Launching a token
Bonding curve / liquidity mechanics
How ArcDAO launches price tokens on a USDC-paired bonding curve before graduating to a standard pool.
New tokens start on a USDC-paired bonding curve. Price is a deterministic function of supply sold, so there is no need to guess an initial price and no empty order book at launch.
Curve phase
- Buys mint from the curve and push price up along it; sells burn back down the same curve.
- All proceeds sit in the curve contract as USDC — nothing is withdrawable by the creator.
- Trading fees route to the treasury from the first trade onward.
Graduation
- Once the curve reaches its USDC target, collected liquidity is deployed into a standard token/USDC pool.
- The remaining curve supply is paired into that pool and liquidity is locked.
- From then on the token trades as a normal Arc pair, which is what the live data on this site tracks.
Curve parameters (target, slope, and supply split) are published with the deployed contracts.
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