Sizing the pool
The maker can only close a gap with the cash and tokens it holds. How much the pool should allocate to a coin depends on how much money flows through the two curves.
Why size matters
Each curve is a pool of about ten thousand dollars. A buyer who pushes one side up by 10 % moves a few hundred dollars. To pull the other side up to meet it, the maker has to buy about the same amount. A pool that is small compared with the flow runs out of cash on one chain and stops closing the gap until the market comes back.
Cash is also per chain. The default split is half SOL on Solana and half ETH on Robinhood Chain. A coin whose cheap side is Pons needs ETH cash, and a pool that has none of it cannot help.
What the simulation says
Share of the time the coin stays inside the ±5 % band, averaged over 30 random markets of 300 ticks each, with the SOL/ETH rate moving. Same curves, same fees and same maker rule as the keeper. Half the pool is SOL and half is ETH.
| Market | No maker | $1,000 | $2,500 | $5,000 | $10,000 | $20,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calm | 25 % | 61 % | 95 % | 100 % | 100 % | 100 % |
| Moderate | 14 % | 46 % | 72 % | 94 % | 100 % | 100 % |
| Hot | 6 % | 43 % | 64 % | 84 % | 99 % | 100 % |
Read it like this: in a moderate market a $5,000 pool keeps the two prices together 94 % of the time, against 14 % with nobody holding the gap. In a hot market the same pool covers 84 %, and $10,000 covers 99 %.
What the pad allocates
The default allocation is about $5,000 per coin, half in SOL and half in ETH, while the pool lasts. It comes from the pad's pool, funded by the pad's share of creator fees. The creator's deposit pays for the alignment buy, not for the maker's cash.
What the maker does with its money
- It never spends more than the coin's allocation on a chain.
- It sells inventory first when it has some on the dear chain, so part of what it spends comes back.
- Whatever is left when the coin retires returns to the pool.
- It can still lose: if the coin falls while the pool holds inventory, or if the SOL/ETH rate moves against a position, the inventory is worth less.