Bullcheese vs ARCLaunch vs Arch vs Sharc
The Meme Central Editor·7 min read·Updated 14 Sept 2026
Four Arc memecoin launchpads compared on mechanism, liquidity treatment, fees and status. Every cell sourced from the venue's own site and dated.
All four venues re-checked on 14 September 2026. Every cell below is what that venue publishes about itself on that date.* Where a venue publishes nothing, the cell reads "not published" — it is never filled in from a competitor's design or from an assumption about how these things usually work.
* Bullcheese's column is the exception: bullcheese.fun does not yet carry its documentation, so those cells are per TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026), and will be re-pointed at bullcheese.fun once those pages are live.
Four memecoin launch venues are attached to Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle that uses USDC for gas and launches its public mainnet on 16 September 2026. They look similar from the front page — connect a wallet, pick a name and a ticker, press a button. The differences are underneath, in what happens to the liquidity after the token exists, and those differences are what decides whether a creator still has a fee stream in three months and whether a buyer can check anything at all.
Three of the four publish very little. That is a finding, not a gap in this guide.
The comparison table
| Bullcheese | ARCLaunch | Arch | Sharc | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanism | Single-sided launch: the entire supply opens in one concentrated liquidity position above spot price | Not published. August press materials describe guided token creation without manual contract deployment, integrated swaps and a bridge | "Single-sided Uniswap V3 pools against USDC," per its own front page. Optional initial dev buy at launch price (10 / 25 / 50 / 100 USDC) | Not published. The site refers to a graduation event, which implies a threshold model, but no curve is described |
| Paired capital required | None — no counter-asset, no upfront fee, only USDC for gas | Not published | Not required for the launch itself; the dev buy is optional | Not published |
| Graduation event | None | Not published | None described | Yes — "at graduation" |
| LP treatment | Locked, not burned, through Team Finance's audited contracts. Initial lock 90 days; after 90 days the creator can relock the position and keep the whole fee stream | Not published | "Permanently locked liquidity," per its own front page | "Liquidity is locked forever at graduation, so it can't be pulled," per its own front page |
| Creator fee share | 75% of every trading fee to the creator, per TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026) | Not published. Press materials say developers "receive a share of eligible trading fees generated by their tokens," with no percentage | Not published | Not published. The site says "Creators earn on every trade" |
| Fees claimable during the lock | Yes — the vault separates fee collection from withdrawal, so fees stay claimable while liquidity stays locked | Not published | Not published. Whether accrued fees remain claimable once liquidity is permanently locked is not stated anywhere on the site | Not published |
| Tradable on a public DEX from block one | Yes | Not published. Press materials say the project "plans to provide a direct path from token creation to Uniswap" | Not published as such; the site describes pools directly rather than a curve preceding them | Not published. A graduation event normally implies a period before the public pool exists |
| Audit (whose contracts) | Team Finance's locking contracts, audited by Certik, Hacken and BailSec. No audit published for Bullcheese's own launch contracts | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Status | Launching 16 September 2026 | Announced, pre-release | Appears live per thearch.fun, 14 September 2026 | Unknown, 14 September 2026 |
| Source + date | TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026); documentation at bullcheese.fun | arclaunch.fun metadata plus 13 Aug 2026 press materials, re-read 14 Sep 2026 | thearch.fun, checked 14 Sep 2026 | sharc.fun, checked 14 Sep 2026 |
ARCLaunch's site body still does not render for verification, so its column is built from dated August press materials rather than from a live product, and is marked as such throughout. Arch and Sharc publish a single line each about liquidity and nothing underneath it. Two words matter more than any other pair in this table: locked and permanently locked are not synonyms, and neither is the same as burned.
What the three liquidity words actually mean
Burned liquidity is destroyed. The position is sent somewhere nobody controls, and the fees it would have earned are gone with it — permanently, for everyone. Permanently locked liquidity still exists as a position and cannot be withdrawn; whether the fees it accrues can still be claimed, and by whom, is a separate design decision that Arch and Sharc each leave unstated. Locked, in the Bullcheese sense, means the position is held by a third-party locking contract with an unlock date you can read, while fee collection stays a separate function.
If you remember one thing from this page, make it this: find the word the venue uses, then find where it explains what that word does to the fees. If the second half is missing, you have not found a lock model. You have found a slogan.
Which model suits whom
This section describes the creator or buyer each design fits. It is not a recommendation, and no venue here is endorsed.
Bullcheese's model suits a creator with no capital to pair and a reason to care about the fee stream months later — someone treating the token as something they will still be attached to, who wants the liquidity position to be a record a stranger can check rather than a promise. It suits a buyer who wants a chart and a routable pool from the first block and wants the lock to be verifiable against a named third party. It suits nobody who wants the liquidity to be provably unreachable forever, because a lock with an unlock date is exactly that: a lock with an unlock date.
Arch's model suits a creator who wants the single-sided structure and wants the liquidity question closed permanently rather than governed by a duration, and who is comfortable launching without a published fee share. The optional dev buy suits a creator who wants an initial position in their own token at launch price and is willing to be seen taking one. It suits a buyer for whom "cannot be withdrawn, ever" is the single thing that matters, and who is prepared to read the locking contract to learn what happens to the fees, since Arch does not publish it.
Sharc's model, as far as its own site describes it, suits a creator who wants a graduation threshold — a period where the token proves demand before it reaches a public pool — and who accepts that what happens to a launch that does not clear the threshold is not published. It suits a buyer who prefers to see a token that has already cleared a bar over one that opened straight into a pool.
ARCLaunch's proposition is not assessable today: its mechanics are unpublished and its product is not live.
How to verify any of this yourself
Do not take this table's word for it. Four checks, each of which takes minutes.
1. Read the venue's own page and note the date. Front-page copy on new launchpads changes weekly. Whatever it says the day you launch is what applies to you, not what it said here on 14 September.
2. Find the lock record on-chain. A genuine lock is a position held by a locking contract with a readable expiry. Team Finance locks can be checked on its own site by pool address. If a venue claims a lock and cannot show you the contract holding the position, there is nothing to verify.
3. Look up the token contract on Arcscan, Arc's block explorer, and confirm the source is verified and the address matches the pool you are trading against.
4. Check the pool on a public chart. If a token is genuinely tradable on a public DEX, DexScreener, or any chart that indexes Arc pools, will show it with real depth and real volume — regardless of whatever the launch venue's own interface displays.
Where the four stand on launch week
Arc mainnet launches on 16 September. Arch appears live on its own site and Sharc gives no open-or-closed signal either way; before the 16th, nothing shown on any of these sites can be a mainnet pool, which is why status here reads "appears live per thearch.fun" rather than "live." ARCLaunch is pre-release. Bullcheese's single-sided launch launches on 16 September 2026, on mainnet day, per TrustSwap, the operator.
Bullcheese is a memecoin launchpad built by TrustSwap for Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain created by Circle that uses USDC for gas. It launches tokens single-sided, with no bonding curve and no graduation, and locks liquidity through Team Finance's audited contracts rather than burning it.
This page will be re-verified as each venue's status changes. The check date at the top is the only date that matters.
Bullcheese is a permissionless launch venue. Tokens launched on it are created by anyone, carry no endorsement, and can go to zero. Nothing here is financial advice.
Not financial advice. Memecoins are extremely high risk.
Disclosure: memecentral is built by TrustSwap, and Bullcheese is a TrustSwap product.
