Rono — the launchpad where the liquidity is card float
Robinhood Chain · 4663
Visa & Mastercard, worldwide
Liquidity,issued.
Coins backed by the moneysitting on people's cards
Launch a coin on Robinhood Chain with no pool to seed and nothing to presell. Its liquidity is the float on the cards issued against it — real money, on real Visa and Mastercard numbers, spent in real shops.
Every launchpad has the same unanswered question sitting under it: where is the liquidity actually coming from? Usually the answer is you, or a presale, or somebody who leaves the minute it is worth leaving. Here the answer is a card that somebody carries in their pocket. Here is what backs a coin:
Three cards. One reserve.
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Two ways in. One floor out.
01 — What backs it
A coin's reserve holds USDG, and nothing else. What it will take is two things: ETH, for the balance you would rather keep as ETH, and tokenized stocks — the shares already sitting in your wallet doing nothing you can spend. Both price on arrival and land in the reserve as dollars.
No long list of coins nobody uses, no bridges, nothing wrapped twice. A shorter list means every address we hand out is one we actually watch, and every dollar of backing is one you can trace.
ETH
Send ether, we price it at deposit and convert into USDG on the way into the reserve. The rate is on screen before you sign anything.
- Chain
- Ethereum
- Confirmations
- 12
Tokenized stocks
Send a tokenized share you already own. We price it, take our cut, and the rest goes into the reserve as dollars — spendable on the card, and counted as backing the same minute.
- Wrapped by
- Robinhood
- Arrives as
- USDG
- Tickers
- live
If an asset isn't on this page, no reserve on this launchpad will take it. That's the whole policy.
02 — Real-world assets
Back a coin with Apple.
Issue a card against a coin, then fund it with a tokenized share instead of a stablecoin. Send the shares, and their value goes straight into that coin's reserve as dollars — spendable at any shop that takes Visa or Mastercard, and counted as backing from the block it lands in. No broker, no sell order, no three-day wait for the money to clear.
Pick a ticker
Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, the S&P — whatever tokenized shares you hold. You see exactly what they are worth, and exactly what the reserve will receive, before anything moves.
Send us the shares
You tell us which wallet you're sending from, and send the shares to the address we give you. A share transfer can't carry a note, so your own wallet address is what tells us the shares are yours.
They price into the reserve
What arrives is priced, our cut comes off, and the rest is USDG in the coin's reserve. You see both numbers — what your shares were worth, and what the reserve took in.
The coin mints against it
New supply is minted at the backing ratio and lands in your wallet, and the same money is live on your card. Backing per coin does not move — the reserve and the supply grew by the same amount.
Tickers a reserve will take
Launch to liquidity, in four moves.
No presale, no seeded pool, no team allocation waiting to be dumped on you. Supply exists only where a card was funded, and the reserve behind it is a contract you can read.
Name a coin, pick a ticker, deploy. The token and its reserve contract arrive in the same transaction. A flat fee and no capital — there is no pool for you to seed.
Anyone can open a card against that coin. Answer three questions and the number, expiry and security code are yours to paste anywhere.
Load the card with USDG, ETH or a tokenized share. The money does not sit in a processor's float account — it lands in the coin's reserve, and supply mints against it at the backing ratio.
Spend your own float; what you don't spend keeps backing the coin. Interchange on every authorisation goes back to the reserve, so the floor only moves one way.
03 — The app
The floor, on the same screen as the card.
Your card, your holding, the reserve behind it, and a feed that updates the moment anything happens. Every line says what it did to the backing — a top-up that raised it, a purchase that spent your own share of it, interchange that pushed it back up. No separate app, no second login.
- 01Backing, per block. Reserve balance over circulating supply, read straight off the contract rather than quoted by us.
- 02See it when you need it. Number, security code and expiry appear on tap, and are never stored on our side.
- 03Freeze and thaw. A frozen card declines every authorisation and leaves your float in the reserve exactly where it is.
- 04Redeem at the floor. Sell coins back to the reserve at the backing ratio, any block, without asking anyone.
- 05Fund it with shares. Point a tokenized stock at any live card and it lands in that coin's reserve, not in a holding pen.
04 — The chain
Robinhood Chain, and what we watch.
Coins and their reserves live on Robinhood Chain — id 4663, where the tokenized shares already are, so a share never has to cross a bridge to become backing. Funding comes in over Ethereum too. Every deposit address we hand out is used once and then expires, and share transfers are matched to the wallet you told us you would send from, so nothing arrives anonymously and nothing sits open waiting for a stray transfer six months from now.
ETH
Ether · native
The volatile leg. Priced at deposit and converted into the reserve's USDG on the way in, at a rate you see before you commit.
- Chain
- Ethereum mainnet
- Confirmations
- 12
- Address
- Single-use, expiring
Tokenized stocks
Robinhood
Shares you already own. They arrive, get priced, and become USDG backing on the coin you named. Sell nothing, wait for no broker.
- Wrapped by
- Robinhood
- Arrives as
- USDG
- Matched by
- Your wallet address
Every fee, on one page.
05 — What it costs
Launchpads usually take their cut where you cannot see it — in the pool, in the allocation, in the spread. Ours is a table. Whatever you are about to do, the app shows you the real figure before you confirm it, and no fee is ever taken out of a reserve.
| Action | Fee | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Launch a coin | flat | One transaction, token and reserve together. No capital, and no cut of supply to us. |
| Crypto funding | network + platform | Quoted in full before you send. Nothing is deducted twice. |
| Tokenized stock → reserve | 0.90% | Our cut on a share deposit, shown in full before you send. Minimum $25 of shares. |
| Shares straight onto a card | free | Sending the money on to your card costs nothing extra. |
| Card issue | — | One-off, taken from the wallet at issue. Varies by tier. |
| Card top-up | per tier | Applied on the way into the reserve, never on the way out. |
| Redeem at the floor | free | Coins burn, the reserve pays out at the backing ratio. Never gated, never queued. |
| Withdraw to wallet | free | Pull your unspent float back off a card whenever you like. |
| Payout to your address | network fee | Goes to your verified address on file for that asset. |
| Declined payment | per network | Shows as its own line, never folded quietly into a purchase. |
Fees marked "per tier" depend on the card you choose, and the app shows the exact figure for the one you pick. Every number on this page is the live one.
Built for the launches that need a real floor.
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The awkward questions.
06 — Straight answers
01What actually backs the coin?
Money that has been loaded onto cards and not yet spent. Each coin has one reserve contract holding USDG. Funding a card pays into it; spending on that card pays out of it. Backing per coin is the reserve divided by circulating supply, and you can compute it yourself from the chain without taking our word for any part of it.
02So the founder can't rug it?
There is nothing to rug. Nobody seeds the pool, so nobody can pull it — there is no LP position, no team allocation and no unlock cliff. Supply only mints where a card was funded, and the reserve only pays out to whoever burns supply. A founder who wants out sells at the same floor as everybody else.
03What happens to the coin when someone spends?
Their own float leaves the reserve and the matching supply burns, so backing per coin is unchanged — a spend shrinks the coin, it does not dilute it. The interchange on that authorisation goes back into the reserve and is not matched by new supply, which is the one thing on this page that actually moves the floor up.
04Why route it through a card at all?
Because card float is the most boring, stickiest money there is. It arrives because somebody wants to buy groceries, not because a chart looked good, and it does not all leave on the same afternoon. A launch that has to earn its liquidity from people who want to spend is a slower launch and a much harder one to knock over.
05Who is holding the money?
We are, while it is funding a card, and the same is true of a tokenized share you send us. Card programmes are custodial — anybody telling you otherwise is describing something else. What is not custodial is the accounting: the reserve balance and the supply are both on chain, so you can check the backing without trusting our ledger.
06What exactly is the floor?
Reserve divided by circulating supply, redeemable in any block by burning coins. It is a floor, not a price — the coin can trade well above it and often will. What it cannot easily do is trade below it, because anyone can buy at the lower price and redeem at the higher one.
07Do I have to launch a coin to get a card?
No. Most people will never launch anything. You pick a live coin, issue a card against it, and fund it — you get a working Visa or Mastercard number, and that coin gets deeper liquidity. Launching is the rarer half of this.
08What if nobody funds a card?
Then the coin has no supply and no liquidity, which is the honest outcome and a cheap one. A launch with no cards behind it is a ticker and an empty contract. Nothing was raised, so nothing was lost.
09What if the share price moves while I'm sending?
The price holds for twenty minutes. Shares that arrive inside that window get the price you were shown. Shares that arrive after it get the price at the time they land, and your history marks it repriced so you can see which happened. We would rather show you a different number than pretend an old one was a promise.
10Is there a KYC step?
It depends on the card tier, not on the coin. The app tells you before you spend anything, not after. Holding or redeeming a coin needs nothing from you at all.