Picking a counterpart
The counterpart is the asset on the other side of your coin's linked pool. Choose it with care.
What makes a good counterpart
It has to be an ERC-20 contract on Robinhood Chain that behaves conventionally inside a Uniswap V2-style pool. Meme coins, dollar stablecoins and tokenized equities can all work.
Tokens that skim a fee on transfer, rebase balances, can be paused, or restrict who may hold them tend to break pool operations. The vault's fundQuote explicitly reverts if fewer tokens arrive than were sent. Metadata reads cannot detect any of this, so read the token's contract or documentation.
Verifying identity
Treat the address as the asset's real name. Search results (names, logos, USD prices) come from the GeckoTerminal index, may lag, and imply no endorsement from Link. A pasted address skips the index and is read straight from the chain. The same ticker on another network is a different asset entirely.
How the vault acquires it
Fees reach the vault as ETH, so topping up the counterpart side means buying it. The vault knows these routes:
- WETH, which is simply wrapped;
- a single-hop swap through the V2 router;
- a single-hop V3 swap in the 0.05%, 0.3% or 1% tier;
- for assets that are themselves Pons coins (such as $LINK), the official Pons market: its curve before graduation, its V4 pool after.
No multi-hop paths and no arbitrary V4 pools. Even a supported route needs genuine depth and an acceptable price impact; on thin markets it is better to wait.
Choosing plain ETH
Selecting ETH means no linked pool is made, since the Pons market already trades against ETH. The liquidity share of fees accumulates in the vault and can be added to the official Pons V4 pool with reinvestNative once the coin has graduated. Until then it is shown as reserved, not as live liquidity.