@Ponsdotfamily, the independent token launchpad built on Robinhood Chain, has overtaken @Pumpfun in weekly fee generation, recording $10.67 million against PumpFun's $9.76 million. It is a st
@Ponsdotfamily, the independent token launchpad built on Robinhood Chain, has overtaken @Pumpfun in weekly fee generation, recording $10.67 million against PumpFun's $9.76 million. It is a striking milestone for a protocol that has risen to prominence in a matter of weeks, and it raises a genuine question about where retail crypto liquidity is heading.
Pons is a token creation and trading application built exclusively for Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum Orbit Layer-2 network that officially launched its mainnet on July 1, 2026. The model is straightforward: any wallet can create a fixed-supply token in a single transaction and trade it immediately, with discovery feeds, liquidity mechanics, graduation thresholds, and analytics built on top.
The growth has been rapid. Nearly 25,000 tokens launched on Pons on September 2 as daily trading volume reached $544 million.Since July, the platform has produced about 646,000 tokens from more than 167,000 unique creator addresses. At its peak, Pons generated about $5.95 million in fees over 24 hours, ranking fourth among services tracked by DefiLlama and surpassing the Robinhood Chain network on which it operates.
The surge has also lifted Robinhood Chain itself. The network launched in July with tokenized stocks as a flagship product, but memecoins and other user-created tokens are now generating some of its heaviest usage and fee activity.Fees over a recent seven-day window reached about $25 million, up roughly 17-fold from $1.4 million a week earlier.
PumpFun remains a formidable benchmark. Pump.fun generated $10.03 million in protocol fees during the week of August 3 to 9, marking the first time its weekly total crossed $10 million under its current reporting series.By late August 2026, Pump.fun's cumulative lifetime revenue had climbed into the $1.23 to $1.26 billion range, making it the first Solana application to surpass $1 billion in lifetime revenue.
Hyperliquid and GMGN continue to lead the broader cohort, with $12.1 million and $16.22 million in weekly fees respectively. Yet the fact that a months-old launchpad on a nascent chain is competing at this level points to something meaningful: retail liquidity is moving quickly toward platforms that offer the smoothest user experience and fastest execution, regardless of how established a competitor may be.
For Pons, the immediate test is sustainability. The $PONS token topped a $970 million market capitalisation and rose more than 200% over the past week, while future fee growth will depend on whether new tokens and liquidity pools continue to be created. Brand loyalty, it seems, is increasingly secondary to speed and simplicity.
Sources:CoinDesk: A memecoin making app is driving millions in fees on Robinhood's new blockchainCrypto.news: Pump.fun fees top $10M as revenue overtakes HyperliquidThe Crypto Times: Pons claims top onchain launchpad fees as Robinhood Chain frenzy drives rally
