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What Arceus is

A launchpad on Arc. You pay 1 USDC, and one transaction deploys a plain ERC-20, opens a real Uniswap v4 pool against native USDC at a 3,000 USDC market cap, and burns the liquidity position to 0x…dEaD. Your token trades from that block on.

There is no bonding curve to graduate off, and no transfer tax. The only fee anywhere is 1% per swap, and most of it is yours.

Where the fees go

Every swap pays 1%, collected by the pad's hook in native USDC. When anyone triggers a payout, that balance splits three ways:

Those three numbers are constant in the contract. There is no setter, no owner function and no proxy, so nobody can change your share after you launch, including us. Read CREATOR_SHARE_BPS on the pad 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

1. Get USDC on Arc. USDC is the gas token here, so the same balance pays for fees and trades. You need a little over 1 USDC.
2. 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.
3. Optionally buy first. A first buy executes inside the launch transaction, ahead of anyone else, at the starting price.
4. 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.
5. Sign once. Token, pool, liquidity and the LP 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, read from the hook, 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.

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 UniversalRouter deployed, so buying and selling goes through the trading router above rather than a Uniswap frontend.

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 v4, which is not the same as an audit.
• 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.
• A burned LP cuts both ways. Nobody can pull the liquidity, and nobody can add to it or fix a bad starting price either.
• Third-party trackers misread v4. Tools built for v2 and v3 pools often report Arceus tokens as having unburned liquidity or no price at all. Check the LP position owner on the explorer instead.
• Arc itself is young. Its RPCs and explorers are third-party and occasionally unreliable.