Trade Argus on Axiom (20% Off)
Three seconds
The snipe tax is 99% in the launch second and 6.18% in the next. Pulse shows launch age, so you decide whether to wait it out or pay part of it.
Argus Trading Terminal and Bot
Looking for an argus trading bot and sniper? Argus is the biggest launchpad on Arc, Circle's new chain. More than 164,000 coins have gone out through it, and DefiLlama counted about $2.9 million in fees on them in the week Arc opened to the public. Axiom lists it first in the ARC protocol filter. Use Axiom referral code TradeNow for 20% off trading fees.
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Argus on Axiom
What is Argus, and how do Argus coins trade?
Argus is a launchpad on Arc that started launching coins in early September 2026, two weeks before the chain opened to the public. It has no bonding curve. A launch puts the coin's whole supply into one Uniswap v4 position that nobody can withdraw, so the coin trades in its final pool from the first block, and a hook on that pool charges the creator's tax on every buy and sell. The creator also decides where that money goes: their own wallet, dividends to holders, buyback and burn, or deeper liquidity.
Argus is the first entry in Axiom's Arc filter, and its coins trade in USDC like everything else on the chain, with gas paid in USDC as well. Two numbers decide what an Argus trade costs, and the creator sets both at launch for good: the buy tax and the sell tax.
| Chain | Arc, Circle's layer one, chain ID 5042 |
|---|---|
| In Axiom's filter | Argus, first in the ARC list |
| Launch model | No curve; the full supply sits in a permanently locked Uniswap v4 position from block one |
| Standard launch | One billion tokens, opening at about $2,500 fully diluted |
| Bonded | A badge at about $45,000 fully diluted; nothing moves when it is reached |
| Pool fee | 1% on every trade |
| Creator tax | 0% to 10% on each side, fixed at launch; one side may be zero |
| Snipe tax | 99% in the launch second, 6.18% in the next, 0.19% in the third, then nothing |
| Argus' cut | 10% of the tax and pool fees, plus all of the snipe tax |
| Pairs | USDC by default; ARGUS, ARCASH, EURC, cirBTC, WETH and XAUM gold are also approved |
| Scale | Over 164,000 launches; $2.94 million of fees in the 30 days to 23 September (DefiLlama) |
| Axiom fee | 1% on top of the pool fee and tax, 0.8% with code TradeNow |
Axiom or the Argus Site?
Argus's own site launches coins and lets each creator choose where the tax goes. Getting a good fill in the first seconds of an Arc launch, and watching dozens of Arc pads at once, happens in Axiom.
A USDC tip
Axiom's Express lane on Arc takes a tip in USDC, set per preset, for a faster fill on the launches you care about.
Argus and two dozen more
Argus leads a filter of two dozen Arc launchpads plus Uniswap and Slipstream pools, all in one Pulse feed.
Exits on taxed coins
Limit orders and stops let you leave without chasing a pool where every sell pays the creator's tax.
Argus's 1% pool fee and the creator's tax of up to 10% a side apply wherever you trade; Axiom adds 1%, or 0.8% with TradeNow. Launching and deciding where the tax goes stay on Argus.
How an Argus Launch Works
One position, no migration
A new coin's entire supply goes into a single Uniswap v4 position that starts at the opening price and runs upward, and each buy moves the price up through it. There is no curve to fill and no pool to move to later. A locker contract holds the position and has no withdraw function, so neither the creator nor Argus can pull the liquidity.
The bonded badge
Argus still calls a coin bonded, and on the standard settings that happens the first time its fully diluted value reaches about $45,000. It is a flag the hook sets once and never clears. Nothing is migrated when it flips, and a coin that sinks back below the mark keeps the badge.
The creator's opening buy
A creator can buy inside the launch transaction, before anyone else can trade. The limit is on price, not size: that buy may lift the price to four times the opening level, which on a standard launch is half the supply for about $2,500. In a sample of about 11,600 launches, one in six opened with a creator buy. Most were a dollar or so, but 53 of them took 40% of the supply or more.
What stays fixed
The tax rates, the fee split and the pair are written into each coin's own contracts, and none of them has a setter. Argus' admin can approve pair assets for new launches at any time and swap the contract templates for future ones after a four-hour delay, but neither reaches a coin already trading. There are no community takeovers on the current version; Argus says v2 will add them.
The Tax and Where It Goes
Every Argus trade pays the pool's 1% fee, and nearly every one pays a creator tax on top of it.
The creator picks the tax for each side, anywhere from zero to 10%, as long as buys and sells are not both left untaxed. The hook takes it from the trade itself, so a 10% buy tax costs you about a tenth of the tokens and a 10% sell tax about a tenth of the USDC. Once the coin exists the rates cannot change. In a sample of about 27,700 launches, 10% each way was the most common choice, at 32%, followed by 3% at 25% and 1% at 22%. One launch in twelve charges different rates for buying and selling.
| Tax each way | One buy | In and out |
|---|---|---|
| 1%, on 22% of launches | About 2.8% | About 5.5% |
| 3%, on 25% of launches | About 4.7% | About 9.3% |
| 10%, on 32% of launches | About 11.6% | About 21.9% |
The tax and the locked position's share of the pool fee both land in a splitter contract built for that coin. Argus takes 10% off the top, paid in the pair asset. The creator divides the other 90% at launch between four places: their own wallet, a buyback that burns the coin, dividends to holders, and liquidity added back into the locked position. Most do not divide it at all. In the same sample, 89% of launches send the whole 90% to the creator, 8% pay something to holders, about 5% feed the pool and fewer than 4% burn.
Dividends are the part Argus advertises most. It says the five biggest dividend coins had paid their holders between $131,000 and $324,000 each by 20 September. That money is still tax: every dollar a holder receives was paid by someone trading the coin.
The Three-Second Snipe Tax
For the first three seconds after a pool opens, Argus adds an extra tax that drops in steps.
In the second the pool opens the extra tax is 99%, trimmed where needed so the two taxes together never pass 99%. The next second it is 6.18%, in the third 0.19%, and after that it is gone. Arc makes a block about every half second, so the 99% wall covers roughly the first two blocks and the later steps barely register. The creator's opening buy, made inside the launch transaction, does not pay it.
The money goes somewhere unusual. The snipe tax is paid straight to Argus' treasury instead of into the coin's own split, and Argus' contract notes give the reason: on a coin that pays dividends, a sniper who funded the split would also be one of the holders it pays, and could win back part of their own tax by choosing when the payout is triggered. Paying it to the treasury closes that loop.
USDC, Gold, Bitcoin and Other Pairs
USDC is the default and, in practice, nearly the only pair: 194 of 200 launches sampled used it. Six other assets are approved: ARGUS, ARCASH, Circle's EURC and cirBTC, WETH, and Matrixdock's XAUM gold token. Argus added them one by one from 13 September and says it only admits assets with real liquidity on Arc. The pair becomes the coin's unit for everything, down to what the creator is paid in, since all six are paid out as themselves rather than converted to USDC.
A coin priced in cirBTC or gold moves with that asset as well as with its own buyers, so it can climb against bitcoin and still lose dollars. Argus pitches these pairs to creators as a way to earn more fees. For a trader they are one more price to watch, so check the pair on the token page before buying.
Argus Coins in Axiom's Pulse
With ARC selected, Argus is the first box in the protocol filter. The flood has slowed a lot since opening day: Argus' launch contract logged about 86,000 new coins in the 24 hours after the morning of 16 September, and about 1,600 in the 24 hours to 23 September. Almost every launch uses the same billion supply and the same $2,500 opening value, so fresh pairs look alike in the New Pairs column. What separates them is the tax and the creator's opening buy, and a ticker shows neither.
Tickers prove nothing here anyway. On 23 September the most traded coin on GeckoTerminal's Argus list was a cat coin whose ticker is USDC, trading against real USDC. Copy contract addresses from a source you trust.
Argus Trading Bot
On Argus the tax table decides whether a trade can work before the chart does.
A 1% coin costs about 5.5% to get into and out of with the TradeNow code. A 10% coin costs about 22%, which means it has to rise by more than a quarter before you are back to even, and that is the gap your take profit has to clear. The tax is taken inside the pool, so a limit order pays it just as a market order does; what the order saves you is chasing a thin book on the way out. The limit orders page covers setting them on the chart.
Argus Sniper Bot
On Argus the snipe starts two seconds after the pool opens, not in the first block.
A buy in the launch second loses 99% to tax, most of it to the treasury, and one in the next second still pays over 6% on top of the creator's rate. From the two-second mark the extra is under a fifth of a percent, and a second later it is zero. With blocks every half second, that is about the fifth block after launch. Before any of that, look at the holder list: a creator who took up to half the supply in the launch transaction shows up at the top of it.
Arc's validators are a fixed set, so getting in first comes down to Express, with its USDC tip set on the preset you keep for launches. Pulse filters for Arc launches are set out on the memecoin sniper page.
Arc Settings for Argus Coins
Everything on Arc is counted in USDC, gas included, and the gas comes out of the same balance you trade with. Axiom's Express route is set per preset, beside slippage, as a USDC tip; keep it on the preset for fresh launches and at zero on the rest. To move money in, Convert in the Exchange modal runs on Relay and turns SOL, ETH or a stablecoin on another chain into USDC on Arc. The Arc page covers the chain and the other pads in the ARC filter.
The ARGUS Token
ARGUS is the platform's own token, with a supply of one billion. Argus says 80% of its launchpad revenue goes to buying ARGUS back and burning it, and on 23 September the burn address held about 63.4 million ARGUS, a little over 6% of supply. The token was worth about $18.6 million fully diluted that day. It is also one of the approved pairs, so a creator can launch a coin priced in ARGUS instead of USDC.
Argus So Far
Argus' first coins went out on 2 September 2026 on an early Uniswap v3 version, and the launch contracts have been replaced several times since; the current one carries almost all of the 164,000. The launchpad was announced on 8 September, while Arc's mainnet was still private, under the tagline "every idea gets a seat", which turned out to be close to literal. New pair assets arrived from the 13th, argus.world went live on the 15th, and on the 16th, the day Arc opened to the public, Axiom, GMGN and Maestro were among the terminals already trading its coins.
Opening day was huge. DefiLlama counted $2.03 million in fees on Argus launches on 16 September alone, and Argus put its share of all Arc transaction fees that day at 38%. Since the 20th, fees have settled at about $70,000 a day. Argus says creators earned more than $4 million in the first two days and dividend holders about $2.35 million by the 20th.
On 22 September Argus announced a v2, in testing and audit, with community takeovers, distributions it says will favor holders, more flexible creator fees and token locks for creators. Until it ships, this page describes the contracts live today.
Where Argus Bites
Check the creator's opening buy first. The contract lets it take up to half the supply for about the opening value, free of the snipe tax, and a coin whose top holder is its own creator with 40% or more is a different trade from one with a flat holder list.
Then the tax. A 10% coin pays out on every trade in both directions whether holders are up or not, and a dividend is that same tax coming back to some of them. The busier the chart, the more everyone pays in.
And remember how new all of this is. Argus has already replaced its launch contracts several times, a v2 is on the way, and Arc itself has been public only since 16 September.
Trading Argus on Axiom, Step by Step
Enter invite code TradeNow
Open your account through axiom.trade/@tradenow, or type TradeNow into the referral field yourself, so the 20% discount applies from your first Argus trade.
Switch to ARC and fund
Choose Arc in the chain selector, then use Convert in the Exchange modal to bring USDC over from wherever your funds are.
Set an Express tip
Give one preset a small USDC tip for new launches and leave the others at zero.
Filter to Argus and check the coin
Tick Argus in the ARC filter, then read the buy tax, the sell tax and the top holder before the first buy.
Argus on Axiom — FAQ
Are Argus coins available on Axiom?
Yes. Argus is the first protocol in Axiom's Arc filter, and its coins trade from the normal buy panel and presets once ARC is selected in the chain selector.
Why use Axiom for Argus coins?
For the first seconds and the wider view: launch ages to time the snipe tax, Express with a USDC tip, and Argus next to two dozen other Arc pads in one feed.
What fees does an Argus coin charge?
Every trade pays the pool's 1% fee plus the creator's tax, which can be anything from 0% to 10% on each side and is fixed at launch. On top of that, Axiom takes 1% a trade, cut to 0.8% by the TradeNow code.
What is the Argus snipe tax?
An extra tax in the first three seconds after a pool opens: 99% in the launch second, 6.18% in the next and 0.19% in the third, then nothing. It is paid to Argus' treasury.
What does bonded mean on Argus?
It is a milestone badge. On the standard settings a coin bonds the first time its fully diluted value reaches about $45,000. No liquidity moves and the pool stays the same.
Can the liquidity of an Argus coin be removed?
No. The whole supply is minted into a Uniswap v4 position held by a locker with no withdraw function, and neither the creator nor Argus can take it out.
What can an Argus coin be paired with?
USDC by default. Argus has also approved ARGUS, ARCASH, EURC, cirBTC, WETH and the XAUM gold token as pairs, though almost every launch still uses USDC.
Who gets the tax on an Argus coin?
Argus keeps 10% of the tax and pool fees. The creator splits the rest at launch between their own wallet, holder dividends, buyback and burn, and extra liquidity, and most send all of it to their wallet.
Is Axiom affiliated with Argus?
No. Argus coins trade through public pools on Arc, which is how Axiom reaches them. Argus runs argus.world.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer: A coin paired with bitcoin, gold or another token carries that asset's risk as well, and crypto is volatile. Not financial advice. Argus' mechanics come from its verified contracts on Arc and its own posts, as read in September 2026; fee figures are DefiLlama's, launch counts and samples come from Argus' launch contract, and creator and dividend totals are Argus' own. Axiom Pro is an affiliate site that operates separately from Axiom Trade, Argus or Circle. Use at your own risk.