Most rug pulls are not surprises — they are baked into a token’s structure before launch. This scorer turns six well-known red flags into a single weighted risk band so you can triage a DeFi project quickly before reading the contract line by line.
How it works
Each question maps to a structural indicator that makes a rug pull easier or harder, and each answer adds risk points. The most predictive flags carry the most weight:
- Hidden mint / blacklist / honeypot functions and owner upgrade powers score highest, because they let the team seize or freeze funds outright.
- Unlocked liquidity lets the team withdraw the pool at any moment.
- Concentrated supply in the top ten holders enables a coordinated dump.
- Missing audits and opaque teams raise uncertainty.
The points are summed and divided by the maximum to place the project in a low, medium, high, or critical band.
Example and notes
A token with 70% of supply in ten wallets, an anonymous team, unlocked liquidity, and an owner that can mint freely will land in the critical band — the textbook rug-pull setup. A token with burned liquidity, renounced ownership, a public audit, and a doxxed team scores low. Remember this only measures the structural rug-pull surface: exploits, market risk, and slow drains are out of scope. This is not financial advice.