Security
Exactly what Arcantis's token contracts can and cannot do to you, in plain terms.
Most ways people lose money on a launchpad aren't exotic hacks. They're ordinary powers written into the token contract on purpose: the creator mints more supply, freezes your wallet, turns off selling, or drains the pool.
This page goes through each of those, says whether Arcantis's tokens can do it, and — since "trust us" isn't an answer — says why not.
What the scanner checks actually mean
If you've pasted a token into a tool like GoPlus Security or Quick Intel, you've seen this list. Here's what each item means for you as a holder.
| Check | What it means if the answer is "yes" |
|---|---|
| Mintable | The creator can create more tokens out of nothing, diluting you. |
| Hidden owner | Someone still controls the contract through an address that isn't obvious. |
| Honeypot | You can buy, but you can't sell. Your money is stuck. |
| Proxy / upgradeable | The contract's code can be swapped for different code later. Every other guarantee becomes meaningless. |
| Transfer pausable | Someone can freeze all transfers, trapping everyone. |
| Trading cooldown | Forced waiting periods between trades. |
| Can't sell all | You're blocked from selling your entire balance. |
| Owner can change balances | Someone can edit how much you own. |
| Blacklist | Specific wallets can be blocked from trading. Yours could be one. |
| Whitelist | Only approved wallets can trade. |
Meme tokens (Quick Launch)
A Meme token is a completely standard ERC-20 with no custom logic at all. The entire contract is a constructor that creates the supply once, and then nothing. There is no other code in it.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Mintable | ✅ No |
| Hidden owner | ✅ No — no owner exists at all |
| Honeypot | ✅ No |
| Proxy / upgradeable | ✅ No |
| Transfer pausable | ✅ No |
| Trading cooldown | ✅ No |
| Can't sell all | ✅ No |
| Owner can change balances | ✅ No |
| Blacklist | ✅ No |
| Whitelist | ✅ No |
| Ownership renounced | N/A — there was never an owner to renounce |
Utility tokens (Advanced, taxed)
A Utility Token adds one thing: the creator's buy/sell tax. Every other answer is identical.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Mintable | ✅ No |
| Hidden owner | ✅ No — no owner exists on the token contract |
| Honeypot | ✅ No |
| Proxy / upgradeable | ✅ No |
| Transfer pausable | ✅ No |
| Trading cooldown | ✅ No |
| Can't sell all | ✅ No |
| Owner can change balances | ✅ No |
| Blacklist | ✅ No |
| Whitelist | ✅ No |
| Ownership renounced | N/A — there was never an owner to renounce |
"Ownership renounced: N/A" is stronger than "Yes", not weaker
This one looks worse than it is, so it's worth spelling out.
Normally a token contract has an owner with special powers. A careful creator gives those
powers up by calling renounceOwnership(), and scanners then report "Ownership renounced: Yes".
But that's an action someone has to actually take. Until they do, the owner still has every power the contract grants. And you're trusting that they did it, and that they did it before anything bad happened.
Arcantis token contracts skip the whole problem: they never declare an owner in the first place. There's no button to press, nothing to verify anyone pressed, and no code path that could introduce an owner later. It isn't possible to deploy an owner-controlled version of these contracts, permanently, by design.
The honest caveat
That's about the token contract — the address you'd paste into a scanner. It is not a claim that the whole platform has no admin anywhere.
The surrounding infrastructure (LaunchConfig, FeeSplitter, TaxRouter, LiquidityLocker)
does have a platform owner, with narrow and specific powers: one-time wiring done at deploy, plus
a support backstop that can reassign a creator's own fee-recipient address — for cases like a
creator losing access to their wallet.
What that admin cannot do: touch trader funds, mint tokens, pause trading, unlock liquidity, or change the mandatory fee split.
Why "Honeypot: No" is guaranteed, not just tested
A honeypot usually works by making the sell tax effectively 100% — you can buy, and selling either fails or returns nothing.
On Arcantis this is impossible rather than merely absent. The mandatory 1% plus the creator's additional tax is bounded on-chain so it can never reach 100%. If it could, the tax maths would try to deduct more than the sale is worth and every sell would revert forever.
That bound lives in the token and curve contracts themselves — not in the launch form. It holds no matter what calls the launch function, so it can't be bypassed by launching through some other route.
Liquidity is locked permanently
Once a pool exists — at launch for a Meme token, at graduation for a Utility Token — the position holding its liquidity is moved into a locking contract.
That contract has no withdraw function. No unlock. No transfer. Not time-locked, not multisig-guarded — the functions do not exist. There is no code path that removes liquidity, for anyone, ever, including Arcantis.
The only two things anybody can ever do with a locked position:
- Collect its trading fees — permissionless, anyone can trigger it, and the proceeds split 70 / 20 / 10 as described in Fees & tax.
- Add more liquidity to it — also permissionless. It can get deeper, never shallower.
This is what "rug pull" usually means, and it's the specific thing these contracts are built to make impossible.
What this page does not protect you from
Being honest about the boundaries, because a security page that only lists reassurances isn't one:
- The price can still go to zero. Locked liquidity guarantees you can always sell. It says nothing about what you'll get.
- The creator can sell their own tokens. A dev buy at launch is visible on the token page under Degen stats — check it, along with whale concentration, before you buy.
- A high tax is legal here. It's capped below 100% and always displayed, but a token can absolutely charge a lot. Look at the rate before trading.
- Custom Forge addresses aren't audited. If a creator points a bucket at their own contract, Arcantis doesn't vouch for it. See Forges.