ArcaniumPricing and graduation
Starting price and graduation
Every token launches at roughly a $3,000 starting market cap. As people buy, the price rises along the single-sided position; as they sell, it falls. A token graduates when its pool balance first reaches 9,000 USDC. Graduation is a permanent label the app applies at that point — it does not unlock liquidity, change the token, or create a new market.
Trading fees
Every token trades on the standard Uniswap v3 1% fee tier. Fees are handled by side:
| Fee side | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Token side | Burned, reducing supply |
| USDC side | A share to the creator, the remainder funds the protocol |
Recipients are fixed for the life of the pool, so creator rewards keep accruing in USDC. Anyone can trigger a fee distribution.
No transfer tax
Arcanium tokens carry no transfer tax. Every launch to date has a tax rate of zero, and the launch form and API both refuse a non-zero one.
That is a deliberate restriction rather than an omission. A token that taxes its own transfers cannot be sold on Uniswap v3 at all: a sell's input reaches the pool as a transfer, the pool checks it received the amount it was promised, and a tax makes it come up short — so the trade reverts. A launchpad that offered the option would be a honeypot generator, so this one does not.
Locked liquidity
The launch position is held in the Arcanium liquidity vault. It has no withdrawal function, no timelock to wait out and no path by which a creator can reclaim it — a creator cannot pull liquidity out from under their own token, which is the failure this design exists to prevent.
Being exact about the one power that does exist: the vault contract retains a migration function, intended for moving a position to a new pool. It is disabled — the migration authority is the zero address, so the function reverts for everyone — but the vault owner is able to set that authority. So “nobody can move it” is true of creators and true today of us; it is not a property the contract enforces against its own owner. v4 launches remove the question entirely: the position belongs to a contract with no withdrawal code at all.
As with any market, the token's price can still fall regardless.