Arc Chain & Arguspad: How to Get Volume and Trend in 2026

What Is Arc?

Arc is Circle’s Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoin finance (chain ID 5042), and its mainnet launch on September 16, 2026 was unlike any other chain debut this cycle. It is EVM-compatible — a Reth execution client paired with Malachite BFT consensus — so standard Ethereum tooling and wallets work unchanged. The twist is the gas token: there is no volatile native coin. Gas on Arc is USDC itself, fixed in dollar terms at roughly $0.01 per transaction, so fees never spike with a token price. Blocks land in about 0.5 seconds with deterministic sub-second finality.

The validator set reads like a financial-institution roll call — BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, DTCC, and MoneyGram all run validators — which is exactly the institutional framing Circle wanted. What nobody scripted is what actually happened on day one: memecoins. Per Dune data reported by Yahoo Finance and BeInCrypto on September 17, 2026, Arc processed $410.8 million in DEX volume in its first 24 hours, with 82% of it coming from memecoin launchpads, across 7.76 million transactions and 97,025 tokens minted — roughly 28× Robinhood Chain’s opening day. TVL stood at $342.7 million as of September 19, 2026 (DefiLlama). The public RPC is rpc.mainnet.arc.io and on-chain activity is verifiable on explorer.arc.io — stick to official arc.io domains, because lookalike scam explorers appeared within days of launch. Full chain-level detail is on our Arc chain page.

What Is Arguspad and How the Launchpad Works

Arguspad (argus.world, X: @Arguspad) is the dominant memecoin launchpad on Arc, built by the developer known as @rdbotato. The numbers from launch day settle any debate about dominance: $202.35 million in first-day volume and 83,751 tokens launched — 86% of every token minted on Arc in its first 24 hours. Rivals exist — Minara.fun did $36.4 million on day one, Tollylabs $19.7 million, and pools.trade and aka.fun are also live — but Arguspad is where the crowd launches. (One cautionary rival, ACTFUN, exit-scammed on day one, which is a big part of why Arguspad’s locked-liquidity design resonates.)

The launch model is the interesting part, because Arguspad skipped the bonding curve entirely. At launch, a token’s entire supply is deposited into a single permanently locked Uniswap pool above the opening price. That liquidity sits in the Argus Locker forever — neither the Argus team nor the token creator can withdraw it, which makes a classic liquidity rug impossible by construction. There is no graduation event, no migration, no waiting for a curve to fill: the token is tradeable in a real pool, quoted against USDC, from its first block.

Creators get an on-chain business model instead of a curve payout. At deploy, the creator sets buy/sell taxes anywhere from 0% to 10%, and those taxes are immutable afterward — no bait-and-switch. Of the taxes collected, 10% goes to Argus and 90% is creator-directed between four options: USDC payouts to the creator, buyback-and-burn, USDC dividends to holders, or adding liquidity — and everything is distributed natively in USDC, because on Arc the dollar is the unit of account. Arguspad’s own ARGUS platform token sits at roughly an $18.5 million FDV with its top pool doing about $2.9 million in 24h volume as of September 19, 2026, and 80% of platform revenue buys back and burns ARGUS. Mechanics and pool details are on our Arguspad DEX page.

Why Volume Is the Whole Game on Arc

On Arc, volume is the ranking signal — twice over. Every Arguspad token trades in a USDC-quoted pool that DexScreener indexes under its arc filter at dexscreener.com/arc, ranked by trading volume and transaction count. And Argus’s own discovery feed inside argus.world ranks tokens by trading activity, so the launchpad’s native surface rewards the same thing the aggregator does. With 97,025 tokens minted in 24 hours, the meme alone is not a strategy: a token with real volume climbs both boards, and a token with zero volume is invisible among tens of thousands of identical-looking launches.

There is a timing edge here too. Arc’s trending boards are days old as of September 19, 2026 — competition for slots is far below Solana or Ethereum levels, so the same volume effort goes much further. This is where OpenLiquid comes in: a Telegram-based crypto volume bot supporting Arc and 11 other chains across 21 DEXs, it generates real on-chain trades through your token’s pool — the trades DexScreener and the Argus feed count. It works with any USDC-quoted Arguspad or Uniswap-listed token on Arc. The full ranking mechanics are broken down in our guide on how to get trending on Arguspad.

Arguspad vs Nad.fun vs Pump.fun

Arguspad on Arc, Nad.fun on Monad, and pump.fun on Solana represent two launchpad models. Nad.fun and pump.fun run a bonding curve first and then graduate into a tradeable pool; Arguspad skips the curve and launches straight into a permanently locked Uniswap pool with immutable creator taxes paid out in USDC. The gas token differs on each chain — and only Arc’s is a dollar.

Feature	Arguspad (Arc)	Nad.fun (Monad)	Pump.fun (Solana)
Chain	Arc (Circle’s stablecoin L1, chain ID 5042)	Monad (parallel-EVM L1, chain ID 143)	Solana
Launch model	Direct launch: entire supply into a permanently locked Uniswap pool above opening price	Bonding curve, tradeable immediately	Bonding curve, tradeable immediately
Graduation	None — liquidity locked forever in the Argus Locker, no migration	Graduates to a tradeable pool at ~225,000 MON	Migrates to PumpSwap at a threshold
Quote / gas token	USDC (gas is USDC, ~$0.01/tx)	MON	SOL
Creator economics	0–10% buy/sell taxes, immutable after deploy; 90% creator-directed, paid in USDC	Curve fees	Curve fees / creator revenue share

Bottom line: if you have launched on a bonding-curve pad, Arguspad flips the sequence — there is no pre-pool phase to survive and no graduation cliff to reach. Your token has a real, permanently locked USDC pool from block one, which means volume through that pool is the game from minute one, not after some threshold.

How to Get Volume on an Arguspad Token

Boosting volume on an Arc token takes about two minutes and four steps, all inside Telegram.

1. Open the bot and select Arc. Launch OpenLiquid in Telegram and pick Arc from the chain list. Volume works on any USDC-quoted Arguspad token — tradeable from launch, no graduation to wait for — and on Uniswap-listed Arc tokens.
2. Paste your token’s contract address. The bot finds your pool automatically — no need to know the pool address.
3. Set min swap, max swap, and trade delay. These control trade size and pacing so the volume looks like distributed, organic trading — and your cost stays a flat 1% of the target volume, with gas covered by OpenLiquid.
4. Set your target and press Boost Volume Now. The bot generates real, randomized swaps across multiple wallets and reports live progress.

Within minutes, that volume shows up on your DexScreener chart at dexscreener.com/arc and feeds the Argus discovery ranking. Every trade is a real on-chain swap you can verify on explorer.arc.io — not fake data. It is non-custodial throughout: you never hand over your token supply or keys. Prefer hands-off? The Arc volume bot page covers the done-for-you option, and our best Arc volume bots roundup compares the alternatives.

Launching rather than boosting? Arguspad’s anti-snipe surcharge — up to 99% combined, decaying within the first 3 seconds after launch — changes the multi-wallet launch math entirely; we cover what bundling means on Arc (and why it largely fails here) in our Arguspad bundler explainer.

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