Liquidity locker.
Withdrawable liquidity is the single strongest reason a buyer walks away from a young token. Locking the LP position settles it — if the position is the kind that can be locked.
Why liquidity is the first question#
Someone deciding whether to buy wants to know one thing before anything else: can the pool disappear. If the LP tokens sit in a wallet, they can, in a single transaction. Nothing on-chain distinguishes a creator who intends to pull from one who never would.
A lock removes the question rather than answering it. The pool cannot be withdrawn until the date, and anyone can confirm that without contacting you.
Which positions can be locked#
This is the part that trips people up, and it depends entirely on which kind of pool you are in.
| Pool type | What you hold | Lockable here |
|---|---|---|
| Uniswap v2 style (including SushiSwap v2 pools) | An ERC-20 LP token | Yes |
| Uniswap v3 | An NFT position | No |
| Uniswap v4 | An NFT position | No |
HoodLock's locker holds ERC-20 tokens. A v2 LP token is one, so it locks exactly like any other balance. A v3 or v4 position is an NFT and cannot be held by this contract.
Robinhood Chain has a large Uniswap v2 deployment — tens of thousands of pairs, so v2 LP locking is a real, common case here, not a legacy footnote. Whether your pool is v2 depends on where your token launched.
How to tell which you have#
- Look in your wallet. A v2 LP position shows up as a token balance, usually with a symbol like
UNI-V2orSLP. A v3 or v4 position does not appear as a token at all. - Check the pair on the explorer. A v2 pair contract has
token0(),token1()andtotalSupply(). If it hastotalSupply, it mints LP tokens. - Check where you launched. Most launchpads on this chain graduate to v3, and most of them already lock or burn the position for you — in which case there is nothing left for you to do.
How to check if liquidity is locked walks through verifying someone else's pool, which is the same skill applied to a token you did not launch.
If your launchpad already handled it#
Several platforms lock or burn liquidity permanently at graduation. If yours did, the liquidity question is closed and locking again is not possible — the position is not yours to move.
What usually remains in that case is different: fee revenue accruing to your wallet, a creator buy from the curve, or a treasury. Those are ordinary ERC-20 balances and they are what a holder looks at once liquidity is settled. The per-platform guides cover this launchpad by launchpad. See the Hood Launcher guide for the one case on this chain where the creator is handed withdrawable LP directly.
Choosing a duration#
Long enough to outlast the thing people are worried about. A pool locked for a month says the team plans to be around for a month.
Unlock dates extend but never shorten. Start with a duration you are sure of and push it out as you ship — a lock extended three times reads better than one long lock set once, because the first is a record of behaviour and the second is a single decision. See extending a lock.
Locking it#
The LP token is just a token, so the flow is the ordinary one: paste the LP token address, choose an amount and a date, approve, lock. Full steps in lock LP tokens.
Lock LP tokens
Same flat 0.005 ETH as any other lock, and the same proof page anyone can open.
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