How Ponstonk works
Ponstonk launches community coins through Pons V2, pairs each coin directly with a Robinhood Chain Stock Token, and turns a fixed 1% creator tax into hourly holder rewards. This page explains the complete path from launch to claim.
The idea
A normal community token can generate activity without returning anything to the people who hold it. Ponstonk changes that relationship. When a coin launches, its Pons creator-fee recipient is set to a dedicated Ponstonk receiver rather than a personal wallet.
The coin trades directly against a supported Stock Token such as AAPL, NVDA, or TSLA. Because the pair is already denominated in that Stock Token, the creator tax accrues in the asset holders are meant to receive. Every completed hour can become a new, verifiable reward round.
Two parts to every launch
You choose the coin’s name, ticker, image, description, and public links. Pons V2 creates the token and its trading curve. The coin remains the community’s identity and the asset people buy, sell, and hold.
You select a Pons-approved Robinhood Chain Stock Token as the quote asset. People use that Stock Token to trade the coin, and the same asset funds the hourly holder reward pool.
The launch sequence
A real launch uses two wallet transactions and a final onchain readiness check:
Prepare rewards
Ponstonk creates a dedicated fee receiver and hourly reward vault for the new coin. Their addresses are fixed before the Pons launch so the creator-tax destination cannot be substituted later.
Launch through Pons
Pons V2 creates the community coin and curve with the chosen Stock Token as its quote asset, a 1% creator tax, and the prepared receiver as the creator-fee recipient.
Record the launch
After confirmation, Ponstonk records the token, Stock Token pair, receiver, reward vault, cadence, and transaction details so the reward flow can be inspected.
The hourly reward lifecycle
For every completed reward hour, five actions happen in order:
Creator tax builds in the paired stock
The Pons curve is quoted directly in the selected Stock Token. Its fixed 1% creator tax is therefore credited in that same asset—there is no swap or conversion step between trading and rewards.
Eligible balances are calculated
After a complete 60-minute interval, an indexer calculates each eligible wallet’s proportional balance for that hour. The calculation excludes supply that the configured holder policy does not treat as reward-bearing.
One allocation root is committed
The operator packages the hourly allocations into a Merkle tree and publishes its root onchain. That root commits the entire reward list without writing every holder and amount into contract storage.
Stock Tokens move into the reward vault
The fee receiver claims the pending Pons creator-tax credits and transfers the funded amount into the dedicated hourly vault. Each launch has its own receiver and vault.
Holders claim their exact allocation
An eligible holder submits a proof for the published hour and receives the amount committed to their wallet. Ponstonk charges no claim fee, and the proof cannot be replayed for another wallet, vault, chain, or epoch.
How each reward is calculated
The funded Stock Token amount for an hour is divided proportionally across eligible supply. A wallet that represented 10% of eligible balances for that interval receives 10% of the distributable pool.
holder reward = hourly Stock Token pool × holder balance ÷ eligible supplyThe published Merkle root makes the final allocation verifiable. A claim proof binds the chain, reward vault, hour, wallet, and amount together, while keeping the onchain transaction small enough to serve many holders.
Timing, access, and current limits
“Hourly” means the reward vault only accepts consecutive epochs that are exactly 60 minutes long. It does not mean a contract wakes itself up every hour. An indexer and configured operator still calculate allocations and publish the transaction.
If publication is late, the creator-tax funds remain in the receiver and the completed hour can be published later. Pons V2 also controls launcher access and approves which Stock Tokens may be used as quote assets; Ponstonk checks both conditions before asking the wallet to launch.
Ponstonk is an independent application built for Robinhood Chain. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood Markets, Inc. Stock Tokens and onchain software carry market, smart-contract, eligibility, and jurisdictional risks.