Built on Robinhood Chain

Launch a token. Pair it with a stock Wall Street shorts.

Shortpad is a launchpad where every new token trades against a heavily shorted stock token instead of ETH. Buys fill the pool with that stock. Holders get paid in it. The more it trades, the more of the shorted name gets pulled onchain.

Non-custodial. Liquidity locks at launch. Not affiliated with Robinhood.

Example launch · not real dataDemo
G
$GRIZZGrizzly Season · 1B supply
KSSxKohl's · sample
Bonding curve0% to graduation
JR
Jade R. bought $GRIZZ
+120 KSSx
MO
Marcus O. bought $GRIZZ
+40 KSSx
PL
Priya L. bought $GRIZZ
+310 KSSx
Graduated
KSSx in the pool4,820 KSSx
LiquidityLocked · Uniswap v4
Paid to holders this week96.4 KSSx

Every other launchpad pays you in the thing you already have.

Launchpads today

You launch against ETH or a stablecoin. Fees come back as ETH. The token lives or dies on its own attention and nothing you do touches the real world.

Shortpad

You launch against a tokenized stock that short sellers are leaning on. Every buy adds that stock to the pool. Trading fees convert into it and stream to holders. The token becomes a reason to hold the name.

Memes bring the volume. The pair decides where it goes.

From idea to graduated pool, in one transaction.

No code, no whitelist, no team wallet holding liquidity. The contract does the boring parts so nobody has to trust anyone.

Step 1

Pick your pair from the short board

We rank Robinhood Chain stock tokens by short interest as a percentage of float. Only names above the threshold are eligible. That's the whole product decision.

Step 2

Launch the token and its pool together

Name, symbol, image, links, a small fee. The token, its bonding curve, and the paired pool deploy in one transaction. Fixed one-billion supply. Snipe protection on the opening seconds.

Step 3

Trade, graduate, get paid in the stock

Once the curve collects enough of the paired stock token, liquidity migrates to Uniswap v4 and locks forever. From then on, a slice of every trade converts to the stock token and streams to holders.

Stock tokenShort % floatRank
KSSxKohl's
27.9%#1
GMExGameStop
—#2
CVNAxCarvana
—#3
RIVNxRivian
—#4
New launch
NameGrizzly Season
Symbol$GRIZZ
PairKSSx
Supply1,000,000,000 · fixed
Holder rewardsPaid in KSSx
Launch fee0.0005 ETH
Deploy token + pool
KSSx collected on curve4,820
LiquidityLocked · Uniswap v4
Holder rewards, this week96.4 KSSx
GraduationComplete · pool is permanent

The short board.

Eligible pairs, ranked from FINRA-reported short interest. Below the line, you can't launch on it.

Stock tokenShort % of floatLineStatus
SOUNxSoundHound AI
39.3%AboveAwaiting Pons
QUBTxQuantum Computing
34.0%AboveLaunchable
KSSxKohl's
27.9%AboveAwaiting Pons
RGTIxRigetti Computing
20.0%AboveAwaiting Pons
RIVNxRivian
11.8%BelowBelow line

Snapshot of the live board on October 11, 2026, from FINRA-reported short interest. The line is 15% of float; a name above it becomes launchable once Pons approves it as a pair. See the live board →

Where every trade fee goes.

Every trade pays a fee. Pons, the launchpad underneath, takes its protocol cut first; the creator payout that's left is split onchain by the Shortpad contract, visible to anyone.

50%of the creator payout goes to holders who stake the token, paid in the paired stock token and streamed out over three days. Claim anytime.
Stakers
Paid in the paired stock token, pro-rata to stake
50%
Creator
Can be handed to a new owner if the creator walks
25%
Shortpad
Protocol treasury
25%

What this does. What it doesn't.

We'd rather you understand the product than get excited about it.

Get in before the first pairs open.

We're opening with a small set of pairs and a small first group of creators so the curve, graduation, and rewards are proven before we scale. Creators in group one launch fee-free for 30 days.

0pairs at launch
0creator slots in group one

Reserve a launch slot

Group one launches fee-free for the first 30 days. Not available to persons in the US, Canada, UK or Switzerland.

You're on the list.

We'll email you when the first pairs open.

Things people ask.

Does buying a Shortpad token make the stock go up?

We don't claim that. Buys move the paired stock token into the pool, which is demand for that token onchain. What the issuer does with that demand, and what the actual stock does, is outside our control and we don't promise anything about it.

What's a stock token?

A token issued on Robinhood Chain that tracks a US stock. It's issued by a third party, not by Shortpad, and it isn't a share: no voting rights, no direct ownership. Read the issuer's terms before you trade it.

How do holder rewards work?

Pons pays each launch's creator fees, in the paired stock token, to a Shortpad contract instead of the creator. Half of that goes to people who stake the launch token, pro-rata to their stake, streamed out over three days so nobody can grab it by staking for a moment. You unstake whenever you like and claim your stock tokens separately. Rewards come from the creator payout after Pons's own protocol fee, not from the whole trade fee.

Can the creator pull liquidity?

No. Pons locks the liquidity at launch and permanently after graduation; nobody, including us, can withdraw it. If a creator abandons a token, Shortpad can propose handing the creator's 25% to a new owner. The proposal is public onchain for three days before it can take effect.

Why only heavily shorted names?

Because that's the point. A meme paired with Apple is just a meme. A meme paired with a name that has 38% of its float sold short gives the token a story, gives holders a reward people actually want, and concentrates volume where it's most interesting.

Is Shortpad affiliated with Robinhood?

No. We're an independent, non-custodial protocol that deploys on Robinhood Chain. Robinhood doesn't endorse, review, or operate anything here.