The protocol, explained
How it works
One transaction on Arc. Your token, a market, and a permanently locked liquidity position. You only pay gas.
01 / The launch
One signature.
Four things happen.
All in the same transaction.
No separate setup. No platform fee.
Your token is deployed
A plain ERC-20 with EIP-2612 permit. Fixed supply, 1 billion by default. No mint, no pause, no blacklist, no transfer tax, no owner.
1Bdefault supplyA market opens
A Uniswap v4 pool pairs your token with Arc's native USDC. No hook. The pool starts at the market cap you pick.
v4Uniswap poolThe liquidity position is locked
100% of the supply goes into one single-sided position at launch. Its NFT is minted to an ownerless locker that has no function to withdraw, transfer or shrink it. Ever.
100%deposited at launchFee routing is written in
The trading fee you choose (0%, 1% or 3%) goes 100% to the beneficiaries you name, or is burned if you name none. Fixed at launch, unchangeable.
0 / 1 / 3%your trading fee
The position stays locked. Tokens remain tradeable.Inspect the locker
02 / Fees & routing
Know where it goes.
The creator chooses the trading fee
- 0%
- No pool trading fee. Network gas still applies. Nobody earns fees from volume, including the creator.
- 1% or 3%
- Uniswap charges it on every trade and it accrues to the locked position. The platform takes no share.
Beneficiaries and shares are set at launch and can never be changed. A promise like “half the fees go to this address” is enforced by the contract, not by us.
Anyone can collect. The routing decides who receives.
Press Collect on the token page. Accrued fees leave the pool and are paid straight to the beneficiaries in the same transaction, or burned to 0x…dEaD if the launch has no beneficiary.
If a beneficiary cannot receive the payment, their share is credited to them and can be claimed any time. It is never lost and never blocks the others.
03 / What stays fixed
Code, not a promise.
No platform fee
There is no fee address, fee variable or treasury anywhere in the factory or the locker. Nothing to switch on later. It cannot be added to immutable code.
No liquidity withdrawal
Nobody can remove liquidity: not the creator, not us. Collecting fees removes zero liquidity.
No pre-mine
Every token starts inside the pool. There is no creator-reserved allocation.
No admin
No owner, no pause, no upgrade, no allowlist. The contracts are the same for everyone, forever.
04 / Before you begin
Locked liquidity.
Not a guarantee of value.
Tokens launched here are created by their launchers, not by Strink. Do your own research; a locked pool does not make a token valuable. Nothing is refundable.
How does the price move?
Price follows a single-sided Uniswap v4 curve: the first buyers get the most tokens per unit of the quote asset, and every buy moves the price up. Sells move it down.
There is no anti-snipe mechanism. Bots can buy in the first block like anyone else.
The launch form suggests a small first buy (about $25) so your token opens with a holder and a price; clear it and the launch stays free.
Why is my token under “quiet launches”?
The home page ranks by facts, not by launch order. A token is live once a wallet other than its launcher has traded it in the last 24 hours; trades in the launch block and the next three blocks (snipe bots) don't count, and neither do the launcher's own. Live tokens rank by outside wallets in the last hour, then today, then by their last outside trade. A wallet's newest launch gets its first hour on the board regardless; after that it sits under quiet launches, one row per wallet, until someone trades it.
Nothing is hidden: every launch stays in the New tab, in search and in the API. The only way up is a trade from an outside wallet.
What can change after launch?
Nothing on-chain can be edited after launch: not the name, not the fee, not the beneficiaries. Metadata (image, description, links) is stored by this site and can change; the token itself cannot.
05 / The source of truth
Don't take our word for it.
Contracts, addresses and source verification, on top of Uniswap v4.
Arc
Chain ID 5042Uniswap v4's PoolManager, PositionManager, Permit2 and Universal Router are Uniswap's canonical deployments; the on-chain verification records for each chain are linked above.
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