Arc Memecoins: The Complete List

Last updated: 20 September 2026.

Arc is a Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle, the issuer of USDC. It uses USDC as its gas token, and its public mainnet went live on 16 September 2026 (chain ID 5042). The venues that spent August advertising themselves as Arc-native are now producing tokens, and four days of real trading exist to read. Sorting the tokens that exist from the tokens that were promised is no longer a forecast — it is arithmetic.

What counts, and what does not

A token enters this list when two conditions hold together. It was launched on Arc mainnet, not on the testnet and not on another chain with an Arc-themed name. And it has a liquidity pool anyone can open, read and price — a pool address on a public DEX, resolvable on Arcscan.

Both conditions are load-bearing. The first excludes the testnet tokens that circulated before mainnet and the impersonation tokens deployed elsewhere to catch searches for Arc. The second excludes tokens that exist as a contract but have no market: a deployed token with no pool is not tradable, however many holders its site claims.

Tokens sitting inside a bonding curve are a deliberate edge case. Until a curve token graduates it has no public pool, so it fails the second condition — not as a judgement on the model, but because the column headed "pool link" would have nothing to put in it. It enters on the day it graduates, dated to that day.

One thing has changed since this page was first written. The earlier version said the ordering carried no ranking. It still doesn't in the verified list below, which stays chronological. But four days of mainnet produced something worth publishing in its own right: a volume table. That table is ranked, by a single published metric, and the rule is stated with it. Everything on this page is either unranked or ranked by arithmetic. Nothing on it is ranked by us.

The most-traded tokens on Arc

Ranked by 24-hour volume summed across every pair of each token, per DexScreener. Snapshot: 19 September 2026, 23:18 UTC, as compiled and published by ARC News. Wrappers, stablecoins, clones and pairs under $25K liquidity are excluded by that source's own filter.

This is a trading-activity snapshot, not a quality judgement and not this page's verification tier. Volume is the busiest book, not the biggest cap, and it is a single day. Pool-and-lock verification for these rows is in progress and is reported in the column that follows.

Read the "type" column before the volume column. This page is titled for memecoins, and three of these ten are not memecoins: $ARCUS is an agentic-payments stack built on Circle's x402 facilitator, $FAZE is tokenized equities, and $TOLLY is a venue token. They are listed because they traded, and removing them would misrepresent what the top of Arc's order book actually looks like. The memecoins in the ten are $BCAT, $USDC (the UpSideDownCat community token, which took the ticker), $DUKE, $PI and $MI. $MURMUR is an AI-agent project whose token trades alongside them.

$USDC here is not Circle's USDC. A community memecoin took the ticker. On Arc, where USDC is the gas token, a ticker collision is a wallet-draining accident waiting to happen. Check the contract address, never the symbol.

$BCAT and Bullcheese.fun

$BCAT is the second-most-traded token on Arc by volume and the most-traded by count — 50,244 trades in 24 hours, more than any other ticker on the chain. It launched on Bullcheese.fun, the memecoin launchpad TrustSwap built for Arc, and it has a token record there: bullcheese.fun/token/0x258b…F2D5D.

Bullcheese launches single-sided. The full supply opens in one concentrated position above spot, so the creator brings no paired capital, there is no bonding curve and no graduation gate — it is a real DEX pool from the first block, readable on a chart the moment it exists. The position is locked, not burned, through Team Finance's audited locking infrastructure, so fees keep accruing and stay claimable rather than being destroyed at launch. That mechanism is why a Bullcheese token can appear on a pool-only list like this one on day one, and it is set out in full at how a single-sided launch works.

Bullcheese is a TrustSwap product and a permissionless venue. It does not select, vet or endorse the tokens launched on it, $BCAT included. $BCAT appears above because a volume ranking put it there, not because we did.

The verified list

Every row is read from the chain rather than from the venue that produced the token. Lock status reports what the record shows on the check date, in the language the record supports: a term lock states its expiry, a permanent lock states that the position cannot be withdrawn, and a token with no lock record reads "none found" rather than "unlocked." Ordering is chronological by launch date, most recent first.

Four days of mainnet have produced far more tokens than rows in this table, and that gap is the point. Volume is published by chart feeds within minutes; a pool address confirmed on the explorer and a lock read as contract state take longer, and this table moves at the speed of the second thing. Rows land here as each one clears both checks.

The lock column uses three phrasings and no others. A term lock reads as the locker's name and the expiry date. A position that cannot be withdrawn reads "permanently locked per venue," followed by "fee treatment not published" unless the venue's own documentation states it. A token with no lock record that resolves on-chain reads "none found."

What we left out, and why

The exclusions are more instructive than the inclusions.

NIPS would have ranked seventh at $608K. It is excluded. It was five hours old at the snapshot, carried roughly $40K of liquidity behind that volume, had moved +10,449%, and its "socials" link pointed at a Circle tweet rather than an account of its own. Volume on thin liquidity is not a market; a borrowed social link is a deliberate choice. ARC News excluded it on those grounds and so do we.

Also excluded: cirBTC, EURC, WETH and CRCL — wrappers and stablecoins, not memecoins. Twenty-plus tokens cloning the name "United States Oil Fund." And the JEANPHIL / TIPPED / fomopay cluster, which traded through visibly identical bot-farmed pairs.

Every one of those would have inflated this page. That is what an exclusions section is for.

How the list is compiled

New tokens are found three ways, in this order of reliability. Pools are read directly from Arc's public DEX contracts through the explorer, which catches every token regardless of where it launched or whether its venue announced it. Chart feeds are checked second — DexScreener, or any chart that indexes Arc pools, along with memecentral's Arc memecoin feed, which resolves each token to its own pool record. Launch-venue announcements are checked last and are never sufficient alone: an announcement sends us to look for a pool, and if the pool is not there, neither is the row.

The volume table sits at tier two. It is a chart-feed snapshot, sourced and dated, and it is labelled as such rather than promoted into the verified list. The two tables are not interchangeable and the page does not blend them.

Each candidate for the verified list is checked before it is added. The pool address is opened on the explorer and confirmed to hold the token in question, and the lock, if a venue claims one, is checked as a contract state with an expiry field rather than as a claim on a launch page — how to verify a liquidity lock on Arc sets out the difference, and the lock is the claim this list checks most carefully. The launch venue is recorded as the contract that deployed the pool, not the venue claiming credit. Name and ticker are taken from the token contract as deployed, so an impersonation token cannot inherit the name it is copying, and the launch date is the block timestamp of the first liquidity transaction, in UTC.

Rows are re-checked weekly, and the "last updated" line moves only when that re-check happens, so a stale date is visible rather than hidden. A token whose pool has been drained is not deleted; its lock status is updated to what the chain now shows, because a list that quietly removes its failures is a marketing page. If a row disagrees with the pool, the pool is right.

The objection to a list like this one

The case against publishing it is reasonable, and it got sharper the moment a Bullcheese token appeared near the top of the volume table. A list of memecoins maintained by a company that operates a memecoin launch venue is an advertisement wearing a reference page's clothes, and the act of listing confers a legitimacy most of these tokens have not earned. Worse, the strictness cuts a particular way: a pool-only rule quietly favours venues that launch straight into public pools, which is the design our own launchpad uses. A reader could reasonably conclude the methodology was reverse-engineered from the conclusion.

The methodology predates the result. This page's entry rule was published on 14 September, two days before mainnet and four before any token on it existed, and it has not been edited since. The volume table is ARC News's compilation from DexScreener, ordered by a metric we do not control and cannot influence. Rows are discovered from the chain, not from venues, so a curve token that graduates lands here on the same terms as a token that launched into a pool on day one — and a Bullcheese token whose lock record does not resolve will get "none found" in the same column as anyone else's.

The rest is answered by what the page refuses to do: no rating, no commentary on any token, no ordering by anything other than a published metric or a timestamp. A page that names things and declines to recommend them is a poor advertisement, which is roughly the evidence available.

What this page will look like in three months

The volume table will be unrecognisable. Daily rankings on a four-day-old chain are noise with decimal places, and the tickers at the top this week are mostly not the ones that will be there at Christmas.

The lock column is the one that will matter. It is the only place on Arc where several venues' claims about their own liquidity sit next to each other in checkable form. If it fills with expiry dates and permanent-lock records, Arc's memecoin field will have set a norm most chains never managed, and this list becomes boring in the best way. If it fills with "none found," that is the more useful finding — and it will have come from the chain rather than from anyone's opinion of anyone's launchpad.

Bullcheese is a TrustSwap product and a permissionless launch venue. Tokens launched on it are created by anyone, carry no endorsement, and can go to zero. Nothing on this page is financial advice, no token named here is a recommendation, and ranking by volume is not a ranking by quality.