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# Introduction

## What is Trench

**Trench** is a meme launchpad on Ethereum, MegaETH, and Robinhood. One transaction to deploy a token. Instant trading on a bonding curve from block zero. Automatic graduation to a DEX — with liquidity permanently secured — the moment the curve fills up.

Every token on Trench is:

* **Created in a single transaction.** No presale, no whitelist, no team allocation.
* **Priced by a bonding curve from block one.** The market decides the price, not a deployer.
* **Auto‑graduated to a DEX** once the curve fills up. Liquidity is locked or permanently held by the protocol.
* **Fair‑launched by design.** Every buyer, from the deployer to the last sniper, uses the same curve.

{% hint style="success" %}
If you've launched a meme token before, you already know how to use Trench. The mechanics are familiar — the chains, the culture, and a few sharper edges are what's new.
{% endhint %}

## Who it's for

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Devs" %}
You have a meme, a mascot, a shitpost, or a brand‑new narrative. You want to deploy it in 30 seconds, earn a cut of every trade for as long as the token lives, and never touch a line of Solidity.

→ Go to [Getting Started](/trench-today/getting-started.md) and launch your first token.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Traders" %}
You want to be first. You want to read the curve, not a whitepaper. You want to rotate from one trench to the next without leaving the site.

→ Go to [How It Works](/trench-today/how-it-works.md) to understand what you're buying.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Aggregators & Integrators" %}
You run an aggregator, a trading terminal, a bot, or a wallet. You want Trench's order flow inside your product.

→ Go to [API Overview](/trench-today/for-developers/api.md) to plug in.
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

## Supported chains

| Chain                 | Status | DEX at graduation |
| --------------------- | ------ | ----------------- |
| **Ethereum Mainnet**  | Live   | Uniswap V2        |
| **MegaETH Mainnet**   | Live   | Kumbaya V3        |
| **Robinhood Mainnet** | Live   | Uniswap V4        |

## Why Ethereum

The deepest liquidity and the most expensive attention in crypto live here. Meme culture was born on Ethereum — and for years it's been launching everywhere else. What Ethereum has been missing is a **permissionless place where that culture crystallizes into a token in one click**.

That's the Trench.

Meme season is back on Ethereum, and this time the culture doesn't need to emigrate to launch. Trench is where ETH‑native memes ship from — closer to the money, closer to the history, closer to the scene that started all of this.

## Why MegaETH

MegaETH is a real-time EVM chain — sub-millisecond block times, 100k+ TPS, and Ethereum-aligned architecture. For meme trading, speed is everything: price discovery, front-running defense, and user experience all improve when blocks are effectively instant.

Trench on MegaETH uses **TrenchManagerV3**, which adds native Kumbaya V3 integration at graduation. The bonding curve mechanics are identical — the execution layer is orders of magnitude faster.

## Why Robinhood

Robinhood is an Arbitrum Orbit L2 with native ETH — an Ethereum-aligned execution environment with L2 economics. Trench on Robinhood runs a **single-layer** design: users call one **TrenchManager** contract directly, with no aggregation or vault layer in between, keeping the integration surface small and every trade one hop from the curve.

Tokens are priced in native **ETH**, and curves graduate to **Uniswap V4** — the graduation LP is locked and post-graduation swap fees are shared with the token's creator on every swap. (Tokens graduated before the V4 upgrade remain on Uniswap V3.)

## The thesis in one paragraph

Every iconic coin was once a shitpost. Every narrative was once a joke. **Meme culture doesn't come from presales or PowerPoints — it comes from the trench.** Trench is the shortest path between "this is a meme" and "this is tradable."

## What's next

* Read [How It Works](/trench-today/how-it-works.md) to understand the bonding curve and fee flow.
* Jump into [Getting Started](/trench-today/getting-started.md) if you just want to launch something.
* Aggregators → [API Overview](/trench-today/for-developers/api.md).


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