Whitepaper · v1.0 · 2026

Arcfun: a stablecoin-native launchpad on Arc

Fair-launch token markets priced entirely in USDC, with deterministic bonding curves and automatic migration to a decentralized exchange.

1Abstract

Arcfun is a permissionless launchpad for fungible tokens built on Arc, Circle's purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain where USDC is the native gas asset and settlement is deterministic and sub-second. Every token launches against a constant-product bonding curve denominated in USDC. Price discovery is fully on-chain and continuous; there is no presale, no team allocation, and no privileged minting. When a curve raises $8,800.00, it migrates atomically to a decentralized exchange, seeding $8,500.00 of permanent, burned liquidity.

2Motivation

Existing launchpads inherit the volatility of their host chain's gas token: fees swing with market conditions and every position carries implicit exposure to a non-stable asset. Arc removes that variable. Because gas, balances, and the quote asset are all USDC, a launch on Arcfun is denominated in a single, stable unit of account end to end — making market caps, fees, and PnL legible without a mental FX conversion.

3The bonding curve

Arcfun uses a constant-product curve, x · y = k, with virtual reserves — the same primitive that powers the most widely used launchpads, adapted to a USDC quote. Each token has a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 units. 88% of supply is sold through the curve and 12% is reserved to seed DEX liquidity at migration.

Curve type
Constant product (x·y=k), virtual reserves
Virtual USDC reserve
5,866.67 USDC
Virtual token reserve
1,466,666,667 tokens
Initial market cap
$4,000.00
Migration market cap
$25,000.00
Raise before migration
$8,800.00

The virtual reserves are calibrated so the implied fully-diluted market cap begins at $4,000.00 and reaches $25,000.00 exactly as the curve collects $8,800.00 of net USDC. The final purchase is partially filled so that the raise target and the curve's token allocation are exhausted at the same instant — the curve can never oversell its 88% allocation, and migration is deterministic.

4Fees

A flat 1% fee applies to every buy and sell, split evenly: 0.5% to the token creator and 0.5% to the protocol treasury. Fees are charged identically before and after migration, so creators continue to earn from their token's secondary volume. On buys the fee is taken from the USDC input; on sells it is taken from the USDC output. Accrued fees are tracked separately from curve reserves and are claimable at any time.

5Migration

When the curve's collected USDC reaches $8,800.00, migration triggers automatically inside the same transaction as the final buy. The protocol:

  1. pairs $8,500.00 with the reserved 12% token allocation and deposits it into a Uniswap-V2-style pool;
  2. burns the LP tokens (sends them to 0x…dEaD), permanently locking the liquidity;
  3. closes the curve — all further trading happens on the open DEX market.

The DEX router address is configured per-deployment, so Arcfun targets whichever canonical AMM Arc adopts at mainnet without a contract change.

6Architecture

ArcfunFactory
Deploys (token, curve) atomically; optional create-and-buy
BondingCurve
Constant-product pricing, fees, migration
ArcfunToken
Fixed-supply ERC-20, fully minted to its curve at creation
Chain
Arc — USDC-native L1, sub-second deterministic finality
Quote / gas asset
USDC (18-dp native, 6-dp ERC-20 interface)

The token and curve are deployed together in a single transaction; the full token supply is minted directly to the curve, which means no party — including the deployer — can mint or withhold supply. An optional createTokenAndBuy path lets a creator make the first purchase atomically at launch.

7Security model

  • Fixed supply, no mint authority after creation.
  • Reentrancy guards on all state-changing curve and factory entry points.
  • Liquidity is burned at migration — it cannot be pulled.
  • Deterministic finality on Arc removes reorg risk from indexing and settlement.
  • Slippage bounds (minTokensOut / minUsdcOut) on every trade.

8Roadmap

Arcfun is fully built and parameterized to deploy the moment Arc and its canonical DEX go live. Subsequent work targets creator analytics, a richer agent/automation surface using Arc's ERC-8004/8183 primitives, and optional confidential launches when Arc's privacy layer ships.

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