Product
Launcher
No bonding curve, no ETH seed. Your token is live in a permanent pool the moment it is created.
Launching calls a single function, createToken, on HookPadLaunchFactory. In one transaction it deploys your token contract, deposits its entire supply as a single sided liquidity position into a Uniswap v4 pool, and mints that position straight to the canonical burn address. Nothing is locked in an intermediate contract and nothing is held back by the protocol. There is no ETH required to launch and no bonding curve to wait through: the pool exists and trading opens in the same block the token is created.
Trading tax
You choose a base tax between 1% and 10% when you launch, applied to both buys and sells. Every pool shares the same hook contract, HookPadHook, which reads a per token trade counter on each swap and cycles your base rate against a fixed schedule of tiers rather than charging a flat rate on every trade. The buy cycle repeats every six trades and pays the creator on all six positions.
| Buy position | Rate | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Base rate | Creator |
| 2 | Base rate | Creator |
| 3 | 5% | Creator |
| 4 | 4% | Creator |
| 5 | 3% | Creator |
| 6 | 2% | Creator |
Position 7 repeats position 1. The counter is global per token, shared across every wallet, and never resets.
The sell cycle repeats every eight trades. Two positions in that cycle, four and five, route to the protocol treasury instead of the creator. Every other position, on both sides, is the creator's.
| Sell position | Rate | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Base rate | Creator |
| 2 | Base rate | Creator |
| 3 | 6% | Creator |
| 4 | 7% | Treasury |
| 5 | 5% | Treasury |
| 6 | 4% | Creator |
| 7 | 3% | Creator |
| 8 | 2% | Creator |
Position 9 repeats position 1. Rows 4 and 5 are the only sell tiers that do not accrue to the creator.
Outside of those two treasury sell tiers, the protocol takes no cut of this tax. Every other bit of it accrues to the creator in ETH, tracked per token by HookPadFeeLocker, and is claimable at any time by calling claimFees from the token's tax page.
Anti-snipe whitelist
For the first five seconds after launch, HookPadHook checks every buyer against isWhitelisted for that pool. Any buy from a wallet that is not on the list is taxed a flat 60%, sent entirely to the protocol treasury rather than to the creator. This is a bot deterrent, not a revenue source: it only exists to blunt automated snipers in the seconds before a human could realistically trade. You can add up to 30 wallets to the whitelist before launching, and the list becomes immutable once the token is live.
Post-snipe sell cooldown
Once that five second window closes, the next five sells, counted globally across every wallet, are taxed a flat 30%. Unlike the anti-snipe tax, this cooldown tax is paid entirely to the creator, functioning as an extra deterrent against an immediate coordinated dump without diverting anything to the treasury. Sell number six onward drops into position one of the normal sell cycle above.
Optional dev buy
You can buy up to 5% of total supply atomically at launch, in the same transaction that creates the pool. The factory enforces this cap on chain through devBuyMinAmountOut and a hard 5% ceiling, so the buy can never exceed the limit regardless of what the interface estimates beforehand. This buy is tax free.
Where the factory is not live yet
On chains where HookPad's own factory has not been deployed yet, launches fall back automatically to a Doppler powered flow: a Dutch auction bonding curve priced in ETH that migrates into a permanently locked, fee autocompounding Uniswap v4 pool once it graduates. That flow uses a fixed platform fee and a smaller, streamed creator share of ongoing LP fees, a different economic model from the dynamic tax and full LP burn described above. HookPad's own factory is live on Robinhood Chain today and expanding to more chains; see the roadmap for sequencing.
Token pages
Every launch gets a dedicated page with a live chart, trade history, holder activity, on chain proof of the liquidity burn, and, for the connected creator wallet, a dashboard to withdraw accrued tax revenue.