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THE DIVE: SHROOM
Wad up grippers. Welcome to another edition of THE DIVE, a series where i break tokens down to the mechanics. No shilling, no fud. Today: SHROOM from Shroom Network.
SHROOM is a liquidity network for Robinhood Chain stock tokens, sitting as the pair asset so any token can route to any other through it. It launched early Sep 2026 through the Pons V2 launchpad and there is no public team behind it.
| Name | Network | Contract | Website | Category | MC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHROOM | Robinhood | 0xab093dEF657F15dF31b33922A95e047aDd645B29 | shroomnetwork.com | DeFi (liquidity network) | $20.0M |
The Product
SHROOM is a liquidity network for Robinhood Chain stock tokens. The token sits as the pair asset across protocol-owned liquidity pools, so any stock token can route to any other through SHROOM. The site shows 42 PCLs with $294.3K of TVL, $2.36M of 24h volume and $8,342 of 24h fees against $124,405 in lifetime fees, with quote assets spanning 23 symbols including tokenized stocks (NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, MSFT, SPY, AMZN and more), USDG, PONS, AI and WETH.
Fee accrual comes from trading volume and from deviations between on-chain stock-token prices and off-chain real prices, so the arbitrage decay is monetized rather than leaked. Fees are designed to auto-reinvest into deeper liquidity, which is the deeper-liquidity, more-volume, more-fees loop. The secondary angle is a Retail Shrooms NFT collection (888 pixel mushrooms) where burning SHROOM into NFTs boosts their share of tokenized GameStop royalties.
The Tokenomics
Allocation. 1B SHROOM fixed max supply, about 987.3M circulating (CoinPaprika) and about 13.7M burned or locked. It launched early Sep 2026 through the Pons V2 bonding curve, graduating into locked Uniswap V4 liquidity. There is no vesting or unlock schedule, so dilution risk is mostly a team-wallet question: about $294K of protocol-owned LP sits in the team wallet (disclosed on site) and is withdrawable by an anonymous team.
Unlocks. None. 98.7% of the fixed 1B supply already circulates and the remaining 1.3% is burned or locked, not scheduled to hit the market. The burn only activates once LP fees exceed reinvestment needs (the site calls it critical mass), with no date or threshold published.
The Team
| Name | Role | Social |
|---|---|---|
| SHROOM team (anonymous) | No public team or entity; launched via Pons V2 on Robinhood Chain | https://x.com/shroom_network |
No public team, founder or legal entity found as of Sep 14, 2026. Communications run through @shroom_network and shroomnetwork.com. Zero disclosure, and the token launched via the Pons V2 launchpad into locked Uniswap V4 liquidity.
The Revenue
Fees come from trading volume across the protocol-owned pools plus the arbitrage deviations described above, and the split runs two ways between SHROOM and the paired asset per the site. The engine is live but small: $124,405 in lifetime fees and $8,342 in the last 24h, on $294K to $664K of protocol TVL, with 24h volume of $2.36M against that TVL. The reinvestment claim is hard to verify, since one crawl shows unclaimed fees equal to lifetime fees. Revenue scales with stock-token trading volume on Robinhood Chain, not with SHROOM's own activity, and there is no buyback program. The burn activates only once LP fees exceed reinvestment needs.
The Risks
- Post-blowoff selloff: market cap peaked above $45M on Sep 5, 2026 with $12.6M of volume, then retraced sharply within nine days.
- Anonymous team, zero disclosure, and the protocol-owned LP and fee stream are both controlled by that team.
- Revenue is trivial against the volatility: $8.3K of daily fees, and the reinvestment claim is unverified.
- Thin, fragmented liquidity: about $786.5K across 30+ pairs, with many pairs under $10K.
- Weak data hygiene: site metrics shift between crawls (42 versus 62 pools, $294K versus $664K of TVL), so all SHROOM metrics are approximate.
- Swap tax on the main pool: the genesis SHROOM/MU pool carries a 1% hook fee plus a roughly 3.33% PonsV2MemeHook tax, which routes flow through other pairs.
Closing: SHROOM is a post-blowoff liquidity-network experiment with a real but tiny fee engine and an anonymous operator. Robinhood Chain stock-token volume is the whole story from here.
As always stay safe stay gripping.