Any emoji, any number of versions
The list holds every fully-qualified emoji in Unicode 17.0: 3,944 in total, counting each skin tone and flag separately. Each one has a fixed registry number and emoji ticker. The contract stores that identity in a Merkle root, while each creator chooses their version's token name.
Anyone can launch a new version of any emoji, even one that is already claimed. Every version is its own Pons token with its own creator. The version with the highest market cap is the featured one on the emoji's page and in the leaderboards; the others stay listed underneath it. An emoji counts as claimed once it has at least one version.
The ticker is always an emoji. Pons limits symbols to 16 UTF-8 bytes, so longer family, couple and subdivision-flag sequences use their first visible emoji component as the ticker while their page and logo keep the complete selected emoji.
Launching
Before you start: use a compatible wallet with ETH on Robinhood Chain (4663). ETH on Ethereum or another network cannot pay this chain's gas. Never share your seed phrase or private key; the site only asks your wallet to approve transactions.
- Search an emoji from the homepage and open its page.
- Enter your token name (1–64 UTF-8 bytes). Review the fixed ticker shown beside it; longer emoji sequences use a shorter emoji ticker as explained above.
- Review the live Pons launch fee shown in the form. Add an opening buy if you want tokens at launch, and leave enough ETH for gas. The opening buy pays the normal trading fee but is exempt from Pons' launch-second snipe tax.
- Emojipad creates the token on Pons with a fixed 1% creator tax and your splitter as the fee recipient.
- The token trades on its Pons bonding curve. At 4.2 ETH raised it graduates to a Uniswap V4 pool, which Pons locks for good.
After confirmation, use the transaction link to verify your launch and find your version on the emoji page. If the site is slow to refresh, check the transaction before submitting again: a second successful launch creates a separate token.
Choose another pair asset
On an emoji page, open Choose another pair asset to see the enabled Pons quote assets. Choose your pair and token name; the ticker stays the emoji. The pair is permanent. Gas and the launch fee use ETH; an optional opening buy uses the selected asset and requires a separate approval.
For these launches, actual creator-fee receipts split 50/50 in the pair asset. Collect and split fees on the version's card, then use Pay creator to send the creator half to its configured recipient. The holder half waits in the splitter for an operator to convert it to ETH and deposit it into HolderVault. Conversion is not instant or guaranteed: price, liquidity or issuer restrictions can delay it. Holder claims remain disabled.
These versions appear separately on their emoji page. They are not included in ETH-only rankings, the live-trades feed, bulk creator collection or the vault's eligible buyback list. Imports still support ETH-paired tokens only. The pair selector excludes assets without configured settlement routes.
Stock Tokens are not shares in the underlying company. Read issuer eligibility and risk information before using them. Settlement trusts the operator for execution and price checks; adapters are immutable, so a failed route may strand the reserved holder share. These contracts have not had an independent security audit.
Already launched an emoji on Pons?
You can bring a token that was launched straight on Pons into Emojipad as a version of its emoji. On the emoji's page, open "Already launched on Pons? Bring it in", paste the token address and follow two steps from the wallet Pons currently pays the creator fees to:
- Register the token on Emojipad. This deploys a fee splitter for it and lists it as a version.
- Move fees: a Pons transaction (
transferCreatorFeeRecipient) that points the token's creator fees at the new splitter. From then on they split 50/50 between the creator and HolderVault. Registration alone does not activate this routing.
The token's ticker must exactly match the emoji ticker shown on its Emojipad page, and imported tokens keep whatever creator tax they launched with on Pons. Because the splitter is a contract, you no longer need a separate wallet per coin to collect fees: the creator half can be sent to any address you choose with setCreator.
Where fees go
For a standard new Emojipad launch, trading fees are 2%: the 1% Pons fee plus 1% creator tax. The creator tax goes to that version's splitter: half to the creator and half to HolderVault. Imported tokens retain their original creator tax, so their total trading fee may differ. Check the token before trading.
| Per 1 ETH traded | Rate | ETH |
|---|---|---|
| Pons fee | 1% | 0.010 |
| Creator tax → splitter | 1% | 0.010 |
| ↳ the version's creator | ½ | 0.005 |
| ↳ $EMOJI holders (Holder Vault) | ½ | 0.005 |
Part of the holders' half is not paid out. The vault reserves it and spends it buying top emoji coins on their Pons bonding curve, sending every coin it buys to the burn address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD, where nobody can sell it again. Emojipad picks the coins off the leaderboard, highest market cap first among those still on their curve (a coin that has graduated to Uniswap has left its curve, so the buyback goes to the ones still climbing); the contract only accepts coins Emojipad launched or imported. Everything else in the holders' half is paid out as before. Emojipad sets that share and the contract caps it at 20% of what the vault receives, so holders always keep at least four fifths of the pot.
Anyone can call sweepAndDistribute() on a splitter, including the "Collect & split fees" button on each emoji. It collects the fees Pons is holding for that version and pays both sides in one transaction. The creator can hand their half to another address. Nobody can change the 50/50 split, not the creator and not Emojipad. Pons' buyback option is turned off, so the whole creator share reaches the splitter.
If a creator's wallet rejects ETH, the holders' half is still paid, and the creator's half waits in the splitter until they withdraw it.
Collect your creator fees
On your emoji's page, select Collect & split fees. This sends the creator's share to the configured creator address and the other half to HolderVault. Whoever triggers the transaction pays gas; they cannot take someone else's creator share.
Have several tokens? Open Rewards → Creator fees, connect your creator wallet, and review the collection controls for your tokens. A pending balance is not the same as ETH already received in your wallet.
Holder payouts · coming soon
The vault receives its half in ETH now, but claims are disabled on chain until the rewards program launches. Once enabled, holders won't need to stake. Each epoch:
- The epoch job reads every $EMOJI transfer and works out each wallet's average balance over the epoch, block by block.
- It leaves out addresses that hold tokens for mechanical reasons: the Pons curve, the Uniswap pool manager, lockers, the vault and burn addresses.
- The ETH the vault received since the last epoch, less the buy-and-burn reserve, is split by those averages. The running totals are published as a Merkle root, and the vault won't accept a root that pays out more ETH than it holds.
- After the owner enables claims, holders claim ETH on the Rewards page. Claims don't expire.
Contracts
On Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663).
| Contract | Address |
|---|
Source code and a test suite that runs against a fork of Robinhood Chain mainnet, using the live Pons contracts, come with the project.
Risks
- Memecoins are speculative. Most go to zero. Only launch or buy with money you can afford to lose.
- Pons controls its own contracts. The Pons owner can propose a new creator-fee recipient for any launch, with a 3-day timelock. That power is in Pons' contracts, and Emojipad can't remove it. Pons can also close public launching.
- Payouts depend on an operator. The epoch job publishes each payout root. The vault caps payouts at what it holds, but holders are trusting the operator to compute the list honestly. The method and data are public so anyone can recompute them.
- Robinhood Chain is a young network run by one sequencer. Outages and fee spikes have happened.
- Emojipad's contracts have been tested but not audited.
Questions
Why does my emoji look different on my phone?
On Apple devices the site uses native Apple emoji where supported. Other devices and token logos use Noto emoji artwork. The drawing can differ, but the registered emoji identity stays the same.
Why does a new token already have a market cap?
The displayed FDV is spot price multiplied by total supply. Pons curves start with virtual reserves, so a token can have a starting valuation before anyone buys. FDV is not liquidity, cash raised, or an amount holders could all sell for. USD is an estimate; the native ETH value is shown alongside it.
Does a shared emoji mean it is the same token?
No. Every version has its own contract address and creator. Check the version and contract address before trading; names and emoji tickers are not unique identifiers.
Can I launch an emoji that isn't in the list?
No. The list is fixed to Unicode 17.0. Emojis from later Unicode versions would need a new list.
Does Emojipad take a cut?
No fee goes to Emojipad. You pay the Pons launch fee and gas; trading pays 2%, routed as shown above, and Emojipad's own contracts keep nothing. The buy-and-burn share is not a cut either: it is spent on emoji coins that are sent to the burn address, not held by anyone.