TokenTrust — On-Chain Legitimacy Score for New Tokens
Paste any Base, Solana, or EVM token contract and instantly see a legitimacy grade based on holder concentration, liquidity lock status, wash-trade signals, deployer history, and contract risk — built because the 'volume bot' and 'trending bot' economy actively fakes every metric retail investors look at.
Retail crypto buyers trying not to get rugged on a newly-launched token
- Holder concentration + top-10 wallet overlap with known deployer-funded clusters
- Wash-trade detection by spotting circular transfer patterns across known maker wallets
- Liquidity lock + LP-token burn verification with on-chain proof links
- Deployer-wallet history: how many prior tokens, what % rugged, how recently the wallet was created
The 'Base volume bot' and 'DexTools trending bot' repos trending on GitHub show how industrialized fake activity has become — retail investors can no longer read trending pages at face value and need a counter-tool.
Multiple actively-marketed rug-pull checkers (Clearank, RegPilot, TokenSniffer via Solidus Labs) and Chainalysis reporting ~$704M in suspected wash trading across Base/ETH/BNB in 2024 confirm strong and persistent retail demand for legitimacy scoring.Crypto Market Manipulation 2025: Suspected Wash Trading, Pump and Dump ↗RegPilot: Free Crypto Trust Score — Rug Pull Detector & Token Safety ↗
Space is crowded with well-funded incumbents: TokenSniffer (Solidus Labs, 250K+ scam tokens flagged), GoPlus Security, Bubblemaps, Honeypot.is, De.Fi scanner, RugCheck, Clearank, RegPilot — at least 8 named competitors covering most of the proposed signals already.Token Monitoring — Smart Contract Scam Detection & Rug Pull Prevention ↗
Most retail-facing checkers (TokenSniffer, RegPilot, Clearank, GoPlus) are free, while monetization lives in B2B API plans (e.g., Bubblemaps Pro API); weak willingness-to-pay from retail memecoin buyers caps revenue.API Plans - Bubblemaps Pro ↗GoPlus Security APIs | Real-Time Web3 Risk Data ↗
Volume-bot infrastructure, wash trading and memecoin launches are deeply entrenched and Chainalysis documents them as an ongoing multi-hundred-million-dollar phenomenon, so a counter-tool category should remain relevant for years.How to Detect Fake Volume and Bot Activity on Solana ↗Crypto Market Manipulation 2025: Suspected Wash Trading, Pump and Dump ↗
Holder concentration and liquidity lock checks are trivial using existing indexers; wash-trade heuristics and deployer history are moderate lift, and core signals can be assembled by wrapping existing free APIs (GoPlus, Bubblemaps) rather than building from scratch.GoPlus Token Security - gopluslabs.io ↗Wash Trading on Solana DEXs: How Fake Volume Is Created and Detected ↗