BlockBeats news, August 6: Last night, the leading DEX protocol Uniswap announced the official launch of its launchpad, pools.trade, on the Robinhood chain. According to Hayden Adams, the platform has already gained strong enthusiasm from the crypto community prior to its formal release, facilitating token issuance and trading through on-chain contract interactions, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $150 million.
Meanwhile, Uniswap’s move has encroached on the interests of existing launchpads. Several industry figures, including Bankr’s founder (@0xDeployer), have expressed dissatisfaction with Uniswap’s alleged monopolistic behavior. Additionally, following the launch of pools.trade, the previously popular on-chain launch platform pons, associated with Robinhood, has seen its token market cap decline for multiple consecutive days, dropping from a peak of $67 million to below $20 million.
Almost simultaneously with the launch of pools.trade, the founders of Bankr and Sushi engaged in close collaboration, hinting at a tight partnership in the launchpad space to jointly build pools.fun. Some analysts believe Bankr will migrate its existing Robinhood launch process from Doppler/Uniswap v4 to Sushi Launch, while retaining its distribution layer.
BlockBeats believes that the race for Robinhood’s chain launchpad has reached a fever pitch, but the market consensus is that the current environment lacks neither issuance platforms nor liquidity—it lacks truly compelling narratives and innovations that can generate genuine FOMO among users.