One project at a time. A 3-day USDC raise decides who leads it — and everyone who contributed gets a vote on what it becomes.
Name, ticker, logo and roadmap are all decided by contributors' votes once a raise closes. This card shows the shape of a round — it isn't a real one yet.
Every contributor gets a vote, weighted by their share of the raise.
Contributors send USDC for 3 days.
Everyone votes on name, ticker, logo, roadmap, date.
Confirmed lead has 12h to publish the essentials.
80% of USDC becomes LP liquidity immediately.
Lead's 15% vests 3%/day; CirclePad's 5% funds buyback.
The fund-pooling, voting and vesting contract described above is still in design and review — it hasn't gone live with real funds. This page switches from preview to a real round the moment one opens.
CirclePad runs one project at a time, so there's a single round to watch rather than a list to sift through. When a round is announced, it'll show up here and on Home.
Every bidder in a raise — not just the top bidder — gets a vote on the project's identity, weighted by their share of the total raise. Five things get decided this way:
Voting runs alongside the 3-day funding window and closes when the raise does.
Once a round is live, connecting your wallet here will show what you've contributed and your share of the raise so far.
Ranks every contributor in the current raise by USDC committed, with each one's share of the total.
Two holder benefits are planned, both still being worked out in detail:
ArcPad synergy — existing ArcPad launch participants are planned to get an advantage when a CirclePad round opens.
CirclePad airdrop — a separate airdrop for CirclePad participants is also planned.
Every round splits its raised USDC three ways: 80% becomes LP liquidity immediately, 15% goes to the confirmed lead (vested), and 5% goes to CirclePad's own treasury.
That 5%, together with CirclePad's own trading fees once projects are live, is meant to fund CirclePad's own buyback-and-burn and promotion — the same loop repeating project after project rather than a one-off.
First round, actually built: the recipient wallet starts a 72-hour timer. Anyone can contribute USDC while it's open, and withdraw their own contribution back any time before it closes — no lock-in. When it closes, the balance splits 80% recipient / 5% platform / 15% treasury automatically. None of the bidding, leadership, or voting described below is on-chain yet in this round — see Safety design.
One project. A 3-day USDC raise decides who leads it and how it's split. Every contributor votes on what it becomes.
A single project raises USDC for 3 days on Arc. Every bid is recorded with the bidder's address and amount — this is what determines both voting weight and the final payout split.
Whoever bid the most becomes the project lead. Every bidder — not just the lead — gets a vote, weighted by their share of the total raise, on the project's actual identity: coin name, ticker, logo, roadmap, and launch date.
When the raise ends, the pooled USDC splits three ways: 80% becomes real LP liquidity immediately (not a bonding curve that snipers can race from zero), 5% goes to the CirclePad platform, and 15% is reserved for the confirmed lead. Dexscreener listing and a 100x boost are paid for by the platform, not the lead.
The lead has 12 hours after the raise ends to publish the project's confirmed details plus an official X account and at least one more community channel (X Community, Telegram, or Discord — a website is optional but encouraged). Miss it, and leadership passes to the second-highest bidder, who gets the same 12 hours.
The confirmed lead's 15% doesn't land all at once. It vests 3% per day over 5 days. If the lead stops running the project, whatever hasn't vested yet returns to the original bidders, split proportionally to what they put in.
First round, actually built: 80% recipient wallet / 5% platform wallet / 15% treasury wallet, paid directly — no LP liquidity or vesting yet. The split below is the longer-term vision this round doesn't implement.
The platform's 5%, plus CirclePad's own trading fees once projects are live, fund CirclePad's own buyback-and-burn and promotion — the same loop, project after project, rather than a one-off.
Holder benefits: participation in a project with real liquidity from block one (not a race against bots on an empty curve), plus a planned ArcPad synergy — details to come.
This page is honest about what's still being worked out. Two things had to change before this was safe to build at all.
The original version paid 15% of the entire raise to the lead's wallet the moment the 12-hour checklist was met — an X account and one social channel. That's a low bar for a large, immediate payout: someone could self-fund a majority bid, clear the checklist in minutes, and walk away with most of their own contribution back plus a share of everyone else's.
Fix: the 15% vests 3% per day over 5 days instead of paying out immediately.
Vesting alone doesn't fully close the gap — someone could still collect a few days' worth of tranches and stop. The remaining, unvested amount needs a defined, automatic path back to bidders rather than sitting stuck or depending on a human deciding "this looks abandoned."
Current proposal: the lead must check in on-chain periodically (roughly every 48 hours). Miss a check-in, and the project is automatically marked abandoned — no admin, no vote, no judgment call — and everything left unvested returns to the original bidders, split proportionally to what they put in.
The fund-pooling, auction, voting, vesting, and clawback logic described on this page is a brand-new smart contract — not a reuse of ArcPad's existing, already-deployed factory the way most of that side of the site works. Code that pools money from multiple people carries real risk if it has a bug. It is not going live with real funds without a real security review first.
Partly. The first-round escrow contract is deployed on Arc mainnet (see Contracts below) — once the recipient starts the clock, the 72-hour USDC raise is real and the Home panel switches from preview to live numbers. The bigger lead/vote/vesting mechanism described here is a separate contract that is still in design and review.
Yes — every bidder gets a vote on the project's identity, and if the lead is ever marked abandoned, unvested funds return to all original bidders proportionally, not just the lead.
That's exactly the failure mode this is designed against — see Safety design. The payout is small and slow at first (3%/day), and stops automatically without a check-in.
USDC is Arc's own native gas token, so it's the natural first quote asset — no bridging, no extra approval step. Other quote assets may follow once the core mechanism is live and tested.
Every CirclePad contract on Arc mainnet, read straight from this site's config so this list can't drift from what's deployed. Verify anything here on the explorer before you contribute.