Bankless · Friday, August 7, 2026
Uniswap has launched its own native token launchpad, named Pools.trade, which aims to compete with existing platforms like PumpFun. The platform offers two mechanisms for launching tokens: a 'crowd launch' with a 4-hour TWAP auction to mitigate front-running, and an 'instant launch' for a more direct, 'wild west' approach. Fees generated by Pools.trade will be used to buy back the launched token, creating a direct incentive for its price appreciation.
“Uniswap introduced a 24-hour countdown yesterday for pools.trade? It took them like 27 hours. They had a little bit of a shaky start. But they introduced pools.trade, which is Uniswap's own native token launchpad. Like PumpFun. It's PumpFun for Ethereum.”
“Both end up in a Uniswap V4 pool with a fixed 1 billion supply of tokens. So there's the crowd launch token. So that's a four hour TWOP auction to help make just bundle resistant because like a big problem in the meme coin token launchpad world is that like one person will bundle up a bunch of wallets and own like 30% of the supply and then dump on your head. So that kind of fixes that.”
“And then it graduates at a $10,000 fully diluted valuation, or it refunds everyone if the $10,000 market cap doesn't get launched. Or there's instant launch, which is just like, no rules, wild west, like buy at your own risk, it's live immediately, classic bonding curve style.”
“The fees collected by this go back into buying the token itself. And so it's touted as more volume. It's even more beneficial for the price of the token, as opposed to that coming out of the pool, of the liquidity pool. It goes back into the Uniswap pool in the token itself.”