What is Pons?
Pons Family is a decentralized token launch and trading platform built on Robinhood Chain that enables users to create, launch, and trade tokens directly through their wallets. The platform provides tools for token creation, trading, and automated liquidity management, allowing newly launched tokens to transition into decentralized liquidity pools. Pons Family is non-custodial, meaning users retain control of their assets and approve transactions directly through their wallets. As a platform built on Robinhood Chain, Pons Family relies on the network for transaction processing, settlement, and security. The native token of the project, Pons (PONS), operates on Robinhood Chain and is associated with the broader Pons Family ecosystem.
What is PONS?
The native token of the project, PONS, operates on Robinhood Chain and serves as the ecosystem token associated with the Pons Family token launch and trading platform. PONS can be traded on supported platforms and is connected to the broader Pons Family ecosystem through a buyback-and-burn mechanism. A portion of the fees generated when users create and trade tokens on Pons Family is used by the protocol to purchase PONS from the secondary market and permanently remove, or "burn," the purchased tokens from circulation. This mechanism links activity on the Pons Family platform to demand for PONS while reducing the token's circulating supply over time. The token has a total supply of 685.55 million units, with all 685.55 million PONS in circulation at the time of this publication.
Risk Statement
Before trading any crypto assets it is important to understand the risks. This overview is a starting point for you to perform your own research prior to investing in a crypto asset.
No securities regulatory authority or regulator in Canada has evaluated or endorsed the Crypto Contracts or any of the crypto assets made available through the platform.
Wealthsimple has performed an assessment of whether PONS can be supported by Wealthsimple's platform, including whether PONS is a security and/or a derivative and is being offered in compliance with securities and derivatives laws.
We evaluated PONS based on publicly available information, including (but not limited to):
- The creation, governance, usage and design of PONS, including the source code, security and roadmap for growth in the developer community and, if applicable, the background of the developer(s) that first created PONS;
- The supply, demand, maturity, utility and liquidity of PONS;
- Material technical risks associated with PONS, including any code defects, security breaches and other threats concerning PONS and its supporting blockchain (such as the susceptibility to hacking and impact of forking), or the practices and protocols that apply to them;
- Legal and regulatory risks associated with PONS, including any pending, potential, or prior civil, regulatory, criminal, or enforcement action relating to the issuance, distribution, or use of PONS; and
- Statements made by regulators or securities regulatory authorities in Canada and other jurisdictions regarding whether PONS, or generally about whether the type of crypto asset, is a security and/or a derivative.
Wealthsimple monitors ongoing developments related to crypto assets available on its platform for significant changes that may affect Wealthsimple's original assessment of those assets, including Wealthsimple's assessment of the application of securities and derivatives laws. Any significant changes relating to PONS may result in changes to this Crypto Asset Statement and/or Wealthsimple's ability to support PONS.
Like all other crypto assets, there are some general risks to investing in PONS. These include short history risk, volatility risk, liquidity risk, demand risk, forking risk, cryptography risk, regulatory risk, concentration risk, electronic trading risk and cyber security risk. Please review the Wealthsimple Crypto Product Risk Disclosure for additional discussion of general risks associated with the crypto assets made available through the platform.
We emphasize that this Crypto Asset Statement is not exhaustive of all risks associated with trading PONS. Investors should perform their own assessment to determine the appropriate level of risk for their personal circumstances.
Wealthsimple is offering Crypto Contracts in reliance on a prospectus exemption contained in the exemptive relief decision Re Wealthsimple Investments Inc. dated December 18, 2023 (the Decision).
The statutory rights of action for damages and rescission in section 130.1 of the Securities Act (Ontario), and, if applicable, similar statutory rights under securities legislation of other jurisdictions of Canada, do not apply in respect of this Crypto Asset Statement to the extent a Crypto Contract is distributed under the prospectus relief in the Decision.
Last Updated: September 22, 2026
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