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

2026 Running Total – W23 to W29

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.

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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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 28 = week ending approximately July 13, 2026.

Week 28 delivered the sharpest single-week acceleration since W23. $74,910,369 was extracted across 8,318 separate rug events – a 16.5% surge from W27’s $64,301,289 and the highest weekly fraud total since W23’s $73,425,127. The W1-W28 cumulative total now stands at $1,167,762,790 – the 2026 running total has crossed $1 billion. That figure covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3, and represents a confirmed floor: it excludes honeypot contracts, LP token transfer rugs, and associated wallet extraction.

Week 28 Key Numbers

Milestone – 2026 Running Total Crosses $1 Billion

The W1-W28 cumulative total of $1,167,762,790 confirms that rug pull fraud across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 has exceeded $1 billion in 2026. This figure covers 28 weeks of tracked activity and represents a confirmed floor based on direct liquidity removal events only.

Week 28 Analysis

Sharpest Acceleration Since W23

The 16.5% week-on-week increase in extracted fraud brings W28 to $74.9M – the highest single-week figure in five weeks and a decisive break from the $63M-$64M range that characterised W26 and W27. Both extraction value and event count moved in the same direction: rug events rose from 8,144 to 8,318 (+2.1%), while average extraction per event climbed from $7,896 to $9,007 – a 14.1% jump. This combination of more events and higher per-event value is characteristic of the surge cycles visible throughout the 2026 dataset, most notably in the W23 spike and the W43-W45 2025 peaks.

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio ticked up to 1.508x in W28 – creators removed $1.51 for every $1.00 they seeded. This ratio had been compressing slightly through W26-W27 (1.480x and 1.466x respectively). The W28 expansion signals that larger operators with higher extraction efficiency re-entered the market this week alongside the sustained baseline of smaller-scale activity.

Rug Events at Highest Level Since W23

8,318 rug pull events is the highest weekly event count since W23’s 8,225. Event count has now climbed for three consecutive weeks: 7,579 (W26) → 8,144 (W27) → 8,318 (W28). This sustained upward trend in event frequency, combined with the W28 jump in per-event extraction value, produces the largest weekly fraud total since the W23 anomaly.

New pool creation at 13,427 mints is marginally lower than W27’s 13,901 but remains well above the W16-W17 low of approximately 9,800-13,000 mints per week. The rug-to-mint ratio of 61.9% means that for every 10 new pools launched in W28, more than 6 ended in a liquidity extraction event. That ratio has been above 55% for every week since W21.

$1 Billion in Context

The 2026 cumulative total of $1,167,762,790 – based on the restated full-year dataset – places the scale of tracked rug pull fraud in sharper relief. Several context points are worth stating explicitly.

First, this figure covers four venues only: PancakeSwap V2 and V3 on BNB Smart Chain, and Uniswap V2 and V3 on Ethereum. It does not include rug pull activity on Raydium, Jupiter, or other Solana DEXes; on Base, Arbitrum, or other L2s; or on any other EVM chain. The actual 2026 total across the full DeFi ecosystem is almost certainly a multiple of the tracked figure.

Second, the definition used is conservative: only direct liquidity removal events where the creator removes more than they added are counted. Honeypot contracts, LP token transfer rugs, and associated wallet extraction are excluded. The $1.17B figure is a methodologically conservative floor.

Third, the pace is accelerating. The first $500M was tracked across W1-W15 (15 weeks). The second $500M was tracked across W16-W26 (11 weeks). W27 and W28 together added another $139M. The weekly run rate has increased materially since the scope expanded to four venues from W23 onward.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W26 – W28

2026 Running Total – W23 to W28

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 full 2026 dataset.

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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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 27 = week ending approximately July 6, 2026.

Week 27 confirmed that W26’s modest decline was a pause, not a trend break. $64,252,248 was extracted across 8,139 separate rug events – a 1.2% increase week-on-week, with rug events climbing to their highest level since W23. New pool creation rose to 13,893 first mints, the highest since W25. The running W1-W27 total now stands at $950,027,412 – crossing the $950M milestone and setting up a potential $1 billion cumulative total within the next two weeks.

Week 27 Key Numbers

Week 27 Analysis

W26 Dip Confirmed as a Pause

The 1.2% week-on-week increase in extracted fraud – from $63,470,936 to $64,252,248 – is small in percentage terms but meaningful in what it signals structurally. The three metrics that matter most all moved in the same direction: rug events rose from 7,579 to 8,139 (+7.4%), new pool mints rose from 12,682 to 13,893 (+9.5%), and total pools under observation rose from 10,897 to 11,248 (+3.2%). Fraud did not follow the same magnitude of increase only because average extraction per event fell slightly – to $7,892 per event versus $8,375 in W26. The underlying fraud machinery accelerated; the value extracted per event pulled back marginally.

The pattern is consistent with what this tracker has observed across previous multi-week sequences: rug pull fraud does not trend linearly. It oscillates week-to-week around a prevailing baseline, with the baseline itself shifting over multi-week periods. The W23-W27 baseline is materially higher than the W16-W20 baseline, and W27’s numbers offer no evidence of the baseline declining.

Rug Events Hit Highest Level Since W23

8,139 rug pull events in a single week is the highest event count recorded since W23’s 8,225. The practical implication is that the number of individual pools executing liquidity removal fraud continues to run well above the levels seen in W16-W22. High event counts with moderate per-event extraction values – the W27 pattern – are characteristic of a broad, distributed fraud environment rather than a concentrated one. Many smaller operators are running rug events simultaneously rather than a small number of large actors dominating the numbers. This is harder to detect and disrupt than concentrated fraud, because no single address or cluster generates a visible anomaly large enough to trigger conventional monitoring.

$950M Crossed – $1B Within Reach

The W1-W27 cumulative total of $950,027,412 crosses the $950M milestone and sets up a significant psychological threshold: $1 billion in cumulative rug pull fraud tracked since January 2026. At the W27 run rate of $64.3M per week, that milestone will be reached during W28 – approximately the week ending July 13, 2026.

The $1B figure requires its standard qualification: it covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 only, with the W1-W22 data covering PancakeSwap V2 exclusively. It does not capture rug pull activity on other DEXes, other chains, or through mechanisms other than direct liquidity removal. The actual total across the full DeFi ecosystem in 2026 is almost certainly a multiple of this figure. The tracked total is a floor, not a ceiling.

New Pool Creation Rises to Highest Since W25

13,893 new pool mints in W27 is the highest single-week figure since W25’s 13,620 and represents a 9.5% increase from W26. New pool creation is the most reliable leading indicator in this dataset – it precedes rug pull activity by approximately one to two weeks as newly minted pools accumulate liquidity before extraction events occur. The W27 elevation in new mints suggests W28 and W29 fraud values will remain elevated or increase further, absent a structural change in the market conditions driving new token creation.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W25 – W27

2026 Running Total – W21 to W27

Note: W1-W22 data covers PancakeSwap V2 only. From W23 onward, data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3.

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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.

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Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 26 = week ending approximately June 29, 2026.

Week 26 brought a modest pullback in rug pull fraud across all four tracked venues. $63,470,936 was extracted across 7,579 separate rug events – a 7.1% decline from W25’s $68,295,752. New pool creation remained elevated at 12,682 first mints, keeping the rug-to-mint ratio near 60%. The running W1-W26 total now stands at $885,775,164 – within striking distance of the $900M milestone.

Week 26 Key Numbers

Week 26 Analysis

A Modest Cooling – Not a Trend Break

The 7.1% week-on-week decline in extracted fraud brings W26 to $63.5M – the lowest single-week figure since W22’s $38M, but still materially elevated versus the W16-W20 baseline range of $18M-$35M. The structural conditions driving rug pull activity have not changed: new pool creation remains high at 12,682 first mints, and the ratio of rug events to new mints held at 59.8% – meaning roughly six in every ten pools launched this week ended in a rug pull.

The decline in extracted value is better explained by a shift in pool composition than by any reduction in fraudulent intent. W26 saw fewer large-value pools among those that were rugged – the average extraction per event fell to approximately $8,375, down from $8,588 in W25. The fraud infrastructure remains fully active; the week simply produced fewer high-value targets.

New Pool Creation Stays Elevated

12,682 new pool mints across the four tracked venues keeps W26 in the upper range of 2026 weekly creation activity. For context, W16 saw only 9,827 new mints – W26’s figure is 29% higher. The sustained elevation in new pool creation is significant because it is the primary leading indicator of rug pull activity: more new pools means more potential extraction targets in the following 1-2 weeks. If new mint rates stay above 12,000 through W27-W28, extracted fraud values are likely to remain in the $55M-$75M range.

Running Total Closes In on $900M

The W1-W26 cumulative total of $885,775,164 puts the $900M milestone approximately one average week away. At the W26 run rate of $63.5M per week, the total will cross $900M during W27. This figure covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – with the important caveat that W1-W22 data covers PancakeSwap V2 only, and the multi-venue expansion from W23 onward introduced a scope change that accounts for a portion of the step-up in weekly figures from W23.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W24 – W26

2026 Running Total – W1 to W26

Note: W1-W22 data covers PancakeSwap V2 only. From W23 onward, data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3.

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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.

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Rug pull events declined slightly to 10,274, down 8.0% from W24’s record 11,164 – but this remains the third-highest weekly event count in the dataset, behind only W23 and W24. Three consecutive weeks above 10,000 rug pull events confirms this is not a single-week anomaly. It is a sustained higher-intensity phase.

Three Weeks Above $54M: A New Baseline, Not a Spike

W23, W24, and W25 are now the three highest-value weeks in the dataset other than each other. With W25 reaccelerating rather than continuing the post-peak pullback seen in W24, the evidence increasingly points away from “spike and revert” and toward a structural step-change in extraction intensity. The removed-to-added liquidity ratio climbed back to 1.46x in W25, up from 1.40x in W24 – nearly matching the W23 peak ratio of 1.45x.

Reading the Reacceleration

Pool creation eased to 10,877 in W25, down from W24’s 11,790 – the lowest pool count since W22. Fewer new pools, fewer rug events, but higher fraud value and a higher extraction ratio. This combination points to a smaller number of operators running larger, more efficient extractions rather than a broad wave of low-value schemes. It is the inverse signature of W21, where event volume surged while value per rug fell – and a reminder that the rug pull industry shifts between volume-driven and value-driven phases depending on which operator cohort is most active in a given week.

The 5-week trailing average (W21-W25) now stands at approximately $50.5M – confirming that the post-W23 elevated baseline has held for a third consecutive week rather than reverting. The 25-week mean has risen to approximately $32.9M, pulled upward by three consecutive high-extraction weeks. For the full methodology and the original 20-week dataset that trained Rug Pull Detector V3, see our $569M PancakeSwap V2 analysis.

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25-Week Running Total: $822.4M

Week 25 pushes the cumulative total past the $800M milestone – $822,350,515 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 in the first 25 weeks of 2026, just under halfway through the year.

Halfway through 2026, retail investors have lost $822.4M to confirmed liquidity-extraction rug pulls across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 alone – excluding LP token transfer schemes, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypots, and associated wallet extraction. At the current 25-week average of $32.9M per week, the full-year run rate projects to approximately $1.71 billion if the pattern of recent weeks persists. The three-week reacceleration in W23-W25 is the single largest contributor to that upward revision since the dataset began.

How to Protect Yourself

With three consecutive weeks above 10,000 rug pull events and extraction value reaccelerating rather than reverting, the current environment across PancakeSwap and Uniswap V2/V3 represents the highest-risk sustained period in the dataset’s history. ChainAware’s free tools screen any pool or token in under two minutes:

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The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss. This definition is conservative – it excludes LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, and associated wallet extraction. Numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. For complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

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Rug pull events followed a similar pattern – 11,164 events, up slightly from W23’s 10,955 (+1.9%), even as fraud value declined. This divergence mirrors the W20→W21 transition: value retreats from a peak while event count holds near record levels, signaling that the broader operator base from the spike week has not exited – only the highest-value extractions have become less frequent.

Volume Holds, Value Retreats

W24 confirms the pattern flagged after the W23 spike: a record-setting week is typically followed by a partial value pullback while event volume stays elevated. Pool creation also held steady at 11,790, up slightly from W23’s 11,693 – the fraud factories are not slowing down their deployment pipeline even as average value per extraction falls.

Reading the Post-Peak Pullback

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio fell to 1.40x in W24, down from 1.45x in W23 – the lowest ratio since W19. This is consistent with the post-spike pattern: a wave of new, lower-sophistication operators entering during the surge tends to dilute the average extraction efficiency per pool, even while gross fraud value and event counts both remain elevated relative to the pre-spike baseline.

Critically, W24’s $54.2M is still the second-highest weekly fraud value in the 24-week dataset – only W23 itself was higher. This is not a return to the W21-W22 plateau. The 5-week trailing average (W20-W24) now stands at approximately $49.5M, more than 80% above the prior 5-week trailing average reported after W22 ($26.4M). The extraction baseline has structurally shifted upward over the past three weeks. For the full methodology and the original 20-week dataset that trained Rug Pull Detector V3, see our $569M PancakeSwap V2 analysis.

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24-Week Running Total: $757.9M

The peak fraud value (W23) and the peak rug event count (W24) are now one week apart – a sign that this acceleration cycle has not yet fully completed its arc. Whether W25 brings a further pullback toward the W21-W22 plateau, or a second value spike, will determine whether this was a single-cycle event or the start of a sustained higher-extraction phase. We will report the data exactly as measured next Monday.

How to Protect Yourself

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The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss. This definition is conservative – it excludes LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, and associated wallet extraction. Numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. For complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

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Rug pull events also surged – 10,955 in a single week, up 67.1% from W22’s 6,557. This is not a gradual climb. It is a step change, consistent with the same compression-then-spike dynamic that produced the W20 event.

The Cycle Called Its Shot

Two weeks ago, analyzing the W22 plateau, the projection was explicit: “Based on the W3-W8 and W13-W20 cycle patterns, the next acceleration window opens somewhere in W24-W26.” W23 arrived one week ahead of that window – close enough to confirm the underlying pattern, early enough to show that compression periods can break faster than the historical average once a new wave of operators is ready to deploy.

What’s Different This Time: Volume AND Value Both Surged

The W20 spike was driven primarily by value concentration – fewer high-value extractions. The W21 surge was driven primarily by event volume – more operators, lower value per rug. W23 is the first spike in the dataset where both metrics moved together at scale: rug events up 67.1% AND fraud value up 112.4% in the same week. This dual surge produced the highest single-week fraud value in the entire 23-week dataset, surpassing the previous peak (W04 at $53.4M) by 29%.

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio also climbed to 1.45x, up from 1.48x in W22 – essentially unchanged on a ratio basis, but applied against nearly double the pool volume. This is the clearest signal yet that the operators who compressed activity during the W21-W22 plateau redeployed at scale in W23, rather than exiting the market.

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23-Week Running Total: $703.8M

Week 23 pushes the cumulative total past the $700M milestone – $703,764,431 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 in 23 weeks of 2026.

W23 now holds two records simultaneously: the highest single-week fraud value and the highest single-week rug pull event count of the entire 23-week dataset. The 5-week trailing average has jumped from $26.4M (reported last week) to $37.2M – a clear signal that the extraction baseline is shifting upward, not just experiencing a temporary spike. For the full methodology and the original 20-week dataset that trained Rug Pull Detector V3, see our $569M PancakeSwap V2 analysis.

How to Protect Yourself

With 10,955 rug pull events in a single week – the highest count in the dataset – the probability of any random new pool being fraudulent is now higher than at any prior point in 2026. Approximately 94% of new pools with liquidity activity in W23 ended in a confirmed rug pull event. ChainAware’s free tools screen any pool or token in under two minutes:

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The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss. This definition is conservative – it excludes LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, and associated wallet extraction. Numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. For complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

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The plateau is not good news. A $32.5M weekly floor means retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 are losing approximately $4.6M every single day – without headlines, without emergency responses, and without industry-wide concern.

The Plateau: What Two Flat Weeks Signal

The compression-then-spike-then-plateau pattern is now clearly visible in the 22-week dataset. Week 20 produced the largest WoW spike in the dataset (+179.9%). Week 21 saw the fraud value pull back slightly while rug events hit an 8-week high. Week 22 is essentially identical to Week 21 – both in fraud value and event count direction. This is how extraction cycles end: not with a dramatic collapse but with a gradual compression toward a new operating baseline.

Reading the Plateau

The removed-to-added liquidity ratio held steady at 1.48x in W22 vs 1.46x in W21. Both are well above the 1.0x break-even threshold – creators continue extracting 48% more than they seed on average. Pool creation is stable at 11,300 vs 11,371. Every metric points to operational steadiness rather than either expansion or contraction.

The 5-week trailing average (W18-W22) now stands at $26.4M – still below the 22-week mean of $28.9M, but climbing steadily as the low-extraction weeks of W17-W19 drop further back in the rolling window. By W23 the trailing average will cross $27M unless extraction drops significantly. The 22-week mean of $28.9M represents the structural extraction capacity of the PancakeSwap V2 rug pull industry when operating at normal intensity. The current plateau at $32.5M is running above that mean – not below it.

Two weeks at $32.4M-$32.5M also suggests the W20 spike operators have not fully exited – they have compressed activity while maintaining elevated baseline extraction. The compression-then-spike cycle that produced W20 typically repeats. Based on the W3-W8 and W13-W20 cycle patterns, the next acceleration window opens somewhere in W24-W26. For the full cycle analysis and the original 20-week dataset, see our $569M PancakeSwap V2 analysis.

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22-Week Running Total: $634.8M

How to Protect Yourself

At $32.5M per week, the math is straightforward: 6,557 rug pulls across 11,300 new pools means roughly 58% of all new pools created in W22 ended in a confirmed rug pull event. Before investing in any new token or pool on PancakeSwap V2, run ChainAware’s free tools:

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Week 23 Data Published Every Monday

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About This Tracker

The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull on PancakeSwap V2: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss. This definition is conservative – it excludes LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, and associated wallet extraction. Numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. For complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

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The 21-week running total now stands at $602,689,131 – crossing the $600M milestone. On average, retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 have lost $28.7M every single week of 2026.

Week-over-Week: More Rugs, Lower Value Per Rug

The divergence between fraud value (-15.7%) and rug event count (+24.4%) is the most important signal in the W21 data. These two metrics usually move together – more events mean more extraction. When they diverge, it indicates a structural shift in who is operating and how.

What the Divergence Means

In W20, a small number of large-scale operators extracted high value per pool – the removed-to-added liquidity ratio was 1.75x, meaning creators removed $1.75 for every $1 they seeded. In W21 that ratio dropped to 1.47x, but rug event volume surged to 6,768 – the highest count since Week 13.

This pattern suggests two things happening simultaneously. First, the high-value operators from W20 partially exited or reduced activity after a high-extraction week – consistent with the compression-then-spike-then-compress cycle visible across the full 21-week dataset. Second, a new wave of lower-sophistication operators entered, attracted by the same market sentiment that drove W20’s spike. More actors, running smaller schemes, producing higher event volume but lower total extraction per event.

The 1.47x ratio is still significantly above 1.0x – creators are still removing 47% more than they add. Combined with the highest rug event count in eight weeks, W21 is not a sign of the fraud industry cooling down. It is a sign of it broadening.

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21-Week Running Total: $602.7M

Week 21 pushes the cumulative total past the $600M milestone – $602,689,131 extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 in 21 weeks of 2026.

The 5-week trailing average (W17-W21) sits at $22.4M – below the 21-week mean of $28.7M, but the rug event count trend is climbing. For the full methodology and the original 20-week dataset that trained Rug Pull Detector V3, see our $569M PancakeSwap V2 analysis.

How to Protect Yourself

With 6,768 rug pull events in a single week, the probability of any random new pool being fraudulent remains extremely high. ChainAware’s free tools screen any pool or token in under two minutes:

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Week 22 Data Published Every Monday

ChainAware publishes fresh PancakeSwap V2 rug pull data every week – pool creation, rug events, fraud value, and week-over-week analysis. Follow the archive for every weekly update.

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About This Tracker

The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull on PancakeSwap V2: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss. This definition is deliberately conservative – it excludes LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, and associated wallet extraction. The numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. For complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

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This is the ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker – published every week, covering PancakeSwap V2 on BNB Chain. The numbers come from ChainAware’s on-chain analysis: every pool where a contract creator added liquidity and then removed more than they added. The difference is retail money. Gone.

Week-over-Week: The Biggest Single-Week Jump in 20 Weeks

Week 20 stands out sharply against the four weeks that preceded it. After a sustained low-activity period running from Week 16 through Week 19 – where weekly extraction averaged just $15M – Week 20 delivered a 191% spike. This is the largest week-over-week percentage increase in the entire 20-week dataset.

What the W20 Spike Tells Us

Four consecutive low weeks followed by a sharp resurgence is a recognizable pattern in this dataset. It appeared after the W4 peak ($53.4M) when extraction compressed through W8 before partially recovering. It appeared again after W13 when extraction declined through W19 before snapping back in W20.

The compression-then-spike pattern reflects the operational rhythm of professional rug pull operators. Low-sentiment periods reduce retail capital inflows into new pools – making large extractions less profitable. Operators compress their activity, reduce deployment volume, and wait. When market sentiment recovers and retail capital returns to speculative DeFi activity, operators re-accelerate. The W20 spike is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of a new extraction cycle.

Two data points support this reading. First, total pools created jumped from 9,777 in W19 to 10,752 in W20 – a 10% increase in deployment volume alongside the 191% increase in fraud value. Operators deployed more pools AND extracted more per pool simultaneously. Second, the ratio of removed-to-added liquidity widened sharply: W19 was 1.50x (removed/added), W20 was 1.79x. Operators are extracting a higher fraction of the available liquidity per pool – a signal of more aggressive execution.

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20-Week Running Total: $569M and Counting

Week 20 closes the first 20-week measurement period of 2026. The cumulative picture is stark:

The W20 spike pushes the 5-week trailing average (W16-W20) to $20.2M – below the 20-week mean of $28.5M, but trending sharply upward. If the W20 resurgence continues into W21, the trailing average will recover toward the historical mean within two weeks. For the full 20-week methodology and dataset, see our complete $569M PancakeSwap V2 rug pull analysis.

How to Protect Yourself

Every rug pull event in this dataset was preventable. Not by avoiding DeFi – but by checking before investing. ChainAware’s free tools take under two minutes per token:

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Week 21 Data Published Every Monday

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About This Tracker

The ChainAware Weekly Rug Pull Tracker measures the most basic, mathematically verifiable form of rug pull on PancakeSwap V2: a contract creator adds liquidity (Mint event), retail investors buy in, and the creator removes more than they added (Burn event). The difference is confirmed retail loss.

This definition is deliberately conservative – it excludes more complex extraction methods (LP token transfer rug pulls, unlocked token sell-offs, honeypot contracts, associated wallet extraction). The numbers reported here represent the confirmed floor. Real total losses are higher. For the complete methodology, see chainaware.ai/resources/rugpull-verification .

Coverage will expand to additional DEXes and chains in coming weeks. Follow the Rug Pull News archive for every weekly update.

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