Coins for GitHub repos · Robinhood Chain
The repo you use every day could use a coin.
Paste a public repository and launch its coin on pons. If the maintainers named a wallet in their repo, every trade pays them the creator fee, on chain, with nobody in the middle.
Try vuejs/core or sindresorhus/got
How it works
Paste the repo
Any public GitHub repository. Link or owner/repo, both work.
We read the repo
FUNDING.yml, the GitHub Sponsors page, and .github/forkpot.json on the default branch. Nothing else counts.
Sign on pons
You review name, ticker, picture and fee, then send one transaction from your own wallet.
Where the creator fee goes
It depends on what the repository says about itself. We don't guess.
Repo has .github/forkpot.json
The wallet in that file is written into the coin as its fee recipient. It gets the creator tax on every buy and sell.
Only GitHub Sponsors
Launching is open, but the fee goes to your wallet. We show the Sponsors link so you can pass it on.
Neither
No Sponsors profile and no wallet file means there's nobody to pay. We don't launch those.
- launch fee
- 0.0005 ETH + gas (read from pons when you launch)
- pons trade fee
- 1%
- creator tax
- you pick 0–10%, default 5%
- supply
- 1,000,000,000 on a bonding curve
- graduates
- at 4.2 ETH, then trades on a pool
For maintainers
Want coins made for your repo to pay you? Add this file to the default branch. That's it. No account, no form, no keys shared with anyone.
Use a wallet you control on Robinhood Chain. Delete the file whenever you want future launches to stop naming you.
// .github/forkpot.json
{
"wallet": "0xYourRobinhoodChainAddress"
}Questions
Do maintainers have to sign up?
No. They commit one small file with a wallet address. Only someone with push access can do that, and that's the whole check.
What if the repo has no forkpot.json?
If it has a live GitHub Sponsors profile you can still launch. The creator fee then goes to your wallet, and passing it on through Sponsors is up to you. We say that on the launch screen too.
Does forkpot take a cut?
No. pons charges its launch fee and 1% per trade. The creator tax you pick goes to the recipient on chain. forkpot isn't in the money path at all.
Can the recipient change later?
The wallet is fixed in the coin at launch. Editing forkpot.json only affects coins launched after the edit.
Is this safe?
The contracts are pons', not ours, and nobody audited forkpot. Treat any coin as something that can go to zero.