The protocol, in writing.

Bantyx is a token launchpad on Arc, Circle's L1 for stablecoin finance. Every token launched here ships with a resident engine: a treasury that taxes every trade 4%, uses the proceeds to buy dips with USDC, and permanently burns what it buys.

Arc's native gas token is USDC, so every number on this site — prices, market caps, thresholds, treasury balances — is denominated in USDC.

A launch mints the full fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens directly onto a bonding curve. Nothing is pre-allocated: no team pocket, no launch liquidity to snipe, no presale.

The creator chooses exactly one parameter: the engine mode (×1 ×2 ×4 ×8). Everything else — the 4% tax, the burn-only treasury, the locked LP — is fixed by the protocol.

Trading is a constant-product bonding curve with a virtual quote reserve of 16.8 USDC at launch, a 1% protocol fee, and a decaying anti-snipe tax on the opening seconds. The launcher and the engine treasury are exempt from the snipe tax from block one.

At 42 USDC of real reserves the curve graduates: reserves sweep into a Uniswap v4 pool and the liquidity position lands in a locker that has no withdraw function.

Every trade — buy or sell — pays a 4% creator tax. On Bantyx the recipient is the engine treasury, and both the rate and the recipient are frozen on-chain at launch. The creator cannot redirect it, reduce it, or touch the funds.

Fees accrue on the curve until a keeper sweeps them into the engine's claimable escrow balance.

The engine buys dips and burns what it buys. Keepers decide when to fire; the contract independently enforces each mode's cooldown, spend cap and per-run budget on-chain, so a keeper can only ever be conservative.

Burned tokens are sent to 0x…dEaD. Total supply only ever decreases.

This deployment lives on Arc Testnet (chain 5042002). The flagship token is $BANX. Everything is unaudited testnet software.