How We Screen a Coin Before We Write It Up

Every day, an automated pipeline pulls the 100 trending Solana tokens from Jupiter's organic-score feed and measures each one against the same frozen checklist. On a typical day, zero to two of them clear it. The failure rate is the point - most tokens are supposed to fail this.

A token has to clear every item below. There is no scoring and no making up for one failed check with a strong one elsewhere: at least 45 days old (most rugs happen in week one); at least $150,000 of liquidity, with $75,000 in one pool; 24-hour volume no more than 4x liquidity (higher reads as manufactured volume); top-10 wallets holding no more than 25% of supply; mint authority and freeze authority both revoked, with no exceptions; a deployer wallet that is not a token factory - no more than 25 tokens minted and 5 migrations from the same address (we once measured a clean-looking token whose deployer had minted 140,483 tokens and pushed 1,078 of them to market - the contract was fine, the wallet was a production line); at least 90% of material liquidity locked or burned, with the deepest pool at least 95% locked; and a discoverable public profile, or we do not cover it.

The figures come from three public sources: Jupiter for holders, concentration, authorities and deployer history; DexScreener for per-pool liquidity, volume and pool age; RugCheck for liquidity locks. When sources disagree, we record the lower number - when two sources gave liquidity figures a million dollars apart for the same token, the lower one is what we published. The same rule runs the other way: if a source cannot tell us something, that check counts as failed, not as the benefit of the doubt.

Clearing the checklist is not a recommendation. It means measured and not disqualified, nothing more - the specific, checkable failure modes (printable supply, freezable balances, withdrawable liquidity, factory deployers, exit-sized concentration) were looked for and not found. It says nothing about whether the price goes up, and it is still a memecoin, with everything that implies. A human makes the final call on every token; the pipeline only finds and measures.

Every covered token is re-measured automatically every day after, on the public ledger, with coverage-day numbers sitting next to today's numbers. Nothing is deleted, a token cannot be re-covered inside 90 days, and corrections are published dated, original figure next to corrected figure. The full, versioned checklist is at rebatemax.trading/research-criteria.