How to Find the Next PONS: A Look at Launchpads on the Arc Chain
- Core Viewpoint: Circle's Arc chain mainnet will go live on September 16, and its launchpad ecosystem has already entered fierce competition ahead of time. However, problems such as self-circulating trading, unfulfilled mechanisms, and high-risk scam projects are widespread, and the scale of real capital is limited.
- Key Elements:
- Tolly is currently the platform with the strongest real trading activity, with cumulative trading volume of about $1.8 million. It adopts a model in which all tokens are permanently locked in a USDC pool, and its platform token market cap once reached $2.47 million.
- Warp adopts the classic bonding curve model, with cumulative trading volume of about $1.5 million, but about 84% of the volume comes from its own platform token, and it achieved only 1 successful graduation in 6 weeks.
- Archemist focuses on one-click token issuance via a Twitter bot, with cumulative trading volume of about $337,000, and about 77% of the volume depends on its own platform token.
- ArcPad has a clean architecture but extremely weak cold start, having issued 15 tokens in total, with total trading volume of less than $30,000 and lacking professional security audits.
- long.supply is a high-risk scam project that centrally custodies assets and mints IOUs out of thin air. The team can shut down the bridge at any time and withdraw funds, so depositing large amounts of funds is strictly prohibited.
- There are also projects in the preparation stage such as Radar DEX, act.fun, and Minara.fun, which carry risks including wash trading, Owner privileges, and high creator revenue shares.
Circle's own Arc chain public mainnet will open on September 16.
But the launchpad war on the Arc chain is already in full swing. Robinhood's success and PONS's flywheel have turned the entire network's attention toward finding the "next PONS." And Arc chain's use of USDC as native gas, sub-second confirmations, and luxurious institutional investment backing have only added fuel to market sentiment.
👇 Let us walk you through the current launchpad ecosystem on the Arc chain, where various players are vying for dominance. Shockingly, the Arc launchpad that top-tier influencer Bonkguy @theunipcs promoted this morning turns out to be a scam project?! 🤯
1. Tolly@TollyLabs — Currently the Strongest in Real Trading Volume
🔗Official entry: https://tollylabs.com/tokens
🔥In one sentence: A high-speed DEX launchpad that skips the bonding curve and injects the full token supply directly into a permanently locked USDC pool.
⭐Core mechanics:
·No graduation, no migration: Tokens are injected with full supply at the first block and permanently locked, with trading opening immediately.
·Fee structure (approx. 1%): On the buy side (settled in USDC), approximately 64% goes to creators, 12% as holder rewards, 10% to the protocol, and the remainder for buyback and burn of $TOLLY and project tokens; on the sell side (settled in project tokens), everything is directly burned.
💡Review: An open-source launchpad rarely seen on the Arc chain, and currently the closest product to an "Arc version of Pumps / PONS." The community tally shows cumulative trading volume of approximately $1.8 million, capturing the largest real new-token subscription capital flow on the entire chain. Platform token $TOLLY's market cap briefly surged to $2.47 million.
⚠️Mechanics and risks: The holder reward pool (which once held approximately $1,252) has not yet fully enabled its claim function; users still need to independently verify whether the open-source contract's Locker has completely renounced owner privileges.
👉Gem Index: ★★★★★
2. Warp @circlewarp — A Bonding Curve That Has Already Proven Itself
🔗Official entry: https://circlewarp.fun
🔥In one sentence: Classic http://Pump.fun bonding curve model, featuring one-click new-token subscription via cross-chain CCTP funds.
⭐Core mechanics:
·Curve graduation system: A USDC-denominated Bonding Curve that automatically migrates to WarpDex and burns LP when market cap reaches approximately $69,000.
·CCTP expectations: Marketing emphasizes Circle CCTP cross-chain capabilities, claiming to support one-click buying with USDC from other chains.
💡Review: The product frontend is highly polished, with a built-in terminal that can scan tokens across the entire chain. Cumulative trading volume is approximately $1.5 million (approximately 172 token launches), but the data shows extremely high self-circulation: only 1 successful graduation in 6 weeks, and approximately 84% of trading volume is contributed by its own platform token $WARP (market cap approximately $870,000).
⚠️Mechanics and risks: The curve graduation threshold is too high for most Meme tokens in the current cold-start phase; the source chain Helper contract was previously not fully open, so the so-called "cross-chain one-click buy" remains a marketing expectation rather than a fully realized reality.
👉Gem Index: ★★★★☆
3. Archemist @Archemistdotfun — Social X Bot Token Launch
🔗Official entry: https://archemist.fun
🔥In one sentence: A social lightweight launchpad where you can complete one-click token launch and propagation by tweeting @ the Bot on Twitter.
⭐Core mechanics:
·Multi-version adaptation: V2 is a direct Uniswap V3 launch with locked LP; there is also a V4 Hook version (integrating anti-snipe, atomic creator co-investment, buyback of $ARCH on buys, and holder dividends on sells).
·Revenue sharing: Creator revenue share can be configured up to 80%.
💡Review: The lowest token launch barrier on the entire network, extremely conducive to narrative proliferation on social channels like Twitter. Cumulative trading volume is approximately $337,000 (approximately 49 tokens). But similar to Warp, approximately 77% of trading volume is highly dependent on its own platform token to prop up the numbers.
⚠️Mechanics and risks: The platform token suffers from severe internal competition; some pages showed a "maintenance lock" status on the eve of the mainnet upgrade, and the experience remains to be tested on the mainnet.
👉Gem Index: ★★★☆☆
4. ArcPad @arcpad_meme — Uniswap V3 Direct Launch
🔗Official entry: https://arcpad.meme
🔥In one sentence: A protocol with no internal market, zero-barrier token launches, placing the full token supply into an ultra-wide-range, single-sided Uniswap V3 position.
⭐Core mechanics:
·Wide-range locked pool: Full supply is directly and permanently locked into a Fee Locker, with no Owner, no Mint, and no Pause permissions. The price range spans from $3K FDV to nearly $950 million FDV, aiming to let fees "accompany the token throughout its entire lifecycle."
·Fee structure: 1% trading fee, with the protocol and creator each receiving 0.5% (creators may voluntarily cede theirs to holders), and a per-address anti-snipe cap of approximately 2%.
💡Review: An extremely clean architecture, a typical code-first approach, with no graduation or migration friction (the community notes its structure is highly similar to a PotatoPad Fork on the Robinhood chain). However, cold start is extremely weak, with 15 cumulative token launches and total trading volume under $30,000, making protocol revenue virtually negligible.
⚠️Mechanics and risks: Although it claims to have undergone adversarial testing, it lacks professional audits from first-tier security firms, and liquidity depth is extremely thin.
👉Gem Index: ★★★☆☆
5. http://long.supply @Longdotsupply — Stock Wrapping + Custodial Bridge + Meme Launch (High-Risk Warning⚠️⚠️⚠️)
In one sentence: A derivative platform that bridges Robinhood stock tokens to Arc and launches Memes denominated in US stock tokens.
⭐Core mechanics (avoid at all costs!): The project team centrally custodies Robinhood chain assets, mints corresponding IOU tokens out of thin air on Arc, and allows them to be used as liquidity pairs for launching Memes.
💡Review (avoid at all costs!): Although it rides the sexy narrative of "launching Memes on NVIDIA/OpenAI tokens" and claims to have bridged $2.1 million, it is essentially a typical private fake bridge. The backend is orchestrated by a single Railway cloud service, and the vault is entirely controlled by the team's private keys. 👎
⚠️Mechanics and risks:
The team can shut down the cross-chain bridge at any time and withdraw the real money on the Robinhood chain.
What circulates on the Arc chain is merely "air IOUs" without any official redemption guarantee.
After the official mainnet launches compliant assets on September 16, this platform's unofficial fake token narrative will come to an end.
👉Gem Index: ☆☆☆☆☆ (High-risk, avoid! Strictly forbidden to deposit large amounts!)
6. Quick Overview of Projects in Preparation, Long-Tail, or with Extremely Thin Volume
1. Radar DEX (formerly ArcDEXScan) @ArcDEXScan
In one sentence: Comprehensive infrastructure integrating market monitoring, multi-channel aggregation, and Uniswap V3 locked-pool launches.
Status and review: The reported token launch count is inflated and accompanied by大量 single-wallet wash trading. The underlying routing fee deduction has been questioned by the community. Suitable for market watching rather than new-token subscriptions.
2. http://act.fun @actfunxyz
In one sentence: A time-locked launchpad whose rules mandate that token launches only officially open at the mainnet node at 09:00 UTC on September 16.
Status and review: Focuses on aligning with the official mainnet node, but on-chain code review shows its contract Owner still retains emergency withdrawal privileges.
3. http://Minara.fun @minarafun
In one sentence: A launchpad rumored to have Circle Ventures-related backing, built on a Uniswap V4 architecture.
Status and review: Focuses on institutional-grade low-friction token launches, but rules allow creators to absorb up to approximately 80% in high revenue share at launch, requiring vigilance against dump risk.
4. http://UBI.fun @UBIdotFUN
In one sentence: An experimental asset launcher built on Uniswap V4 architecture that introduces a universal holder dividend mechanism.
Status and review: Current on-chain token launches and real turnover rates are extremely low, the protocol holder reward pool is essentially empty, and liquidity momentum has yet to form.
5. ChainGPT Pad @ChainGPT_Pad
In one sentence: A traditional institutional-style IDO platform leaning toward compliance, introducing KYC review and allocation mechanisms.
Status and review: Focuses on early-stage financing for serious tech and crypto projects, not the primary battleground for retail instant-launch, instant-trade, high-speed speculative degen new-token subscriptions.
6. ARCWAR @Arcwargg
In one sentence: A gamified launchpad employing a multi-token simultaneous bidding elimination system, where the final winning asset takes all accumulated liquidity.
Status and review: Heavy adversarial gaming flavor and exotic mechanics, but the play threshold is relatively high, and it has not yet built mainstream consensus among the new-token subscription community.
