I thought hard before building a launchpad. Here is why. Aside from the $Bucket community voting to go this route, there was a hole that needed filling. Every RWA and meme launch on Robinhood Chain runs through multiple parties: one team runs the launchpad, another manages the stock distributions, and nobody owns the outcome. We already run the distribution side. Over $105k in real tokenized stocks paid to holders in the last month, on chain, automatic, and counting. Rather than pick off individual tokens to partner with one at a time, it made more sense to be the launchpad ourselves and wire our distribution layer straight into it. Launch a token, and the payout engine that's been running every day since August is yours from block one. What that gets you over the alternatives: •Fees feed an engine that pays your holders in real stocks. Demand for your token exists before your token does •Graduates into a plain pool the Robinhood app's own router accepts. Hooked pools get refused •25% of the first 1% and nothing above it. Cheaper than every peer •No owner, no pause, liquidity locked forever, source verified automatically •First five launches pay zero launchpad fee, for life. @vladtenev and $HOOD weren't the first brokerage, first to crypto or the first trading app. They improved on what came before. Same mission at Bucket: keep improving, keep adding utility. The job is never done.