CORRECTED: Week 22, 2026: $19,154,855 extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – -3.6% vs prior week. 7,864 rug pull events. Running total (corrected for a USD double-counting bug) reaches $389,696,109.
CORRECTED: Week 21, 2026: $19,870,500 extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – +16.5% vs prior week. 8,670 rug pull events. Running total (corrected for a USD double-counting bug) reaches $370,541,254.
CORRECTED: Week 20, 2026: $17,051,590 extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – +5.1% vs prior week. 6,718 rug pull events. Running total (corrected for a USD double-counting bug) reaches $350,670,754.
$284,694,192. That is not a headline from a dramatic DeFi hack. No Twitter threads trended. No security firms issued emergency advisories. No mainstream crypto media ran front-page coverage. That is the total value extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 alone – across just 20 weeks in 2026 – through a mechanism so normalized it barely registers as news: the rug pull. 103,695 separate rug pull events. $973,588,405 removed. $688,894,213 added before removal. ChainAware simultaneously launches Rug Pull Detector V3, combining behavioral analysis of contract creators with full smart contract inspection to reach 90.1% prediction accuracy, up from 68% in V2.
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.