ArcaniumWhat a lock is
A token lock puts an ERC-20 balance beyond reach until a date you choose. After that date one named wallet can withdraw it. Before that date nobody can — including you, and including Arcanium.
What it is for
Locks exist so a claim can be checked rather than believed. A team saying it will not sell for six months is a promise; the same tokens in a lock with a visible unlock date is a fact anyone can verify, without trusting the team or us.
Common uses:
- A creator locking their own allocation to show they are not about to sell it.
- Vesting for a contributor, by locking to their wallet with a future date.
- Holding tokens for someone else until an agreed time.
This is not the same as launch liquidity
Every Arcanium launch puts its whole supply into a Uniswap position that is locked permanently. That liquidity has no owner, no unlock date and no withdrawal path — it is gone for good, by design, and it is what makes a launch tradable from its first block.
Token locks are a separate tool and behave differently: they have a beneficiary, they have an end date, and on that date the beneficiary takes the tokens back. Seeing “locked” on a token page can mean either, so the interface labels them differently and so does this documentation.
What the contract can and cannot do
The locker has no owner. There is no pause, no rescue function, no admin unlock and no upgrade path. That is deliberate: a lock somebody can shorten is not a lock, and the entire value of the contract is that the promise it makes is the one it keeps.
Contract
0x0aB1fbD6c01f4908f509746393DE25849aE2a9E7 on Arc. It is not upgradeable, so this address is the code that will always run.