How to Check if a Solana Token Is a Honeypot or Rug Pull
A honeypot lets you buy but not sell; a rug pull drains the liquidity. Here is how to check any Solana token before you buy — authorities, liquidity, holders, and metadata.
Lena reads contracts and liquidity for a living. Before joining SolForger she spent years doing on-chain forensics — tracing where liquidity went after a launch, why a token would not sell, and which authority a team quietly kept. She covers the safety side of the forge: how to revoke authorities, how to read a certificate, and how to tell a real liquidity pool from a honeypot before you send a single lamport. Her rule for readers is the same one she uses herself: verify on-chain, never take a team's word.
A honeypot lets you buy but not sell; a rug pull drains the liquidity. Here is how to check any Solana token before you buy — authorities, liquidity, holders, and metadata.
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