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Green tree frog on a lily pad at the edge of a black pond
Original community art. Not Uniswap’s teaser clip. Not an official mark.

Robinhood Chain · test-era Instant Launch

The frog is divinely protected.

Pools said it. Then they confirmed they meant FRONG. Creator fees do not go to Uniswap Labs. They release as ETH. Anyone can claim that ETH only by burning the token.

Pools said the frog is divinely protected. Someone replied: frong. Pools said: yes thank you.

  1. Pools @TradePools

    30 Aug 2026

    The frog is divinely protected

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  2. Travis Connors @TravConnors

    30 Aug 2026

    frong 🐸

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  3. Pools @TradePools

    30 Aug 2026

    yes thank you

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What that means on-chain: locked Uniswap v4 LP the creator cannot pull, and creator fees that can only be claimed by burning FRONG. “Divinely protected” is Pools’ line. The mechanism is buyback-and-burn.

Locked LP

Uniswap v4 liquidity is protocol-held. The creator cannot pull it.

Fixed 1B

Minted once, in the create tx. owner() / mint() revert on this bytecode.

Buyback-and-burn

40% of ETH swap fees vest into a bounty. Claim it, burn 500,000 FRONG. Permissionless.

02 / Origin

Test-era Instant Launch

Launched 30 July 2026 on Robinhood Chain as an Instant Launch on Pools, while the pad was still being built. Tagged to Zack Labadie, product designer at Uniswap. Named after the teaser clip frong.mp4.

Instant Launch tagged to Zack Labadie (@zacklabadie), product designer at Uniswap. Origin, not an endorsement.

X tag on the live Pools listing
@zacklabadie · pools.trade listing
Bio
product designer @uniswap · chicago · zack.design
Launcher wallet
ceramicheat · 0xE19537029b8013DC37c55d509b0a5038C7C5cE58
Create time
2026-07-30 20:16:59 UTC
Block
23,595,790
Launcher contract
LiquidityLauncher v3.0
0x00004c4ccc709Ef590F7C81102C0689F0263D4e9

FRONG used the original Robinhood LiquidityLauncher, live since ~July 8, before Pools opened to the public on Aug 5. Current public launcher is v3.2 0x0000FffFBE8efE702c8703aE3477FF5dE3d319C0. FRONG is the early / test-era launch. Minted ~6 days before the public open. Same create tx: full 1,000,000,000 minted once, then into Uniswap v4 PoolManager.

Night pond with a frog on a lily pad

Teaser frog

Pools’ coming-soon page served a night-vision frog clip named frong.mp4, with metadata “Coming soon from Uniswap.” Uniswap’s countdown post (Aug 4, 2026) used that frog. Hayden Adams replied “wait whats this about?” The token name is the teaser filename.

Source: The Defiant, Aug 5 2026

Zack Labadie @zacklabadie

12 Aug 2026

all $frong creator fees (13.2 ETH) have been released. they're being used to buy back and burn frong 🐸🔥

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Linked tx (lore + receipt, not a live fee balance): 0x07cdad7ab433f09bfbab7daeef5b0ce2291138b21f7edf74fa68ad3743a7042b

03 / Buyback

Programmatic buyback-and-burn

12 August 2026: @TradePools announced test tokens — including $FRONG — no longer route creator fees to Uniswap Labs. Past and future fees go to programmatic buyback-and-burn.

Same thread: soon any launch on pools will have the option to participate in buyback and burn. Using this mech for test tokens is the first step. FRONG is in that first cohort. Docs: buyback and burn guide.

Plain English

  1. While Pools was being built, test tokens (including FRONG) had a creator-fee path.
  2. Pools cut the path back to Uniswap Labs.
  3. Those fees now sit in a BuybackAndBurn contract.
  4. Fees release as ETH.
  5. Anyone (a searcher contract) can take that ETH only by burning a fixed amount of FRONG in the same transaction.

That is the on-chain reading of “divinely protected”: not a team wallet vacuuming fees — a bounty that must send FRONG to 0xdead.

Fee path

  1. 01

    Swaps take 0.25%

    Every swap pays a 0.25% pool fee.

  2. 02

    Fees split

    60% of ETH fees + 100% of FRONG fees autocompound into locked LP. 40% of ETH fees vest into BuybackAndBurn.

  3. 03

    Searcher claims ETH

    Anyone running an executor contract can claim vested ETH. A normal wallet cannot.

  4. 04

    Must burn 500,000 FRONG

    The same transaction pulls 500,000 FRONG to 0xdead. Leftover ETH is searcher profit. If the pull fails, the whole tx reverts.

Fee split on FRONG
StreamShare
Pool LP fee

Taken on every swap

0.25% (25 bps)
ETH side → locked LP

Autocompounds into the protocol-held v4 position

60%
ETH side → vault / vesting

Vests into BuybackAndBurnClaimRecipient

40%
Token-side fees

Autocompound — not a burn

100%

Official burn size (Robinhood BuybackAndBurn singleton): 500,000 FRONG per successful claim = 0.05% of the 1B mint, sent to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. Deployments: Uniswap launchpad deployments. Recipient: 0xa1ba4CC12654D2b188e3ba77dc86c75cA47f1A4e.

Searcher loop

Swap fees sit idle in PoolManager until someone runs the plumbing. Instant Launch into a Uniswap v4 pool on Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663). Product post: Pools.trade: A New Way to Launch on Robinhood Chain (2026-08-05).

  1. 01

    collectFees(tokenIds)

    On the FeeSplitter. Pulls fees out of PoolManager. Pays the caller nothing.

  2. 02

    claimFrom, then claim

    On VestingClaimRecipient. Meters ETH into BuybackAndBurn. Pays nothing. Per-block cap; a second call in the same block releases nothing.

  3. 03

    Read amounts vs burn size

    amounts(tokenId) is ETH waiting. minCurrency1BurnAmount() is always 500,000 FRONG.

  4. 04

    claim() from an executor

    When vested ETH > cost of 500k FRONG + gas. A normal wallet cannot claim. Caller must implement IClaimExecutor.

claim() is atomic

  • Pays attributed ETH to the caller.
  • Requires the pool’s currency0 to be native ETH.
  • Calls onClaimed on the caller. A normal wallet cannot claim.
  • Pulls exactly 500,000 FRONG from the caller → 0xdead. Emits TokensBurned.
  • If the pull fails, the whole tx reverts, including the ETH payout.

The contract does not force a DEX buy. It force-pulls 500,000 FRONG. Searchers usually buy that 500k from the v4 pool with the ETH they just received and keep the spread. Burn amount is immutable and identical every claim. It does not scale with fees. Searchers wait for the crossing, then race.

04 / Token

Identity

Only this contract. Copycats exist. Chain ID 4663. Live tape lives on Pools — this page does not freeze a market number as current.

Contract

0x6245e67affA44a23077f0Ea7f981a8DC743a0c47

PoolsBlockscout
Name / symbol
frong / FRONG
Chain
Robinhood Chain, chain ID 4663
Decimals
18
Total supply
1,000,000,000 (fixed, minted once). totalSupply() is still this number after burns to 0xdead.
Launch type
Instant Launch
Pools description
it's frong, baby
Burn address
0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD
Market tape
Live on pools.trade. Older FDV / holder snapshots are stale and not shown as current.

Contract map

FRONG uses the test-era Instant Launch fee path. Current new Instant Launch FeeSplitter on Robinhood is 0xeFF166AAf189323c58dc27eD1206EB2C37FaACDf. FRONG is not on that one. Do not mix generations.

Bytecode reads

Robinhood RPC, research session ~2026-09-02. Matches Uniswap’s Instant Launch story for this bytecode: no owner/mint surface, full supply into v4 PoolManager in the create tx. That is not the word “safe.” Hidden admin paths are not fully disproven; standard Ownable / AccessControl / Pausable / mint surfaces were not found.

name() / symbol() / decimals()
frong / FRONG / 18
totalSupply()
1,000,000,000 exactly
eth_getCode
7,154 bytes (not empty)
EIP-1967 impl/admin slots
empty — not an EIP-1967 proxy
owner() admin() minter() paused() hasRole
all revert
mint(address,uint256)
reverts
LiquidityLauncher v3.0 / v3.2 balanceOf
0

05 / Receipts

Thirteen protocol claims

Through 2026-09-03 18:52 UTC: 13 protocol claims · 6,500,000 FRONG to 0xdead · 0.65% of the mint · ~19.14 ETH paid to searchers.

Each claim burned exactly 500,000 FRONG. Do not mix GlueHook leftover dust (~3.31 FRONG) or manual/other (~9,160 FRONG) into the 6.5M headline. All FRONG at 0xdead including dust / manuals: 6,509,163.61 (0.6509%). Live RPC block 53,638,707. Later claims will go stale — check 0xdead on Blockscout.

Protocol claims

13

FRONG to 0xdead

6,500,000

Share of 1B mint

0.65%

ETH paid to searchers

~19.14 ETH

ETH spent buying the 500k from the pool: ~18.19 ETH. Spread before gas: ~0.95 ETH across all 13. PoolManager FRONG inventory: ~62.67M FRONG (moves). Claims 6–13 landed the same evening Pools announced the reroute (Aug 12). That is the first buyback cluster. Newest first.

  1. Claim 1

    2026-09-03 08:01:09 UTC

    Paid 1.7279 ETH · spent buying burn 1.7144 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0xf69a61bf347e386cfcd2d38ba347219d64d4db0f638d70750b91b7d22c339ccd
  2. Claim 2

    2026-08-31 13:55:30 UTC

    Paid 1.0358 ETH · spent buying burn 1.0310 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x7027e3148f18d935abdf420fc5af72f231e8211079595356aecb722d6f7016bb
  3. Claim 3

    2026-08-27 17:08:24 UTC

    Paid 0.8237 ETH · spent buying burn 0.8073 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x66b9c623a95bcd5820de8effc4cc69889e8d5c53b497deac43e50a6b96eec863
  4. Claim 4

    2026-08-22 08:56:11 UTC

    Paid 0.6086 ETH · spent buying burn 0.6006 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x11e4a504e8d989de9011c122874321b00a369b3de87e9bd5eef6adca5507eb51
  5. Claim 5

    2026-08-17 23:30:20 UTC

    Paid 0.9106 ETH · spent buying burn 0.9085 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x7c5ca77c5e2b9d5719f955811eb112d47ee9333b79b2ecd6cf87e78388cea843
  6. Claim 6

    2026-08-12 23:52:52 UTC

    Paid 1.5768 ETH · spent buying burn 1.5508 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0xc16181c59049577d57c28be17c4fd738110d944a79207012caf8cee33cd76d90
  7. Claim 7

    2026-08-12 23:31:50 UTC

    Paid 1.6855 ETH · spent buying burn 1.5846 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x2bedfbd66b38515248d340aec43a03aebb34112b3689a85ffadd9d03c592bb2a
  8. Claim 8

    2026-08-12 23:09:19 UTC

    Paid 1.5861 ETH · spent buying burn 1.5801 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x1bf89a50aee13433afbcfcce1793efa6672771dce2a3d78208c3577b4999dabf
  9. Claim 9

    2026-08-12 22:48:11 UTC

    Paid 1.6153 ETH · spent buying burn 1.6084 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x3f91c5eb2eebc016eac3dad75d40d5a39b81c28a5a744cb1ca4c89cddfb10ba7
  10. Claim 10

    2026-08-12 22:26:40 UTC

    Paid 1.5761 ETH · spent buying burn 1.5738 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x2766f9472f67cf0c328c6c3a48a08e9a66f8db0e7b9921004272db82b68150e1
  11. Claim 11

    2026-08-12 22:05:31 UTC

    Paid 1.5947 ETH · spent buying burn 1.5907 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0xbc63bca99fb557360f20c7ac5661a54b35809cc5ba62c30f34a2bed6c76f2d3b
  12. Claim 12

    2026-08-12 21:44:14 UTC

    Paid 2.4217 ETH · spent buying burn 1.7681 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x9c31b6b518159c6f8f66f65683b1303a444c98435f53eb639bc38ac895fb0cc3
  13. Claim 13

    2026-08-12 21:11:52 UTC

    Paid 1.9724 ETH · spent buying burn 1.8700 ETH · burned 500,000 FRONG

    0x2cc0f579b0bb31cd1421e777ce6cf25c1301c242c03ab6517fbdc0c047338861

Research citation (not an official token account): on-chain case file thread @pi_frong. Create tx: 0xbe6b90c58c017b4754a6a6ee6d65be9a682d2b79de0142954ae345f1dce8f35c. Chain docs: Robinhood Chain.

06 / Disclaimer

Read this as written

FRONG is not an official Uniswap product token. This site is not affiliated with Uniswap Labs, Robinhood, or pools.trade. It is a community explainer.

Disclaimer: Pools is intended for memecoins: speculative, highly volatile assets that can go to zero. Tokens are not reviewed or endorsed by Uniswap Labs; some launches have creator fees. @Uniswap, 5 Aug 2026
Pools features memecoins, which are assets created purely for entertainment, social, and cultural purposes. Their value is driven by market demand and speculation — not by anyone's efforts or by any enterprise. Prices are extremely volatile and may go to zero…
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