§1What Hexcavate is
Pons V2 lets anyone launch a token on a bonding curve that later graduates into a Uniswap V4 pool. Pons derives every token address with CREATE2 from a salt chosen by the launcher. Hexcavate turns that salt into a proof-of-work puzzle: your browser searches for a salt that makes the token address end in 000000, and only then can the launch be filed.
The launch goes through one on-chain contract, the HexcavateDeployer. In a single transaction it re-checks your work, launches the token on the live Pons V2 factory, and points the token's creator fees at a dedicated FeeSplitter for that token. The splitter pays the miner, the platform and Pons by fixed shares.
Hexcavate adds no token logic. Every token is a standard Pons V2 token, trading on the Pons curve and graduating to locked Uniswap V4 liquidity exactly like any other Pons launch.
§2Why it beats a typical launchpad
| pump.fun-style | Pons direct | Hexcavate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to mass-launch | One click, near-free; bots spray thousands | Launch fee only | Launch fee + real work per launch, plus a per-wallet cooldown |
| Address | Random | Random unless you mine it yourself | Always ends in 000000; deeper digs earn higher grades |
| Provenance | None visible | None visible | The 000000 suffix is visible proof the launch went through Hexcavate |
| Theft of mined work | n/a | n/a | Impossible: the salt is bound to your wallet and your exact token details |
| Creator fees | Platform-defined | Paid to whoever is set as creator | Routed to a per-token splitter; the miner gets 60% automatically |
| Token contract | Platform's own | Pons V2 | Unchanged Pons V2; no new token code |
- Proof-of-work gate
- Every launch costs on average 16^6 hash attempts (about 16.8 million for six zeros). A person pays that once, in a minute or so on a laptop; a bot trying to flood the board pays it for every single launch. A 1-hour cooldown per wallet adds a second brake.
- Visible provenance and rarity
- A trailing 000000 is something anyone can verify at a glance on any explorer. The exact zero count is recorded on-chain at launch, and each extra zero beyond the floor raises the grade: Common 6, Rare 7, Epic 8, Legendary 9+.
- Miner-bound salts
- The salt is keccak(your wallet, hash of your token details, nonce). Copying your nonce from the mempool gives the copier nothing: with their wallet the address changes and the suffix is gone, so the contract reverts.
- Fees come back to you
- The token's creator fee recipient is its own FeeSplitter clone. Anyone can sweep and claim, and the split is computed on-chain; you withdraw your share whenever you like.
§3Fee math, per trade
Pons charges a 1% fee on the quote (ETH) side of every trade, on the curve and after graduation in the V4 pool. Pons keeps 30% of it directly. The remaining 70% is the creator share, and for Hexcavate launches the creator is the token's FeeSplitter, which apportions it 60/30/10.
- Creator fee. Optional, 0–10%, chosen at launch. Pons passes 100% of it to the creator, so it goes through the splitter too: 60% miner, 30% platform, 10% Pons.
- Buyback. If you turn on Pons buyback, half of the creator share is used to buy back the token instead. The bought tokens are locked and vest over five years. Your ETH share shrinks accordingly.
- Launch costs. The Pons launch fee is 0.0005 ETH. Hexcavate charges 0 on top (owner-adjustable, capped at 0.05 ETH). An initial buy is optional.
- Caps. The splitter enforces miner ≥ 50%, platform ≤ 40%, Pons ≤ 20%. Ratio changes are never retroactive: fees already earned are settled at the old ratio first.
§4Verified contracts
Both contracts are deployed on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663) with source verified on RobinScan (Etherscan) and Sourcify.
Verifies the mined suffix, launches on Pons V2, clones the splitter, records grades, optional initial buy.
Template cloned per token. Sweeps, claims and apportions creator fees; pull-based withdrawals.
Pons V2 factory: 0x7eD598BcEf8bd9Edd8C97A195C6d13f40801EC7e
§5How to launch
- 01Connect your wallet
Click Connect Wallet. If your wallet doesn't know Robinhood Chain yet, Hexcavate asks it to add the network.
- 02Fill in token details
Name, ticker, logo (stored on IPFS), description, links, creator fee and buyback. These details are locked into the address you mine, so finalize them before you start.
- 03Mine the address
Click Start Mining. Your browser mines locally on every CPU core (one WebWorker per core, WASM keccak); no gas and no server. Progress is saved as you go: close the tab or reload and Resume Mining picks up where you left off, and a found address is kept until you launch.
- 04Launch the token
Once an address ending in 000000 is found, click Launch Token and sign one transaction: the Pons launch fee (0.0005 ETH) plus your optional initial buy and gas. The contract re-checks the zeros and launches on Pons.
- 05Collect fees
On the token page, Claim Fees pulls the creator fees from Pons into your fee split, then Withdraw My Share sends your 60% to your wallet.
§6FAQ
+How long does mining take?
Six zeros take about 16.8 million attempts on average. Hexcavate runs one worker per CPU core at roughly 100,000 attempts per second per core, so a recent 8-core laptop usually strikes within a minute; a 4-core machine takes a couple of minutes, phones longer. It's probabilistic: some runs are much quicker, some take two or three times the average.
+What if I close the tab while mining?
Your progress is saved in this browser, per wallet and per set of token details. Come back with the same wallet and the same details and the button reads Resume Mining; nothing is repeated. If an address was already found, it's kept until you launch (Restore Found Address).
+Can someone steal my mined address?
No. The salt includes your wallet address and the exact token details. Anyone else submitting your nonce gets a different address, and the contract reverts.
+Do I need ETH to mine?
No. Mining is free and local. You only pay when you launch: 0.0005 ETH to Pons plus gas, and any initial buy you choose.
+Is the token any different from a normal Pons token?
No. It's a standard Pons V2 token with the same curve, the same graduation to locked Uniswap V4 liquidity and the same trading. Only the creator fee recipient differs: it's your token's fee split contract.
+Who can trigger fee payouts?
Anyone can call claim on a splitter; sweeping curve fees is open to the miner or the admin. Each party then withdraws its own balance. Nothing is pushed to you automatically, and nothing can be taken from your owed balance.
+What if Pons changes its settings while I'm mining?
The found salt no longer produces the same address, so filing reverts safely and you mine again. No funds are lost beyond gas for a reverted attempt.
+Can I change the token details after mining?
Not without mining again. The details are part of the target, which is what makes the work non-transferable.
+Why does the on-chain launch event show a different grade name?
Grades on this site are relative to the live floor (Common 6, Rare 7, Epic 8, Legendary 9+). The deployed contract also writes a fixed legacy tier label in its launch event (5 zeros Rare, 6 Epic, 7+ Legendary), set before the floor was raised. The zero count itself is exact; trust the count.
§7Risks, stated plainly
- Unaudited. Hexcavate's contracts are tested (unit, fuzz and mainnet-fork tests) and verified, but they have not had an independent security audit. Pons V2's own audits are listed as in progress.
- Dependency on Pons admin. Pons is run by an owner multisig that can pause launches, change fees, launch settings and the deployer (which changes the mining formula), or require a launcher whitelist. It can also redirect any token's creator fees through a 3-day timelock, which no creator can veto.
- Hexcavate admin. The owner can pause new launches and adjust difficulty, cooldown, the dev-buy cap and the split within on-chain caps. It cannot touch fees already owed to you.
- Market risk. A vanity address is provenance, not quality. Tokens can lose all value; creator fees only exist if people trade.
- Third-party layer. Hexcavate is independent of Pons and launches through its public factory. Pons could change its terms toward third-party launchers.