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.

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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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