A honeypot lets you buy and then stops you selling, so the chart looks real while the exit does not exist. This runs a buy and sell simulation against the contract and reads the code for the patterns that block a sale, including taxes set high enough to be a honeypot in everything but name.
No address to hand? Try a real memecoin or a major stablecoin.
You will never be asked to connect a wallet here. This tool reads public blockchain data from an address you paste. No safety tool needs your wallet, your seed phrase or your private key, and anything that asks for them is the thing it claims to protect you from. If a site offering to check or recover your funds asks you to connect or to type a seed phrase, close it.
Every check on this page reads public data about the contract and reports what it finds. That covers the mechanical ways money is taken: liquidity that can be withdrawn, supply that can be minted, a sale that cannot execute, a tax that can be raised after you buy, a wallet that can be blocked. It does not cover whether a project is real, whether the team will build anything, or whether the price will go anywhere. Those are judgements, and a tool that claimed to make them would be lying to you.
Where a source has no data for a contract, this says so rather than showing a pass. A very new token or a smaller chain will often return partial results. Treat an absent answer as a reason to check manually, never as an all clear.
Get the contract address from a block explorer, the exchange listing or the project's own site. Never take an address from a direct message or a reply, which is the single most common way people end up buying a copy of the token they meant to buy. If you are not sure you have the right one, the ticker collision checker shows every asset we score that uses the same symbol.
A honeypot is a token you can buy but cannot sell. The contract contains code that blocks transfers from ordinary wallets while allowing the deployer to trade freely. Because buying works normally, the price chart looks healthy and rising, which is the point: every buyer adds money that can never leave. You often do not discover it until you try to take profit.
Two ways, and it uses both. It runs a simulated buy and sell against the live contract, which is the strongest evidence available because it actually attempts the trade. It also reads the contract code for the patterns that block selling, such as blacklists, transfer pausing, whitelists and taxes set near total. A simulation that fails is close to conclusive; a simulation that succeeds means you could sell at that moment.
Yes, and this is the part most checkers do not tell you. If the owner kept the power to change the tax rate, pause transfers or blacklist addresses, a token that simulates as sellable today can stop being sellable tomorrow. That is why this page also shows the owner powers. A clean simulation with an active owner who can change the rules is not the same as a clean simulation on a renounced contract.
Practically, yes, past a certain point. A 99% sell tax is not technically a block on selling, it just means you receive one percent of your money. The checker treats extreme and modifiable taxes as failures for that reason.
Yes, with no sign up and no wallet connection. Paste a contract address. Never connect a wallet or enter a seed phrase to test whether a token is sellable.
We seal the list every week and keep re-checking every token on it, so you can see what actually happened to them rather than only what is trading today.
