Pons surpasses $6B in all-time Uniswap v4 hook volume

Pons, a non-custodial token launchpad that runs only on Robinhood Chain, has crossed $6 billion in cumulative trading volume through its Uniswap v4 hook pools. The project announced the milestone on October 7, 2026.

Pons launched on July 13, 2026. Reaching that figure in under three months is a fast clip for a platform that did not exist this summer.

How the Pons machine works

Under Pons’ V2 model, a token stays on a bonding curve until it hits a threshold of roughly 4.2 ETH equivalent. At that point, it “graduates.”

Graduation moves the token into a full-range liquidity position on Uniswap v4, and that position is permanently locked. Full-range means the liquidity covers every possible price. Locked means nobody can pull it later, which removes one of the more familiar ways early meme tokens tend to go sideways.

The $6 billion figure measures trading in those graduated pools. It does not count activity on the bonding curves themselves.

The hook and the fee split

Pons runs its graduated pools through a hook called PonsV2MemeHook. It handles swaps after graduation and distributes fees, along with other operational mechanics.

The fee split leans heavily toward creators. Roughly 70% goes to token creators, and around 30% goes to the Pons protocol.

From v3 to v4

Pons did not start with this design. The project rolled out its V2 contracts on August 3, 2026, just weeks after launching.

Before that, Pons deployed tokens directly to Uniswap v3. The V2 upgrade replaced that approach with the curve-then-v4-hook structure described above.

Robinhood Chain’s outsized share of Uniswap

In early September 2026, Robinhood Chain accounted for $901.5M of Uniswap’s total $1.6B trading volume over a 24-hour period, representing 56.3% of Uniswap’s volume for the day.

Fee generation and the pump.fun comparison

On one day in early September, Pons generated $5.95M in trading fees. On a weekly basis, its average fees have run in the tens of millions.

Pons has often outpaced pump.fun in daily fee generation.

Pons puts part of its revenue toward recurring buybacks and burns of its $PONS token, using its earnings to purchase its own token on the open market and then permanently removing those tokens from circulation.

Uniswap Labs takes a position

Uniswap Labs bought $PONS tokens in early September 2026. The purchase was framed as a sign of long-term engagement with the project.