Methodology
How a verdict is made.
Last updated October 4, 2026
A verdict is the same wherever you ask for it: in a Telegram group, in a DM, or on this website. One engine runs the checks below, combines them into a score, and puts the token on one step of the scale. Nobody, including us, can override a verdict by hand.
1. Find the market
We find the token's most liquid trading pair on DexScreener, with GeckoTerminal as a fallback for new chains and fresh pools. This gives the price, liquidity, volume, age and recent trades. If a token has no trading pair, there is no verdict: we say so instead of guessing.
2. Check the contract
The contract check comes from GoPlus Security, and the verdict waits for it. If it can't be reached, Telegram reports say the token is unverified and keep it at HIGH RISK or below; the website asks you to try again instead of showing an unverified verdict. On EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain and others) it covers:
- a simulated buy and sell, which catches honeypots and blocked sells
- buy and sell tax, and whether the owner can change the tax, set a special tax for one wallet, or add a waiting time between trades
- whether the team can mint more tokens, pause trading, block wallets, change balances, take back ownership, or change the code through a proxy
- whether the code is verified and public, and whether the same creator has made honeypots before
- who holds the liquidity pool tokens: locked, burned, or in a regular wallet that can pull them
On Solana it covers freeze authority, mint authority, balance and close authorities, transfer fees and whether they can be raised, and transfer hooks.
3. Look at the holders
We read the largest wallets (from the chain directly on Solana, through Helius and public RPC nodes) and leave out pools, burn addresses and contracts, so the numbers reflect real holders. One wallet above 5% is a warning, above 15% is critical. A top ten above 30% is a warning. For older, larger tokens these findings are softened, because big wallets there are usually team, treasury or exchange wallets; the report says so.
4. Check the launch
For tokens under 30 days old, on Ethereum, Base, Robinhood Chain, Arc and other chains with a public explorer (Solana and BNB Chain are next), we look at the wallets that bought in the first minute of trading: how many there were, how much they got, how many bought in the same block, and how much they still hold now. Launch buyers who still hold a large share are a dump risk.
5. Score it and place it on the scale
Every token starts at 100. Each critical finding costs 50 points and each warning costs 8, with fixed costs for launch findings, missing socials and thin liquidity. Then the market sets a ceiling, however clean the contract looks:
- under $1,000 of liquidity: no higher than 20
- still on a launchpad bonding curve, under $10,000 of liquidity, fewer than 100 holders, or a market cap under $50,000: no higher than 45
- less than a day old, under $20,000 of liquidity, no website or socials, a holder list we couldn't read, or a sell that couldn't be confirmed: no higher than 70
- any critical finding: below 50
| Verdict | When |
|---|---|
| AVOID | A finding that can trap you (a failed sell test, a balance you can't fully sell, or a team that can freeze your tokens), or a score under 25 |
| HIGH RISK | Any other critical finding, or a score under 50 |
| SOME RISK | A score from 50 to 74 |
| LOW RISK | A score of 75 or more |
| ESTABLISHED | Ranked in CoinGecko's top 1,000, or at least 180 days old with a $50M+ market cap and 5,000+ holders, and no critical findings |
| ABANDONED | Down 90% or more from its high with almost no volume, fewer than 5 trades a day on a token over a month old, or no trades in the last hour after a 50% fall |
Coins like BTC, ETH and SOL have no token contract to exploit, so they get a market read from CoinGecko instead: major coin (top 100), listed coin (top 500), small cap, or inactive when almost nobody trades it.
6. The market read
Next to the verdict, each report gives a short market read: what the price action shows right now, such as Rebounding, Extended, At its high, Sellers in control or Too quiet. It comes from recent trades, buy and sell pressure, and the distance from the recent high. It describes the market. It never tells you to buy or sell.
7. Record it, and check it again
The first verdict on a token each day goes into the ledger with its price and liquidity at that moment. We check the same token again after an hour, a day and a week, and record what happened, including when a pool lost most of its liquidity. The record is published as it builds, right or wrong.
What we can't see
- What a team will do tomorrow. An owner can change settings after we look; that's why we show what they still control.
- Promises, private deals, unlock schedules held off-chain, or who is really behind a wallet.
- Everything on the newest chains. Some checks have less data there, and the report says when a check couldn't run.
Data sources
DexScreener and GeckoTerminal (markets and pools), GoPlus Security (contract checks), Helius and public Solana RPC nodes (Solana holders), Blockscout and block explorers (launch buyers), CoinGecko (listed coins; prices powered by CoinGecko).