On August 5, Uniswap Labs unveiled a platform for issuing and trading meme tokens on Robinhood Chain. Each launch concludes with the creation of a liquidity pool on Uniswap v4.
Say hello to @TradePools, a new launchpad on Robinhood Chain
Launch and trade now on https://t.co/9fqa8AnC7U pic.twitter.com/2u38Mlve5h
— Uniswap (@Uniswap) August 5, 2026
The Pools.trade service lets users issue a token without writing code and immediately open a primary sale. Uniswap Labs cautioned that it does not vet assets listed on the platform; their value depends on market demand and can drop to zero.
The platform charges no separate launchpad fee. However, trades in the created pools incur a 0.25% liquidity provider fee.
Pools have a 0.25% LP fee that autocompounds into permanent liquidity
Creators can optionally take 0.05% of the LP fee, with the rest autocompounding
There’s zero launchpad fee, just the normal protocol fee that exists across all Uniswap v4 pools
— Uniswap (@Uniswap) August 5, 2026
By default, the fee automatically compounds into a locked position, increasing pool liquidity as trading occurs. A token creator can take 0.05% from each trade. This does not add to the overall fee: it is taken from the base 0.25%, with the remaining 0.2% returned to the pool.
Uniswap Labs also said there is protection against early bot buy-ups of supply. The creator can buy meme coins in the same block the asset is created, preventing others from purchasing earlier. However, this does not protect buyers from supply concentration across related addresses, price manipulation, or falling demand.
Two launch modes
Crowd Launch uses a time-weighted average price and runs a four-hour sale. Users specify a purchase amount, and the system gradually executes orders as demand shifts.
According to the developers, gradual execution should make it harder to combine multiple wallets to capture a significant share of supply at the start. Trading opens when the valuation of the entire issuance reaches $10,000. If the threshold is not met, the sale is canceled and funds are returned to participants.
Instant Launch allows trading immediately after the asset is created. The token’s price changes along a preset curve based on the number of buys and sells. There is no minimum threshold to begin trading in this mode.
In both cases, 1 billion tokens are minted. After the launch finishes, liquidity is moved into a permanently locked Uniswap v4 pool.
New assets appear in the Uniswap web app and wallet, the Launches section, and the trading API. Through this infrastructure, they can become available to users of MetaMask, Ledger and DEX aggregators.
Early contracts spotted before launch
Before the official launch, traders found early versions of the Pools.trade smart contracts. According to Uniswap founder Hayden Adams, trading volume through them exceeded $150 million.
Incredibly excited for the launch of @TradePools!!
This rollout has been absolutely insane. Degens discovered earlier versions of the smart contracts and traded over $150m in trading volume before the UI even went live
This created a unique challenge where we had to update our… https://t.co/Fe2z3JRpRh
— Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) August 5, 2026
“This created a unique challenge where we had to update our website and indexing to support both the early test versions and the final contract versions at the same time, which added a bit of extra time to the launch,” he said.
According to Adams, the protocol has effectively facilitated token launches since its inception, as new assets create trading liquidity in Uniswap pools. Pools.trade formalizes this function as a standalone product.
Meme coins drove early network activity
On July 1, online broker Robinhood launched the Robinhood Chain public mainnet. It is a layer-2 solution based on Arbitrum focused on tokenized assets and financial applications. Uniswap v2, v3, v4 and UniswapX went live on the network at launch.
Despite the network’s focus on tokenized stocks, meme coins accounted for most early trading activity. Launching its own launchpad lets Uniswap Labs source new trading pairs directly and compete with platforms that already use its pools.
Earlier, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the L2 solution is suitable for meme coins. At the time, several coins had appeared on the network; the market capitalization of the largest — CASHCAT — exceeded $100 million. According to on-chain analysts, two early buyers turned $86 and $838 into positions worth about $1.6 million and $1.05 million, respectively.
In the first seven days after launch, Robinhood Chain processed $3.1 billion in cumulative volume on decentralized exchanges.
