 95/5 split). After graduation the platform takes 1% per DEX trade on top of the creator tax; tax accrues in tokens and is auto-converted to ETH on sells once it passes a threshold.

After graduation: creator tax and holder dividends

This is where BigPump differs from a plain launchpad — and it matters exactly when each part switches on.

The creator tax splits four ways — treasury / burn / dividends / liquidity, summing to exactly 100%. Dividends are paid in ETH pro rata above a minimum holding threshold; pair contracts, the router, the burn address and protocol contracts are excluded.

The token itself is an ERC-20 (6 decimals) bound to an ERC-1155 NFT, with 1 NFT = 1,000,000 tokens. A vanity contract address ending in <code>bbb</code> costs 0.001 ETH. Full mechanics in the BigPump docs.

Which path: three questions

Do you have $5,000+ you can afford to sink?

If yes, either path works. If no, the bonding curve is the only option, because it requires no initial liquidity from you.

Will your buyers check the LP?

The long-lived tokens on today's board — $PONS at 1,270 hours, $CASHCAT at 1,661, $AI at 1,350 — did not survive on luck. Meanwhile the two tokens aged 6 and 17 hours ($WORKS at -91.95%, $RUBEN at -99.37%) absorbed 4,704 distinct buyers between them. How sensitive this market is to "can the pool disappear" is written in those numbers.

Do you want to pay holders?

If yes, you need the Tax-NFT structure. But be precise in your marketing: dividends are zero during the curve phase and only start after graduation. Promising curve-phase dividends destroys trust immediately.

Either way, today's lessons apply

1. After launching, check whether anyone has deployed high-fee pools on your token. Today's board carries 22 of them, up to 90%. If you find one, announce the official pool and its fee tier in your community.
2. Put the contract address prominently on every official channel. Yesterday's new-listing set contained two different BF4 contracts.
3. Build an actual website. Today's golden dog $ASHIBA loads a single line of text — no address, no supply, no team. It is up 613%, and it is also the part nobody serious should copy.
4. Do not launch with a paper-thin pool. Today's average is $5,668. $20,000 is a useful line: below it, a few hundred dollars produces double-digit slippage.

FAQ

How is the 4 ETH graduation line measured?

It is cumulative real ETH into the curve — not market cap, not volume. The 1.5 ETH virtual reserve sets the starting price and does not count toward it.

Is the graduated LP really unrecoverable?

The LP tokens go to the burn address — an address nobody holds a key for. That is contract behaviour, not a promise.

Can others still create pools on my token after graduation?

Yes. That is DEX openness and no launchpad can close it. What BigPump guarantees is that the official pool's LP cannot be withdrawn. So announce your official pool after launch.

Which creator tax should I choose?

1%, 3%, 5% or 10%. Higher tax means higher per-trade cost and lower turnover; lower tax means weaker dividends and burn. The four-way split (treasury / burn / dividends / liquidity) must total 100% and can be tuned to your goal.

What does launching cost?

No initial liquidity; gas is paid in ETH and is very low on Robinhood Chain. The optional <code>bbb</code> vanity address costs 0.001 ETH. Start at /robinhood/create.

Product figures from BigPump's product facts; on-chain figures from the 2026-09-09 00:09 UTC snapshot. 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.