How Stonko works
Every token here is paired with a real stock, wears a ticker nobody else can have, and trades on the same bonding curve. Three pictures and one toy explain the lot.
The whole thing, in three panels
Claim a ticker
Pick a stock or fund to pair with, then claim a ticker, a name and an image. The chain checks all three are one of a kind, look-alikes included, and your launch gets the next serial number.
Push it up the curve
Everyone trades on the same bonding curve. Each buy nudges the price up and each sell nudges it down. You pay in the paired stock, or with ETH on stocks with enough liquidity.
Ring the bell
When the curve fills, the token graduates into a Uniswap pool in the same transaction. That liquidity is locked, and trading carries on in the pool.
Push it up the curve
Drag the sticker. The price follows one formula for every token, so the early buys get more tokens for the same money.
- Curve
- 30% full
- Price vs start
- 3.42x
- To graduate
- $9,993
$50 here buys 3.1M tokens, 0.31% of the supply, after a $0.50 fee. Further up, the same money buys less.
This is the curve every launch uses, a $14,276 target. A launch with no creator allocation sells 79.31% of the supply on the curve and saves the rest for the pool; keeping some for yourself nudges the numbers up a little. A real launch sets its target in the paired stock at that minute's price, so dollar figures move with the stock. Priced at the normal 1% fee. A price ratio isn't a return.
One ticker, one token
A ticker, a name and an image can each be claimed once, by one launch, and they're never released. The registry reads look-alikes as the same ticker, so the copycats have to get creative.
Fees, in plain words
Set by the contracts and the same for everyone, launch after launch.
Fee card · Robinhood Chain
- Launching a token
- Buying or selling on the curve
- 1%
- The first minutes of a launch
- up to 50%
- Trading after graduation
- The network
- a little ETH
Paid once, in ETH, when you launch.
50% goes to the creator, 30% to the platform, and 20% stays in the curve as extra liquidity.
Buys pay 50% for the first 6 seconds after opening, dropping to 1% by 2 minutes. That's the sniper fee: none of the extra goes to the creator or the platform. It becomes liquidity, or it's refunded if the curve doesn't fill.
The Uniswap pool's fee. Fees paid in the stock are split between the creator's fee NFT and the platform; fees paid in the token are burned.
Gas on Robinhood Chain for every transaction you sign.
Questions people ask
Why can't I use a ticker that's taken?
Each ticker can only be used once. A launch claims its ticker, name and image in the same transaction that creates the token, and it fails if another token already has any of them. A claimed ticker is never released, even if the curve doesn't fill.
Look-alike characters count as the same: 0 and O, 1, L and I, 2 and Z, 5 and S, 8 and B, and W and VV. Stock tickers like SPY and TSLA are reserved, so nobody can use them.
What's the serial number?
Every launch gets a number in the order it was created: No. 0001 was the first. It comes from the order of launches on the chain, so nobody picks their own and it never changes.
What do I pay with?
Buys on the curve are paid in the stock token the launch is paired with, and sells pay out in it. On stocks with enough liquidity you can pay with ETH instead. The launch fee itself is always paid in ETH.
What happens when the curve fills?
The token graduates in the same transaction as the buy that fills the curve. Everything the curve collected goes into a Uniswap V4 pool together with the rest of the supply, and the pool opens at the curve's last price, so there's no jump to snipe.
That liquidity is locked: there's no way to withdraw it, for the creator or for us. Trading carries on in the pool.
What if the curve doesn't fill?
If the curve doesn't fill by the deadline, trading stops and anyone can switch the launch to refunds. Holders hand back their tokens and get an equal share per token of everything left in the curve, fees included. It doesn't matter who refunds first.
A refund isn't always what you paid. Every token gets the same share, but early tokens cost less than late ones. So early buyers can get back more than they paid, and late buyers less. The creator allocation is burned, and the dev buy is refunded at no more than it cost. Refunds can also open in a few rare cases, like the paired stock being halted.
What's the sniper fee?
For the first 6 seconds after trading opens, every buy on the curve pays a 50% fee. It then drops steadily to the normal 1% by 2 minutes. Sells always pay 1%.
None of the extra fee goes to the creator or the platform. It becomes extra liquidity, locked in the Uniswap pool at graduation, or it's refunded to buyers if the curve doesn't fill. Launch limits also apply for the first 2 minutes: one buy can take at most 1% of the supply (about 10 million tokens), and one wallet at most 5%. A bigger buy is rejected, not partly filled.
Do US market hours matter?
The market status at the top of the page follows the same NYSE hours the contracts use, including weekends, holidays, half days and daylight saving time. It matters in two cases. During regular trading hours, the stock's price feed must be up to date, or new launches are refused. And if it's outside regular hours and the paired stock has moved more than 15% since the curve filled, graduation waits for the market to open, for up to 72 hours.
Trading on the curve and on Uniswap isn't tied to market hours.
Who can use this?
US persons can't hold stock tokens on Robinhood Chain, and there are limits in Canada, the UK and Switzerland too. Every launch is paired with a stock token, so make sure you're allowed to hold it before you launch or trade.
This rule comes from the stock token's issuer, not this site. It applies wherever the stock token goes: any transfer involving an account the issuer has blocked fails. Launched tokens have no blocklist of their own.
Are a token's links verified?
No. A website, X, Telegram or Discord link on a token page was added by that token's creator and hasn't been checked by us. Treat it the way you'd treat any link someone hands you.
One thing is checked: if a link is copied from an earlier launch, we still show it, but greyed out and not clickable, labelled with who got there first, for example $OTHER already uses this link. That's a warning about the copy, not proof the original is legitimate either — it's just first.
Meme tokens can go to zero. Only put in what you're fine losing.
US persons can't hold stock tokens on Robinhood Chain, and there are limits in Canada, the UK and Switzerland too. Check you're allowed to hold the stock before you launch or trade.