Pons generates $950K in daily revenue, outpacing Jupiter and Axiom on the back of Robinhood Chain’s token frenzy

A token launchpad that didn’t exist two months ago just out-earned some of the most established names in decentralized finance. Pons, the permissionless token creation platform built for Robinhood Chain, pulled in $950K in protocol revenue in a single day, placing it ahead of Jupiter, Axiom Pro, and Polymarket. That daily haul ranked Pons somewhere between 7th and 8th among all protocols by revenue. For a platform that launched alongside a brand-new Layer 2 network on July 1, 2026, the trajectory is steep enough to raise eyebrows across the broader DeFi landscape. How a launchpad nobody heard of became a revenue machine Pons operates with a simple premise: anyone can create a fixed-supply token, which then trades against WETH and other assets in locked liquidity pools. No gatekeepers, no approval processes. The revenue model has two layers. There’s a launch fee, set at 0.0005 ETH per token in its first version. Then there’s a 1% trading fee applied to every swap, split in a way that gives creators a meaningful share of the action. What makes the economics particularly aggressive is where 80% of that protocol revenue goes. Rather than sitting in a treasury or flowing to a team walle...