CORRECTED August 5, 2026
This article was corrected to fix a USD double-counting bug: the original calculation counted both the USD-value and the token-value of a creator’s liquidity removal, even though the rugged token’s value is effectively $0 after the rug. Corrected figures below reflect USD-side value only. Corrected figures are meaningfully lower than the original publication.
Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 22 = week ending Sunday, May 31, 2026.
Week 22 saw $19,154,855 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – declined 3.6% from the prior week’s $19,870,500. 7,864 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $389,696,109.
Week 22 Key Numbers
Week 22 Analysis
The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.501x this week – creators removed $1.50 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $2,436 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 60.0% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.
Week-on-Week Comparison
| Week | Fraud Extracted | Rug Events | Total Pools | New Mints | Added | Removed | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W20 | $17,051,590 | 6,718 | 14,254 | 10,297 | $32,432,668 | $49,484,258 | 1.526x |
| W21 | $19,870,500 | 8,670 | 14,165 | 13,415 | $39,665,035 | $59,535,535 | 1.501x |
| W22 | $19,154,855 | 7,864 | 13,687 | 13,114 | $38,244,113 | $57,398,968 | 1.501x |
Running Total (Corrected)
| Week | Fraud Extracted | Rug Events | Running Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| W16 | $11,468,229 | 5,829 | $290,130,383 |
| W17 | $9,421,977 | 6,401 | $299,552,360 |
| W18 | $17,835,357 | 5,872 | $317,387,717 |
| W19 | $16,231,447 | 4,901 | $333,619,164 |
| W20 | $17,051,590 | 6,718 | $350,670,754 |
| W21 | $19,870,500 | 8,670 | $370,541,254 |
| W22 | $19,154,855 | 7,864 | $389,696,109 |
Note: All figures on this page were corrected on 2026-08-05 to remove a USD double-counting bug in the underlying calculation. Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 throughout the tracked period.
About This Tracker
ChainAware.ai’s weekly rug pull tracker monitors liquidity removal fraud across PancakeSwap V2 and V3 on BNB Smart Chain and Uniswap V2 and V3 on Ethereum. Rug pull fraud is defined as the USD-equivalent value of liquidity removed by the pool creator that exceeds the USD-equivalent value of liquidity added by the creator – a net extraction event, measured in USD-side value only. The tracker uses ChainAware’s predictive rug pull detection engine, which achieves 90.1% detection accuracy in V3 – see the full Rug Pull Detector methodology for how the model scores deployer wallets and liquidity events.