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rug postmortems, scoring rules, and field notes.
// may 13, 2026 · 2 min readOne hop back. When 'this dev is new' really means 'this funder is the same.'
New dev wallets are easy to spawn. The wallet that funded them isn't. How one hop back from deployer to funder catches most of the 93.8%.
// may 12, 2026 · 2 min readThe 2.1% we don't catch. Slow bleeds, abandoned pools, and what's on the scoring backlog.
No malicious event. No coordinated dump. The token just stops. The failure mode we catch worst, and what would change to flag it at scan.
// may 11, 2026 · 2 min readThe five checkpoints. How we know whether a token actually died.
Every scan we run gets followed for thirty days. Five fixed checkpoints, four outcome labels. How a token earns rugged, dumped, abandoned, or tradeable.
// may 10, 2026 · 2 min readBundlers vs snipers. The two ways stealth supply lands at launch.
Both fire on the risks list. Both warn that wallets bought at launch and still hold supply. How bundlers and snipers differ, and why we score them separately.
// may 9, 2026 · 2 min readHow to read a doomer scan: every signal, in plain English.
The verdict word is the headline. Everything else on the page tells you why. A guided tour of the cope score, the risks list, and the on-chain signals.
// may 9, 2026 · 2 min readSAFU. RISKY. RUG. Blue Chip. What each verdict actually means.
Four words. One paste. Zero paywalls. What SAFU, RISKY, RUG, and Blue Chip really mean, what they don't, and where the call can still get it wrong.
// may 8, 2026 · 2 min readAnatomy of a Solana rug. Five ways tokens die in the first 24h
94% of Solana token failures we see at +24h fire the same launch-time pattern. The five categories of loss, and how often each one shows up.