RugCheck is a free website that reads a Solana token's on-chain data and turns it into a report: who holds the supply, what powers the creator kept, whether the liquidity can be pulled and a list of warnings. It is one of the sources behind our own grades. This guide goes through the report section by section, so you know what each field means and what it can't tell you.
Before It Rugs is not affiliated with RugCheck. This describes the report as it looks at the time of writing (October 2026). RugCheck changes its layout and labels from time to time, so some names may differ slightly.
How to open a report
Go to rugcheck.xyz and paste the token's contract address (the coin's unique ID) into the search box. Always search by address, not by name, because copycat tokens often share a name. Every coin page on our site also links straight to its RugCheck report.
The risk score and label
At the top, RugCheck shows an overall risk score and a label such as Good, Warning or Danger. Each warning it finds adds to the score, so a higher score means more risk found, not a better coin.
The label is a quick summary. The warnings underneath are what matter, because one serious warning can be more important than several small ones.
The warnings list
Each warning has a level. Danger warnings are shown in red and the less serious ones in yellow. Common ones include:
| Warning | What it means |
|---|---|
| Mint Authority still enabled | Someone can still create new tokens and sell them |
| Freeze Authority still enabled | Someone can stop wallets from moving or selling the token |
| Large Amount of LP Unlocked | Whoever added the liquidity can still withdraw it |
| Low Liquidity | The trading pool holds little money, so trades move the price a lot |
| Single holder ownership | One wallet holds a large share of the supply |
| Top 10 holders high ownership | The ten biggest wallets hold a large share between them |
| Creator history of rugged tokens | The creator's earlier tokens were rugged |
| Mutable metadata | The creator can still change the token's name, symbol or picture |
| Copycat token | Another token already uses this name or symbol |
A coin still on a launchpad curve, such as pump.fun's, often shows warnings about liquidity simply because it has no normal pool yet. Read those in context. Our grades skip RugCheck warnings that repeat checks we already score ourselves, so the same problem never counts twice.
Token overview
This section lists the token's basic settings:
- Supply. How many tokens exist. Pump.fun coins have one billion.
- Creator. The wallet that made the token. Click through to see what else it has launched.
- Mint authority. If a wallet address is shown, that wallet can print new tokens. If it shows as revoked or empty, nobody can. See mint and freeze authority.
- Freeze authority. The same, for the power to freeze wallets.
- LP locked. The share of the pool's liquidity tokens that is locked or burned. A high figure means the pool can't simply be withdrawn. It does not stop holders selling into it. See liquidity locks and burns.
Top holders
A list of the biggest wallets and the share of supply each one holds. Some of these are not people: the liquidity pool, a bonding curve account or a locker can sit near the top. RugCheck usually labels known accounts like these. Leave them out when you judge how concentrated the supply is.
What to look for:
- One wallet with a large share. A single seller with 10% or more can crash the price alone.
- The top 10 together. If they hold half the supply, a handful of people decide the price.
- Near-identical bags. Several top wallets holding almost exactly the same amount is the classic sign of a bundled launch.
Insider networks
RugCheck builds a graph of wallets that are linked, usually because they were funded from the same source. It reports how many linked insider wallets it found and marks them in the holder list.
A cluster of linked wallets acts like one big holder spread across many addresses. On older, larger coins the count can be high for ordinary reasons, because so many wallets have traded through the same exchanges and services. That is why we only score insiders when they make up at least 3% of holders, or the coin has fewer than 300 holders. See insider wallets.
Markets
A list of the trading pools for the token, with the liquidity in each and how much of it is locked. A coin can have more than one pool. Most of the trading usually happens in the largest.
The rugged banner
If RugCheck believes the liquidity has been pulled or the token abandoned, it marks the token as rugged. In our grades that alone scores 9 points, an automatic F.
What the report can't tell you
A RugCheck report reads the blockchain at one moment. It can't see:
- insiders who bought through fresh wallets funded from exchanges, so no link shows
- a team selling slowly over days
- fake volume from bots trading with themselves
- paid promotion, fake partnerships or hype simply ending
A clean report means the visible tools for a rug are not there. It does not mean nobody can sell. Read can a coin that passes every check still rug.
How we use RugCheck
Our live board pulls the RugCheck report for new Solana memecoins and adds our own checks on top, such as identical bags and copycats. Each warning sign becomes points, and the points become a grade from A to F with a plain-English line for each one. To run the same check on any coin, paste its address into our rug check.
Related
- What our A to F grades mean
- Mint and freeze authority explained
- Pump.fun rug pulls: how they happen and what to check
- How to read a DexScreener chart