What Is Arch (thearch.fun)?

Checked against thearch.fun on 14 September 2026.

What it is

Arch is a memecoin launchpad for Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain created by Circle that uses USDC for gas. Its own front page, read on 14 September 2026, describes it in one line: "Launch and trade memecoins in single-sided Uniswap V3 pools against USDC, with permanently locked liquidity."

Alongside that it states "No presale," and displays featured tokens with live market caps.

Who's behind it

Not disclosed. The site publishes no team, company or jurisdiction, links to an X account and nothing else, and has no documentation section, about page or named operator. What you can check is the code and the pool, so that is what this guide points you at.

Mechanism

Per the site's own description: each token launches into a single-sided Uniswap V3 pool quoted against USDC. Single-sided means the creator supplies only the token — no USDC is paired in — and the whole position sits in one concentrated range that buyers trade into. No bonding curve, no presale, no graduation event: the pool is the market from the first trade.

Arch also offers an optional initial dev buy at launch, in preset USDC amounts of 10, 25, 50 and 100 — the creator buying their own token at the opening of the range. It is disclosed by the interface, and it matters to a buyer: a dev buy means the creator holds supply from the first block, at the lowest price the pool will ever offer.

Arch's own site names Uniswap V3 specifically, which is why this guide does. Do not assume other Arc venues deploy the same version — most do not say.

Fees

Not published. Nothing readable on Arch's site on 14 September 2026 states a creator fee share, a trading fee tier, a platform cut, or what a launch costs.

Lock treatment

Arch states permanently locked liquidity. What that means for the fee stream is not published.

A permanently locked position cannot be withdrawn — that is the stated claim, and it is the reassuring half. Whether the fees that position accrues stay claimable by the creator under that lock is a separate question, and Arch publishes no answer to it. There is no documentation on the site addressing fee collection.

So this guide does not tell you the creator loses the fee stream, and it does not tell you they keep it. Both would be inventions. If you are choosing a venue on this basis, find the locking contract for a live Arch token and read whether it exposes a fee-collection function. That takes minutes and it is the only reliable answer.

Status

Appears live per thearch.fun, 14 September 2026 — featured tokens are displayed with market caps, which implies trading. Arc's public mainnet is scheduled for 16 September 2026, so anything trading before that date is not on Arc mainnet. Confirm by checking a token's pool address resolves on Arcscan, Arc's mainnet explorer, not a testnet instance.

How to verify a token launched there

Confirm which chain and which pool. Take the token contract from the Arch listing and look it up on Arcscan. A featured badge on a launchpad's front page is a placement, not proof of anything.

Read the LP position holder. For a permanent lock, the position should sit with a locking contract or be otherwise non-withdrawable by design. Read that contract and confirm there is no withdrawal path open to the deployer. This is where a "permanently locked" claim is confirmed or not.

Check the fee path in the same contract. Because Arch does not publish its fee treatment, this is how you find out: does the locking arrangement permit fee collection, and by whom? That answer is on-chain even though it is not on the site.

Check for a dev buy, then check the pair on a chart. The pool's first transactions and the holder list on Arcscan show whether the creator took an opening buy and still holds it. Then read depth, age and real trade count on DexScreener, or any chart that indexes Arc pools — tokens at a few thousand dollars of market cap move violently on small orders.

Risks

Arch is permissionless and does not disclose its team. No token on it is screened or endorsed, and any can go to zero. The permanent lock is a statement about liquidity only — it does not stop a creator abandoning a token, selling a dev-buy allocation into the pool, or having nothing to build. Check the holder list before assuming a launch is clean.

The unpublished fee treatment is a risk for creators specifically: launching without knowing whether you can ever claim your fees is a decision made on incomplete terms. Other Arc venues publish theirs — Bullcheese, built by TrustSwap and launching 16 September 2026, mainnet day, locks liquidity rather than burning it through Team Finance's audited contracts, with fees claimable during the lock, per TrustSwap, the operator (Sept 2026; see bullcheese.fun/docs/fees). A different model, not automatically a better one, with no track record yet.

FAQ

What is Arch (thearch.fun)?

Arch is a memecoin launchpad for Arc, the Layer 1 blockchain created by Circle that uses USDC for gas. Its own site describes it as launching and trading memecoins in single-sided Uniswap V3 pools against USDC, with permanently locked liquidity, and states "No presale." Verified 14 September 2026.

Does Arch burn liquidity?

Arch states permanently locked liquidity, which is not the same as burning. Whether the trading fees accrued by a permanently locked position stay claimable by the creator is not published by Arch. Read the locking contract for a specific token on-chain to find out how that token's fees are handled.

What does Arch charge?

Not published. Arch's site states no creator fee share, no trading fee tier and no platform cut as of 14 September 2026. The only figures published are the optional initial dev buy amounts of 10, 25, 50 and 100 USDC.

What is Arch's dev buy?

An optional initial purchase a creator can make of their own token at launch, in preset amounts of 10, 25, 50 or 100 USDC. It means the creator holds supply bought at the opening of the price range, which you can confirm by reading the pool's first transactions and the holder list on Arcscan.

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.