SAFEMOON on Arc: community white paper.

Part 1 of 3

The Rebirth

Learn from the past.

1. More than a token

SafeMoon was more than a token. For millions of people around the world it became a community: people who watched the charts together, learned crypto together, made memes together and believed a project could be built around ordinary holders instead of big institutions.

What followed broke that trust. SAFEMOON on Arc starts from that history instead of pretending it never happened. The aim isn't to erase the past. It's to learn from it, and to build something nobody has to take on faith.

Three words carry this paper: transparency, automation and community.

Trust shouldn't depend on promises when it can be checked on the chain.

2. What happened to the original SafeMoon

The original SafeMoon token launched on BNB Chain in March 2021. Its contract charged a 10% tax on transactions, split into two 5% parts: reflections to holders and liquidity. It grew extraordinarily fast and drew millions of holders.

Then the trust under it collapsed:

• On 1 November 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged SafeMoon LLC, SafeMoon US LLC, creator Kyle Nagy, CEO Braden John Karony and CTO Thomas Smith with fraud and an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities. The SEC alleged they withdrew crypto assets worth more than $200 million from the project and misappropriated investor funds, and that large parts of the liquidity pool, which investors were told was locked, never were.
• A criminal case ran alongside it. In May 2025 a federal jury convicted Karony of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. On 10 February 2026 he was sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to forfeit about $7.5 million. Prosecutors said he diverted funds meant for SafeMoon's liquidity pools for his own use.

"Automatic" is only trustworthy if nobody can reach around it.

3. The lesson: who holds the power?

The failure of the original wasn't a failure of community. It showed what happens when a community is asked to rely on claims it can't check. Automation alone doesn't prevent abuse:

• Adding liquidity automatically doesn't answer who can withdraw it.
• Collecting a tax automatically doesn't answer who controls where it goes.
• Publishing percentages doesn't answer whether they can be changed later.
• Publishing a contract doesn't answer whether an owner or admin keeps powers over it.

So three questions matter: Who holds the power? What can they change? What technically stops misuse? Part 2 answers all three for SAFEMOON on Arc, contract by contract, with addresses anyone can check.

4. What "Rebirth" means, and what it doesn't

Rebirth is a philosophy. The strongest part of SafeMoon was never its contract address: it was its people, with their energy, humour, loyalty and global reach. SAFEMOON on Arc takes that spirit and pairs it with what the original never had: rules enforced by code, and numbers anyone can check.

The line has to be clear:

• SAFEMOON on Arc is a separate, community-run token launched on Argus in September 2026.
• It isn't SafeMoon on BNB Chain, SafeMoon LLC, SafeMoon US LLC or the Solana SafeMoon, and it isn't connected to them or their former executives.
• It isn't a migration of old SafeMoon tokens. Holding it gives no right to compensation for past losses.
• It doesn't ask anyone to buy to prove their loyalty, and it doesn't promise that buying will win back what was lost.

A new token can't rewrite the past. It can set a higher standard for what comes next.

5. The community standard: verify everything

Ask questions. Check the contract. Follow the transactions. No developer, admin, community leader or large holder is above reasonable scrutiny because they support the project. Questions aren't FUD: they're how trust is earned.

That's why this project publishes what most keep vague: every contract, every tax payout and every burn, with a live record of all of it (section 17).

Part 2 of 3

The Protocol

Verify the technology.

6. Built on Arc

Arc is the blockchain built by Circle, the company behind USDC, the digital dollar. On Arc even the network fees are paid in USDC. That keeps SAFEMOON simple: you buy with dollars, pay fees in dollars, and holder rewards arrive in dollars. No second coin is needed just to move your tokens.

7. The token

The token is named Safemoon, ticker SAFEMOON, at 0xb969b1fb1c4ebd407fef8622947af85f3d1cff28. Its whole supply of 1,000,000,000 was created at launch on 20 September 2026, and the contract has no function to create more.

The contract is a fixed copy of the Argus launchpad's standard token code, so its rules can't be upgraded or swapped out later.

The address is the token's real identity. Names, logos, websites and social accounts can be copied. An address can't. Check it every time before you buy.

8. The market

SAFEMOON trades against USDC in a single Uniswap v4 pool on Arc (pool ID 0x5540ae9ddba8f2fdc7d5f29aa1cfc0eb32e0964a2c2ffc919933c7b2229eccc2). Uniswap v4 lets a pool carry a hook: a contract that runs on every swap. SAFEMOON's hook is what applies the tax.

DexScreener, GeckoTerminal and DEXTools all chart this pool. They're useful windows onto the chain, not audits or guarantees. The pool, the hook and every swap live on the chain itself, and that's where this paper points.

DexScreener shows the market. The blockchain shows the transactions. The contract shows the rules.

9. The 10% tax, and where it goes

Every buy and every sell pays 10%. The rate is set in the pool's hook contract, which caps it at 10% and has no function to change it.

100% of the tax is handled by the protocol's contracts, and none of it goes to a team, developer or marketing wallet: the creator's share is set to 0% in the contract, and that can't be changed either. After the launchpad's standard platform share, the token's tax distributor splits every payment the same way:

There's a second engine. The locked liquidity earns the pool's own trading fee, and those fees are collected into the same distributor and split the same way. So the liquidity feeds the burn and holder rewards too.

It runs automatically. The tax is taken on every swap, and the distributor splits it in regular batches, every one of them a public transaction.

10. Buyback & burn: 60%

The biggest share buys SAFEMOON back from the pool and sends it to the burn address, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD, which nobody controls. Burned tokens are gone for good, so every trade leaves fewer SAFEMOON in existence.

The burned total is simply the burn address's balance, so anyone can check it. The site cross-checks it three ways before showing it: the token contract, a full replay of every transfer, and ArcScan.

Burning cuts the supply. It doesn't set the price, which still depends on demand, liquidity and the wider market. The live total and every burn are at safemoonarmy.org/burn.

11. Holder rewards in USDC: 30%

This share is converted to USDC and deposited into the rewards contract, which credits every holder in proportion to how much SAFEMOON they hold.

• No minimum. Every token earns, however few. Only the pool, the burn address and the tax contracts are left out.
• Nothing to claim or stake. Hold SAFEMOON in your wallet and USDC arrives on its own: Argus's payout bot sends a wallet's rewards each time they reach $0.25.
• Nothing is lost if payouts pause. Rewards stay credited to each holder in the contract until the payout bot runs again.

One known limitation, disclosed: now and then a transfer runs short of gas and a wallet's share isn't updated, most often with smart wallets. Any normal transfer in or out fixes it, and the site's wallet lookup shows if a wallet is affected.

Rewards come only from trading. They aren't interest or a guaranteed return, and they're small when trading is quiet. See any wallet's at safemoonarmy.org/rewards.

12. Liquidity, locked: 10%

The pool's liquidity sits in a single position (#226875), held by the launchpad's locker contract. The locker's code has no withdraw function: it can only add liquidity and collect the position's fees. Nobody, the team included, can pull it out.

Every distribution adds to that position, so the locked liquidity keeps growing with every trade. Deeper liquidity means smoother trading and less price impact for everyone. Proof links are at safemoonarmy.org/liquidity.

13. Who controls what

Part 1's questions, answered from the deployed contracts as they stood on 1 October 2026:

14. Verify it yourself

Every address that matters. Paste any of them into ArcScan (arc.etherscan.io):

Or watch each one live: the burn at /burn, rewards at /rewards, liquidity at /liquidity, every distributor transaction at /tax-flow, and any wallet at /wallet.

Claim. Contract. Transaction. Proof.

15. What the model doesn't promise

The cycle runs on trading. More trading means more burned, more paid to holders and more liquidity; less trading means less. It doesn't create value on its own, and it can't guarantee price, volume, profits or returns. A burn cuts supply but doesn't create demand. Rewards rise and fall with volume. Like every crypto asset, SAFEMOON carries technical, market, liquidity and regulatory risk.

Mechanisms can be designed. Returns can't be promised.

Part 3 of 3

The Community & the Future

Build it together.

16. Community over personality

A protocol sets rules, a blockchain keeps the record and automation does the work. None of that makes a community. People do.

SAFEMOON on Arc is community-driven, not personality-driven. Developers build, community leaders organise, creators spread the word, holders take part and moderators keep the spaces safe, but no single role is the project. Where authority exists, it should be visible; where permissions exist, disclosed.

Nobody has to buy to belong. You can support the idea without holding, sell and still be part of it, or question the project and still want it to win. Criticism isn't FUD: it's how weak spots get found and fixed.

Support the project. Question the project. Verify the project.

17. The transparency dashboard is already live

A public dashboard that makes the tokenomics visible was built in the first days. safemoonarmy.org shows, straight from the chain:

• Overview: price, market cap, liquidity, volume, burn and rewards.
• Burn: the burned total and every burn.
• Rewards: every holder, the top earners and each payout.
• Liquidity: what the tax added, and the lock proof.
• Tax flow: every buyback, burn, payout and liquidity add, with its transaction.
• Whales: the biggest holders across Arc and five other chains.
• Wallet lookup: any wallet's balance, rewards, rank and trades, including the Arc wallet behind a pump.fun or fomo Solana address.
• Calculator: what any amount would earn, from the last 24 hours' real pace.
• Timeline: milestones, the story so far and every weekly recap.
• Start here and FAQ: from zero to holding, in plain English.
• Share kit: a fresh post and card with the live numbers, new every time, so the community never posts the same thing twice.

No sign-ups, no cookies and no wallet connection.

Data becomes evidence.

18. The SafemoonArc bot

A free Telegram bot, @SafemoonArcBot, that checks the chain for holders:

• Payout alerts: a message each time USDC rewards land in your wallet.
• Wallet check: is every token earning, and how much is waiting to be sent?
• Rewards estimate for any amount, plus price & burn alerts at levels you pick.
• Holder card to share, and a summary of your week every Sunday.
• In the Telegram group: live price, supply, burn and rewards; fresh posts and cards to share; quizzes and a weekly market-cap guessing game; milestone posts; and a recap every Sunday of where the tax went.
• The Moon mine: a game in the group where finds are sold at a smelter with SAFEMOON's own tax, 60% burned, 30% shared with players and 10% to the season's vault. It's just for fun: its Dust has no value.

One rule runs through all of it: every number the bot announces is checked against independent sources, like the pool's on-chain price against DexScreener, or the burn against the contract, a full transfer replay and ArcScan. Nothing is posted unless they agree.

19. Growing the community

SAFEMOON grows by bringing people in and keeping them informed, not by promising returns:

• Onboarding communities. We airdropped a small amount of SAFEMOON to many communities in an attempt to onboard them, including some of the biggest whales on EVM chains.
• Listings and partners. SAFEMOON is tracked on DexScreener, DEXTools, GeckoTerminal and Moontok, and KOLs have come on board. Every listing is kept at safemoonarmy.org/listings.
• A weekly recap. Every Sunday the group gets a recap of where the tax went: burned, paid to holders and added to liquidity. Every recap is kept on the site's Timeline.
• Milestones as they happen. Burn, rewards, liquidity and holder milestones are posted in the group as they're reached, and recorded on the Timeline.

20. Safety and education

The strongest protection a community has is knowledge. The basics, always:

• The only contract is 0xb969…ff28 on Arc. Check it every time.
• The team and the bot never message you first, and never ask for your recovery phrase, private keys or funds. Anyone who does is a scammer.
• Watch for fake airdrops, impersonators, urgent DMs and copycat tokens using the SafeMoon name. Urgency is a warning sign.
• Check links before connecting a wallet, and review your token approvals.

The community keeps teaching the rest: wallet security, contract checks, slippage and tax, approvals, block explorers, holder concentration and common scams.

21. Responsible communication

Excitement is part of what makes a community powerful, but it should stay distinguishable from fact. Statements about the protocol should be checkable, and statements about the future should say whether something exists, is being built or is just an idea. No guaranteed returns, no price predictions, no "you'll regret not buying", and never using what former SafeMoon holders lost as a sales pitch. NFA.

Hype attracts attention. Credibility builds longevity.

22. Roadmap

Where things stand on 1 October 2026:

• Phase I · Rebirth DoneLaunch on Argus, the official contract and pool, locked liquidity, the website and live dashboard, the SafemoonArc bot, weekly recaps and this white paper.
• Phase II · Verify Largely doneLive proof of every burn, payout and liquidity add; contract permissions documented (section 13). Ongoing: deeper technical documentation.
• Phase III · Build In progressCommunity tools and games like the Moon mine, education resources, security practices and open consultation on major decisions.
• Phase IV · Expand NextMore listings and integrations, onboarding new communities and wider awareness.
• Phase V · Sustain AlwaysA community that outlasts any one person, market cycle or wave of hype.

A roadmap isn't a promise. Priorities, technical limits, security, markets and regulation can all change it, and when they do, the community will hear it openly.

The destination isn't a price. It's a community that lasts.

23. Risks

Crypto assets carry real risk, and SAFEMOON is no exception: losing some or all of what you put in, sharp price swings, thin liquidity, bugs in smart contracts or the protocols around them, network outages, wallet compromise, phishing, concentrated ownership, regulatory change, tax consequences, market manipulation, reliance on third-party infrastructure, and the project not reaching its goals. SafeMoon's history and the size of its old community say nothing about SAFEMOON on Arc's future.

Nothing in this paper is financial advice, or an offer to buy or sell anything. Only put in what you're fine losing. NFA. The full disclaimer is at safemoonarmy.org/disclaimer.

24. The future

SAFEMOON on Arc begins with a token. Its future depends on whether the community builds something more durable: a culture where transparency is normal, questions are welcome, developers are respected without being unquestionable, and holders understand the system they're part of. Where excitement and accountability live together, and community means people, not price.

The past is history. The future is built together.