What locking and vesting prove on Robinhood Chain is narrow and exact. Five commitments stack in order — fair launch, liquidity lock, team token lock, vesting, staking pool — and each writes a fact into contract state that any buyer can read without asking you. Each has a price. None substitutes for another.
What locking and vesting prove, priced
Start with the free route, because two of the five rungs cost nothing to place. MintPlus is Team Finance's free token launch route: mint, pool and lock in one transaction, with the standard lock fee waived. Team Finance is our sister product, so take the prices below as dated facts rather than a pitch — they are Team Finance's own, as of August 2026, from team.finance/robinhood, and gas is paid separately in ETH on top. 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.
| Rung | What lands in contract state | What it cannot show | Price (as of August 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Fair launch | No pre-mint and no privileged allocation at creation | Who accumulated after block one | Free via MintPlus — the standard lock fee is waived |
| 2. Liquidity lock | A pool position held until a public release timestamp | Supply sitting outside the pool | $150 per use |
| 3. Team token lock | One named allocation immobile until one date | Allocations in wallets you did not lock | $150 per use |
| 4. Vesting | A dated release schedule, with an optional cliff | Anything about wallets after they receive | $100 per use |
| 5. Staking pool | A funded reward balance on published terms | Whether funding continues past the balance | Free for a limited time |
Rung 1: a fair launch
A fair launch means the token entered circulation without a pre-mint or an insider allocation: everyone bought from the same pool from the same block. The deployment transaction and the first blocks are public, so the distribution at creation is readable rather than asserted.
A fair launch describes one moment — creation. It says nothing about supply that moved afterward, nothing about wallets that accumulated in the first hour, and nothing about the pool's durability. If you have not deployed yet, MintPlus is the free route: Team Finance, our sister product, waives the standard lock fee there, so rung two arrives attached at no service cost.
Rung 2: locked liquidity
A liquidity lock holds the pool position until a public release timestamp. On Robinhood Chain that position is usually a Uniswap v3 NFT, and Team Finance locks the position directly, so the locked amount, the locked share and the exact release date are contract state anyone can read — including us.
As of —pending, —pending of new Robinhood Chain launches locked liquidity at creation, per Locksley's contract reads. Every one of them appears on locked at birth under the same rule. The mechanics of placing one are in lock liquidity, step by step; the demand side — what buyers actually look up, and in what order — is in why buyers check locks before charts. To place one, use lock liquidity on Robinhood Chain, which is $150 per use through Team Finance, our sister product, plus gas.
Rung 3: a team token lock
A token lock holds a supply allocation — a treasury, a marketing wallet, a founder's share — until a single release date. It is the pool lock's counterpart on the other side of the token: one constrains the liquidity, the other constrains part of the supply that could be sold into it. The locked amount and the release date sit in the same readable contract state.
Its limit is sharp. It covers the allocation you locked and no other, and at the release timestamp the whole locked amount becomes available in one block rather than gradually. Placing one costs $150 per use as of August 2026 through Team Finance, our sister product, plus gas.
Rung 4: vesting
Vesting replaces one release date with many. A schedule spreads an allocation across dated releases, with an optional cliff at the front, and the whole schedule is public from the moment it is funded — a buyer can compute exactly how much becomes claimable, and when, without asking anyone.
What vesting does not cover: what happens to tokens once a release lands, or to supply outside the schedule. Set the dates before you deploy, because they are public and effectively final. Vesting your team's tokens walks through the schedule patterns, and token vesting is where a schedule gets created — $100 per use as of August 2026 through Team Finance, our sister product, plus gas.
Rung 5: a staking pool
A staking pool lets holders lock their own tokens for rewards you fund. The observable facts are the reward balance, the rate and the terms: anyone can read what sits in the pool today and what it pays. The balance shows what has been funded, not what will be funded after it runs down, and a rate can move within whatever the contract permits.
You can create a staking pool once there is a real allocation behind it. Team Finance, our sister product, makes staking pools free for a limited time as of August 2026; the fee is waived, the funding is not.
We never sell the rung
Every rung above is something you do on-chain, not something you buy from Locksley.
We charge for the doing, never for the reporting. Paying never changes how a token's data displays.
Display on Locksley is free, always. Your token page exists once your pool does. Your lock renders when the contract confirms it, your vesting schedule renders when it is funded, and no submission, listing fee or verification tier sits in between. The only thing money buys here is a labeled placement, beside exactly the same data every other token shows.
Absence carries the same limits. "No lock found" means we found none — not that none exists. Locksley does not yet index every locker. That line describes the state of our index, not a finding about a token.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need all five rungs?
No. Most launches place the first two, and both are free through MintPlus as of August 2026, which waives the standard lock fee via Team Finance, our sister product. Rungs three to five each answer a specific question about supply or rewards. If you hold no large team allocation and run no rewards program, rungs three to five have nothing to describe.
Can I pay Locksley for a badge or better placement?
No. There is no badge, no verification tier and no paid ranking. Token pages, lock state, vesting schedules and holder data render identically for every token, free, read directly from the contracts. Promotion buys labeled placements only, and a placement never changes the data displayed beside it or the order anything appears in.
Does placing every rung say anything about price?
No. Each rung constrains one on-chain action for a defined window: a pool that cannot be withdrawn, an allocation that cannot move, a schedule that releases on set dates. None of that touches demand, market conditions or execution. They make specific actions impossible for a period, and they make nothing else more or less likely.
“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.
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