Big Ballast update, live today.
Ballast is a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, built on one programmable
@Uniswap v4 hook. Tokens are paired with tokenized stocks. Here's everything that shipped this week.
New this week
• Buyback & burn is live: 5,718,402
$BALLAST burned so far, 0.57% of supply
• Fee routing is live: creators can split their share of fees across several destinations
• Router V2 is live: pay with ETH for any token, one transaction
Two ways to use it
• Launch a token: name it, pick one or two pairs, set a treasury notice period, confirm two transactions
• Trade one: pay with ETH even when the token is paired with a stock. The router handles the stock leg for you
What's better
• Cheaper: Router V2 uses about 11.7% less gas than the old path
• Locked down: launch liquidity can never be removed. The hook, factory, seeder, router and burner have no owner and can't be upgraded
• Open: anyone can trigger a buyback. No keeper, no team wallet in the path
How the pieces work
Launching: 1B fixed supply with no mint function. No bonding curve. No launch fee. 100% of supply seeded into Uniswap v4 pools, opening at 1 ETH fully diluted.
Trading: the pool fee is 0. The hook takes 1% inside every swap, in the pair asset. Up to two pools per token, WETH and a stock side by side.
For creators: 80% of every fee. Claim it straight from the hook, or route it across your wallet, buyback & burn of your own token, and rewards paid to stakers. Changes to a split take 7 days to go live.
For the protocol: the other 20% buys
$BALLAST on the open market and burns it. Per-call cap, cooldown and slippage limit, all immutable.
For treasuries: creators can fund a token's treasury with tokenized stocks. Withdrawal notice of 7, 30 or 90 days, fixed at launch. 16 assets in the on-chain registry.
Built, shipping next
• Open treasury: anyone can deposit, earn a variable share of fees, and withdraw their own deposit
• Locked positions on other venues, with fees split on-chain between creator and protocol
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$BALLAST staking
Built to plug into
@Uniswap
• Every Ballast pool is a standard
@Uniswap v4 pool on the canonical PoolManager
• Readable with StateView and V4Quoter like any other v4 pool
• One singleton hook serves every pool
For integrators
• Open source:
github.com/ballasted/ballast
• ABIs and event signatures in the repo
• Core contracts verified on Sourcify
Routing partners
The ETH-to-stock leg runs through
@fablesfi and
@RamsesExchange, picked per trade, with on-chain fallback. Fables is also built on v4 hooks, so their hook and ours settle inside a single unlock.
v1 holders
The claim is open until Oct 11, 19:13 UTC, only at
ballasted.fun. We will never DM you a claim link.
Holding a token gives no claim, redemption right, or entitlement to treasury assets. None of this is a promise about price.
BALLAST