Arc Token Manager: Mint, Burn, Pause or Change the Owner

Arc token changes you can reverse, and the ones you cannot

The manager has at most 4 tabs for an Arc token made with Tokenry: Supply, Trading, Voting and Ownership. Supply, Trading and Voting appear only when the token was created with a matching feature. The Ownership tab is always there.

Reversible: you can pause and unpause transfers, and add a wallet to the blacklist and take it off again. You can also activate your votes or give them to another address, and cancel a transfer of ownership before the new owner accepts.

Permanent: when you burn tokens on Arc, they are destroyed from the owner wallet and the supply goes down by the same amount. Raised anti-whale limits can never be lowered again, removing the limits cannot be undone, and neither can a renounce.

Pause, blacklist and anti-whale limits on an Arc token

Pause: when you pause token transfers on Arc, every transfer stops, including trades, until you unpause the token.

Blacklist: when you blacklist a wallet, it cannot send or receive the token. The token's Uniswap pools with USDC and the DEX routers cannot be blacklisted, and neither can the current owner.

Anti-whale limits: the Arc token manager shows the token's "Max wallet" and "Max per trade" as a percent of the current supply. A raise is permanent: you can raise each limit up to 100% of supply, but never lower it. Max per trade covers buys and sells through the token's pools, not transfers between wallets.

Transfer token ownership on Arc in 2 steps

A transfer of ownership on Arc starts when you enter the "New owner address" and press "Start transfer". You stay the owner, with every setting, until the new owner accepts.

To accept, the new owner connects their wallet to this manager on Arc, pastes the token address and presses "Accept ownership". Accepting is their own transaction, so they pay its gas in USDC. Once the new owner accepts, they are exempt from the token's anti-whale limits, if it has them, and you no longer are.

The 2 steps mean a mistyped or unreachable address can never become the owner. Until the new owner accepts, you can press "Cancel transfer" or start a new transfer to another address.

Renounce ownership of an Arc token: the order that works

Before you renounce ownership of an Arc token, unpause it, remove the anti-whale limits and take every wallet off the blacklist. Only then does the manager accept a renounce. A token with no owner is never left paused, limited or with blocked wallets.

"Remove limits" and "Renounce" sit under "Permanent changes" in the Ownership tab. Both buttons unlock only after you type the token's symbol exactly, with the same upper and lower case.

A renounce is permanent. As with any renounced OpenZeppelin Ownable contract, the token then has no owner. No one can mint, pause, blacklist or change the limits again.

What each change on Arc costs in USDC

Tokenry fee: none, on every change you make in the Arc token manager.

Gas: you pay the gas for each change in USDC, the native gas token on Arc (Arc docs on gas and fees). The owner wallet needs some USDC on Arc. If it holds too little USDC for the gas, your wallet or the network shows an "insufficient funds" error.

Failed or rejected: a transaction that lands on Arc and fails changes nothing, but it still uses gas. A signature you reject in your wallet sends nothing and costs nothing.

For the other tools on Arc and their fees, see Arc token tools.

Settings fixed when the Arc token was created

Some parts of an Arc token are written into its contract at creation. They are the name, symbol, decimals, supply cap and any extra addresses exempt from the anti-whale limits. The features are fixed too: a feature the token was created without cannot be added later.