Rug replay
Aape: the first 4 hours, minute by minute
Anonymous Ape on Solana, launched 22 October 2026 at 19:34 UK time. We recorded 4 hours of one-minute prices from 19:35. 6 warning signs lit up along the way, and 24 hours after launch it had collapsed.
- Spiking
- Cooling off
- Sliding
- Settling
- Quiet
- Warning sign
- Serious sign or the fall
- Other event
6 warning signs in this replay.
1x plays one minute of the coin's life every second. Keys: Space plays or pauses, J and L jump 10 minutes, and the arrow keys move the slider one minute.
Prices are our own one-minute records. Buys vs sells are counts of trades in the past 5 minutes, not dollars. Times are UK time. Where our live records had a gap, we used the coin's case file or DexScreener prices every 2 minutes; each event names its source.
Every event, with its time and source
- Left the launchpad for a full trading poolSource: lab.db event (graduated), minute 0.
- We first saw it on our live boardSource: lab.db event (first_seen), minute 0.
- Phase: Spiking
The price was at least 3x its lowest point of the past hour.
Source: phase.db phase_log 945, minute 1. - Linked insider wallets hold 10% of supply
RugCheck links 4 wallets in 1 group by shared funding.
Together they hold 10% of supply, about $18k at the current price.
Liquidity is $33.8k.
Source: findings.db finding d9ba6681f5d7, minute 1. - First check: grade F, 3 warning signs
Linked insider wallets hold 10% of supply.
One wallet holds 9% of supply.
Top 10 wallets hold 67%.
Source: outcomes.db first_check, minute 1. - Phase: Cooling off
The price was 20% or more below a high set in the past hour, after a run up.
Source: phase.db phase_log 972, minute 7. - Our grade changed from F to ESource: lab.db event (grade), 1 change, minute 11.
- Our grade changed from E to DSource: lab.db event (grade), 1 change, minute 21.
- Highest price in our minute bars, market value $255kSource: lab.db bar, computed, minute 30.
- Paid profile bought on DexScreener
DexScreener's own timestamp for the order.
Source: lab.db event (promo), minute 32. - Paid profile bought while up 5.5x in an hour
Paid profile bought 1 minute ago on DexScreener.
The price is up 445% over the last hour (5.5x).
Market value $237k, liquidity $41.2k.
An hour later the price was 99% lower than when we logged this.
Our read: paid attention arriving after a 3x move gives the early holders a crowd to exit into.
Source: findings.db finding 683f8750a97c, minute 32. - Price fell below half its peak, 54% down
24 minutes after the peak.
Source: lab.db bar, computed, minute 54. - Linked insider wallets hold 33% of supply
RugCheck links 52 wallets in 10 groups by shared funding.
Together they hold 33% of supply, about $46.1k at the current price.
The largest single group holds 10%.
Liquidity is $32.4k.
Our read: a linked share this size can move the price on its own if it leaves at once.
Source: findings.db finding 70c30d0e35a7, minute 72. - Our grade changed from D to ESource: lab.db event (grade), 1 change, minute 72.
- Phase: Cooling off
The price was 20% or more below a high set in the past hour, after a run up.
A paid boost, profile or ad was bought in the hour before.
Source: phase.db phase_log 1301, minute 72. - Phase: Sliding
Each 20-minute low of the past hour was lower than the one before.
A paid boost, profile or ad was bought in the hour before.
Source: phase.db phase_log 1321, minute 76. - Liquidity fell 89% in 6 minutes, $40.3k to $4.6k
Liquidity went from $40.3k to $4.6k in 6 minutes.
The price moved -99% over the same time.
Market value is now $2.2k.
Source: findings.db finding 049a3a0a3f27, minute 80. - Phase: Quiet
Under $2,000 was traded in the past hour.
Source: phase.db phase_log 1622, minute 139. - 24 hours after launch: collapsed, 99% below the highest price we recorded
Collapsed: the price was under a tenth of its peak, or liquidity was under $1,000 outside the launchpad.
Source: outcomes.db outcomes.out24_status, after our minute bars end.
What the check showed before the fall
Our first check graded Aape F at 19:35 UK time, 2 minutes after launch, with 3 warning signs:
The price first fell below half its peak at 20:29, 24 minutes after its highest point in our records. Before that, 3 of the 6 warning signs in this replay had appeared:
- 19:35 Linked insider wallets hold 10% of supply
- 19:35 First check: grade F, 3 warning signs
- 20:06 Paid profile bought while up 5.5x in an hour
3 more signs appeared after the fall began.
24 hours after launch: collapsed, 99% below the highest price we recorded.