Gekko vs Pons
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain, and what actually differs between them.
Last updated: 31 July 2026
Both Gekko and Pons launch fixed supply tokens on Robinhood Chain. If you have used one, most of the other will feel familiar, and that is not an accident: Gekko uses the same launch mechanics because they work.
This page is about the parts that genuinely differ. Everything stated about Pons comes from their own documentation.
Where they are the same
| Pons | Gekko | |
|---|---|---|
| Supply per token | 1,000,000,000 | 1,000,000,000 |
| Pool fee | 1% | 1% |
| Launch fee | 0.0005 ETH | 0.0005 ETH |
| Graduation threshold | 4.2 ETH | 4.2 ETH |
| At graduation | nothing migrates | nothing migrates |
| Liquidity | locked at launch | locked at launch |
| Creator share of fees | 70% | 70% |
| Custody | non custodial | non custodial |
Creators earn the same 70% on both. Anyone telling you otherwise has not read either set of docs.
The first real difference: every coin gets a character
This is the reason Gekko exists.
A Gekko launch creates a token, a pool, and an AI character built from a description the creator writes. The character talks to holders on the coin's own page, and the creator can put it in their Telegram group, where it answers when tagged. It knows its own contract address and shares it correctly rather than from memory.
It is funded by the coin itself. A character starts with a small allowance and then earns from its own coin's trading fees, so a coin that trades can afford to keep talking and a coin nobody trades goes quiet and says so.
The bot is never given admin rights in anybody's group. It cannot delete or ban, and it is not asked to judge anyone. An AI holding that power in someone else's community gets one call wrong and removes a real holder.
Pons does not offer this.
The second real difference: where the other 30% goes
Both send 70% of trading fees to the creator. The remaining 30% is split differently.
| Pons | Gekko | |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | 70% | 70% |
| The coin's AI character | none | 10% |
| Protocol | 30% | 20% |
Gekko takes a smaller protocol cut and spends 10% on running the coin's character. That share is not revenue, it is what pays for the thing above.
Where Pons is ahead
Scale, by a long way. Pons handles roughly 80% of launchpad volume on Robinhood Chain and over half of all transactions on the network, trading around $116 million in 24 hours. Gekko launched in July 2026 and is a fraction of that.
More volume means more liquidity, more buyers and more eyes on a launch. If that is what matters most to you, Pons is the larger market and it would be silly to pretend otherwise.
They are also still building. Pons has announced a V2 with an ETH bonding curve, Uniswap V4 and trading pairs against tokenised real world assets.
Which to use
Use Pons if you want the deepest liquidity on the chain and the largest audience for a launch, and an AI character is not something you care about.
Use Gekko if you want your coin to have a personality that talks to holders on its page and in your Telegram, on the same launch mechanics and the same 70% creator share you would get anyway.
They are not opposites. Gekko took the parts of the model that work and added the part that did not exist.
Verify all of this
Do not take a comparison page written by one of the two parties at face value, including this one.
- Gekko's factory source is verified on the block explorer, and so is every coin launched through it.
- The fee split, the supply and the locked position are enforced by the contract, not by this page.
- Pons publishes its own documentation, and every number quoted above comes from it.
Read the contracts. They are the only description that cannot be edited.