How to Mint Tokens on Arc in Under 5 Minutes

Arc is EVM-compatible, so a token on Arc is an ordinary ERC-20. What is not ordinary is the cost: with gas denominated in USDC and testnet transactions averaging about $0.004, deploying is cheap enough that the only real decisions left are the ones about your token’s design.

Works on Arc testnet today; mainnet September 16, 2026.

Before you deploy: four decisions

Name and symbol. Permanent in practice. Check that the symbol is not already strongly associated with something else on major venues.

Total supply. There is no correct number, but there is a coherent one. Pick a supply that makes your per-token price legible at your intended market cap, and then never change it.

Decimals. Use 18 unless you have a specific reason not to. It is the ERC-20 default and every tool assumes it.

Mint permission. This is the decision that matters most to buyers. A contract where an owner can mint more supply later is a contract where your holders' share can be diluted at will. If you do not need it, renounce it — and if you do need it, say why, out loud, before anyone asks.

Minting on Arc with Team Finance

Team Finance's token creation flow is no-code: connect a wallet, fill in the parameters, sign one transaction, and the contract deploys. It has been live since 2020, is non-custodial, and covers 26 chains with more than $2.7 billion secured across 40,000+ projects.

1. Connect your wallet to Arc. Add the network first if you have not — chain ID, RPC and the exact fields.
2. Fund the wallet with USDC. On testnet, use Circle's faucet at faucet.circle.com. On mainnet after September 16, 2026, bridge in with CCTP. Because gas is USDC, that one balance covers both deployment and fees.
3. Open Team Finance's token creation tool and select Arc.
4. Enter name, symbol, supply and decimals. Review them twice; the deployed contract is immutable.
5. Choose the token type. A standard fixed-supply ERC-20 is the default and the easiest for buyers to trust. Mintable, burnable and fee-on-transfer variants exist and each one adds a question you will have to answer publicly.
6. Deploy. One transaction. Sub-second finality means the confirmation is effectively instant.
7. Save the contract address and open it on the explorer.

[SCREENSHOT: Team Finance token creation form with Arc selected as the network]

The ten minutes after deployment

This is the part that separates a launch from a listing.

Verify the contract. Publish the source so the bytecode can be matched against readable Solidity. Unverified contracts read as evasive whether or not they are. How to check verification on Arcscan.

Create the pool, then lock it. Liquidity that can be pulled is not liquidity; it is a promise. Locking is the single strongest credibility signal available to a new token, and on Arc it costs fractions of a cent in network fees. How to lock liquidity on Arc.

Put the team allocation under a vesting schedule. Nobody believes a wallet labelled "team — will not sell". Everybody believes a contract that cannot release for twelve months. Cliff, linear and custom vesting on Arc.

Publish the receipts. Contract address, lock position, vesting schedule — as explorer links, in one place, before anyone has to ask.

Should you write the contract yourself?

If you have a Solidity engineer and a reason for custom logic, yes — Arc runs the standard toolchain and Hardhat or Foundry pointed at the testnet RPC will behave exactly as they do on Ethereum. Test on testnet with faucet funds, then audit before mainnet.

If you do not, do not learn on your own launch. A generated standard ERC-20 from a tool that has deployed tens of thousands of them has a vastly better safety record than a first custom contract, and it deploys in one transaction. The full no-code path is here.

Mainnet timing

Public mainnet opens on September 16, 2026. Circle has not published the mainnet chain ID, RPC endpoint or explorer host, so every deployment before that date happens on the public testnet with faucet USDC. Rehearse the whole sequence there — mint, pool, lock, vest, distribute — while mistakes cost nothing.