Solana token check · before you sign

Spot the creator dump before you buy.

On pump.fun, honest and dishonest tokens pass the same contract checks. RugBuster reads what the creator did with their own tokens, who bought in the first five seconds, and tells you what it could not check.

Same token, same day

A scanner said clean. The creator had already left.

Contract scanner (RugCheck)

No risks

The creator holds 0% of supply. Mint and freeze authority revoked. Nothing flagged.

RugBuster

Danger · 75

The creator bought 35.5% of the supply in the creation transaction and sold 100% of it 22 seconds later.

Token TOASTCAT · check it on Solscan ↗ · both answers read on 28 September 2026. A snapshot sees 0% and looks clean; the creator's 0% is what is left after the exit.

READ THE
CREATOR,
NOT THE CONTRACT.
honest or not, launchpad tokens pass the contract check
The finding · 9,170 launches, outcomes read from chain

The creator's own position gives it away.

On launchpads the template revokes mint and freeze authority for honest and dishonest tokens alike, so contract checks cannot tell them apart. What the creator does with their own supply can.

89%

of creators who bought at least 1% of their token sold all of it within the first hour. 97.6% within 30 days. (2,785 creators.)

163 / 300

launches where three or more wallets bought within five seconds of creation. 670 of the 1,226 early buyers were bot wallets.

Read the study ↗ · data and code ↗

How a scan works

Three reads, one answer, no guessing.

The creation transaction

How much of the supply the creator bought when the token was made, and whether and how fast they sold it.

The first five seconds

Every wallet that bought before a person could react, and which of them are high-frequency bot wallets.

The creator's record

Earlier tokens by the same creator from 35,000+ Solana creators on record, and whether they rugged.

Every answer lists what it could not check. A gap in our data is never shown to you as a clean result.
RugBuster does not take money from token creators. No badges, no paid verification. We only read what the creator did on chain.
For wallets, bots and agents

One request before your user signs.

Trading apps show the creator's moves to traders. RugBuster shows them to every wallet user, before they sign.

# free for testing and personal use, up to 1,000 checks a day
GET https://rugbuster-solana-api-production.up.railway.app/score?address=<mint>

# pay per scan, $0.01 USDC on Solana over x402
GET https://rugbuster-solana-api-production.up.railway.app/x402/score?address=<mint>
# → 402 with the price · pay from Phantom or an agent wallet
# → the verdict. Charged only when a verdict comes back.
Creator TraceThe whole trace drawn live, with Phantom pay. Open ↗
x402 on SolanaAgents pay per scan in USDC; the network fee is covered by the facilitator.
Chrome extensionSelect any address on a page, right-click, scan. Source ↗
Open codeAPI, study and benchmark on GitLab ↗

Plans for bots, wallets and apps Early pricing

Free
$0
Testing and personal use. Up to 1,000 checks a day, no key.
Starter
$39/mo
100,000 checks a month with your own API key.
Growth
$149/mo
500,000 checks, plus a webhook the moment a tracked creator sells.
Pro
$349/mo
1,000,000 checks, webhooks, priority support. More on request.
Start with a free 30-day pilot. Your users can also get the creator-sell alert on their phone, through the RugBuster app on the Solana dApp Store.Start a free pilot
Our own miss
1,346 of 2,785

Until 18 September our own rules called these creator-dump tokens safe. We found it in the study, fixed the rules, and published the mistake together with the data.

113,000+tokens scanned since May 2026
5chains with a scanner
9,170launches in the study
Who builds this · the team
FF

Fedja Furduj · Belgrade

Founder. 25 years in design and multimedia. I got rugged as a crypto beginner by a token my scanner called safe, so I built the check I wanted. I build RugBuster with AI coding agents and ship every week.

MR

Matija Rodić · Belgrade

Marketing. Knows crypto from the trader's side; runs marketing and community, and talks to the wallets and trading bots we want to work with.

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