How to Spot a Solana Rug Pull: 12-Point Checklist Before You Buy Any Token
12 on-chain checks you can run in 5 minutes before buying any Solana token. Mint authority, liquidity locks, holder concentration, dev wallet behavior — with exact steps on Solscan, RugCheck, and DexScreener.
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Before buying any Solana token: check mint authority is revoked, freeze authority is disabled, liquidity is locked (or burned on pump.fun), top 10 holders don't control more than 30% of supply, and the deployer wallet has no history of rugged tokens. These five checks alone eliminate the majority of obvious rug setups. The full 12-point checklist takes under 5 minutes using RugCheck.xyz, Solscan, and DexScreener.
Florian
Founder & Head of Quant — Stratium
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Florian
Founder & Head of Quant — Stratium
Florian is the founder and Head of Quant at Stratium. With 5+ years of experience in quantitative finance and algorithmic trading, he built the copy trading engine from the ground up on Solana — designing the strategy curation framework, FIFO PnL engine, position sizing models, and on-chain execution infrastructure. He writes about quantitative trading, Solana DeFi, and the data behind copy trading performance.