How to Spot a Rug Pull Before You Buy: A Five-Minute Checklist

Most rug pulls are not clever. They repeat the same handful of patterns, and the data that exposes them is public before you spend a cent. This checklist takes five minutes.


One: liquidity size and shape. A token with $3,000 of liquidity is not an investment, it's a slot machine with your name on the payout line. Thin pools mean the first medium sell — possibly the creator's — erases the price. Prefer pools deep enough that your exit is a rounding error.


Two: who holds the supply? If the top few wallets hold most of the tokens and they aren't locked liquidity or known exchanges, you are not buying a market — you are buying someone's inventory at their chosen price. Holder concentration is the single best rug predictor there is.


Three: mint and freeze authority. If the creator kept the ability to mint unlimited new tokens or freeze your wallet's holdings, the rules of the game can change after you buy. Reputable launches renounce both. (Tokens created through SOLPULSE mint with no freeze authority by design.)


Four: volume that lies. A token showing huge 24h volume but near-zero price movement and a handful of unique traders is often wash — the same wallets trading with themselves to fake demand. Real interest looks messy; fake interest looks like a metronome.


Five: the sell test. Before sizing in, ask: could I sell this in the next minute at roughly the quoted price? If the honest answer involves the word "probably," size down or walk. In SOLPULSE, the token preview shows liquidity and volume before the buy buttons for exactly this reason.


None of this makes a token safe — it makes you harder to rob. In a market where the exit door is the whole game, that is most of the edge there is.


Crypto trading is volatile and can lose money. Nothing here is financial advice.

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