Uniswap Labs has bought PONS, the token of the memecoin launchpad that takes most of the launchpad fees paid on Robinhood Chain, the launchpad said on Thursday.
The purchase gives Uniswap Labs a stake in the application feeding the chain that now carries most of Uniswap V4's trading. Pons V2 routes tokens that graduate off its bonding curve into Uniswap V4 pools, and Robinhood Chain accounts for 56.3% of Uniswap V4 volume across all networks.
Pons announced the purchase at 5:24 p.m. ET, writing that Uniswap Labs "has purchased $PONS for long-term alignment" and calling it a deepening of its partnership with Uniswap. The post drew more than 200,000 views in under two hours. The Uniswap account quote-posted it with the emoji.
Neither party disclosed how many tokens changed hands, what was paid, when the buying happened, or which address holds the position. Pons did not say whether Uniswap Labs bought on the open market or received an allocation, a distinction its followers raised repeatedly in the replies. Uniswap Labs has published no statement of its own.
Pons launched on July 13 and shipped its V2 contracts on Aug. 3. Its token trades on Robinhood Chain at contract 0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571, according to CoinGecko.
