Week 25, 2026: $64,404,228 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – up 18.9% from Week 24, reaccelerating rather than reverting to the earlier plateau. Three consecutive weeks above 10,000 rug pull events. Running 25-week total crosses $800M: $822,350,515.
Week 24, 2026: $54,181,856 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – down 21.4% from Week 23’s record, but still the second-highest weekly value in the dataset. Rug pull events climbed to a new peak of 11,164 (+1.9%). The extraction baseline has structurally shifted upward. Running 24-week total: $757.9M.
Week 23, 2026: $68,937,024 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – more than double Week 22’s level (+112.4%) and a new single-week peak. Rug pull events also hit a new high at 10,955 (+67.1%). The predicted W24-W26 acceleration cycle arrived early. Running 23-week total: $703.8M.
Week 22, 2026: $32,459,995 extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 – virtually unchanged from Week 21’s $32,422,973 (+0.1%). Two consecutive weeks at the same extraction level signals a plateau. The $32.5M floor is not a recovery – it is the baseline the rug pull industry sustains between cycles. Running 22-week total: $634.8M.
Week 21, 2026: $32.4M extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 – down 15.7% vs Week 20, but rug pull events jumped +24.4% to 6,768. More operators, lower average value per rug. The W20 high-value spike is giving way to broader-volume extraction. Running 21-week total: $602.7M.
Week 20, 2026 produced the largest week-over-week spike in our 20-week dataset – $39.9M extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2, a 191% jump from Week 19. 5,439 confirmed rug pull events. No media coverage. No industry response. The weekly tracker that publishes what nobody else measures.
$569,388,384. That is not a headline from a dramatic DeFi hack. No Twitter threads trended. No security firms issued emergency advisories. No mainstream crypto media
Rug pulls cost investors $3 billion annually. 95% of PancakeSwap pools end in rug pulls. 99% of Pump.fun tokens extract money from buyers. This guide ranks and compares every major Web3 rug pull detection tool in 2026 – ChainAware, GoPlus, Token Sniffer, De.Fi Scanner, RugCheck, Webacy, and QuillCheck.