How Pixie Pad works
Every token follows the same rules, from launch to Uniswap. No owner powers, no surprises.
Everything is priced in dollars
Arc uses USDC as its gas token, so there's nothing else to hold: you trade with USDC and pay gas in USDC (a trade costs about two cents). Blocks are final in under a second — there are no reorgs.
The bonding curve
Every token has 1,000,000,000 supply. 800M are sold on a constant-product curve: each buy raises the price, each sell lowers it, and the price is always virtual USDC ÷ virtual tokens. Tokens start around a $4.5k valuation. A 1% fee on each curve trade goes 30% to the creator and 70% to the protocol, whose revenue funds the native token's staking rewards and buybacks.
Graduation
When the 800M curve tokens sell out (≈ $69k valuation), the buy that finishes the curve also creates a Uniswap v4 pool in the same transaction, at exactly the curve's final price. The raised USDC (minus a migration fee) and the reserved tokens become liquidity; unused reserve tokens are burned.
Liquidity locked forever
The pool's position NFT is held by a locker contract with no function to remove liquidity, burn or transfer it — no owner, no upgrade path. Trading fees from the pool are split 50/50 between the creator and the protocol.
What the contracts can't do
Tokens have no owner, no minting, no pause, no blacklist and no transfer tax. The launchpad is non-upgradeable; its admin can only change settings for future tokens. Protocol fees can only flow to an immutable fee router — nobody can withdraw them.
Risks — read this
Meme tokens are extremely speculative and most go to zero. Anyone can launch anything; names and images are not endorsements. USDC is issued by Circle, which can freeze addresses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Ready to launch?
Launching is free. You only pay gas and any initial buy.