The memecoin configuration, and why it differs from Solana
A meme coin is an ordinary ERC-20 with opinionated settings. The opinions that matter are the ones you cannot change later: Robinhood Chain fixes every token property at deployment, so a token created without a power can never gain it, and one created with a power can never shed it. That is the whole decision, and it is made before you sign.
This is the real difference from a Solana launch. On Solana you mint an SPL token and then revoke the mint authority as a second step, which is why so much Solana launch advice is about remembering to do it. Here the equivalent choice is simply not enabling mintable in the first place. Nothing to remember afterwards, and nothing to forget.
- Mintable — leave off. It lets the owner create new supply at any time, and it is readable on chain. For a meme coin this is the single most common reason a buyer walks.
- Pausable — leave off. It lets the owner halt every transfer. Legitimate for a compliance token, close to indefensible for a meme coin.
- Burnable — optional, harmless. It only lets holders destroy their own tokens. It grants the owner nothing, so it is safe to ship if the supply story calls for it.
- Supply and decimals. 18 decimals is the ERC-20 convention and what every EVM wallet and DEX expects. Supply is cosmetic — a billion tokens is not more valuable than a million, it just changes the digits in the price.
Deploying does not create a market
This catches more first launches than any other step. Deploying the ERC-20 creates the asset and sends the entire supply to your wallet. It does not create a price, a chart, or any way for another person to buy. Until you open a pool, the token is real and completely untradeable.
The second transaction is a Uniswap V3 pool, and it is where you set the opening price by choosing the ratio of ETH to tokens you deposit. Budget a further 0.01 ETH for it. Create the pool here once the token exists.
What a launch actually costs
Figures below were measured on mainnet rather than quoted — the full teardown, including the two real deployments they came from, is in the Robinhood Chain launch guide.
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Fixed-supply ERC-20 deployment | 0.01 ETH |
| Gas (measured, at 0.026 gwei) | ~0.000056 ETH |
| Uniswap V3 pool | 0.01 ETH |
| Burnable / mintable / pausable, each | 0.01 ETH |
| Deflation | 0.015 ETH |
| Transfer-fee and trading-limit toggles | Free |
Gas is roughly 0.6% of a plain launch, so the service fee is effectively the whole bill. A standard meme coin — no extra powers, plus a pool — lands at about 0.02 ETH all in.
What you can and cannot prove to buyers
Be careful importing Solana trust conventions wholesale. The standard Solana proof is a burned LP token, but liquidity here is a Uniswap V3 position held as an NFT, not a fungible LP token, so burning it to a dead address is not the same gesture and should not be presented as one.
What you can evidence on Robinhood Chain is the token itself: no mint power, no pause switch, a fixed supply, and — if you renounce it — no owner at all. All of that is readable by anyone on Blockscout, which is where you should point holders rather than asking them to take your word for it.
Related
- Create a meme coin on Solana — the same launch on Raydium, with LP burn as the trust signal
- Robinhood Chain token creator — the general ERC-20 form, for utility tokens rather than memes
- Bridge ETH to Robinhood Chain — fund the wallet first; L1 ETH cannot pay for a deployment here
- Pons Bundler — the other launch route: a bonding curve that needs no upfront liquidity, instead of a pool you fund yourself
- What is Robinhood Chain? — measured block times, pool census and how it compares to other L2s
- Multi-send on Robinhood Chain — bulk distribution once the token is live
Robinhood Chain meme coin FAQ
What supply and decimals should a meme coin use?
18 decimals, because that is the ERC-20 convention every EVM wallet and DEX expects — a non-standard value mostly creates display bugs. Supply is cosmetic: a billion tokens is not worth more than a million, it only moves where the decimal point sits in the price. One billion is the common meme-coin default because it makes the per-token price read in fractions of a cent, which is what buyers expect the chart to look like.
What do I have to do before anyone can buy my meme coin?
Open a liquidity pool. Deploying the ERC-20 gives you the entire supply in your wallet but creates no market, no price and no chart — the token is real and completely untradeable until liquidity exists. The pool is a second transaction against Uniswap V3 where the ratio of ETH to tokens you deposit sets the opening price. Budget for it in the same sitting rather than launching and coming back later.
Which token powers should I leave off for a meme coin?
Leave mintable and pausable off. Both are readable on chain, and either one lets you dilute or freeze holders, which is the most common reason an experienced buyer walks away. Burnable is safe to ship — it only lets holders destroy their own tokens and grants the owner nothing. Robinhood Chain fixes every property at deployment, so a token created without a power can never gain it later, and one created with a power can never shed it.
How is this different from launching on Solana?
On Solana you mint an SPL token and then revoke the mint authority as a separate step. On Robinhood Chain the equivalent decision happens earlier: you simply do not enable the mintable property at deployment, and the contract ships without it. Solana settles in about 400 milliseconds against Robinhood Chain's measured 101 millisecond blocks, and liquidity goes to Raydium rather than Uniswap V3. The launch checklist is otherwise the same shape.
How do I get ETH onto Robinhood Chain to pay for the launch?
Bridge it. Robinhood Chain runs on chain ID 4663 and uses ETH for gas, but ETH sitting on Ethereum mainnet does not spend here — the network only sees balances that have been bridged in, so a wallet holding only L1 ETH cannot pay for a deployment. Bridge from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base or Optimism first, then connect any EVM wallet: MetaMask, Rabby, or anything WalletConnect-compatible.
Can I burn liquidity to prove it is locked?
Liquidity on Robinhood Chain is a Uniswap V3 position held as an NFT rather than a fungible LP token, so the Solana pattern of burning LP tokens to a dead address does not map directly. Treat a Robinhood Chain launch as one where liquidity lock is not the trust signal you lead with — a token with no owner, no mint power and no pause switch is the claim you can actually evidence on Blockscout.
Where do buyers verify what I launched?
Blockscout at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com. Point holders at the contract address there: the source, the total supply, and whether the owner retained any powers are all readable without trusting your description of them.