Study of 8,401 launches over 14 days to 12 Nov 2026

What earns on Pons

Which tokens paid their creator $100 or more, and what they had in common. Only 12.3% got there. Bars show the share of tokens in each group that did.

Launches with a creator fee8,401
Earned the creator $100+1,031
Typical sum among them~$240
Devs who sold at once and still got there0 of 49

Dev buy at launch

Small dev buys change nothing. Only buys of 0.2 ETH and more stand out, and they usually mean a team with money and an audience.

  • None6.4%
  • Under 0.05 ETH12.7%
  • 0.05 to 0.2 ETH11.0%
  • 0.2 to 0.5 ETH29.3%
  • 0.5 ETH and more78.7% (121 of 154)

Buyers in the first two seconds

Tokens nobody touches in the first seconds almost never get there.

  • None2.0%
  • 1 to 37.6%
  • 4 to 1028.4%
  • 11 and more50.6%

Creator fee

2 to 3% works best. At 1% the fee is too small; at 5% and more traders stay away.

  • 1%4.9%
  • 1.5%9.4%
  • 2%15.0%
  • 2.5%27.8%
  • 3%17.0%
  • 5%7.6%
  • 10%5.7%

Links and description

A token without an X profile or a website rarely earns. A real description helps.

  • No X link3.9%
  • X profile linked13.5%
  • No website5.3%
  • Website14.5%
  • Description under 60 characters8.8%
  • Description of 200+ characters20.4%

Who launches

Wallets that launch token after token rarely earn. A whitelist goes with three times the share.

  • 11+ launches in two weeks3.1%
  • 4 to 10 launches4.4%
  • One token14.1%
  • No whitelist9.6%
  • Whitelist30.9%

Launch time (UTC)

Afternoon and evening in Europe, morning in the US.

  • 00:00 to 07:598.2%
  • 08:00 to 11:5910.2%
  • 12:00 to 15:5915.7%
  • 16:00 to 19:5913.0%
  • 20:00 to 23:5910.3%

Behind the 100 biggest sums

Every trade of the 100 tokens that paid their creators the most, about $411K together.

50 of 100moved to Uniswap

And at least 64% of their creator fees came from trades after the move. Pons keeps paying the creator there.

95%of the fees came from other people

Only a small part was the creator trading his own token. A typical top token had 165 different traders.

11 of 100left the curve within a minute

A big creator buy plus a few snipers filled the curve in seconds, and the fees came from Uniswap after that.

28 of 100were sniped at launch

Ten or more wallets bought in the first two seconds and most sold within ten minutes. The same few bots do this across many tokens.

7 of 100had bots trading after every buy

A wallet selling right after each buy made 15 to 37% of the volume. Those trades pay the creator too.

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How it was counted

All tokens launched on Pons in the 14 days to 12 Nov 2026 whose creator fee goes to a wallet. Earnings are Pons' exact figure per token, in dollars at the current ETH price. Dev buys and first buyers come from the opening trades of every earning token and of 900 random others, weighted back to the whole set. See also how the board is counted.