How it works

Arcade runs on Arc, Circle's USDC-native L1 (chain id 5042). Gas and every price on the site is USDC. Blocks land in ~0.5s with no reorgs. Markets live on Uniswap v4; Arcade adds a hook that takes the tax and tracks progress.

Name, ticker, logo. Choose a buy tax and a sell tax (0–10% each, at least one > 0) and how the tax splits: 💵 holders, 🔥 buyback & burn, 🧑‍🚀 creator, 💧 liquidity (v2). 10% of every tax goes to Arcade. Optional dev buy in USDC, optional vanity address (CREATE2, mined in your browser).

One transaction: the token is minted (1B, no mint or freeze authority), the pool opens at ≈ $3k market cap, the entire supply goes into a one-sided position that is permanently locked (the Portal has no withdraw function and the hook rejects every liquidity removal). Everything is fixed forever.

Trades move the price along the v4 curve. The progress bar runs from the opening tick to the milestone (≈ $60k market cap). Crossing it latches Milestone permanently: the pool does not migrate, liquidity stays where it is, the badge stays on even if the price falls back.

The hook takes the tax in USDC at swap time — wallet transfers are never taxed, so there is no honeypot surface. The Splitter routes it: the holders share is credited per token to every holder (pool, splitter and burn address excluded). Whenever your balance changes (buy, sell, transfer) your pending rewards are pushed to your wallet automatically; you can also claim any time. No keeper, no admin, no claims that expire.

Buyback USDC accumulates; anyone can press "burn it" to buy from the pool and burn. Creator earnings are claimable by the creator only.

For the first 3 seconds after launch every swap pays +20% on top of the tax (the creator's own dev buy is exempt). Bots that snipe block one pay everyone's rewards.

Points: 1 per USDC traded (buys ×1.5) and 10 per USDC of rewards earned, weekly. Daily top: today's top earners and top paying tokens. Both are read straight from on-chain events.

Portal: 0x43045cA9CE7886D9090e3946CC72624638453beB
Hook: 0x1ef1a0453bBa840A6AB16C163232Ef0bDA5902cC
Router: 0xee48947dC5Edd43e675d9133F8ABf1986c36FB1b
USDC: 0x3600000000000000000000000000000000000000