Glossary

The reader's vocabulary, defined for the reader who arrived through a brokerage app. Slang appears here so it need not appear in the chrome.

bonding curven.

A pricing formula in a launchpad contract that raises a token’s price as more of it is bought. Buyers pay the curve, not one another, until the curve is full.

bundlern.

A party that buys a token from many addresses at once, usually in the block it launches, so that one holder appears to be many. Counted here as one.

graduationn.

The moment a launchpad token’s curve fills and its liquidity moves to a public pool. Nothing is taught.

launchpadn.

A service that issues new tokens on a bonding curve for a fee. Six operate on Robinhood Chain; they are named by their proper names in this paper.

Layer 2n.

A network that processes transactions off Ethereum and settles them back to it. Robinhood Chain is one, built on the Arbitrum stack.

liquidity pooln.

A contract holding two assets, such as a token and ETH, that lets anyone trade one for the other at a price set by their ratio. Called “pool” after first mention.

rugn., v.

The removal of a token’s liquidity by its issuer, leaving holders with a token and nowhere to sell it. This paper writes “liquidity was withdrawn” and records who withdrew it.

snipern.

A trader whose transaction lands in the first block of a launch, typically by automation. Distinguished from a bundler by using one address, and by admitting it.

Stock Tokenn.

A token on Robinhood Chain that tracks a listed equity and settles in USDG. The purpose the chain was built for, per its operator.

span verifiedadj.

Of a claim in this paper: the quoted supporting text was found at the source address at build time, and its hash was recorded. Compare cited.

Terms set in interface copy carry this definition.