Glossary

A contract that lets you buy and blocks you from selling. The token shows in your wallet, and the moment you try to sell, the transaction is refused. The worst thing we look for — on its own it pushes the score into the red band.

Lets you sell part of your balance and blocks the rest, leaving you stuck holding a portion with no way out. A quieter version of a honeypot, and harder to spot.

A cut the contract takes from every trade. A 10% sell tax means you lose a tenth of the amount the moment you sell, before the price moves at all.

The owner can raise the tax after you buy. You might enter at 1% and find yourself selling at 99% — a honeypot by another name.

How much of the supply the largest wallet holds. One wallet holding half the token can drop the price with a single sale, however clean the project looks.

What the ten largest wallets hold between them. High concentration means the price sits with a handful of parties who can coordinate, even if no single one holds an alarming share.

How many wallets hold the token. A small number means a shallow market: a modest sum is enough to move the price either way.

The liquidity pool is the money your token is sold into. Locked means its owner cannot withdraw it before a set date. Unlocked means they can pull it at any moment, leaving your token with no buyer — that is a rug pull.

How many parties put money into the liquidity pool. A single provider means pulling the liquidity is one person's decision.

A published contract can be read by anyone and checked against what actually runs. With a closed one nobody knows what is inside — reason enough for caution on its own.

The owner can print new tokens whenever they like. Every new token shrinks your share of the supply and the value of what you hold, without you doing anything.

The owner can change any wallet's balance, yours included — raise it or zero it. There is no legitimate reason for an ordinary token to grant this.

Even if the owner announced they renounced control, the contract keeps a door that hands it back. In that case "ownership renounced" commits them to nothing.

The owner can freeze every transfer at once, so nobody sells until they allow it. Occasionally used for a legitimate reason, often to trap sellers.

An address holding power over the contract without appearing as the owner. To a casual look the contract seems ownerless; it is not.

A function that erases the contract from the chain. Once called, the token and everything attached to it are gone, with no way back.

The owner can bar specific addresses from trading. Your wallet may find itself blocked from selling with no reason and no notice.

The contract's logic sits apart from its address and can be swapped later. What we scanned today may not be what runs tomorrow — not dangerous in itself, but it means a scan cannot vouch for the future.

On Solana: the name, ticker, and image can be swapped after launch. A token wearing a familiar name today can be renamed tomorrow.

A program living on the chain that governs the token: who holds what, what is allowed, and who can change the rules. Everything we check is written in it.

A number from 0 to 100 — the higher it climbs, the worse it is. It sums weighted points for each check, the honeypot weighing heaviest at forty. The score is not a guarantee, it is a summary of what the contract showed.

How many of the core data points the provider actually returned. Low coverage does not mean the token is bad — it means the result rests on incomplete information and deserves extra caution.

The team pulling the liquidity or dumping their share, collapsing the value to near zero. The best-known way to lose money, and not all of it is visible in the contract — which is why no scan can promise safety.

The family of Ethereum-compatible chains, whose addresses all start with 0x and share one length. Because the shape is identical, the address alone cannot tell us the chain — which is why we ask you to pick it.