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OpenLiquid Now Supports Arc
You can now generate volume on Arc — Circle's USDC-gas Layer 1 with BlackRock and Visa among its validators — through Arguspad, the launchpad that captured half of the chain's record $410.8M opening day. Here's what the chain is, why it matters, and how to run your first session.
OpenLiquid now supports Arc as its 12th blockchain and Arguspad as its 21st DEX. Token projects can generate real on-chain trading volume on Circle's USDC-gas Layer 1 (chain ID 5042, mainnet September 16, 2026) — via the Telegram bot or the hands-off order form — for a flat 1% of target volume with all gas covered by OpenLiquid.
What Is Arc?
Arc is the Layer 1 built by Circle, the issuer of USDC ($74B in circulation), and it launched public mainnet on September 16, 2026. It is fully EVM-compatible — a Reth execution client paired with Malachite BFT consensus — with ~0.5-second blocks and sub-second finality (RPC at rpc.mainnet.arc.io, explorer at explorer.arc.io). Its validator set is unlike anything else in crypto: BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, and DTCC all run validators.
The headline design choice: gas is paid in USDC itself, at roughly $0.01 per transaction. There is no volatile gas token to hold — the ARC token was genesis-minted but has had no TGE and is not tradable (exchange tickers named "ARC" are unrelated). Every DEX pair on the chain quotes against USDC too, so the entire trading economy is dollar-denominated end to end. Arc also has no public mempool, which means pending transactions are invisible before inclusion — no sandwich attacks, no front-running.
Anyone can launch a token on Arc through Arguspad (argus.world), the chain's dominant launchpad. Arguspad skips the bonding-curve model entirely: at launch, the full supply goes straight into a permanently locked Uniswap v4 pool via its Argus Locker, so every token is tradeable from second one and a liquidity rug is structurally impossible. Creators set immutable taxes of 0-10%, distributed in USDC, and a 3-second decaying surcharge blunts snipers at launch.
Why This Chain Matters Right Now
Arc's opening day (September 16, 2026) delivered $410.8M in DEX volume, 7.76M transactions, and 97,025 minted tokens — 82% of volume from memecoin launchpads and roughly 28× Robinhood Chain's $14.74M debut (Dune data, September 17, 2026). Yet DexScreener's Arc filter (dexscreener.com/arc) is days old, so trending rank is driven by exactly the metrics a volume bot influences.
New chains create temporary asymmetries, and Arc's is the largest we've tracked. TVL hit $342.7M within three days (DefiLlama, September 19, 2026), and a full launchpad war broke out on day one: Arguspad did $202.35M and took 86% of all token mints, ahead of Minara.fun ($36.4M), Tollylabs ($19.7M), pools.trade, and aka.fun. One entrant, ACTFUN, exit-scammed on launch day — a sharp reminder to verify locked liquidity before buying, and part of why we route through Arguspad, whose Locker makes rugs structurally impossible. The ARGUS token itself trades around an $18.5M FDV.
For token projects, this is the early-chain playbook that worked on Base in 2023, Solana in 2024, and Robinhood Chain, Stable, and Monad over the past year: build volume history and holders while discovery is cheap, and ride the chain's own growth narrative. Arc adds two structural bonuses — the dollar-denominated economy means charts and volume read cleanly in USD, and the private mempool means volume sessions execute without MEV interference.
How to Generate Volume on Arc
Getting started takes under five minutes:
- Open t.me/OpenLiquidBot and select "Volume Bot," then choose "Arc."
- Paste your token's contract address. The bot loads every Arguspad and Uniswap-listed pool for your token — all quoted in USDC — ranked by liquidity.
- Set your target volume, min/max swap size, and wallet count. With ~0.5-second blocks and no MEV exposure, high-frequency, many-wallet configurations work well here — your cost stays a flat 1% of the target volume regardless of trade count. Arguspad creator taxes (0-10%) are detected and factored in automatically.
- Pay the 1% session fee and the session starts automatically — no gas deposits needed. Each trade is reported in Telegram with an explorer.arc.io link.
Prefer a managed session? Use the Arc volume bot page and its hands-off order form — paste a token address, pick the pool, and let the team run it. For a full walkthrough of the chain, see the Arc overview, the Arguspad DEX page, the Arc + Arguspad volume guide, the Arguspad trending guide, and for a ranked comparison of options, the best Arc volume bots.
Pricing
OpenLiquid charges a flat 1% of your target volume — no subscriptions, and OpenLiquid covers all gas on Arc. That makes it the simplest cost model in DeFi: a $10,000 volume session costs exactly $100, known before it starts. Nothing else to budget, nothing that moves mid-session.
One practical note: because Arc's gas is paid in USDC at ~$0.01 per transaction, it is the first OpenLiquid chain where session gas costs are dollar-fixed by definition — and OpenLiquid covers all of it, as of the September 19, 2026 launch. Your only cost is the flat 1% session fee.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. As of September 2026, OpenLiquid supports Arc (Circle's USDC-gas Layer 1, chain ID 5042) as its 12th chain, with Arguspad as its 21st supported DEX. You can generate volume for any Arguspad or Uniswap-listed token quoted in USDC — through the Telegram bot or the hands-off order form. You pay only the flat 1% session fee; OpenLiquid covers the gas.
Arc launched mainnet on September 16, 2026 and its DexScreener filter (dexscreener.com/arc) is days old, so trending competition is far below what Solana or Ethereum require — even though the chain did $410.8M in DEX volume on day one across 97,025 minted tokens. Arguspad and DexScreener rank tokens by trading volume and transaction count, so sustained 24-hour volume moves a token up both boards. Thresholds will rise fast as the chain matures.
OpenLiquid charges a flat 1% of your target volume — and that is the total cost. OpenLiquid covers all gas on Arc, so a $10,000 volume session costs exactly $100, known before it starts. No subscriptions, no gas deposits, no hidden fees.
OpenLiquid routes through Arguspad (argus.world), the launchpad that captured $202.35M of Arc's day-one DEX volume and 86% of all day-one token mints. Arguspad tokens have no bonding curve — the full supply trades in a permanently locked Uniswap pool from launch, quoted against USDC. The bot automatically finds the deepest pool for your token and accounts for creator-set taxes (0-10%, immutable).
No. ARC was genesis-minted but there has been no token generation event, so it is not tradable anywhere as of September 2026. Exchange tickers named "ARC" are unrelated tokens. On Arc itself, every DEX pair is quoted against USDC — the same asset that pays for gas.
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