A fixed supply, released slowly.
Twenty billion, and no way to make more. Here is where it goes, how fast, and what it is actually for.
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What ARCU is for
What ARCU is for
It pays the fees on our own chain, and it settles what happens there — buying an item, selling a piece of land, entering a competition, paying a node for work it has done. It is the coin the network runs on rather than a share of anything.
There are two of them, and this matters. The ARCU token on Avalanche C-Chain and the ARCU that pays fees on the Arcade Union chain share a name and nothing else. There is no bridge between them yet. Sending one expecting the other does not work and cannot be undone.
What is real today
- The token contract is deployed and source-verified on Avalanche C-Chain
- Two billion exists, held by the treasury
- Nobody holds the minting role — the other eighteen billion cannot be created by anyone, us included
- On our own chain, ARCU pays fees and settles marketplace sales now
What is not
- No exchange listing and no liquidity pool. The C-Chain token cannot be bought or sold on any market.
- No emission. The contract that would release the rest is deliberately not deployed.
- No sale. No licences sold, no rewards paid.
- Figures below are from a published model and may change. None of this is a promise of value, and none of it is financial advice.
A taper, not a cliff.
If the remaining supply is ever released, it comes out fastest at the start and never quite finishes.
Thirty years, falling about 25% each year. Year one would release 4.5 billion; year thirty, about one million. Hover a bar for the exact figure.
The schedule totals 17,996,952,199 ARCU. With the two billion already minted, roughly 3 million is never created at all — the curve approaches the cap and never reaches it. That is deliberate: a schedule that exactly hit the cap would have to be perfect to the wei, and this one does not have to be.
How each release is divided
Six parts to the people carrying the games, two to the games themselves, one to everything else.
The node share pays for delivery work actually done. The games share funds studios and competition pools. The ecosystem share covers everything else. The last tenth is the two billion that already exists.
What takes supply back out.
A supply that only ever grows is a supply nobody has thought about.
Every marketplace sale
A share of every sale on our chain is sent to an address nobody holds the keys to. It is in the contract, it applies to us exactly as it applies to everyone, and the running total is public.
Things we sell ourselves
When the games sell something — land, items — the proceeds are burned rather than recycled into rewards. Recycling it would just move the same coin round in a circle.
What burning actually is
Coin sent to an address with no private key. It is not destroyed by magic; it is simply somewhere nobody can reach, for ever, and anyone can verify the balance.
Read more — how much this actually matters
Honestly: not much yet, and it would be easy to oversell. The chain’s own coin has a fixed supply of 100,000,000, the great majority of which is held by the treasury. Burning sale proceeds from that is closer to a commitment than to scarcity engineering.
What it does buy is something a treasury balance cannot: a burn is irreversible and anyone can check it, whereas “we are holding this and will not spend it” is a promise that can quietly change. The value is the part you do not have to take our word for.
It becomes materially different if a bridge is ever built, because then what is burned is backed by real ARCU locked on the other chain — and that genuinely leaves circulation.
The questions worth asking.
Can the supply cap be raised?
No. It is set once in the constructor of the deployed contract and there is no function anywhere that changes it. You do not have to believe that — the source is verified and you can read it.
Can you mint more right now?
No. The role that permits minting is held by no address at all. Until an emission contract is deployed and granted that role, the supply cannot grow by a single token, including by us.
Can I buy ARCU?
Not on any market — there is no listing, no pool and no sale. The only ARCU in existence on the C-Chain is the treasury’s. The coin that pays fees on our own chain is a separate thing and is handed out in small amounts by a faucet.
Is it an investment?
No, and nothing here should be read that way. It is the coin a games network runs on. There is no promise of value, no expectation of return, and none of this is financial advice.
What happens if the project stops?
The contract stays where it is and keeps behaving exactly as its code says, because nobody can pause it or change it. What stops is us.