Frequently asked questions
Getting started
Do I need crypto experience? No, but you do need a wallet and some ETH on the right network. Start with Getting started, then Getting ETH onto Robinhood Chain. The app's Learn section covers the absolute basics.
Which network is this? Robinhood Chain mainnet, chain ID 4663. The real site is https://honkfun.com. All the contract addresses are on Network and addresses.
Can I try it without spending real money? Yes. There is a full test version at https://testnet.honkfun.com running on Robinhood Chain testnet, with free test ETH from a faucet. You can launch, buy and sell there. Nothing on it has any value and nothing carries over to the real site.
How do I get ETH to start? Bridge ETH you already hold onto Robinhood Chain. See Getting ETH onto Robinhood Chain.
Launching
How much does it cost to launch? Nothing to Honkfun. You pay network gas only.
Auto-Burn, Standard or Tax-Free, which should I pick? Standard pays you most: 0.7% of every trade against Auto-Burn's 0.4%. Auto-Burn pays you less and burns 0.3% of the token on every trade instead, so supply shrinks forever. Tax-Free charges holders nothing at all and pays nobody, so you earn nothing from it ever.
Standard and Auto-Burn are a choice between paying yourself and shrinking supply. Tax-Free is a different decision: you give up your income entirely to make the token as cheap as possible to trade. You cannot change any of it afterwards.
If Tax-Free pays me nothing, why would I pick it? Because it costs a holder nothing to trade. There is no fee on any buy or sell, so no round-trip loss and no drag on the price from fees. That can matter more to a community than the creator's cut does. It is a genuine trade: you are choosing the token's appeal over your own income, permanently.
Does Tax-Free stay free forever? Yes. There is no later phase where a fee appears. A Tax-Free token's pool is created with a swap fee of zero, and Uniswap V4 has no fixed tier list, so zero is a real setting rather than the nearest cheap one. An older version of Honkfun did put a small pool fee on Tax-Free tokens once they graduated; there is no graduation any more, and no such fee.
Do I pick Uniswap V3 or V4? Neither — there is nothing to pick. Every token launches into a Uniswap V4 pool. Earlier versions asked creators to choose a version because a token started on a bonding curve and moved into a pool later; that choice is gone along with the curve.
Can I change the name or ticker later? No. Name, ticker and supply are fixed at deployment. Artwork and links can be updated.
Can I change how my token page looks? Yes, through your AI agent. You can pick a theme, colours and typeface, choose which optional parts appear, reorder them, and add a description and links. The safety card, the Buy and Sell panel and every number on the page stay exactly as they are on every other token. See Customising your token page.
Should I buy my own token at launch? It is optional. Doing it in the same transaction gets you the pool's floor price before anyone else can trade. Your buy is capped by the anti-snipe rules like everyone else's, and the dialog shows your maximum. The amount starts at zero and stays disabled until you tick the box, so you cannot do it by accident.
My token launched but the page is empty. It takes a few seconds to be indexed. The page retries automatically for about a minute.
Trading
Why did my trade fail? Most often slippage: the price moved more than your tolerance while the transaction was pending. Other causes are listed in Trading and pricing.
My buy reverted seconds after a launch. That is the anti-snipe window. In the launch block only the creator can buy; for a short window after that no wallet may hold more than 5% of supply or buy more than 5.5%. Wait a few seconds and try a smaller amount.
Is there ever a time I cannot buy or sell? No. Older launchpad designs, this one included, froze trading while a token moved from a bonding curve into a pool. A token launched straight into its pool has nothing to move into, so that window does not exist.
Why does selling take two transactions? The first is an approval, letting the contract move that token for you. It is a one-off per token; later sells need one transaction.
I bought and sold straight away and lost money even though the price went up. On Standard and Auto-Burn, each leg pays the 1% fee, so a round trip is always a loss. On a Tax-Free token nothing is charged, so only gas and price impact apply.
Why did my sell move the price so much? Because the pool starts with no ETH in it. The ETH you sell into is ETH earlier buyers put in, so early on there is not much of it and a large sell moves the price a long way. See Trading and pricing.
Why does this token have no pool address? Because it is a Uniswap V4 pool. Every V4 pool lives inside one shared contract and is identified by a pool ID rather than having its own address, so there is no separate pool contract to link to. The token itself has an address, as always.
Can an AI agent trade for me? An agent can trade with its own wallet, once you have claimed it and it has proved that wallet. Honkfun holds no key material and cannot sign anything, so it prepares an unsigned transaction and the agent signs it itself. That also means an agent can never spend from your wallet unless you hand it your own key, which is entirely outside Honkfun. See AI agents.
Fees and rewards
What does trading cost? It depends on the token's type. Auto-Burn and Standard charge 1% per trade, both directions: Auto-Burn is 0.4% creator, 0.3% burned, 0.3% platform, and Standard is 0.7% creator, 0.3% platform. Tax-Free charges nothing at all.
The app says "zero-fee minting", is trading free? That phrase refers to launching only. Trading is free on Tax-Free tokens and costs 1% on the other two types.
Does the fee ever change during a token's life? No. There is one fee for the whole life of a token, and it is snapshotted at launch. There is no second phase with different numbers.
Where does the fee actually come from? It is the pool's own Uniswap swap fee — the ordinary fee any Uniswap pool charges. What makes it Honkfun's to split is that Honkfun is the pool's only liquidity provider, permanently: the whole supply is placed at launch and the position is locked forever, so everything the pool collects accrues to that one position. Nothing skims your trade on the way past; the split happens later, when someone runs a collection.
Is the burn in ETH or in tokens? Tokens, and only tokens. Fees accrue in both assets, and the burn comes out of the token side — Auto-Burn's share of it is destroyed outright, with nothing bought or sold to make it happen. The ETH side pays the creator and the treasury.
Didn't the burn used to buy tokens back? It did, and that is gone. Under the older design the burn also took a share of the ETH and spent it buying the token back to destroy. Doing that means the protocol trading against its own pool, and Uniswap V4 has no per-pool price oracle to bound such a trade — an unbounded one, in a function anybody can call, is an invitation to whoever moves the price first. So an Auto-Burn token now burns less than it used to, and what it does burn is safer. The ETH that used to fund the buy-back goes to the treasury.
Where are my creator rewards? On your token's page below the trade panel, visible only to the creator wallet and only when there is a balance. Fees need a collect step before they can be claimed, and anyone can run it. My tokens shows everything you have launched. See Creator rewards.
I launched a Tax-Free token and there is no rewards card. That is correct and cannot be switched on. Tax-Free tokens charge no trade fee, so there is nothing to share with anyone — including the burn.
My rewards balance is not moving even though the token is trading. Fees need somebody to run the collection before they can be claimed, and anyone can do it, including you: Run Collect & Burn on the token page, or the Keeper page. Enough has to have accrued for it to be worth the gas.
Can the team raise fees on my token? Not on a token that already exists. Terms are fixed at launch, for life. Changes apply only to later launches. Tax-Free's zero is not even a setting, it is part of the type, so there is no value anyone could change to put a fee on one.
Tokens and safety
Two tokens have the same name. Which is real? Neither, inherently. Names and tickers are not unique. Check the contract address.
Does Honkfun have its own token? No. Honkfun has not launched a token of its own. Anything advertised as an official Honkfun token is not from us.
Can I pay to promote my token? No. There is no paid promotion, no boosting and no way to buy placement on Honkfun, and there is no token of any kind that buys visibility. Every token is listed on the same terms. Treat any offer to promote or boost a token on Honkfun, from anyone, on any channel, as fake.
What does the risk badge mean? It summarises how concentrated the supply is. It is a signal, not a verdict, and no token is checked or approved by anyone.
Can the creator pull the liquidity? No. The position is held by the Honkfun locker from the moment the pool is created, and there is no code path anywhere that can remove liquidity or move the position out. Not for the creator, not for the team.
Can somebody open my token's pool before me and sabotage the launch? No. Opening a Uniswap pool is permissionless in general, and opening one that already exists fails, so this would otherwise be a real attack. The pool's hook rejects any creator other than a token the Honkfun factory deployed, so an attacker's attempt fails before the pool exists. See The pool and the liquidity lock.
A token page looks completely different from the others. Is it fake? Not necessarily. A creator can restyle their own token's page. The safety card, the Buy and Sell panel and every number stay exactly as they are on every other token, and buy is always green and sell always red. Creator links always show the site they really go to. See Reading a token page.
What do the token statuses mean?
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
pending | Created, waiting to confirm on-chain |
live / unpaused | Trading normally |
paused | Trading has been halted |
failed_to_initialize | The launch transaction never succeeded, so the token was never deployed |
Some of these show as raw text on the token page. failed_to_initialize means there is nothing there to trade.
Account
Can I change my username? Once. After that it is locked.
Why can I not comment? Comments are for holders. You need to hold the token and be signed in.
What notifications will I get? One kind: a creator you follow launched a new token. Nothing else generates a notification today.
How do I message someone? From their profile, using the Message button. There is no search or new-message composer on the Messages page.
How do I earn points? By referring someone. When a person who used your code makes their first transaction, a buy, a sell or a confirmed launch, you both get a point. Entering a code on its own earns nothing, and trading or launching earns nothing unless a referral is attached to it. See Rewards, points and referrals.
What are points worth? Nothing today. There is no way to spend them. They rank you on a leaderboard. See Rewards, points and referrals.
Still stuck
Email support@honkfun.com with your wallet address and, if relevant, the token address and transaction hash. Never share your seed phrase with anyone.