Pons charges a 0.0005 ETH launch fee and a fee on every trade. Trade fees are shared between the protocol, the token creator and optional meme token buybacks.

Pons is a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Version 2 launches sell tokens on a bonding curve and graduate them into locked Uniswap v4 pools, while version 1 launches trade directly in Uniswap v3 pools.

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# Pons Revenue Methodology

## 1. Overview

Revenue is defined as the portion of fees that is retained by the Pons protocol, as determined by its take rate. Earnings are generated from flat launch fees and the protocol's share of swap fees across Pons V1, Pons V2 Bonding Curve, and Pons V2 Graduated Pools. This metric is used to represent the total income earned by the protocol from selling its services, before cost of revenue, token incentives, and operating expenses are deducted.

## 2. Data sources

- **Blockchain events**: `TokenLaunched` events from `LaunchFactory`, `TokenFactory`, and `LegacyTokenFactory` contracts; `PoolRegistered` and `PoolFeesSwept` events from `MemeHook` contracts; `FeesSwept` events from `Curve` contracts; `SetFeeProtocol` events from Uniswap V3 `Pool` contracts; and `Swap` events from Uniswap V3 pool contracts, covering Robinhood Chain
- **External data**: End-of-day price feeds and asset metadata

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Pons V1 swap fee and protocol share calculation

- **Purpose**: To calculate swap fees and the protocol's share of those fees for Pons V1.
- **Logic**: Swap events on Uniswap V3 pools associated with Pons V1 launches are identified. A swap fee of 1% is applied to the swap volume, which is determined by the pair asset amount. If the pair asset amount is positive (representing assets paid into the pool), the fee is calculated as `pair_amount * 0.01`. If the pair asset amount is negative, the fee is calculated as `abs(pair_amount) * 0.01 / (1 - 0.01)`. The protocol's share of this fee is calculated based on the factory's protocol fee share, which is set to 30% for `TokenFactory` launches and 10% for `LegacyTokenFactory` launches. This share is further adjusted by the Uniswap V3 pool's revenue split, which is derived from `SetFeeProtocol` events. The final protocol fee amount is calculated as `fee_amount * (1 - revenue_split) * protocol_share`.
- **Key fields**: `pair_amount`, `protocol_share`, `revenue_split`

### Component B: Pons V2 Bonding Curve and Graduated Pools fee extraction

- **Purpose**: To extract protocol fees from Pons V2 bonding curves and graduated pools.
- **Logic**: Protocol fees are extracted from `FeesSwept` events emitted by `Curve` contracts for Pons V2 Bonding Curve, and from `PoolFeesSwept` events emitted by `MemeHook` contracts for Pons V2 Graduated Pools. The protocol fee amount is captured directly from the `protocol_amount` field of these events. Other fee components, such as buyback, creator, and Uniswap fees, are excluded from the revenue calculation as they are distributed to supply-side participants.
- **Key fields**: `protocol_amount`

### Component C: Launch fee tracking

- **Purpose**: To capture flat fees paid during token launches.
- **Logic**: Token launch events are tracked via `TokenLaunched` events from `LaunchFactory` contracts for Pons V2, and from `TokenFactory` and `LegacyTokenFactory` contracts for Pons V1. A flat launch fee of 0.0005 native assets (500,000,000,000,000 wei) is attributed to the protocol for each identified launch event.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp`

### Component D: Normalization and USD conversion

- **Purpose**: To normalize fee amounts and convert them to USD.
- **Logic**: Protocol fee amounts from all components are aggregated daily by asset and product. These amounts are normalized by decimal precision using asset metadata. The normalized amounts are then multiplied by end-of-day asset prices to calculate the daily revenue in USD. Daily granularity is maintained with UTC day boundaries.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp`, `protocol_amount`, `price_usd`

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

fees * take_rate (illustrative — revenue is observed directly per project, not derived from take_rate)

Fee revenue retained after supply-side payouts. Before cost of revenue (e.g. L2 DA fees) and before operating expenses.

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