Guide
How Mendel works
Mendel is a launchpad where memecoins carry DNA. Every coin is born from a breeder with a genome, can breed with another to produce a child coin with mixed genes, and can wire itself to a real crypto price feed so it reacts to the market — burning or defending its own supply, for life. It runs on Robinhood Chain. Here's the whole thing, start to finish.
Add Robinhood Chain to your wallet
Mendel works with any EVM wallet — a browser extension like MetaMask, or a mobile wallet via WalletConnect / Coinbase Wallet. First, add the network. One click if you have a browser wallet:
Or add it manually with these details:
Get ETH on Robinhood Chain
You need a little ETH to pay gas, mint a breeder, and trade coins. Fund your wallet by bridging ETH to Robinhood Chain, or moving it over from an exchange or wallet that supports the network. Everything on Mendel settles in native ETH — no wrapped tokens to manage.
Breeders & the genome (the DNA)
Every coin starts life as a breeder — an NFT that carries a genome. The genome is 8 genes, and the important ones directly shape how the coin behaves once it's launched:
Genetics are Mendelian. Each gene holds two alleles (one from each parent), and which one shows is resolved by dominance — so a recessive trait doesn't disappear, it can resurface generations later. That's what makes line-breeding a real game: rare, powerful bloodlines are bred over generations, not bought.
You get your first breeder in the Genesis Lab — either mint a genesis breeder (a founding line, with balanced starting genes) or breed two breeders you own into a child. Breeding mixes the parents' genes plus a mutation chance, and spends one fertility charge from each parent. Minting and breeding are free — you only pay network gas.
Launch a coin — two ways
When a breeder is ready, turn it into a live coin on the Launch page. Set the name, symbol, and image, then pick how it goes to market:
- Bonding curve — the coin trades on its own price curve and graduates to a locked DEX pool once it raises its target. Pick a mode: Spawn (smaller graduation target) or Apex (bigger one).
- Instant Launch — the coin skips the curve and is born straight onto a locked Uniswap V3 pool, tradeable (and on Dexscreener) from block one. The whole supply seeds the pool; there's no premine.
Either way you can add an optional dev buy — a first purchase in the same transaction (on Instant Launch it lands before any sniper can trade). The genome does the rest automatically: it sets the trade tax and wires the reaction. No premine either way — the creator holds nothing to dump on buyers.
Trading & graduation
Bonding-curve coins trade straight from the curve with ETH — the price rises as more tokens sell. When the curve raises its target, the coin graduates: its reserve tokens and the raised ETH migrate into a locked Uniswap V3 pool, and it trades freely from there.
Instant Launch and graduated coins trade on their pool — and you can buy and sell them right here on Mendel, with the same Buy/Sell panel as the curve. No need to leave for another site.
Every trade pays a small trade tax (1%–4.8%, set by the coin's Fee gene) that fans out four ways: to the creator, up the coin's bloodline, to the protocol, and into the coin's own reactive reserve.
Reactions — coins that read the market, for life
This is the namesake feature. A coin whose genes wire it to a live crypto price feed — BTC, ETH, or LINK today, with more added over time — builds up a reactive reserve (funded from a slice of its trade fees). When the feed makes a move off its recent level, a slice of that reserve fires a buyback:
- Burn on pump — when the feed rallies, it buys tokens and burns them: permanent deflation, upward price pressure.
- Release on dip — when the feed drops, it buys tokens and holds them in the coin's treasury to defend the floor.
The trigger tracks a local move, not a lifetime high — so a coin keeps reacting in any market. It never mints new supply (it only spends the coin's own reserve), and a cooldown plus a capped reaction size bound the impact. Reactions run automatically — a keeper watches the feeds and fires them; you don't have to do anything.
Reactions are lifelong. A bonding-curve coin reacts on the curve, and after it graduates it keeps reacting on the locked pool — funded by the pool's own trading fees. Instant-Launch coins react on their pool from day one. A coin that reads the market never stops.
What creators earn — and why it's hard to rug
Building here pays. A creator earns 40% of every trade fee their coin makes, plus 20% more streaming up their bloodline — with 25% claimable from day one and the rest vesting as the coin stays healthy. A bonding-curve coin vests everything instantly the moment it graduates (topped with a protocol bounty); an Instant Launch vests fast — about a day, or the moment it clears a small fee milestone. You claim your earnings any time from your portfolio. Build it and you get paid.
The flip side is that a creator can't profit by abandoning a coin. There's no premine to dump, graduation liquidity is locked, and unvested fees are clawed back to holders if the coin is drained or left unhealthy — a rugged coin never reaches its biggest payday. A slice of every coin's fees even streams up its bloodline to ancestor coins, so rugging one coin poisons the whole line's royalties. The winning move is simply to build a real, reputable bloodline.