Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 35 = week ending Sunday, August 30, 2026.
Week 35 saw $51,634,247 extracted from retail investors – up 22.4% from Week 34’s $42,191,741 (revised from $42,166,436 to reflect late-arriving events). 12,132 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week, up 3.9%, while total pools tracked nearly tripled, up 172.4% to 62,729 – by far the largest single-week pool count in the tracked history. The running total since tracking began now stands at $851,219,786.
Week 35 Key Numbers
Week 35 Analysis
Total Pools Nearly Triple as New Mints Slip Slightly
62,729 total pools tracked is a 172.4% jump from Week 34’s 23,025 – the largest single-week pool count recorded since tracking began, more than doubling the prior high set just last week. Notably, new pool mints actually fell 2.1% to 15,890, meaning this week’s explosion in tracked pool activity came almost entirely from existing pools re-entering the dataset rather than a fresh wave of token launches. That divergence – pool volume surging while mint volume holds flat or dips – is the sharpest seen in the tracker’s history and is worth watching closely next week to see whether it persists or reverts.
Fraud Value Accelerates Faster Than Event Count
The 22.4% rise in extracted fraud outpaced the 3.9% rise in rug events by a wide margin, reversing the pattern from the prior two weeks where event growth ran ahead of dollar growth. Average extraction per event rose to $4,256, up 17.8% from Week 34’s $3,614 – the sharpest per-event increase in recent weeks, suggesting this week’s growth was driven by a shift toward larger individual extractions rather than simply more of them.
Rug-to-Mint Ratio Sets a New Record
The removed-to-added liquidity ratio climbed to 1.472x, up from 1.415x in Week 34 – creators removed $1.47 for every $1.00 they seeded, the highest ratio recorded in the current tracked window. The rug-to-mint ratio also set a new high at 76.3%, up from 72.0% – meaning roughly 3 in 4 new pool mints this week ended in a confirmed rug pull, surpassing last week’s then-record level for the second consecutive week.
Week-on-Week Comparison: W33 – W35
| Metric | W33 | W34 | W35 | W35 vs W34 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraud extracted | $37,300,137 | $42,191,741 | $51,634,247 | +22.4% |
| Rug events | 8,892 | 11,675 | 12,132 | +3.9% |
| Total pools | 14,653 | 23,025 | 62,729 | +172.4% |
| New mints | 13,161 | 16,223 | 15,890 | -2.1% |
| Added by creators | $96,643,663 | $101,626,264 | $109,398,381 | +7.6% |
| Removed by creators | $133,943,800 | $143,818,004 | $161,032,628 | +12.0% |
| Removed-to-added ratio | 1.386x | 1.415x | 1.472x | +4.0% |
2026 Running Total – W29 to W35
| Week | Fraud Extracted | Rug Events | Running Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| W29 | $33,866,077 | 6,869 | $625,265,000 |
| W30 | $28,597,035 | 6,606 | $653,862,035 |
| W31 | $31,426,900 | 7,151 | $685,288,935 |
| W32 | $34,989,937 | 7,872 | $720,278,872 |
| W33 | $37,300,137 | 8,892 | $757,579,009 |
| W34 | $42,191,741 | 11,675 | $799,770,750 |
| W35 | $51,634,247 | 12,132 | $851,219,786 |
Note: Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 throughout the tracked period. All figures use the corrected USD-only extraction methodology adopted 2026-08-05. W32, W33, and W34 fraud totals were revised slightly upward this week to reflect late-arriving backfilled events; the running total reflects these revisions.
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.