Rug Pull Checker
Free on-chain rug pull and honeypot detector. Paste any Ethereum ERC-20 contract address into the scanner below - 10 seconds, no signup, no card.
8 analyzers, 100+ on-chain signals, 36 263 confirmed scams in the reference set.
What this rug pull checker actually does
Most rug pull checkers run one honeypot simulation and call it a day. We run eight independent analyzers in parallel and aggregate their output into a single 0-100 risk score. Anything 70+ is treated as scam in our taxonomy.
- Honeypot simulation. We simulate a buy + a sell on a forked mainnet. If the sell reverts on a contract where the buy succeeded, it is a honeypot. 100% precision in our 36 263-scam dataset.
- Liquidity & LP ownership. Pool depth, deployer's LP token share, lock/burn status across Unicrypt, Team.Finance and Uniswap V3 NFTs.
- Deployer wallet history. Age, prior deployments, prior scams traced through our graph database. A wallet that just deployed five rugs last week scores high here.
- Bytecode patterns. Function selectors mined from the deployed bytecode plus a hash check against known scam templates. Catches copycats even without verified source.
- Etherscan source-code regex. When the contract is verified, we scan the source for blacklist functions, hidden mints, time-locked owner power and gas-price branching.
- Distribution & holder concentration. First 200 Transfer events tell you whether one wallet controls 90% of supply on day one.
- Deployer-funder graph. Two hops back from the deployer. Mass-funders, mixer addresses, serial scammer roots - all flagged.
- Real-time swap activity. On-chain swap events from the token's pair. If 100% of trades are buys after 50 swaps, simulation-bypass honeypots get caught here.
Full methodology in our analyzer deep-dive. Every signal has a dedicated page on rektradar.io/signals with the technique and the precision rate.
How to check for a rug pull manually (5-step guide)
If you would rather not trust an automated tool, here is the same checklist a human analyst would run - about 5 minutes per token.
- 1. Verify the contract on Etherscan. Open etherscan.io/address/<contract>. If the 'Contract' tab shows 'Contract Source Code Not Verified' and the token is less than 24h old, treat it as scam-by-default until proven otherwise.
- 2. Run a honeypot simulator. Paste the address on honeypot.is or use RektRadar's scanner. A failed sell simulation is the single most damning on-chain signal.
- 3. Check liquidity depth on DEX Screener. Open dexscreener.com/ethereum/<contract>. Under $200 of liquidity is a guaranteed scaffolding launch - the deployer can pull it for 0.05 ETH the moment a real buyer arrives.
- 4. Inspect the deployer wallet. On Etherscan, click 'Contract Creator'. If the deployer wallet is less than 24h old, funded by a single CEX withdrawal and has no other history, that is a textbook scam factory pattern.
- 5. Look for LP lock or burn. Read the LP token balance for the deployer. If the deployer holds more than 80% of LP supply unlocked, they can pull the floor at any time. Locked liquidity at Unicrypt / Team.Finance is a positive signal.
Step 1, 3 and 4 are free and take 2-3 minutes total. Step 2 and 5 require a tool - either the manual route via etherscan.io / dexscreener.com, or the automated route via the scanner above.
Check a specific brand-jacked ticker
Each of these tickers has multiple fake ERC-20 contracts on Ethereum trying to impersonate the real token. Click through to see the full list and risk scores per contract.
Why this is free
Crypto rug pulls drain hundreds of millions from retail wallets every year. The scanners that existed before were either pay-to-use (mid-three-figures per month for enterprise compliance), single-signal (honeypot only), or required signup and card - friction that real victims do not push through at 2am when they have a Telegram DM in front of them.
We run the full scoring engine for free because the cost to us is marginal - the analyzer pipeline runs anyway on every new ERC-20 deployed on mainnet, whether anyone queries it or not. The free scanner is just a UI on top of the existing index.
If you want to monetize the same data on a B2B API for DeFi protocols, that is what we charge for - see pricing.