✅The Arc Blockchain Complete Cheat Sheet

Arc public mainnet went live today as Circle’s EVM-compatible Layer 1, built around USDC-native gas, payments, tokenized assets, FX and programmable finance.

The network targets roughly 500ms blocks and deterministic finality, while Arc launches with more than 100 ecosystem and institutional builders.

But the first users are not only institutions. Retail flow is already clustering around launchpads, memecoins and trading terminals. That makes knowing where to look and which tools to trust essential.

Here’s a cheat sheet for trading and interacting on Arc 👇

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➕ Add Arc First

• Network: Arc Mainnet
• Chain ID: 5042 / 0x13b2
• RPC: https://rpc.mainnet.arc.io
• Gas: Native USDC
• Explorer: https://explorer.arc.io
• Native USDC: 0x3600000000000000000000000000000000000000

The important distinction is that Arc uses USDC for gas, but native USDC uses 18 decimals while the ERC-20 representation uses 6.

Wallets may display the gas asset as ETH depending on configuration, but the underlying asset is still USDC.

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💱 Bridges

🕊️Circle USDC Bridge native USDC burn and mint through CCTP.

🕊️Relay intent based cross chain transfers.

🕊️Jumper aggregated bridging and routing.

🕊️Xylonet bridgE plus swap interface.

🕊️Longstock community route aimed at the stock pair ecosystem.

🕊️ArcExit focused on exits from Arc.

Other bridges include Ellipse, BRC Exchange and the OKX Wallet route.

Treat unofficial bridges as separate smart-contract risk rather than assuming that because the destination is Arc, the bridge itself is trusted.

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🔍 Explorers

Arc Explorer

The official Circle explorer should be the first stop for transactions, contracts, balances and network parameters.

ArcScan

Useful community alternative with live fees, TPS, token tracking and an accompanying public RPC.

A/X Explorer

Lightweight option for fee and TPS snapshots.

Arc’s deterministic finality also changes the usual verification workflow as transactions do not require Ethereum-style waiting for a large confirmation count.

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🛒 DEXs

🕊️Uniswap is the major day-one liquidity venue, with V3/V4 pools already forming an important part of Arc’s trading infrastructure.

🕊️ Tolly Labs provides direct token launches into locked Uniswap V3 USDC pools.

🕊️Circlewarp Swap combines bonding-curve launches with its own trading interface.

🕊️ArcTS, Tower Exchange, Xylonet and Peach provide additional native trading surfaces.

For actual liquidity analysis, do not stop at the front-end price. Check pool depth, LP composition, volume/liquidity ratios and whether liquidity is locked or controlled by a small number of wallets.

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📈 Trading Terminals and Bots

This is the execution layer for fast-moving Arc markets.

🕊️ FOMO (fomo.family): fast terminal for launches and early entries.

🕊️ Banana Gun: multi-chain trading and sniper bot.

🕊️Based Bot (basedbot.app/arc) / Telegram :execution plus new-pair discovery.

🕊️ Cove Trading: Telegram trading bot.

🕊️ Circlewarp Terminal: integrated Warp execution.

🕊️ Tolly Labs terminal: trading directly around Tolly launches.

🕊️ ArcTools (arctools.fun): aggregated terminal across multiple Arc venues, with wallet and insider monitoring.

The key advantage of an aggregator such as ArcTools is that you can compare venues before executing rather than assuming the first quoted pool has the best liquidity.

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📄 Finding New Pairs

This is where the majority of early retail attention is concentrated.

🕊️ Argus (argus.world): one of the highest-profile launchpads.

🕊️ Tolly Labs: launches directly into USDC liquidity pools instead of relying on a traditional bonding curve.

🕊️ Circlewarp / Warp (circlewarp.fun): bonding-curve launchpad with cross-chain purchase functionality.

🕊️ RadarDEX (radardex.pro): combines launchpad, scanner, swap aggregation and pair tracking.

🕊️ ArcScreener (arcscreener.live): dedicated new-pair and charting interface.

🕊️ Based Bot Arc Board (basedbot.app/arc): rapid new-pair feed.

📈 Charts and Market Data

For quick market monitoring:

🕊️ ArcScreener: primary chart and new-pair dashboard.

🕊️ RadarDEX: price, market cap, volume, liquidity, token age, trades and holders.

🕊️ArcTools: charts combined with trades, holders and insider indicators.

A useful workflow is ArcScreener for discovery → RadarDEX/ArcTools for liquidity and holder analysis → explorer for contract verification.

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🪖 Safety Stack

ArcTools Scanner (arctools.fun/scan) is the first contract-level screen.

But the explorer should always be the second check.

Analyse:

🕊️Holder concentration
🕊️ Deployer balance
🕊️LP ownership and lock status
🕊️ Mint functions
🕊️Pause functions
🕊️Blacklist capabilities
🕊️Contract permissions
🕊️Whether the deployer has already distributed tokens to multiple wallets

The risk is particularly high on a brand-new L1 where fake bridge pages, copycat launchpads and malicious contracts can appear before users have established which domains are legitimate.

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👍 Smart-Money and Wallet Tracking

🕊️Cielo (app.cielo.finance): multi-chain wallet monitoring.

🕊️Ray Cyan Bot: Telegram alerts for tracked wallets.

🕊️ArcTools Insiders: tracks top wallets by PnL, whale activity, bridge movements and alerts.

🕊️RadarDEX Portfolio: address-level positions and trade history.

For meme markets, wallet distribution can be more useful than headline market cap.

A token with a $20 million valuation but extreme insider concentration has a very different risk profile from one with broadly distributed holders.

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😎 The Minimum Arc Stack

Save these seven first:

1. Network: rpc.mainnet.arc.io / Chain ID 5042

2. Bridge: bridge.usdc.com

3. Explorer: explorer.arc.io + arc-scan.org

4. Discovery: radardex.pro + argus.world + basedbot.app/arc

5. Charts: arcscreener.live

6. Contract safety: arctools.fun/scan

7. Execution: Uniswap / Tolly / Warp / Based Bot

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🔖Bottom Line

Arc launched with two very different economies sitting on the same infrastructure.

Institutions are coming for USDC settlement, tokenized assets, FX and programmable finance. Retail is already using the same rails for launchpads, memes and rapid onchain speculation.

The contracts, bridges and websites are NOT automatically safe.

Treat every unofficial Arc URL as hostile until the explorer and the underlying contract prove otherwise.

‼️ POSITIVE: CFTC Chair Michael Selig says the agency will use its existing statutory authorities to help deliver a “future-proof crypto asset regulatory market structure” following yesterday’s Senate vote.

“The CFTC is locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance.”

📺 THE BUREAU ROLLUP - 16th September, Wednesday.

Here's everything you might have missed on our YouTube today!

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📺 The Clarity Act is DEAD
Coin Bureau · Guy Turner
The cloture vote failed and crypto's shot at a federal rulebook died in the Senate — after years of lobbying and an enormous industry war chest, Congress wouldn't even agree to debate it. The argument that follows is the interesting part: the regulators are writing the playbook anyway, and both agency chairs are about as friendly to the industry as they've ever been. So crypto asked for a law and got the regulators instead, which may not be the loss it looks like.

📺 Bitcoin Warning: Domino Effect Has Started — CLARITY Act, Fed & BOJ
Trading Bureau · Matt Stella · LIVE REPLAY
The first domino in the sequence Matt Stella has been mapping for two weeks just fell. His point is that none of this should be a surprise if you've been following along — the CLARITY failure was catalyst one, the Fed is next, and the BOJ lands Friday. He walks the Bitcoin levels for both the bearish and bullish paths, and what specifically needs to happen for either to play out.

📺 Anthropic Is DESPERATE (And Coming For YOUR Money)
Finance Bureau · Nic Puckrin
A senior AI researcher walked out warning that the biggest labs are risking humanity for profit — while the same company preps the largest IPO ever attempted. Nic's question is who benefits from the fear, and his answer is that apocalyptic claims have become fuel for valuations and a lever for regulation that happens to crush smaller competitors. The part aimed at viewers: these warnings may end up inside your pension whether you chose them or not.

📺 Nike Stock Crashed 80%. Is It Finally a Buy?
Money Bureau · DC Roth
From $179 to $36, and the case here is that Nike's problems run deeper than the chart suggests — someone else took the shelf space, and a large one-off tariff recovery flattered the last set of numbers. The verdict is a watch list rather than a buy: better to pay more for a recovery that's visibly working than less for one that only exists in your head.

📺 Be Prepared For FOMC
Trading Bureau · Matt Foyle
A 25bp hike is effectively locked in, and the argument is that the remaining uncertainty is enough to cause a short-term flush without breaking the bull market. Equities, metals and copper each get mapped structurally rather than called — the Nasdaq's path lower before higher, why gold and silver both warrant patience through their retest, and copper as the standout that's held up while the other two struggled. Oil gets the last word as the market's grim reaper.

📺 Clarity Act Fails: Why This Market Dump Might Actually Be GOOD for Crypto
Coin Bureau · Guy Turner 🔒 MEMBERS ONLY
CLARITY is dead and Bitcoin gave back the rally it built on the expectation it would pass. Guy's counterintuitive read: it now falls to the CFTC and SEC, both of which are fully engaged, so regulation is still coming — just in a form a future administration could undo, which is why legislation would have been better. The case for the dump being good is that plenty of traders would rather the market stayed volatile, inefficient and lightly regulated. Plus the Fed today, and oil climbing again on Saudi and Libyan supply disruption.

‼️ BREAKING: The Fed RAISED interest rates by 25 bps to 3.75%–4%, with a forecast of another 25 bps by year end.

This is the Fed's FIRST hike since July 2023.

The decision was unanimous, with a 12–0 vote.

• 12 of 18 officials see one more hike this year, taking rates to around 4.1%.

• 4 see two more hikes, taking rates to around 4.4%.

• 2 see no further hikes, leaving rates around 3.9%.

Median rate projections stand at 4.1% for end-2027 and 3.9% for end-2028. The longer-run estimate rose to 3.2% from 3.1%.

The Fed also raised its 2026 inflation forecasts by 0.1 percentage point each, to 3.7% for headline PCE and 3.4% for core PCE.

It says growth remains solid and inflation elevated, with today’s hike supporting a faster return to its 2% target.