Launching a Token on Arc: Your Options

Last verified: 14 September 2026.

There are three ways to put a token on Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle that uses USDC for gas and launches its public mainnet on 16 September 2026. You can use a guided launch flow that creates the token, opens the pool and locks the position in one sequence. You can use a launchpad, which makes those decisions for you and adds a place where people see new tokens. Or you can deploy the contract and open the pool on Uniswap yourself.

All three end in the same object: an ERC-20 token and a liquidity pool on a public DEX. They differ in how much you decide, what it costs, and what happens to the liquidity afterwards. This page sets out each one plainly. It does not recommend any of them.

What is the same in all three

Every route needs a wallet configured for Arc and a USDC balance on Arc, because gas on Arc is USDC. That is the only balance you need for fees, and it also means the cost of a launch is denominated in the same unit as the pool you are opening.

Every route also ends with a decision about liquidity — locked, permanently locked, burned, or left withdrawable — and that decision determines what a buyer can verify and whether the fees the token generates are still reachable by you in three months. A launch is not finished when the token exists. It is finished when the liquidity treatment is on-chain and someone other than you can read it.

Route 1 — a guided launch flow

MintPlus is Team Finance's launch flow. Its own description of what it does: deploy an ERC-20 with supply fixed at creation, set an initial market cap and choose one-sided or dual-sided liquidity, and lock the resulting Uniswap V3 position through Team Finance for a duration you choose. Its one-sided mode "uses 100% of your token supply to create the initial liquidity position." MintPlus states that its contracts are audited by SolidProof.

What it costs. Gas, plus whatever the flow charges at the point of use — the site says free to start and publishes no schedule beyond that. What it locks. The LP position, in a third-party locking contract, for a term you set. A lock with a duration is a record with an expiry date; a buyer can read both.

What to check first. Check MintPlus's supported-chain list for Arc before you rely on this route on launch day: on 14 September 2026 the chains it listed were Ethereum, Robinhood Chain, Polygon, Base and BNB Smart Chain, and Arc was not among them. TrustSwap's step-by-step, how to launch a memecoin on Arc, covers the one-sided setting in more detail.

This route suits someone who wants to set the parameters themselves and does not need an audience attached to the launch.

Route 2 — a launchpad

A launchpad is a set of defaults plus a place where new tokens are seen. You give up parameter control and get a shorter path. Which defaults you are accepting varies sharply between venues on Arc, and most publish very little about theirs.

What it costs. Usually nothing upfront, and a share of trading fees thereafter. Only some venues publish the split. What it locks. This is the whole question. Some burn liquidity at a graduation event, which destroys the fee stream permanently. Some lock it permanently, which keeps the position in existence but may or may not keep the fees claimable — several Arc venues state the lock and not the fee treatment. Some lock it under a third-party contract with a duration, keeping fee collection separate from withdrawal.

Two venues on Arc have published their model. Arch states "single-sided Uniswap V3 pools against USDC, with permanently locked liquidity," per its front page on 14 September 2026; whether fees remain claimable under that lock is not published. Bullcheese is a memecoin launchpad built by TrustSwap for Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain created by Circle that uses USDC for gas. It launches tokens single-sided, with no bonding curve and no graduation, and locks liquidity through Team Finance's audited contracts rather than burning it. It launches on 16 September 2026, the day Arc's public mainnet opens, per TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026), and this directory lists it alongside every other venue.

Every announced and open venue on Arc, with its status, published liquidity model, source link and check date, is on this directory's launchpads category page. Read what happens to the liquidity before you read anything else.

This route suits someone who wants the decisions already made and values being visible in a feed of new launches.

Route 3 — Uniswap directly

You can skip both and do it yourself: deploy an ERC-20, create the pool on Uniswap on Arc, add the liquidity, and handle the lock as a separate transaction through whichever locker you choose. Uniswap is deploying on Arc for mainnet, per Arc's post on the deployment, so the pools every other route creates are the same pools you would create here.

What it costs. Gas on each transaction, and your own time. There is no platform fee because there is no platform. What it locks. Nothing, unless you lock it. This is the route where the liquidity stays withdrawable by default, which is fine if that is a deliberate choice and is the single most common reason a token is untrustworthy to a buyer when it is not.

A concentrated liquidity position — the design Uniswap introduced in V3 — assigns liquidity to a price range rather than an infinite curve. A range placed entirely above the current price can be funded with one asset, because inside that range the position holds only the token and no USDC. That is the mechanism underneath the single-sided launches offered elsewhere, and nothing stops you constructing it yourself. Arc's own documentation points builders at Uniswap v4 as a starting point; which version you deploy against is your decision.

This route suits someone who wants every parameter and is prepared to be responsible for the ones they get wrong.

Choosing between them

The three routes differ far more in liquidity treatment than in cost. What separates them is how much is decided for you, and whether the decision made about your liquidity is one you can point a stranger at afterwards.

Whichever route you take, publish the lock record with the ticker. It is the only part of a launch a buyer can check without trusting you.

*Bullcheese is a permissionless launch venue. Tokens launched on it are created by anyone, carry no endorsement, and can go to zero. Nothing here is financial advice.*

*Built on Arc is an independent directory of projects building on Circle's Arc blockchain, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Circle Internet Group.*

*Disclosure: Built on Arc is built by TrustSwap, and Bullcheese is a TrustSwap product.*