Arc, the layer-1 blockchain built by Circle, the company behind USDC, uses USDC for gas instead of a separate token, and it is new enough that no wallet on it has a meaningful trading history yet. Banana Gun, a non-custodial Telegram trading bot, added Day One Arc support for sniping and copy trading, which puts three decisions in front of a meme coin trader: which launchpad to watch, which wallet to copy, and which exit to set before buying.
What does Arc change about gas costs?
Arc uses USDC itself for gas, so there is no separate native token to hold before a trade. Arc is new, and every wallet, launchpad and bot on the chain is working from the same short history.
That matters for a meme coin trader more than it does on an older chain. Ethereum, Solana and Base carry years of wallet and launchpad behavior to study. Arc carries none of that yet, so the first decisions lean on process, not precedent.
Banana Gun has announced Day One Arc support covering sniping and copy trading. That puts a working Telegram trading bot on the chain from the opening days, which is one less unknown while everything else about Arc is still unproven.
How do you judge an Arc launchpad before it has a track record?
Launchpads on Arc are a crowded field right now. Roughly nineteen platforms are competing for listings, among them ArcPad, Tolly, CircleWarp, Minara, Archemist, Flutch, Ubi, ACT, Akad, Zyora, Synthra, Flipt, Arcane, Sashimi, Eve, Lift, Foci and Ayoo.
None of them has performance data worth trusting yet. Arc is too new for any claim about which launchpad produces the best launches to be more than a guess dressed up as research. A trader who picks one now is picking a process, not a winner.
Three checks apply to any Arc launchpad, regardless of age. Does a launch there keep trading past the first day, or does volume disappear once the early buyers exit?
Does liquidity stay in the pool, or drain within hours of listing? Does the same deployer address turn up again on a later launch, a pattern worth tracking whether it turns out good or bad?
Apply those checks to whichever Arc launchpad you are watching this week. Nobody has performance data yet, on any of the nineteen names above.
Why does no wallet on Arc have a copy-trading history yet?
Arc is new, so no wallet on the chain has more than a few days of activity, and a trader cannot lean on reputation the way they might on Solana or Base.
Judging a wallet with no track record in more depth is its own question, one this piece leaves aside to focus on picking a launchpad instead.
Setting your exit before you enter: Trailing Stop Loss and Spend Limit
Trailing Stop Loss is a setting a trader configures inside Copy Trade, not a default that runs on its own. It follows a position as price rises and sells if price falls back by the percentage the trader chose.
On a token with no trading history, that percentage is the only thing standing between a trader and a full round trip back to zero.
Spend Limit works in the other direction. It caps how much of a trader’s balance a single copied trade, or a single wallet, can use.
Set the limit too high and it does nothing; set it too tight and it can block a trade a trader actually wanted, which is the tradeoff every filter makes.
Buy Fixed sets the size of each entry, so a trader is not manually sizing every copied trade. Buy Only Once adds a seven-day block against buying the same token twice.
None of these settings replace the honeypot detection, anti-MEV and Anti-Rug protections that run by default. They sit alongside them as choices a trader makes on top.
Where a Telegram trading bot fits into an Arc launch
A Telegram trading bot works from inside the same app a trader already has open, sniping and copying without a separate browser session or wallet extension.
Banana Gun authenticates through Privy, using a Google, X or Telegram account, and stays non-custodial. It does not hold a trader’s keys; it uses them only to sign what the trader authorizes.
On chains with years of history, a bot’s job is mostly speed and filters. On Arc, in its first days, the job is closer to discipline: the same checks, filters and exit plan a trader would use anywhere else, because nothing about this new chain is proven yet.
Arc’s ecosystem is filling in around that discipline. CCTP mints native USDC on Arc once Circle attests the transfer, and Bubblemaps covers Arc from day one for supply and holder mapping, a check Banana Gun does not run itself.
Common questions
Does Arc have its own gas token?
Arc has no native gas token. It uses USDC for gas instead, so a trader funding a wallet on Arc only needs USDC, not a second asset to cover transaction costs. That differs from Ethereum, Solana, Base and the other chains Banana Gun supports.
Can you copy a wallet on Arc that has no trade history?
Yes, but there is nothing to judge yet. Arc is new, so every wallet on the chain has a short history. A trader copying an Arc wallet through Banana Gun relies on filters like Spend Limit and Trailing Stop Loss instead of a track record that does not exist yet.
How many launchpads are live on Arc?
Roughly nineteen launchpads are competing for listings on Arc, including ArcPad, Tolly, CircleWarp, Minara and Archemist. None of them has enough history to compare on performance, since Arc itself is too new. A trader can only judge them on process right now, watching whether trading continues past the first day and whether liquidity stays in the pool.
What happens if Trailing Stop Loss is not set?
Trailing Stop Loss does not run unless a trader configures it inside Copy Trade; it is not active by default. Without it, a position has no automatic exit tied to price movement, and a trader depends entirely on manually closing the trade. On a new chain like Arc, that gap is riskier than usual.
