Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 29 = week ending Sunday, July 19, 2026.
Week 29 brought a sharp pullback in overall activity following last week’s record-setting surge past the $1 billion milestone. $67,552,959 was extracted across 6,794 rug pull events – a 9.8% decline from W28’s $74,928,153. The contraction in fraud value was outpaced by an even steeper drop in underlying activity: total pools fell 23.6%, new pool mints fell 21.6%, and rug events themselves fell 18.4%. The W1-W29 cumulative total now stands at $1,236,836,863.
Week 29 Key Numbers
Week 29 Analysis
A Sharp Contraction in Activity, Not Just Fraud
The 9.8% week-on-week decline in extracted fraud understates how much the underlying market cooled in W29. Total pools tracked fell 23.6% (14,271 to 10,896), new pool mints fell 21.6% (13,427 to 10,523), and rug pull events themselves fell 18.4% (8,322 to 6,794). All three activity metrics contracted by roughly double the rate of the fraud value decline, which is the opposite of what a simple “fraud is cooling” reading would suggest.
The reconciliation is in per-event extraction value. Average fraud per rug event rose from $9,004 in W28 to $9,943 in W29 – a 10.4% increase. Fewer pools were created, fewer of them were rugged, but each individual rug event extracted more value on average. This is consistent with a market where the smaller number of active operators this week ran more selective, higher-value schemes rather than a high-volume, lower-value spray of small extractions.
Rug-to-Mint Ratio Climbs to a New High
Despite the drop in new pool creation, the rug-to-mint ratio – the share of newly minted pools that end in a rug pull event – actually rose to 64.6% in W29, up from 62.0% in W28. For every 10 pools launched this week, roughly 6.5 ended in a liquidity extraction event, the highest conversion rate seen in the recent multi-week window. Fewer speculative or legitimate launches diluting the pool this week meant that a larger proportion of what was created was fraudulent from the outset.
Removed-to-Added Ratio Continues Its Climb
The removed-to-added liquidity ratio reached 1.520x in W29, up from 1.508x in W28 and continuing a gradual climb from W27’s 1.466x. Creators are now removing $1.52 for every $1.00 they seed, on average – the highest extraction efficiency recorded in the past several weeks. This steady upward drift in extraction efficiency, even as raw activity volume contracts, suggests the operators still active in W29 are running tighter, more profitable schemes rather than the broader, higher-volume activity seen in W27-W28.
Reading the Post-$1B-Milestone Pullback
W28’s spike to $74.9M coincided with the 2026 cumulative total crossing $1 billion. W29’s pullback in raw volume – fewer pools, fewer mints, fewer events – is consistent with the kind of week-to-week oscillation this tracker has observed throughout 2026 rather than a structural change in the fraud environment. The rising rug-to-mint ratio and removed-to-added ratio both point to sustained (and slightly intensifying) extraction efficiency even as headline volume cooled.
Week-on-Week Comparison: W27 – W29
| Metric | W27 | W28 | W29 | W29 vs W28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraud extracted | $64,308,749 | $74,928,153 | $67,552,959 | -9.8% |
| Rug events | 8,150 | 8,322 | 6,794 | -18.4% |
| Total pools | 14,400 | 14,271 | 10,896 | -23.6% |
| New mints | 13,901 | 13,427 | 10,523 | -21.6% |
| Added by creators | $138,082,683 | $147,508,878 | $129,813,790 | -12.0% |
| Removed by creators | $202,391,432 | $222,437,031 | $197,366,749 | -11.3% |
| Removed-to-added ratio | 1.466x | 1.508x | 1.520x | +0.8% |
2026 Running Total – W23 to W29
| Week | Fraud Extracted | Rug Events | Running Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| W23 | $73,415,493 | 8,233 | $841,865,383 |
| W24 | $56,414,571 | 8,106 | $898,279,954 |
| W25 | $68,295,912 | 7,962 | $966,575,866 |
| W26 | $63,471,136 | 7,582 | $1,030,047,002 |
| W27 | $64,308,749 | 8,150 | $1,094,355,751 |
| W28 | $74,928,153 | 8,322 | $1,169,283,904 |
| W29 | $67,552,959 | 6,794 | $1,236,836,863 |
Note: W1-W22 data covers PancakeSwap V2 only. From W23 onward, data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Running totals restated from the full 2026 dataset.
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 liquidity removed by the pool creator that exceeds liquidity added by the creator – a net extraction event. 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. Data is updated weekly. Historical data from W1-W22 covers PancakeSwap V2 only; multi-venue tracking expanded from W23 onward.