What Arceus is
A launchpad on Arc. One transaction deploys a plain ERC-20, opens a real Uniswap v3 pool against USDC at a 3,000 USDC market cap, and burns the liquidity position to 0x…dEaD — not locked, not vested: burned, checkable by anyone. Your token trades from that block on.
There is no bonding curve to graduate off. Every token carries a buy tax — 1 to 10 percent, the creator's choice at launch, immutable after — and it is printed on the token's page so nobody finds out from a trade. Sells and wallet transfers are never taxed.
Where the fees go
The trading fee IS the token's buy tax, because a burned LP strands pool fees — so the pool itself charges a dust 0.01% and the real economics ride on two skims taken from every buy:
The rates are immutable in the token. There is no setter, no owner function and no proxy, so nobody can change your rate after you launch, including us. Read taxBps on the token yourself if you would rather not take our word for it.
Anyone can trigger a payout, not just the creator. The destination is fixed on-chain, so a stranger paying the gas simply pays you.
Launching a token
- Get USDC on Arc. USDC is the gas token here, so the same balance pays for gas and trades. Launching needs only gas — a fraction of a cent.
- Fill the form. Name, ticker, and a logo. The logo is required and is pinned to IPFS; animated GIFs are fine. Supply is fixed at 1B for every token.
- Set your buy tax. 1, 3, 5 or 10 percent, locked at launch with no setter. It skims buys only — sells and wallet transfers are never touched — and a permissionless flush turns the pile into USDC paid entirely to you. A 0.5% protocol skim rides beside it and burns $ARCEUS; your rate is never diluted.
- Optionally buy first. A first buy executes inside the launch transaction, ahead of anyone else, at the starting price.
- Optionally cap wallets. Anti-snipe limits any wallet to 2% of supply for fifteen minutes, then expires on its own and can never be re-enabled.
- Sign once. Token, pool, liquidity and the burn all happen in that single transaction.
Graduation
A token graduates once 9,000 USDC of cumulative buys have gone through its pool. It is a badge, not a mechanism: nothing about the fees or the pool changes, and trading works identically before and after.
The number counted is buy volume, not the pool balance. That matters. A balance-based bar falls whenever somebody sells, which is why interfaces that use one end up displaying the all-time high instead, and a bar that can only ever rise is not telling you anything. Volume genuinely only rises, so the honest figure and the flattering figure are the same number, derived straight from the tax ledger: flushed USDC times the inverse skim rate.
The buyback
The protocol's share lands in a treasury contract that can do exactly two things with it: buy $ARCEUS on its Uniswap v3 pool and send it to 0x…dEaD, or forward the ops share. There is no withdraw function and no owner, so those are the only exits that exist.
buybackAndBurn() is permissionless. The pool delivers the bought tokens to the burn address itself, so whoever calls it pays gas and receives nothing. Anyone can press the button on the $ARCEUS page, and nothing needs to: if nobody ever called it again, the funds would still be sitting in a contract that can only burn them.
A send-to-dEaD burn does not reduce totalSupply, so explorers keep quoting the full 1B. The home page shows circulating supply, which is the figure that actually moved.
Contracts
All on Arc, chain 5042.
Arc has no Uniswap frontend, so buying and selling goes through the trading router above.
For AI agents
The whole pad is usable by an agent with a wallet: launching is free, nothing takes custody, and every promise is a constant it can verify itself. One file teaches the entire surface — chain quirks, addresses, the launch call with a working example, trading with the exact skim math, flush economics, and the trust checks worth running before touching any token:
Everything in it was executed against the live chain before it was written down. Point your agent at arceus.live/SKILL.md and it can launch.
Asking a question
Telegram is the fastest way to reach anyone who can answer: t.me/arceuspad. Announcements go out on @Arceuspad.
Nobody here will ever message you first, ask for a seed phrase, or send you a link to “verify” a wallet. Every action this site needs happens in your own wallet, on this domain.
What can go wrong
Plainly, because a launchpad that only lists its good parts is telling you something.
- Tokens here are not investments. Most launches on any pad go to zero. The pad takes no view on any token, including whether it is a joke.
- The contracts are unaudited. They are covered by tests run against the live Arc deployment of Uniswap v3, which is not the same as an audit. That deployment is itself third-party — Uniswap has no official contracts on Arc.
- Anti-snipe expires. Fifteen minutes after launch the wallet cap is gone for good. It slows the first minutes; it does not make a token safe.
- Burned liquidity cuts both ways. Nobody can pull it — and nobody can fix a bad starting price either.
- v3 pools are open. Anyone may add liquidity alongside the locked position, and fee income shares pro-rata with whoever does. Launch liquidity itself can never be pulled.
- Arc itself is young. Its RPCs and explorers are third-party and occasionally unreliable.