Overview

Runitup is a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, Circle's ETH-native chain. In plain terms: it's a place where anyone can create their own token in a couple of minutes, and where anyone else can buy and sell those tokens.

Creating one costs a $1 fee plus a little gas. You don't need to put up any money to make your token tradeable, and you don't hand over a chunk of the supply to anyone. From the moment it's live, every single trade of your token pays a fee, and most of that fee goes straight to you, automatically, for as long as people keep trading it.

New here? These are the only words you need

If you've never used a launchpad before, five terms cover almost everything on this site.

• Token — a coin you create. It has a name (Sushi), a ticker ($SUSHI), and a total supply (how many exist). Nothing else about it is special; it's just an entry on the blockchain that people can own and trade.
• ETH — a dollar. One ETH is one US dollar. On Arc, ETH is also what you pay gas fees with, so it's the only currency you need here. Every price on Runitup is in ETH.
• Pool — the thing that makes a token tradeable. A pool is a shared pot holding two things: some of the token, and some ETH. You buy by putting ETH in and taking token out; you sell by doing the reverse. Nobody has to be on the other side of your trade — the pot always is.
• Price — not set by anyone. It's just the ratio of the two sides of the pool. Buying takes token out and puts ETH in, so the token gets scarcer and the price goes up. Selling does the opposite. That's the whole mechanism.
• Market cap — price × total supply. A rough measure of how big a token is. Runitup leads with this rather than price, because a new token's price is often something like $0.0000045, which tells you nothing at a glance.

Two more you'll meet if you launch a Utility Token:

• Bonding curve — a temporary substitute for a pool, used while a token is brand new. It sells tokens at a price that rises as more are sold, and holds onto the ETH it collects. Once it has collected enough, that ETH is used to open a real pool.
• Graduation — the moment that switch happens. The curve closes and a real pool opens.

Two ways to launch

You pick one of these when you create your token, and the choice is permanent.

Meme (Quick Launch) is the simple one. Your token opens on a real pool immediately, with 100% of the supply already in it. There's no curve, no waiting, and no extra tax on trades beyond the standard fee every token carries. Best if you just want a token that trades.

Utility Token (Advanced) is for tokens that want an ongoing income stream. It starts on a bonding curve, graduates to a real pool at $25,000 raised, and lets you add your own extra tax on every buy and sell — which you can split between paying yourself, burning supply, paying holders, and growing the pool.

Full walkthrough of both: Launching a token.

What every token gets, either way

• You don't fund the pool. A Quick Launch pool opens with all of the supply and $0 of real ETH in it. ETH only arrives as people actually buy. A Utility Token funds its own pool out of curve trading. Either way, the money doesn't come from you.
• The pool is locked forever. Once a pool exists, the position that holds its liquidity is moved into a contract with no withdraw function — not for you, not for Runitup, not for anyone. Liquidity cannot be pulled out from under holders, because there is no code that could do it.
• Every number here is real. Prices, volume, holder counts and market caps all come from actual on-chain trades and balances that Runitup reads and indexes. Nothing is estimated. Where a number would require guessing, you'll see an honest blank instead of an invented figure.

Where to go next

• Launching a token — a walkthrough of both launch types, field by field.
• Trading — how buying and selling actually work, including slippage.
• AMM venues — what an AMM is, and what picking Uniswap vs. SushiSwap does.
• Fees & tax — where the money goes, with worked examples.
• Security — exactly what these contracts can and cannot do to you.