$34.2M Extracted in Week 25 – Fraud Rises 20.9% WoW [Corrected]


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 25 = week ending Sunday, June 21, 2026.

Week 25 saw $34,193,894 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – surged 20.9% from the prior week’s $28,286,427. 7,989 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $488,956,285.

Week 25 Key Numbers

$34,193,894
Rug pull fraud extracted
7,989
Rug pull events
14,249
Total pools tracked
13,620
New pool mints
$72,213,344
Added by creators
$106,407,238
Removed by creators
+20.9%
WoW change
$488,956,285
Running total (corrected)
PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 · Figures corrected 2026-08-05 for USD double-counting

Week 25 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.474x this week – creators removed $1.47 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $4,280 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 58.7% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

WeekFraud ExtractedRug EventsTotal PoolsNew MintsAddedRemovedRatio
W23$36,779,8558,27613,29012,529$79,479,315$116,259,1701.463x
W24$28,286,4278,16413,43612,786$69,680,230$97,966,6571.406x
W25$34,193,8947,98914,24913,620$72,213,344$106,407,2381.474x

Running Total (Corrected)

WeekFraud ExtractedRug EventsRunning Total
W19$16,231,4474,901$333,619,164
W20$17,051,5906,718$350,670,754
W21$19,870,5008,670$370,541,254
W22$19,154,8557,864$389,696,109
W23$36,779,8558,276$426,475,964
W24$28,286,4278,164$454,762,391
W25$34,193,8947,989$488,956,285

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, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. 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.

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