Learn.
Thirty-five articles, arranged by what you are trying to decide rather than by when they were written. Start wherever your question is.
These are longer-form explanations. If you want the product documentation instead — how HoodLock itself works, what it costs and what the contracts guarantee — start at the quickstart or browse the sidebar.
Start here#
The ideas everything else assumes.
What is a liquidity lock?
Why locking exists, what it proves, and what it deliberately does not.
What LP tokens actually are
The receipt a pool gives you, and why it is the thing worth locking.
Locks vs vesting vs burning
Three different promises. Which one your situation actually calls for.
Circulating vs total supply
The gap between the two is where most misleading tokenomics live.
For people buying#
How to check a project before you trust it.
How to check if liquidity is locked
A five-minute check that separates a real lock from a claim.
How to check if liquidity is burned
Burned and locked are different commitments with different risks.
Reading holder distribution
Who can move the price, and which addresses to discount.
Reading a contract on Blockscout
What to look for in the source, and what unverified really means.
Honeypot tokens
Tokens you can buy and cannot sell, and how to spot one first.
Rug pull red flags
The checks you can run yourself, in order of how much they tell you.
For people launching#
Decisions that are cheaper to get right than to fix.
Token launch checklist
What to have in place before the pool opens, not after.
How to prove you won't rug
Verifiable commitments beat trust claims, because nobody believes those.
Allocation benchmarks
What sizes and schedules survive scrutiny, with the reasoning.
How long should you lock?
Durations that hold up, and what a short one signals.
Locking treasury funds
Committing a treasury without losing the ability to spend it.
How to choose a locker
The contract properties that decide whether a locker actually locks.
Vesting in depth#
Schedules, cliffs and how holders read them.
Setting up vesting that holds
Structuring a schedule for team, advisors and contributors.
What a vesting cliff is
Why the cliff, not the total, is the number holders look for.
What an unlock schedule tells you
Publishing one in advance, and reading someone else's.
Mechanics#
What happens at the edges.
When a lock expires
How markets behave around unlock dates, and how to plan for it.
Burning vs locking liquidity
Permanent versus a deadline, and when each is the honest choice.
Custodial vs non-custodial
Who holds the tokens, and why the distinction is not academic.
Locking liquidity on Robinhood Chain
The general walkthrough, independent of any one platform.
Burning tokens with proof
Removing supply permanently and making it checkable.
Airdropping tokens on Robinhood Chain
One transaction, no platform fee, and recipients who claim their own share.
Locking after a launchpad launch#
Every launchpad on Robinhood Chain handles liquidity and creator supply differently, and the difference decides what is actually left worth locking. One guide per platform, written from each one's own published mechanics, including the cases where the honest answer is that nothing needs locking.
Pons
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Hood Launcher
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
hood.fun
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Robinfun
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Robinlaunch
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Bankr
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Lemon.fun
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Openfair
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
MetaLaunch
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
ArrowPad
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.
Fendex
What the platform covers, what stays in your wallet, and which of the two matters.