Ownerless

Fair starts. Same first price for everyone. Before the bots. Before the snipers. Before the bundles. That's Ownerless. We built a launchpad on Robinhood Chain where every coin opens with a countdown, and everyone who shows up buys the start together, at one price. Projects meet the people who came for them, not the bots that came for the first block. Here's how it works: 1. Everyone buys the start together. Every coin opens with a countdown (5 minutes by default). During it, anyone can join the coin's launch basket: one entry per account, up to $10 by default. At zero, one transaction launches the coin and buys it for the whole basket. Nobody can trade in between. Everyone in the basket pays the same price, and the tokens are shared in proportion to each entry. Bots can still buy, but only after the basket. The money waits in the basket contract, never with us. You can take your entry back until the last 60 seconds. If the launch doesn't happen, everyone takes theirs back. Pons labels the basket's buy "Dev", because our launcher makes it in the launch transaction. It's the public basket, paid out to everyone who joined. 2. Nobody owns the coin. Every coin is created by one launcher contract, through Pons. In the same transaction, the coin's creator seat goes to the coin's own burner contract. No dev wallet, no dev buy. Nobody is paid as the creator: not the person who pressed Launch, not us. The creator can join the basket like anyone else, with one entry. 3. Every trade feeds the burn. Every trade on a Pons coin pays 1%, on every app. 0.70% of it is the creator side. Here there's no dev to pay, so it goes to the coin's burner contract: • 50% buys back the coin and burns it • 30% buys back $OWNERLESS and burns it • 20% runs Ownerless Per $100 traded: $0.35 burns the coin, $0.21 burns $OWNERLESS, $0.14 runs Ownerless, $0.30 goes to Pons. Ownerless, Pons, fomo: whichever app the trade happens on, the fee lands in the same contract. 4. Burns with no ceiling. Every 20 to 30 minutes, at a moment nobody can know in advance, each coin spends its whole bucket on a buyback. No cap, no daily limit. A coin that trades $1M sends $3,500 into buybacks of itself, and all of it burns. The burner has no owner and no withdraw function. Its money can only leave as a buyback, and every token bought goes straight to 0xdEaD. Nobody can change a coin's split after launch, us included. Every burn is on the coin's page with its on-chain receipt. 5. No copy rush. While a coin waits to launch and for 24 hours after, its ticker, name, image, X profile and website can't go on another coin here. Neither can copies of them: OFFICIAL, V2, look-alike letters. After that, they're free again. Derivatives are coins of their own. BABYDOGE and DOGEINU can launch the same day as a DOGE. That protection is for coins launched here. A token that trades elsewhere doesn't hold its name on Ownerless. Sign in with X and your coin's X link is verified and written on chain with the coin. 6. Zero friction. Sign in with email, Google, X or a wallet. No seed phrase, no gas token to hunt for: we cover the gas, and a buy or a sell is one press. Pair a coin with USDG or ETH. Either way, you pay and get paid in dollars. Launching is free, and you can launch as many coins as you like. Every coin is a plain Pons token. No tax, no blacklist, no sell limits. Sell whenever you want, on any app. 7. How Ownerless pays for itself. We don't sell launches or allocations. We earn two ways, both from trading: • the 20% of the creator side above, from every app • a 0.25% app fee on trades made on Ownerless. Half of it goes to whoever referred the trader, for life. So we only do well when coins keep trading. Same start. Same price. For everyone who shows up. ownerless.fun How it works: ownerless.fun/how-it-works

I want more volume on Ownerless. I’ve been open about that. Volume generates fees, and fees fund the buybacks and burns. It matters directly to how our system works. But I also want to understand who is behind the activity. In Crius’s Pons V2 history, daily trading addresses averaged roughly 51,000 during October 7–13 and 36,000 during October 29–November 4. Those are addresses, not a count of individual people or a measure of how long they held. Still, the decline is another indication that participation has become quieter. My reading is that bringing people back into the ecosystem deserves as much attention as attracting the next burst of trading. For Ownerless, I want to know whether someone who joins a launch comes back to explore another one. Whether a first-time user understands the basket. Whether people are sharing the platform because they had an experience worth sharing. Those things can help us understand whether we’re building something people will keep using. A busy afternoon would be welcome. I’d be excited about it like anyone else. Then I’d want to see what happened over the following days. Did new communities form? Did the activity continue? Did we learn something that helps the next launch? I believe that kind of progress would give $OWNERLESS a stronger foundation. It would also bring more continuing activity to robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571. The price will always get our attention. I want the usage behind it to give us reasons to keep paying attention.

Most of what I write about Ownerless comes back to launches, fees and burns. Those things matter. They’re a large part of why I built this. But I also want people to enjoy spending time here. A platform can explain its mechanism perfectly and still give someone very little reason to stay once they’ve understood it. I think about that when we discuss what to build next. We added Last Nobody, a free browser game people can play while a launch counts down. It’s a small addition, but it comes from that same thought: the time around a launch can be part of the experience too. Source: Ownerless’s game announcement, archived from X. Someone plays, shares a result, and another person becomes curious. They might arrive for the game and then look around the platform. They might simply enjoy it and leave. We’ll learn from how people actually use it. I don’t expect one small feature to change everything. What interests me is building more moments that people naturally want to share. A good launch experience. Something funny that happened. A result they want to beat. A community they enjoyed meeting. That gives us more ways to introduce Ownerless than talking about price every day. I think this matters for the wider Robinhood Chain ecosystem too. People should be able to find things here that make participation feel familiar and enjoyable. $OWNERLESS has a mechanism behind it. I want the platform around it to develop a personality as well. We’re still working out what people will enjoy most. That’s a part of building I’m looking forward to.

I understand why people celebrate graduation. A community has been watching the progress, people have participated, and the project reaches a milestone everyone can see. On Pons V2, completing the bonding curve moves the launch into a Uniswap v4 pool with permanently locked liquidity. That is a concrete change in how the token trades. Then the next day arrives. That’s the part I’m especially interested in. Who is still talking about the project? What does someone discovering it for the first time find? Is there a reason to join now that the countdown and the graduation celebration are over? I think a lot of a project’s future depends on those questions. During a launch, everyone has an obvious event to gather around. Afterward, the community has to develop reasons of its own. Sometimes that comes from a product. Sometimes it’s a strong idea, a funny culture or people who simply enjoy creating things together. Whatever the reason, someone has to keep contributing to it. For Ownerless, helping a coin reach its opening is only part of what I want this platform to become. I want communities to find their first members here and keep giving those members reasons to participate. Their trading can continue supporting their own coin and $OWNERLESS through the creator-fee split. But the community still has to create the interest behind that activity. That’s why runners matter so much to @ponsdotfamily and robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571. They show newcomers that a launch can develop into something people continue caring about. I’d love to see more graduation celebrations here. I’d love even more to recognise those same communities a month later.

One of the things I’ve disliked most about launches is how often being interested still isn’t enough. You see the announcement. You open the page. You try to understand what you’re buying. By then, the opening has already happened. After enough experiences like that, you start approaching every launch with the same feeling: hurry up, or you’re already late. That was one of the problems I wanted Ownerless to address. Our countdown gives people a window to arrive before trading starts. During that window, they can join the launch basket. The basket buys in the launch transaction, and its participants receive the same execution price. Bots can still trade afterward; the opening basket gets its place first. I think that changes something important about the experience. You have time to read. You can share the launch while other people can still join. A community can gather around an opening it knows is coming. It also gives the person launching a coin something useful to communicate before there is a chart. What is the idea? Why should anyone care? When does participation begin? A fair opening still leaves the project with plenty to prove. People can sell, interest can fade, and a community takes work. But I believe the beginning matters. It shapes how people feel about everyone who arrived alongside them. That’s what we’re trying to contribute to @ponsdotfamily through Ownerless. A launch where ordinary people have time to understand what they’re joining. I think that’s a beginning worth building around.

I talk about our burn mechanism often because it’s one of the parts of Ownerless I believe in most. But the amount it can do depends on activity. The split of the creator fees received from each coin launched on Ownerless is simple: 50% buys back and burns that coin, 30% buys back and burns $OWNERLESS, and 20% supports the platform. For example, if a coin generates $100 in creator fees, that means $50 for its own buyback and burn, $30 for $OWNERLESS and $20 for operations. That gives trading activity a continuing role in the system. It also makes our challenge quite clear. We need people to find projects they want to participate in, and we need those projects to remain interesting beyond their opening. A quiet platform produces fewer fees. Fewer fees mean smaller buybacks. The mechanism can work exactly as designed while the platform still needs much more usage. I think it’s useful to be honest about that. Sometimes a lower price lets the same buyback budget purchase more tokens. But that budget also depends on how much activity there is. Both sides matter. That’s why I see product development, community growth and burns as connected parts of the same work. Making a launch easier to understand can help someone participate. Helping a community become more active can give others a reason to discover it. Sustained trading then feeds the fee mechanism. We’re building through @ponsdotfamily, so those launches also contribute activity to the wider robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 ecosystem. I believe the structure gives us something worth growing. Now we have to keep earning the usage that allows it to do more.

Robinhood launched its public mainnet on July 1, opening the chain to builders alongside its broader push into onchain finance. That created an opportunity for people like us to build something within a much larger ecosystem. Source: Robinhood’s mainnet announcement. I think about that opportunity quite a lot. Someone can hear about Robinhood Chain because they already know @RobinhoodApp. They might be curious about stock tokens, trading or something @vladtenev said. Eventually, some of those people will start exploring what else is being built here. What will their first experience be? Will they understand how to participate? Will they find a project they can actually use? Will anyone help them when something feels unfamiliar? Those questions matter to a small platform like Ownerless. It’s easy to imagine a large audience arriving and assume growth will follow. But every person still has to make a series of small decisions. Open the link. Create an account. Understand the launch. Decide whether to come back. Each confusing step gives them a reason to stop. That’s why we’ve put work into simple access and a launch process people can follow. A countdown gives someone time to understand what is happening. A shared basket gives them a clear way to participate in the opening. We still have work to do, and actual users will show us where the experience needs improvement. I believe Robinhood Chain can bring fresh attention to this market. For $OWNERLESS, the opportunity is to turn some of that curiosity into people who enjoy using what we’ve built. Getting discovered would be a good start. Giving someone a reason to return is where our work continues.

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Honestly, I’m surprised Ownerless hasn’t attracted more attention yet. I think anyone with a technical background who takes a closer look will recognise the work that has gone into it. Here’s what we’ve built: 1. Launching a project is completely free. We cover the costs. If you have an idea and want to give it a start, you can do that here. 2. We use robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 infrastructure, which has already supported thousands of launches. We’re building on an established foundation. I also think @MEADGod could become supportive of Ownerless as the project gains visibility and more people understand what we’re doing. 3. Our buyback and burn system is already running. So far, 91 million $OWNERLESS tokens have been burned across 322 burns. The process is fully automated and transparent. We’ve reached those numbers without significant trading volume yet, which makes me interested in seeing what it can do with more activity. 4. We give people a fair way to participate in a launch. I don’t know how much fair launches matter to everyone reading this, but fairness has become a major point of frustration among Pump.fun communities. We’re trying to address that from the beginning. In some ways, it reminds me of the 2020–2021 IDO days: people gathering around an idea and getting an opportunity to participate early, together. 5. You can get started with just an email address. You don’t need to connect an existing wallet. Sign up, and your wallet is ready to use. You control the private key. We don’t hold users’ funds. There was a time when KOLs would discover a promising project, see what it could become, and share it before everyone else was paying attention. Maybe Ownerless simply hasn’t reached those people yet. Or maybe the industry has changed, and attention has become much more concentrated around the same projects and circles. Time will tell. We’ll keep building.

Holding feels different from how it did a few years ago. I’ve been in this market for more than five years, and I understand why people have become quicker to leave. You watch enough launches lose their momentum overnight, and eventually you start protecting yourself before you even know whether you need to. Take the profit. Avoid the next disappointment. Find something else. I’ve felt that too. That’s why I don’t think asking people to have stronger hands gets us very far. People need reasons to feel comfortable staying involved, and those reasons have to survive a quiet chart. Can they see what the team is doing? Do they understand how the project works? Are questions being answered? Does anything continue happening when fewer people are watching? Those are things we can actually work on. With Ownerless, I want someone who comes back after a few days to find something they can understand and check. The launch mechanism. Where the creator fees go. The burns those fees fund. The work we’re doing to make participation easier. None of that gives me the right to tell someone what to do with their money. Someone leaving doesn’t erase the support they gave us while they were here. But I do believe consistency can slowly change how people feel. If we want stronger communities around robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 and the projects launched on its platform, we have to make staying interested worthwhile. People should be able to follow progress without needing a green candle to prove that the team is still present. That responsibility starts with us. I’m grateful to everyone who continues following $OWNERLESS. I want to keep giving you something worth following.

There’s something I’d like to see more of on Robinhood Chain. People taking the time to look at small projects before those projects have already become obvious. I see enthusiasm for the chain, and I understand it. I’m building here because I see an opportunity too. But I would like to see more of that interest reach the teams launching on @ponsdotfamily. Open the platform. Try what they’ve built. Ask where the fees go. Look at how the launch works. Come back a week later and see whether anything has improved. That kind of attention can mean a lot to a small team. A project with a tiny community has a difficult problem. It needs users to show what its product can do, but people often wait for visible success before becoming users. You can keep building through that, and you should. Still, getting someone independent to explain the work can help people make their own judgment. I’d welcome that for Ownerless. Try the launch basket. Follow the burn transactions. Tell us which part is confusing. If something deserves criticism, explain it. If something works well, explain that too. Someone who holds a position or has a paid arrangement should be open about it. Readers deserve to understand the relationship behind the opinion. I think this is how a stronger community around robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 can develop: people becoming interested in the work happening across the ecosystem, including work outside their own bags. Every project still has to earn its place. But earning that place becomes possible when someone is willing to look. If you create content about Robinhood Chain, I’d love to see more of that curiosity reach the smaller builders here.

Launching a coin on Ownerless costs you $0. We pay the pons launch fee and the gas. Nothing to sign, no dev wallet. Name it, pick a ticker, press Launch. Part of every trade's fee buys it back and burns it on Robinhood Chain. ownerless.fun/create

I think a strong $VRAX run could do a lot for Robinhood Chain right now. From what I’m seeing, the community is paying close attention to it. There’s a sense that if Vrax starts moving, people might look at the whole ecosystem with fresh interest. I understand why. Sometimes people need one project to give them a reason to explore a chain again. They follow the activity, discover the launchpad, and start looking at what else is being built. That’s also why even a brief mention from @vladtenev carries weight. It gets people talking and gives them something to follow. I think that visibility can help, especially when the market feels quiet. What interests me most is how far that attention could travel. I’m building Ownerless on Pons, so I have a reason to care about what happens beyond our own project. If Vrax brings new people here, that creates an opportunity for us and other builders to show them something worth exploring. We still have to earn their interest. A strong runner can get people through the door. The projects they discover afterward can give them reasons to stay. That’s why I’d like to see $VRAX do well. I believe its momentum could mean something for the wider $PONS ecosystem too. What do you think would help turn attention around Vrax into lasting activity across Robinhood Chain?

Vlad, you’ve spoken about keeping Robinhood Chain neutral and doing more to support builders. I think that needs to include a transparent way for small teams to get their work evaluated. We built Ownerless on Pons: no dev allocation, a shared opening price for launch-basket participants, and creator fees funding buybacks and burns. What would Ownerless need to demonstrate to earn a product review from your team, and can those criteria be public so other small builders have the same opportunity?

I’m building Ownerless on Pons, so I’m curious about your take: if Vrax brings new people to the chain, do you think they’ll naturally explore smaller projects too, or does that need a more active effort from the community?

How early should Robinhood get involved in helping people discover projects on its own chain? Once a project is already huge, discovery has largely happened. I think the harder question is how promising teams earn a look while they’re still small.

Imagine spending time on an idea, preparing the launch and getting the first people interested. Then several coins appear with almost the same name and image. Now the conversation changes. People are asking which link is correct, whether the team launched another token, and why the same project seems to have several charts. The first few hours become harder than they needed to be. Even when people eventually find the right coin, some of the attention has already been lost. Others may have decided the whole thing was too confusing to bother with. That’s why we added copy protection on Ownerless. While a coin is waiting to launch and for 24 hours afterward, its identity is protected against duplicate launches on our platform. That includes its name, ticker and other identifying details. The protection applies within Ownerless. I think that short window matters. A new community needs time to establish where it is gathering. People need a clear link to share and a clear idea of what they are joining. There will always be new interpretations of an idea. Memes develop that way, and people should have room to create. But the opening of a project should give its first supporters a reasonable chance to find one another. This is one of the smaller details behind Ownerless that I care about. We’re building on robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571, and part of our job is to look closely at the problems people encounter around a launch. Sometimes improving that experience starts with something as simple as reducing confusion. A community already has enough work ahead of it.

I’ve been paying attention to the graduated section on Pons lately. It feels quieter. So I wanted to look beyond that feeling. Crius’s Pons V2 history recorded 153 graduations between October 7 and 13, compared with 73 between October 29 and November 4. New launches also fell, from 15,362 to 7,576 across those same periods. Both numbers roughly halved. Source: Crius’s daily Pons data. To me, the important part is that fewer projects are reaching graduation while fewer people are launching in the first place. The slowdown reaches further than the graduated tab. I think confidence has a lot to do with this. When people discover a project, follow it for a few days and see the community still growing, they become more willing to explore another one. They tell a friend. Someone who was watching decides to participate. A builder sees that there are people here who might care about their idea. When launches disappear quickly, that process can move in the other direction. People become more cautious. Builders struggle to find an audience. The next launch starts with even less attention. That’s why I keep coming back to runners. A runner gives people a reason to look around. It shows them that something can begin here and keep going. For Ownerless, I think our contribution has to start with giving launches a better chance to build that first community. A shared opening, clear rules and fees that continue supporting the coin and $OWNERLESS as people trade. There’s still plenty for us to prove. But I believe helping good launches find their first real supporters would do a lot for @ponsdotfamily and robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571 . That’s the part I want us to work on.

$OWNERLESS just passed 8% burned. 80,663,003 $OWNERLESS now sits at 0x…dEaD: 8.06% of the supply, across 198 buybacks, every one paid for with trading fees on Robinhood Chain. ownerless.fun/burns

186 receipts. One address. No way back. 77,748,636 $OWNERLESS now sits at 0x…dEaD: 7.77% of the supply, every token bought back with trading fees and burned on Robinhood Chain. Nov 2 alone burned 1.19% of the supply. ownerless.fun/burns

I’d start with a simple hook: no dev allocation, a shared launch, and fees that buy back and burn. Then show it in action. A short walkthrough from countdown to first trade would make the idea much easier to understand. Get a few respected people in the Pons community to try it and share their honest experience. From there, spotlight individual launches, their communities, and verifiable burns. Give people something concrete to follow and participate in. The mechanics get their attention; a good experience gives them a reason to bring others.