Pump.fun Alternatives: The Same Model on Other Chains

Pump.fun established a pattern – instant deployment, a bonding curve, no presale or team allocation, graduation into a pool – and within a year that pattern existed on every chain with any activity. The mechanics converged. What did not converge is where the money goes.

The question that separates them

Every launchpad takes a fee on curve trading. The difference is the destination, and there are three answers in circulation: the creator, the holders, or the pool itself. Each produces a different set of incentives and a different kind of participant.

A fee to the creator makes launching a business. A fee to holders rewards sitting still. A fee into the locked pool makes the exit deeper for everyone and pays nobody directly. None of these is correct – they are different products wearing the same interface.

On Robinhood Chain

Three platforms cover the same ground with different answers. PONS runs a curve with a graduation and a fee split that actually pays the creator. hood.fun publishes its mechanics in full – supply, the share on the curve, and the graduation threshold – which makes the arithmetic checkable before buying rather than after. pools.trade is Uniswap Labs' own launch flow, where the fee grows the locked pool instead of leaving as anyone's revenue.

The thing that does not transfer

Audience. A launchpad's value to a creator is largely the people already watching new launches on it, and that is chain-specific and not a feature anyone can ship. A better fee split on a quieter chain is still a quieter chain.

Which cuts both ways. Less competition for attention on a smaller platform is a real advantage for a launch with its own audience, and a real disadvantage for one hoping to be discovered.

Choosing between them

1. Decide whether you are launching or buying. The two want opposite things from a fee split.
2. Read the fee destination in the documentation, not in the marketing.
3. Check whether the supply and threshold are published. hood.fun publishes both, which is the standard to hold others to.
4. Ask where the audience is. For discovery that matters more than every other line combined.
5. For buying specifically, prefer the platform whose mechanics you can verify onchain before the purchase.

The full list of what runs on this chain is in the launchpad category of the directory, with what each one does. The comparison above is the framework; the platforms change faster than any article can.