95% of PancakeSwap pools end as rug pulls. 99% of Pump.fun tokens extract money from buyers. This 2026 guide explains how to identify fake crypto tokens before investing — covering instant rug pulls, slow pump-and-dump schemes, the red flags to check manually, and which AI tools automate the detection for you.
ChainAware co-founder Martin joins Magic Square to discuss Web3 AdTech and fraud detection for the real economy. Covers ChainAware’s origin from SmartCredit credit scoring through to fraud detection, rug pull prediction, wallet auditing, and Web3 AdTech — and why custom AI models, not LLM wrappers, are the only defensible IP moat in Web3.
Static smart contract analysis fails against professional rug pull operators who deliberately write clean code. Behavioral AI catches what code scanners miss — by reading the on-chain history of the people behind the contract. This guide explains why behavioral prediction beats static analysis for rug pull detection and how ChainAware’s V3 model achieves 90.1% accuracy.