Turn any article into a market. Pay its authors.
Paste a link to an article, research paper or long-form post and launch a token on it. A 2% author fee on every trade is held for the people on the byline and paid out in ETH.
Fees enforced onchain · Non-custodial trading · Every payout on the explorer
Example
Post-hoc head pruning for long-context transformers
by M. Okonkwo, J. Lin, R. Patel
Sparse Attention
$SPARSE · Bonding curve
- Author fee
- 2% of every trade
- Goes to
- The byline, 100%
- Held for authors
- Accrued onchain, all articles
- Paid out
- To verified authors
- Articles launched
- On Robinhood Chain
- Author fee
- 2.00%
- Of every trade, 100% to authors
Works with any public link
- arXiv
- bioRxiv
- medRxiv
- SSRN
- PubMed
- DOI links
- Google Scholar
- Substack
- Medium
- Mirror
- Hosted PDFs
- Personal blogs
Markets
Articles
Reading Robinhood Chain…
How it works
From a link to a market in one transaction
01
Paste a link
arXiv, bioRxiv, a DOI, a Substack post. Title and authors are pulled in; you choose a name and ticker.
02
Launch on Pons
Fixed 1B supply on a bonding curve. Metadata is locked onchain at launch. You pay gas plus Pons' ~0.0005 ETH fee.
03
Every trade pays the byline
A 2% author fee on every buy and sell goes to a treasury held for the work's authors. All of it.
04
Authors verify and get paid
DNS record, profile code, corresponding-author email or manual review. Verified authors receive ETH, split equally.
Fees
One fee for authors. Nothing hidden.
Every article carries the same 2% author fee, written into the token at launch. The treasury holds it for the work’s verified authors; balances and payouts are public on every article page.
- Trading is non-custodial: you hold your tokens and ETH.
- Author balances are published per article with explorer links.
- Pons’s owner can reassign a fee recipient after a 3-day public timelock.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Author fee Every trade Verified authors, 100% | 2.00% |
Pons trading fee Every trade 0.30% Pons · 0.70% Byline platform | 1.00% |
Launch fee Once, at launch Pons and the network | ~0.0005 ETH + gas |
Unclaimed author fees After 12 months Open research fund | Remaining balance |
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly
Everything about fees, custody and verification is written down. If something is missing, the docs go deeper.
Full documentationNo. Launching references a public work, and the economics are designed so the authors benefit from it. Use a respectful name and ticker: it is their work.
Every article has a byline. Now it has a market.
Launch an article in one transaction, or claim the fees that have already accrued on your work.