Rug pulls

Three ways the exit disappears

In a liquidity rug, the people who supplied the pool remove the assets that gave it a price. What is left cannot be sold at anything like the price you saw. In a honeypot, the buy works and the sell does not, often because of a tax, a blacklist, or a function that reverts sells. In a mint rug, the contract can create new tokens and sell them into the pool you just bought. The chart looks like selling. The supply is what changed. You do not need to pick the right nickname before you refuse the trade. You need to see which door is still open.

This page is the shape of those exits on Ethereum-style contracts and in general. A Solana mint is an account with its own authorities, and the checker reads mint and freeze from GoPlus and RugCheck when you pick Solana. This page does not describe how to write the contract that does any of this.

What the report is looking at

GoPlus and honeypot.is can show a failed sell simulation, a high sell tax, or a flag that the full balance cannot be sold. A tax of 50 percent or more is critical on this checker. A tax of 10 percent or more is a warning. DexScreener shows indexed liquidity: under $1,000 is critical, under $10,000 is a warning, and a pool younger than two days is a warning. An active mint is a serious flag because it is the door for the third pattern. A freeze or a blacklist is the door that stops your particular wallet from leaving.

They can miss a rug that has not happened yet, and they can flag a clumsy but real project. A low score is not a promise. A critical score is a reason to walk away unless you can explain the row, including the context rows on canonical stablecoins, which the score guide covers. Locked liquidity is not the same as an honest team. A lock expires. Read the date if a source gives you one. A lock on the wrong tokens, or a lock that the owner can still shorten, is a caption.

Read the pool, not the candle

A candle is a picture of past trades. It does not show who can remove the liquidity, and it does not show a function that will revert your sell. People buy the picture because it is moving. The report is the slower object. If DexScreener has no pool, the liquidity row is not checked. That is not evidence of a deep market elsewhere. It is the absence of this source. If the pool is large and an hour old, the size is real at query time and the age is a warning. Both rows can be true together.

Holder concentration is the cousin of a mint rug. One unlocked wallet with most of the supply can sell into the pool without minting anything new. At least 80 percent in one unlocked holder is critical here. At least 50 percent is a warning. Burn and lock tags are excluded when the source applies them, and a tag can be wrong. A deployer wallet that is not tagged will look like what it is: a wallet that can sell.

After you are in

If you already bought and the sell fails, stop sending further transactions the project's site recommends. A 'fix' that asks for an approval is often a second extraction. Paste the contract into the checker and read the sell and tax rows. If the position is small, the information is the prize and the coins may simply be stuck. There is no desk at this site that unwinds a pool. There is no stranger who should be paid to try.

If you have not bought, the decision is cheaper. Walk away from a critical band you cannot explain. Walk away from a medium band you do not have time to read. The score guide is how the word was chosen. The checker is where the word is computed for the address in your clipboard. Neither one is a buy button.

Questions

A banner that says liquidity is locked is a caption until a source shows the lock and the date. If the checker has no lock row, you do not have that fact from us. Go look at the pool on an explorer you opened yourself, or skip the trade.

Is a renounced owner enough? It closes the doors that owner key could open, if the renounce is real and if no other key remains. It does not put liquidity back, it does not undo a tax that is already high, and it does not stop a pool from having been drained before the renounce. Read the remaining rows.

Why did a famous token show a scary flag? If it is on the allowlist, the row should say context rather than do-not-buy. If it is a copy with the same ticker, the flag stands. Compare the address to the one the issuer publishes. The score guide lists the idea. The report lists the address you pasted.

Does a lock mean I can hold forever? A lock means a contract is supposed to hold the liquidity position until a time. Read the time. After it, the supplier can remove the position. Forever was not the promise unless the position was actually burned, and you would want a source to say that rather than a banner.