One payment, priced by length.
Shorter names cost more. Pay once, in USDC, and the name is yours for good — no renewals. A .arc or .circle name is half the price of the matching @handle.
| Length | @handle | .arc | .circle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 characters | 2,500.00 USDC full price 10,000.00 USDC | 1,250.00 USDC full price 5,000.00 USDC | 1,250.00 USDC full price 5,000.00 USDC |
| 3 characters | 250.00 USDC full price 1,000.00 USDC | 125.00 USDC full price 500.00 USDC | 125.00 USDC full price 500.00 USDC |
| 4 characters | 50.00 USDC full price 200.00 USDC | 25.00 USDC full price 100.00 USDC | 25.00 USDC full price 100.00 USDC |
| 5 characters | 10.00 USDC full price 40.00 USDC | 5.00 USDC full price 20.00 USDC | 5.00 USDC full price 20.00 USDC |
| 6–9 characters | 5.00 USDC full price 20.00 USDC | 2.50 USDC full price 10.00 USDC | 2.50 USDC full price 10.00 USDC |
| 10+ characters | 2.50 USDC full price 10.00 USDC | 1.25 USDC full price 5.00 USDC | 1.25 USDC full price 5.00 USDC |
- 2 characters
- @handle
- 2,500.00 USDC
- full 10,000.00 USDC
- .arc
- 1,250.00 USDC
- full 5,000.00 USDC
- .circle
- 1,250.00 USDC
- full 5,000.00 USDC
- 3 characters
- @handle
- 250.00 USDC
- full 1,000.00 USDC
- .arc
- 125.00 USDC
- full 500.00 USDC
- .circle
- 125.00 USDC
- full 500.00 USDC
- 4 characters
- @handle
- 50.00 USDC
- full 200.00 USDC
- .arc
- 25.00 USDC
- full 100.00 USDC
- .circle
- 25.00 USDC
- full 100.00 USDC
- 5 characters
- @handle
- 10.00 USDC
- full 40.00 USDC
- .arc
- 5.00 USDC
- full 20.00 USDC
- .circle
- 5.00 USDC
- full 20.00 USDC
- 6–9 characters
- @handle
- 5.00 USDC
- full 20.00 USDC
- .arc
- 2.50 USDC
- full 10.00 USDC
- .circle
- 2.50 USDC
- full 10.00 USDC
- 10+ characters
- @handle
- 2.50 USDC
- full 10.00 USDC
- .arc
- 1.25 USDC
- full 5.00 USDC
- .circle
- 1.25 USDC
- full 5.00 USDC
The launch price is 25 % of the full price. It is a time ramp (50 % at launch, +12.5 points every 91 days, full after one year) times a volume ramp (50 % at zero sold, +12.5 points every 500 paid registrations of that namespace, full at 2,000). Early registrations lock in the lower price, and a name registered once never costs more later.
Making a wallet or explorer? Resolve names in one call.
The open @arcns/resolve SDK (TypeScript, MIT) turns any of the three shapes into labelled records — or call the REST API, or read the contracts on Arc in any language. No server of ours in the path. The SDK ships as 0.1.0-testnet.N on the npm dist-tag testnet.
The one rule: namespace and registry, every time
const r = await arcns.resolve("alice.arc");
// {
// name: "alice.arc",
// namespace: "arc",
// registry: "0xc3…3a01",
// product: "arcns",
// address: "0x4a…F1c9",
// verification: "verified",
// }
await arcns.resolve("@alice.arc"); // throws: ambiguousNo call returns a bare address. A mixed shape is refused rather than guessed; two registries that disagree are refused rather than picked between.