Free vs paid launch routes on Robinhood Chain

Free token launch vs launchpad: the decision table

Locksley indexes —pending launchpads on Robinhood Chain as of —pending, and —pending launches have gone out through MintPlus.

Start with the free route, because it fits most launches

Most tokens do not need a raise. If you have the ETH for a starting pool, the sale phase is solving a problem you do not have, and whatever the pad charges is paid for software you could skip.

MintPlus is Team Finance's free token launch route: mint, pool and lock in one transaction. Team Finance is a multi-chain Web3 token-management suite that projects and individuals use to lock liquidity, vest tokens, mint and manage supply across chains, and it is our sister product — Locksley is built by TrustSwap and powered by Team Finance, so read the price as a dated fact rather than a pitch. As of August 2026 the launch is free and the standard lock fee is waived, leaving gas in ETH as the only cost. Step by step: launch free with MintPlus, or start at launch a token on Robinhood Chain.

The free route is also the one that produces a fair launch: no allocation phase, no curve, one price for everyone from the first block.

What a paid route actually buys

Distribution, and a mechanism for raising before the pool exists. Those are the two things a fee can buy that free software cannot.

If you are raising rather than fair-launching, a launchpad run like the TrustSwap Launchpad handles the raise mechanics — the sale, the allocation and the pool creation at the end of it — and TrustSwap builds Locksley, so treat that as a disclosed relationship rather than a neutral recommendation. The same test applies to any pad, ours included: does it bring buyers you could not otherwise reach? If it does, its fee is the price of distribution. If it does not, it is a fee paid for software.

We charge for the doing, never for the reporting. Paying never changes how a token's data displays.

What each route costs beyond the fee

The fee is the visible number and rarely the largest one. Your own liquidity is capital you have to commit on the free route. Gas is paid in ETH either way. Lock, vesting and airdrop services are priced per use by Team Finance, our sister product — a liquidity lock is $150, vesting is $100, an airdrop is $100, as of August 2026, all plus gas. The full itemization, including the costs no fee page lists, is in what launching a token really costs.

On the paid side, read how the fee is calculated before the sale opens. Where a pad charges a share of what is raised, the cost scales with success and is taken before you see it; where it charges a flat amount, it does not.

What each route leaves on your token page

Whatever the route does becomes public the moment the pool exists, and buyers read it in the same panel either way.

The free route locks liquidity inside the launch transaction, so the liquidity lock and its release timestamp are readable from the first block. A lock guarantees exactly one thing: the pool cannot be withdrawn before the release date. Not the price, not the team, not the token. A locked pool can still fall.

A pad's outcome depends on the pad: some lock at graduation, some burn, some return the position to the deployer, and every Robinhood Chain launchpad, compared sets those defaults side by side. If a pad states nothing, treat the row as unknown. "No lock found" means we found none — not that none exists. Locksley does not yet index every locker.

Frequently asked questions

“No lock found” means we found none, not that none exists: we do not index other lockers yet, and it is never a claim about the project.