What does it cost to launch?
1 USDC, plus gas (cents). You post no liquidity. An optional dev-buy is executed on the public curve at the public price and is labelled as yours forever.
How does the price work?
A constant-product bonding curve with virtual reserves. It opens at a $2,500 market cap and completes at $40,000, having sold 800M of the 1B supply for roughly $8,000 USDC. Every quote on the site is read from the contract.
What happens at graduation?
The final buy fills the curve and, in the same transaction, seeds a Uniswap V3 pool (1% tier) with the raised USDC minus a 2% graduation fee, together with the 200M LP reserve. Left-over tokens are burned. The LP NFT is sent to a locker with no withdraw function.
What are the fees?
1% on every curve trade (0.6% protocol, 0.4% creator), the anti-snipe surcharge in the first 90 seconds (100% to the creator), and 2% of the raise at graduation. After graduation the pool's 1% fee is split between compounding liquidity, the creator and the protocol.
Can the team rug, pause or mint?
No. The token has no owner, no mint and no pause. The engine cannot pause sells or touch curve reserves. The owner key can at most pause new launches and redirect future fees. This is enforced by tests, not by promises.
Why Arc?
Gas is paid in USDC, finality is sub-second and every price on the chain is already in dollars. A memecoin launchpad denominated in a stablecoin means no ETH-price noise and no failed-transaction roulette.