BARC launched on Arc on 9 September 2026. The wallet that deployed it was one day old. Its money was four months old, and it traces in four hops to a wallet that held USDC in Arc's genesis block.
Chain of custody
Genesis block to contract. Every address is public.
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25.23 of its 30 USDC went on the launch. 2.01 left, nonce of 3. Three transactions in its entire life. It was made for this and nothing else.
Minted through Uniswap's Liquidity Launcher on Arc.
Every timestamp
All times UTC. Every block number is public and every row can be opened on arc-scan.
| Step | Event | Block | Time (UTC) |
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| 01 | Arc genesis block | 0 | 2026-05-12 00:00:00 |
| · | First real block | 1 | 2026-05-15 13:58:51 |
| 02 | Genesis wallet → faucet · 500 USDC | 9,327 | 2026-05-15 15:17:24 |
| 03 | Faucet → funder · 1 USDC | 4,279,368 | 2026-06-09 14:47:15 |
| 03 | Faucet → funder · 499 USDC | 4,283,318 | 2026-06-09 15:20:27 |
| 04 | Funder → BARC deployer · 30 USDC | 19,839,330 | 2026-09-08 18:24:26 |
| 05 | BARC deployed | 20,019,032 | 2026-09-09 19:40:46 |
For reference: CCTP was first used on Arc at block 718,542, 2026-05-19 19:45:30 UTC. Every transfer above it in this table predates the bridge.
The receipts
The faucet has sent 6,966 USDC to 247 different wallets. The distribution is not flat.
It is not a plain wallet. Its runtime code is 23 bytes:
The 0xef0100 prefix is an EIP-7702 delegation marker.
The wallet has pointed itself at a smart-account implementation, and that contract
answers namespaceAndVersion() with Uniswap.Calibur.1.0.0.
Block explorers show this address as a contract with no creation transaction. That is the expected artifact of a 7702 delegation. Nothing was deployed. The wallet attached code to itself with one signature.
Its behaviour matches:
The wallet at the top of the chain held 10,000 USDC at block 0. It holds nothing today and has made 19 transactions in total.
The decisive check is the start of the chain. In Arc's first 20,000 blocks there are exactly 8 native USDC transfers. All 8 come from that one address. For a stretch at the beginning of the chain, it was the only wallet moving money at all.
The genesis wallet did not top up the faucet once. It did it five times, for 3,500 USDC in total.
| Time (UTC) | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 15:17 | 500 USDC |
| 2026-05-29 01:56 | 500 USDC |
| 2026-06-02 13:29 | 1,000 USDC |
| 2026-06-02 20:13 | 500 USDC |
| 2026-06-09 11:54 | 1,000 USDC |
The faucet has paid out 6,966 USDC across its whole life. 3,500 of that came from a single wallet that held USDC at block 0. This was not one transfer that could be waved away as a handout. It was a standing arrangement.
Arc's genesis block is stamped 2026-05-12 00:00:00 UTC. Block 1 did not arrive until 2026-05-15 13:58:51 UTC. The chain sat still for three and a half days between them.
That gap is the genesis file being written and held before the network was switched on. Whoever was allocated USDC in it knew about the chain before the chain was running.
On the first day the chain produced blocks at all, that wallet was already moving money.
Arc's inbound corridor is gated. A raw public burn does not receive an attestation, so the obvious question is how any of these wallets have money.
The timing answers it.
| Event | Time (UTC) | Block |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis wallet funds the faucet | 2026-05-15 15:17:24 | 9,327 |
| CCTP first used on Arc | 2026-05-19 19:45:30 | 718,542 |
The money was moving on Arc four days before the bridge was used once. It did not cross a bridge. It was allocated at genesis.
Precedent
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Every address is public and every number on this page is onchain. Open them on arc-scan and check.
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Three steps
Gas is USDC. No new token to buy just to move.
Any EVM wallet works. Add the Arc network, or hit connect on a dapp and let it add itself.
Use CCTP to move USDC to Arc. It's the native gas token, so that's the only thing you need.
Open the DEX, paste the contract address above, swap. Done.
Network
USDC is the gas token. One balance, nothing else to buy before you can transact.
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Questions
We're saying what the chain says: the money that launched BARC traces in four hops to a wallet that held USDC in Arc's genesis block, and it never crossed a bridge to get there. Nobody has claimed the deployer. Read the evidence and draw your own conclusion.
No. BARC is a memecoin. It is not issued, endorsed or affiliated with Circle Internet Group, Inc. or anyone working on Arc.
It held 10,000 USDC at block 0, before there were users. In Arc's first 20,000 blocks there are exactly 8 native USDC transfers and all 8 come from it. And it was moving money four days before CCTP ran on Arc for the first time, so the funds could not have been bridged in.
0x4753c45fb550fecaa143a47968659117e6ffc2ce. It's in the buy section and nowhere else. Anyone DMing you a different one is robbing you.
That's how Arc works. USDC is the native gas token, so fees are stable and predictable and you don't need to hold anything else to transact.
No idea, and nobody who tells you otherwise does either. It's a dog with a ticker. Never put in more than you're happy to lose.
