Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 34 = week ending Sunday, August 23, 2026.

Week 34 saw $42,166,436 extracted from retail investors – up 13.1% from Week 33’s $37,288,020 (revised from $37,109,706 to reflect late-arriving events). 11,654 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week, up 31.4% and by far the highest weekly event count since the Week 43-46 2025 surge. Total pools tracked nearly doubled, up 61.6% to 22,023 – the largest single-week pool count since Week 30 2025. The running total since tracking began now stands at $799,516,236.

Week 34 Key Numbers

Week 34 Analysis

Pool Creation Nearly Doubles as Rug Events Cross 11,000

22,023 total pools tracked is a 61.6% jump from Week 33’s 13,625 – the sharpest single-week increase in pool activity since early 2026. New pool mints rose 23.3% to 16,223, a smaller increase than total pools, meaning much of the growth in tracked pools reflects broader activity across existing pools rather than new launches alone. Rug pull events climbed 31.4% to 11,654, the highest weekly count in the current tracked window and a clear break from the 7,000-9,000 range that had held since Week 21.

Fraud Value Rises, But Average Extraction Per Event Falls

The 13.1% rise in extracted fraud was proportionally smaller than the 31.4% rise in rug events, continuing last week’s pattern where activity growth outpaces dollar growth. Average extraction per event fell to $3,618, down 13.9% from Week 33’s $4,204 – the lowest average per event in the past several weeks. This week’s growth was driven by a much higher volume of smaller rug pulls rather than a few large extractions.

Removed-to-Added Ratio Ticks Back Up

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio was 1.415x this week, up from 1.386x in Week 33 – creators removed $1.42 for every $1.00 they seeded, reversing the two-week easing trend. The rug-to-mint ratio also rose sharply, from 67.4% to 71.8%, meaning nearly 3 in 4 new pool mints this week ended in a confirmed rug pull – the highest rug-to-mint ratio recorded since tracking of this metric began.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W32 – W34

2026 Running Total – W28 to W34

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 and W33 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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 33 = week ending Sunday, August 16, 2026.

Week 33 saw $37,109,706 extracted from retail investors – up 6.2% from Week 32’s $34,957,206. 8,861 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week, the highest weekly event count since Week 23’s 8,302 and the first time the weekly count has crossed 8,800 in that span. The running total since tracking began now stands at $757,170,636.

Week 33 Key Numbers

Week 33 Analysis

Rug Events Hit Their Highest Level Since Week 23

8,861 rug pull events is the highest weekly count since Week 23’s 8,302, extending an upward trend now running for three consecutive weeks. Total pools tracked also jumped 16.0% to 13,625 – the highest pool count since Week 28 – and new pool mints rose 10.0% to 13,161, suggesting the broader token launch environment is accelerating alongside the rise in fraud events rather than lagging behind it.

Fraud Value Rises, But More Slowly Than Activity

The 6.2% rise in extracted fraud was smaller than the 12.8% rise in rug events and the 16.0% rise in total pools – unlike Week 31, where fraud value and activity moved in near lockstep. Average extraction per event fell to $4,188, down 5.9% from Week 32’s $4,451, indicating this week’s increase was driven primarily by a higher volume of rug events rather than any single event becoming more lucrative.

Removed-to-Added Ratio Continues to Ease

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio was 1.384x this week, down slightly from 1.412x in Week 32 – creators removed $1.38 for every $1.00 they seeded, continuing the gradual easing seen over the past two weeks even as raw fraud dollars and event counts both climbed. The rug-to-mint ratio ticked up to 67.3% from 65.6%, meaning a slightly larger share of new pools ended in a confirmed rug pull this week despite the higher volume of new mints.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W31 – W33

2026 Running Total – W27 to W33

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.

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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 31 = week ending Sunday, August 2, 2026.

Week 31 saw $31,345,293 extracted from retail investors – up 9.8% from Week 30’s $28,552,789. 7,126 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week, the highest weekly event count since Week 23. The running total since tracking began now stands at $684,456,935.

Week 31 Key Numbers

Week 31 Analysis

Rug Events Hit Their Highest Level Since Week 23

7,126 rug pull events is the highest weekly count since Week 23’s 8,276, and continues an upward trend that has now run for three consecutive weeks in event count terms even as extracted dollar value dipped in Week 30. New pool mints also jumped 12.8% to 11,000 – the first time mints have crossed 11,000 since Week 27 – suggesting the broader token launch environment picked back up this week after the quieter W29-W30 period.

Fraud Value Reaccelerates, But Roughly in Line With Activity

The 9.8% rise in extracted fraud tracked closely with the 8.5% rise in rug events and the 12.8% rise in new mints – unlike some recent weeks where fraud value and activity moved at very different rates. Average extraction per event was $4,399, up only 1.2% from Week 30’s $4,347, indicating this week’s increase was driven mainly by more rug events happening, not by each individual rug becoming more lucrative.

Removed-to-Added Ratio Eases Slightly

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio was 1.386x this week, down slightly from 1.414x in Week 30 – creators removed $1.39 for every $1.00 they seeded, a marginal easing in extraction efficiency even as raw activity picked up. The rug-to-mint ratio eased to 64.8% from 67.3%, consistent with the larger pool of new mints this week diluting the share that ended in a rug pull, even though the absolute number of rug events rose.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W29 – W31

2026 Running Total – W25 to W31

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.

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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 32 = week ending Sunday, August 9, 2026.

Week 32 extended the reacceleration that began in Week 31. $34,942,744 was extracted from retail investors – up 11.5% from Week 31’s $31,349,015. 7,839 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week, the highest weekly count since Week 28’s 8,351 – though still well below the 2026 peak of 8,677 set in Week 21. The running total since tracking began now stands at $720,060,930.

Week 32 Key Numbers

Week 32 Analysis

Second Straight Week of Rising Fraud and Activity Together

Unlike the divergent patterns seen in several recent weeks, Week 32 saw fraud value, rug events, pool creation, and new mints all rise together. Total pools jumped 13.4% to 11,741, new mints rose 8.8% to 11,967, and rug events climbed 9.9% to 7,839 – the highest weekly event count since Week 28’s 8,351, though still short of the 2026 high of 8,677 set back in Week 21. The broad-based nature of this increase – every major metric moving in the same direction – suggests genuine growth in overall pool creation activity rather than a shift in the composition of what’s being tracked.

Extraction Efficiency Also Ticked Up

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio rose to 1.412x from 1.387x in Week 31 – creators removed $1.41 for every $1.00 they seeded, continuing to climb after two straight weeks of easing. Average extraction per rug event was $4,458, up 1.4% from Week 31’s $4,397. Both figures point to a slightly more aggressive extraction pattern this week, on top of – not instead of – the higher raw activity.

Rug-to-Mint Ratio Holds Steady

The rug-to-mint ratio was 65.5% this week, essentially flat versus Week 31’s 64.8%. With both the numerator (rug events) and denominator (new mints) growing at a similar pace, the overall conversion rate from launch to rug has stayed consistent even as the absolute scale of activity increased – this looks like more of the same pattern happening at a larger scale, rather than a change in underlying behavior.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W30 – W32

2026 Running Total – W26 to W32

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. Figures for prior weeks may be restated slightly from earlier publications as data reconciles.

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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 30 = week ending Sunday, July 26, 2026.

Week 30 saw $28,552,789 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – fell 15.4% from the prior week’s $33,740,923. 6,568 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $653,111,642.

Week 30 Key Numbers

Week 30 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.414x this week – creators removed $1.41 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $4,347 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 67.3% – roughly 7 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

Running Total (Corrected)

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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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 29 = week ending Sunday, July 19, 2026.

Week 29 saw $33,740,923 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – declined 10.0% from the prior week’s $37,486,843. 6,835 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $624,558,853.

Week 29 Key Numbers

Week 29 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.519x this week – creators removed $1.52 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $4,936 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 64.9% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

Running Total (Corrected)

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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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 28 = week ending Sunday, July 12, 2026.

Week 28 saw $37,486,843 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – surged 16.2% from the prior week’s $32,272,069. 8,343 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $590,817,930.

Week 28 Key Numbers

Week 28 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.508x this week – creators removed $1.51 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $4,493 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 62.1% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

Running Total (Corrected)

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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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 27 = week ending Sunday, July 5, 2026.

Week 27 saw $32,272,069 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – rose 0.5% from the prior week’s $32,102,733. 8,205 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $553,331,087.

Week 27 Key Numbers

Week 27 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.467x this week – creators removed $1.47 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $3,933 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 59.0% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

Running Total (Corrected)

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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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 26 = week ending Sunday, June 28, 2026.

Week 26 saw $32,102,733 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – declined 6.1% from the prior week’s $34,193,894. 7,623 confirmed rug pull events were recorded this week. The running total since tracking began now stands at $521,059,018.

Week 26 Key Numbers

Week 26 Analysis

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio stands at 1.485x this week – creators removed $1.49 for every $1.00 they seeded. Average extraction per rug event was $4,211 this week. The rug-to-mint ratio was 60.1% – roughly 6 in every 10 newly minted pools ended in a liquidity extraction event.

Week-on-Week Comparison

Running Total (Corrected)

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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55.2% of the top 10,000 tokens are HIGH RISK. 131 are confirmed honeypots – tokens where you can buy but cannot sell. 1,865 are upgradeable proxy contracts, of which 139 are controlled by a single private key that can silently replace the entire token implementation in one transaction. Only 18.7% pass all 127 security checks and receive a CLEAN verdict.

What Token Audit Found

BNB Smart Chain is the most dangerous chain in the dataset: 68.3% high risk and only 7.6% clean. Ethereum shows 59 confirmed honeypots – tokens that passed as legitimate long enough to enter the CoinGecko top 10,000, then trapped every buyer inside. The two most widespread risk patterns: 35.9% of tokens have no enforceable supply cap (unlimited inflation possible), and 34.4% have no timelock on privileged admin functions (instant malicious governance possible, no delay, no warning).

What Other Tools Miss

Token Audit runs 127 checks across 11 modules (8 currently active, 3 coming soon), including Ownership, Supply, Liquidity, Transfer, Approve, Permit, Pausability, Reentrancy, and Proxy Analysis. The checks that matter most are the ones competitors cannot run: transitive approve() call graph analysis, phantom balanceOf detection, EIP-2612 permit preload, reentrancy invariants, and asymmetric pause detection (pause that blocks sells but not buys). These threats are invisible to GoPlus, CertiK Skynet Token Scan, TokenSniffer, and Honeypot.is – which together cover fewer than 40 checks, all at the interface level. The 599 verdicts in this dataset driven by Approve and Reentrancy findings represent tokens that every competing tool would have passed as clean. This same deployer-behavioral approach powers ChainAware’s token launch auditor agent, which combines contract risk with deployer wallet screening in a single call.

Co-Founder Statement

“We assumed the top 10,000 by market cap would be the safer end of the market. What we found is that more than half carry meaningful risk vectors – and roughly 600 of those are threats that no other automated tool would detect. The sophisticated operators know exactly which checks existing tools run, and they design around them. Token Audit was built to catch what they build.” – Martin Ploom, Co-Founder, ChainAware.ai

Proxy Risk: 139 Tokens One Transaction Away From a Honeypot

Token Audit’s proxy classification goes beyond detecting whether a contract is upgradeable. It identifies who controls the upgrade – and the answer matters enormously. Of 1,865 proxy contracts in the top 10,000, 139 are EOA-controlled: a single unprotected private key can replace the entire implementation in one block, with no timelock, no multisig, no governance vote. BSC carries the highest concentration – 75 of those 139 EOA-controlled proxies are on BSC, where the tactic is a known professional rug pull pattern. On the positive side, 153 UUPS proxies have permanently locked or renounced their upgrade path – Token Audit surfaces this as an explicit positive signal rather than treating all proxies as equally risky. This deployer-level behavioral scoring is the same methodology behind ChainAware’s Wallet Auditor, applied here to contract creators and LP providers instead of individual users.

For the full methodology, chain-by-chain breakdown, finding frequency analysis, honeypot signal correlations, and the complete competitive comparison against GoPlus, TokenSniffer, CertiK Skynet, and Honeypot.is, read the deep-dive: ChainAware Token Audit Launched – We Tested 10,000 CoinGecko Tokens. Here Are the Results. →

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