🚨 How to spot a Solana rug pull

A rug pull is when the people behind a coin take the money and leave: they sell everything they hold or pull the liquidity, and the price collapses. No single sign proves a rug is coming, but most rugs leave the same tracks on-chain. Here are the ones worth checking before you buy.

What a rug pull looks like

On Solana memecoins the most common version is simple: a small group buys a big share of the supply at launch, waits for buyers to push the price up, then sells into them. The chart shows a fast climb and then a near-vertical drop. The other version is a liquidity pull on coins with their own pool: the creator removes the SOL backing the price, and nobody can sell for anything close to what they paid.

The 9 warning signs

  • The dev holds a lot or is already selling. Check how much the creator wallet bought and whether it has sold. "Dev sold everything" minutes after launch is a common pattern on coins that die.
  • A bundled launch. A big share of the supply was bought in the same moment the coin was created. It usually means one person bought through many wallets to hide how much they control.
  • Lots of snipers. Many wallets bought within the first few seconds. Some are bots, some are the team. Either way, they tend to sell into the first wave of buyers.
  • The top 10 holders own a large share. If a handful of wallets hold a big chunk of the supply, a few sells can crash the price.
  • Fake volume. Hundreds of tiny trades a minute (a few dollars each) make a coin look busy and popular. Real interest shows up as real-sized trades from many different wallets.
  • Thin liquidity. A small pool means even modest sells move the price a lot, and on non-pump coins the creator may be able to pull it.
  • Mint or freeze authority still on (non-pump coins). If the creator can still mint new tokens or freeze wallets, they can dilute you or stop you selling. Coins launched on pump.fun have these switched off.
  • Copycat names and missing socials. Coins named after famous brands or trending coins, with no website or X account, are cheap to make and easy to abandon.
  • The same wallets keep launching coins. Groups of wallets that launch and dump coin after coin are a strong pattern. GORZ tracks these on its Most Wanted board.

What none of these signs mean

A coin can show warning signs and still go up for a while, and a clean-looking coin can still go to zero. These checks lower the odds of buying into an obvious trap; they do not make any memecoin safe. Only trade what you can afford to lose.

🛡 How GORZ shows it

  • Every coin on the GORZ radar gets a safety grade (Safer, Caution or Risky) built from these checks: dev activity, bundled supply, snipers, top 10 holders, liquidity and trading patterns.
  • Hover or tap a coin's grade to see which checks passed and which failed.
  • The Receipts page shows coins GORZ flagged and what happened to them afterwards.
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Questions

Can you tell for sure if a coin will rug?

No. Warning signs raise the odds, but nobody can know for sure. Treat every memecoin as high risk.

Are pump.fun coins safer from rugs?

pump.fun switches off mint and freeze authority and locks the bonding curve, which removes some tricks. Dev dumps, bundled launches and snipers still happen on pump.fun coins.

Is checking a coin on GORZ free?

Yes. The radar and safety grades are free and need no sign-up.

More guides

📦 What is a bundled launch? →👨‍💻 Dev sold: what it means →⛓ Wallet farms: same wallets, hundreds of coins →🤖 Fake volume: spotting bot trades →🎯 What are snipers? →🐳 Top 10 holders: why concentration matters →🎓 The pump.fun bonding curve, explained →

GORZ has no token. Nothing on GORZ is financial advice, and no check can make a memecoin safe. Only trade what you can afford to lose.