Is There a Pump.fun for Arc?

Yes — several. At least six venues were built to launch memecoins on Arc, and by mid-September 2026 at least two of them were showing tokens on their own front pages. None of them is pump.fun, none is operated by pump.fun, and none of them works quite the way pump.fun does.

That last part matters more than the first. If you arrive on Arc expecting the pump.fun flow — a private curve, a graduation threshold, a migration to a real DEX — you will find some venues that resemble it and some that skip the curve entirely. The mechanism differences change what you are buying, so they are worth ten minutes before your first trade. Bullcheese's side-by-side of Arc launchpad mechanisms sets its own model against the curve model; this guide covers the whole field, including Bullcheese, from what each venue publishes about itself.

What pump.fun actually does, so the comparison makes sense

On pump.fun, a new token trades inside a bonding curve owned by the platform. The curve sets the price by formula as supply is bought. Only if the token clears a market-cap threshold does it "graduate" — the accumulated liquidity moves out to a public DEX pool and the token starts trading like any other pair. Until then it is not on a DEX, not on most charts and not routable by aggregators. A small single-digit percentage of tokens ever get there, by most published estimates; we cover the number and its source in our guide to bonding curves and graduation.

Three things follow from that design, and all three are different on Arc.

Difference one: gas is USDC, and so is the quote

Arc is a Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle, the issuer of USDC. It uses USDC as its gas token and launches its public mainnet on 16 September 2026.

On Solana you pay fees in SOL and price memecoins in SOL, so your cost basis and your gas both move while you trade. On Arc both are the same stablecoin. Circle's own documentation describes fees paid in stablecoins starting with USDC; every Arc venue in the list below quotes pools against USDC.

For a trader this is less exciting than it sounds and more useful than it sounds. Nothing about it makes a token safer. It just removes one moving part from the arithmetic.

Difference two: concentrated-liquidity pools instead of a platform-owned curve

Several Arc venues skip the private curve and open a real DEX position on day one, using the concentrated liquidity design Uniswap introduced in V3 — a position that sits in a defined price range rather than across the whole curve. Uniswap is deploying on Arc for mainnet, per Arc's own post on the deployment.

A single-sided version of that puts the token's entire supply into one range above the current price, so no second asset has to be supplied and buys walk the price up through the range. There is no threshold to clear and nothing to migrate, because the pool is already the pool. Arch and Bullcheese both use a single-sided model; they differ in what happens to the position afterwards, which is the next difference.

Arc's documentation recommends Uniswap v4 as a starting point for new integrations, and Arch's site names V3 for its own pools, so do not assume every Arc venue deploys the same contract version. Check the venue's own wording.

Difference three: the lock models are not the same

This is the difference that decides what a buyer is actually holding, and it is where the Arc field spreads out furthest. Four positions exist among the venues that have published anything:

• Locked forever at graduation — the curve model, liquidity permanently immobilised once the token migrates. Sharc's site states this.
• Permanently locked from launch — no curve, but the position cannot be withdrawn, ever. Arch's site states this.
• Locked, not burned — the position is held by a third-party locking contract for a defined term while the fee stream stays claimable. Bullcheese uses this model through Team Finance's audited contracts, per TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026; see bullcheese.fun/locked-not-burned).
• Not published — several venues have said nothing about liquidity treatment at all.

"Permanently locked" and "locked" are not synonyms, and neither is "burned." Each implies something different about whether the creator still earns from the pool, and none of them tells you whether the token is worth buying.

The venues, and what each one publishes

Every cell below is what the venue states on its own site or in a dated, cited source, read on 14 September 2026 — except Bullcheese's row, which is per TrustSwap, the operator, until its documentation pages are live. Unknown means the venue has not published it — not that we could not find it.

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.

How to verify a token before you use any of them

The list above tells you what each venue says. These four tell you what is true of a specific token.

Is there a lock record, and does it resolve on-chain? A lock is a position held by a locking contract with an expiry you can read. Team Finance locks are checkable by pool address on its own site. A claim in a chat is not a lock record.

Is the token on a public DEX yet, or still inside a curve? If it is pre-graduation, you are trading against the platform's own contract, not a pool, and you cannot exit to a chart or an aggregator. If it is on a DEX, DexScreener, or any chart that indexes Arc pools, will show the pair with real depth.

Has the venue published a fee share, and does the interface agree with it? Where the answer is "not published," treat the creator economics as unknown rather than assuming they resemble pump.fun's.

Is the token contract verified on Arcscan? Unverified source means nobody outside the deployer knows what the contract can do.

So which one is the pump.fun of Arc?

None of them, yet. pump.fun's position on Solana came from volume concentrating in one venue over months, and on 14 September 2026 Arc's field was six venues old with no volume history to concentrate. Ask again in a quarter. What you can do today is read what each venue publishes, check the lock record on the specific token in front of you, and treat every unpublished field as a genuine unknown.

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.