AMM venues

When you launch a token, one of the choices is the AMM venue: Uniswap V3 or SushiSwap V3. This page explains what that means, what it changes, and what it doesn't.

What's an AMM?

AMM stands for automated market maker. It's the machine that lets your token be traded without anyone needing to be on the other side of the trade.

Normally, buying something requires a seller. Stock exchanges work this way: your buy order gets matched against somebody's sell order. If nobody's selling, nothing happens.

An AMM removes that requirement. Instead of matching people, it holds a pool — a pot with two things in it, your token and USDC — and it will always trade with you against that pot:

• You buy: you add USDC to the pot, it hands you tokens.
• You sell: you add tokens to the pot, it hands you USDC.

The price isn't set by anyone. It's simply the ratio between the two sides. Every buy takes tokens out and puts USDC in, making tokens scarcer in the pot, so the next buyer pays slightly more. Every sell does the reverse. The pool is always open, always willing to trade, and needs no counterparty. That's the whole idea.

The AMM is the software that runs this. Uniswap is the best-known one; SushiSwap is another.

So what am I choosing?

You're choosing which AMM's software will host your token's pool.

The pool is created for you at launch (Quick Launch) or at graduation (Utility Token). The venue you pick decides which protocol that pool belongs to — which contracts hold the liquidity, and which exchange's interface will show your token if someone goes looking for it there.

That's genuinely the whole difference. It is not a difference in how your token behaves.

The two options

Uniswap V3 is the original, and Arcantis's first venue. It's the most widely recognised AMM in crypto, and the design almost every other AMM copied.

SushiSwap V3 is a fork of Uniswap V3 — meaning its code was copied from Uniswap V3's own source, unchanged. Not "inspired by", not "similar to": the pool contracts do the same arithmetic, because they are the same arithmetic. What differs is the branding, and that it's a separate deployment with its own separate liquidity and its own community.

Both are live on Arc, and both were deployed by Arcantis for this purpose.

What is identical between them

Practically everything a trader or creator would care about:

• The swap fee is 1.00% on both. This is the fee the pool charges on every trade, and it's the same tier whichever venue you choose.
• The mandatory fee split is identical — 70% creator / 20% platform / 10% rewards, on both venues. See Fees & tax.
• Liquidity is locked identically. Same locking contract, no withdraw function, either way.
• Graduation works identically. A Utility Token graduates at the same $25,000 threshold and seeds its pool the same way regardless of venue.
• Trading on Arcantis is identical. The Buy/Sell panel on your token's page automatically routes to the right venue. As a trader you never pick anything — you just trade, and Arcantis sends the order to whichever venue that token launched on.

What actually differs

Only two things, and both are about the world outside Arcantis:

1. Which protocol's liquidity your token joins. Each venue is a separate universe of pools. A token on Uniswap V3 is discoverable by people and tools looking at Uniswap; a token on SushiSwap V3 is discoverable by people and tools looking at SushiSwap.
2. Which brand your token is associated with. Some communities have a strong preference for one or the other. If yours does, pick that one.

If you have no preference, Uniswap V3 is the sensible default — it's the more widely recognised of the two, so more external tools and traders will find your token without being told where to look.

When the choice is locked in

Permanently, at launch. The venue is read once when your token is created and stored with it forever. There is no migration, no switch, no admin able to move a token from one venue to the other afterwards.

This is deliberate. Your token's pool is a real, locked position on that venue; moving it would mean unlocking liquidity, which is precisely the thing these contracts are built to make impossible.

For a Utility Token, the venue is chosen at launch even though the pool doesn't exist yet — the bonding curve remembers it and uses it when it graduates.

Where you'll see it

• On the launch form, as a picker with both logos, for both launch types.
• On token cards and token pages, as a small badge showing the venue and version (for example, a Uniswap logo with "V3"). For a Utility Token that hasn't graduated yet, there's no badge — there's no pool yet to belong to a venue.

Quick answers

Does the venue change what I earn? No. Identical fee, identical split, both venues.

Does it change what traders pay? No. 1.00% swap fee either way.

Can I change it later? No — permanent at launch.

Does it change how safe my token is? No. Same locked liquidity, same token contract, same guarantees. See Security.

Which should I pick? Uniswap V3 unless you have a specific reason to prefer SushiSwap.