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Overview

Merry Men is a permissionless token launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Anyone can launch a token; there is no allowlist. Each launch deploys a fresh, fixed-supply ERC-20 and seeds it as a single-sided, permanently-locked Uniswap V3 position. The token trades on a real DEX pool from its first block.

The name plays on Robinhood → Merry Men. The protocol is live at merrymen.wtf.

The one idea

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A single-sided Uniswap V3 position is a bonding curve. Providing liquidity over a price range with only the token, starting at the bottom of the range, produces exactly the pump-style price ascent. But the curve and the DEX pool are the same object, so nothing ever migrates.

That property removes the single worst exploit surface of curve-then-migrate launchpads: the migration window, where liquidity is moved from a bootstrap curve into a DEX and can be tampered with, front-run, or pulled.

Merry Men has no bonding curve contract and no migration step. There is nothing to graduate on-chain, and nothing to rug.

What you get by construction

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The design makes several properties true structurally, not by policy, and not by trust in the team:

  • Anti-rug tokens. The launch token is inert: no owner, no mint, no pause, no blacklist, no transfer tax, no upgrade path. Once deployed it can never be changed. Total supply is fixed forever.
  • Permanently-locked liquidity. The launch’s V3 position NFT is held by a locker contract that never releases it. Liquidity is locked forever; only the trading fees it accrues can be extracted.
  • Zero-quote seeding. A launch consumes no WETH. Buyers contribute the quote side as they trade, so the launch cannot half-complete with contaminated or empty liquidity; it either fully completes or reverts.
  • Tradeable from block one. Every launch is a canonical Uniswap V3 pool (TOKEN/WETH, 1% fee tier). Any terminal, aggregator, or wallet that supports the chain can trade it with no bespoke integration.

How value flows

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No ETH is required to bootstrap a launch, and nobody extracts a “raise.” The WETH that buyers pay accumulates inside the locked position as a permanent liquidity floor. The only extractable value is the 1% Uniswap V3 trading fee, which is split on-chain between the token’s creator and the protocol.

The protocol’s share funds two flywheels:

  • Buyback and burn: a contract-enforced treasury buys qualifying launched tokens on the open market and burns them. The team holds no bought tokens.
  • Community rewards: referral and trade-to-earn distributions that route protocol fees back to the people who bring volume.

Both are deterministic and on-chain-verifiable. See Fees and burns and Protocol revenue.

Locked design decisions

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These decisions are fixed and define the protocol. They are not reopened without an explicit operator instruction.

# Decision
Model Single-sided launch. Fresh fixed-supply ERC-20 seeded as a single-sided, permanently-locked V3 position. No bonding curve, no migration.
Graduation An off-chain milestone badge computed by the indexer. Moves no funds; has no contract.
Chain Robinhood Chain (Arbitrum Orbit L2), chain id 4663, gas = native ETH.
Quote asset WETH.
DEX Uniswap V3, 1% fee tier (fee = 10000, tickSpacing = 200). The V3 fee tier is the trading fee; there are no custom token taxes.
Creation Permissionless: anyone may launch, no allowlist.
Token Fixed supply, fully inert. No owner/mint/pause/blacklist/tax/upgrade.
Upgradeability Not upgradeable. No proxies for protocol contracts. New versions ship as a new factory generation.
Revenue Flat creation fee (currently 0) + a protocol share of V3 trading fees. The raise stays in the locked position; nobody extracts it.

Where to go next

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