Every Verdict draws from the same 19 weighted checks, 5 kill-shot overrides, and 3 persistent-memory rules — published, versioned, and identical for every scan.
The Custody Check
18 PTSThe single heaviest weight in the formula. We trace who can still pull the liquidity behind every pool the token sits in, across V2, V3, and V4 — not just the deployer's wallet.
Contract Authority Audit
NEWEvery privileged function traced in the verified source — mint, pause, blacklist, fee setters, upgrade, asset rescue — graded by who can still pull the trigger.
Honeypot Simulation
KILL SHOTTwo layered sell passes as a holder would make them, not as the contract's own logic wants them read. Fail either and the score is forced to CRITICAL.
Deployer & Funding Lineage
26 PTSLaunch history and the stained-funds graph. A deployer with dead prior launches, or funded by a wallet that funded a confirmed rugger, scores against the token before it trades once.
Holder & Market Structure
5 CHECKSTop-holder concentration against circulating float, real liquidity depth, valuation stretched past what liquidity can support, and how young the pool and the contract really are.
Manipulation Signals
4 CHECKSWash-trading's bot-volume signature, turnover that outpaces real liquidity, fee toggling after launch, and paid screener placement bought to look like organic demand.
Identity & Lineage
3 CHECKSBytecode fingerprinted against every known clone template, launch-curve provenance versus the creator's own share of the raise, and impersonation of a real, canonical asset.
The Verdict Itself
4 TIERSCLEAR, CAUTION, DANGER, CRITICAL. A single kill-shot forces CRITICAL regardless of score, and a live scam mark keeps a token's ceiling capped even after the trap goes quiet.