Questions.

What do I pay?

The PONS launch fee, Expandr's fee if one is set, and optionally your own opening buy. Nothing for pump.fun, Flap or Clanker. The quote on the launch page is read from the contract.

Where does the money for the other chains come from?

From the coin. Every PONS launch made here carries a creator fee (1% by default), paid to a fee sink that belongs to that coin alone. Anyone can sweep the sink into the coin's bank on the registry. Once a coin is on more chains, the fees it earns there are bridged home into the same bank by the relayer.

What is a tier?

The amount the bank must hold to open the next chain. There are three: one per remote chain. When the bank reaches the tier's cost, anyone can call expand. The cost leaves the bank, the relayer's cost on that chain comes out of it, and the rest is the market maker's opening position there. The relayer creates the coin and attests the address; only then is it paid.

Who decides the order?

The creator, at launch. The route is stored on chain and cannot be changed.

What happens if a chain fails to open?

The escrow goes back into the bank and the venue is marked failed. The bank goes on to the next chain in the route. The creator can put the failed chain back in line with retry; it opens again at the next tier the bank reaches. If the relayer goes quiet for two hours on a pending leg, anyone can close it and the escrow returns to the bank.

What happens once all four are open?

The bank has nothing left to buy, so what the coin earns from then on goes to the maker: the wallet that holds the four markets to one price. Every deposit and every overflow is an event on the registry.

Are the coins the same on every chain?

Same name, ticker, description and image. The image is stored on Robinhood Chain and served from there to every venue. Each venue has its own curve and its own price; the maker keeps them close by selling where it is high and buying where it is low.

What can the relayer do?

Attest a pending venue live, or mark it failed. Bridge fees home into the bank of the coin that earned them. Nothing else: it cannot touch a curve, a sink, a bank or another coin, and it is paid only after it delivers.