Nothing stops two projects using the same ticker, and scammers rely on it. Type a symbol and see every asset in our scored directory that uses it, with the score and the chain for each, so you can tell which one you are actually looking at before you buy the wrong one.
Try ANT, SC or BTC.
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.
Type any symbol above. If more than one asset in our directory of 929 scored tokens uses it, you will see all of them side by side with the chain and the score for each, so you can tell which one you are actually being offered.
These are the 6 real collisions in our directory. Each block is one symbol and the assets that share it. They are not scams by virtue of sharing a ticker, they are different things with the same short name, and buying the wrong one is permanent.
A ticker is not registered anywhere. Anyone deploying a contract picks whatever symbol they like, including one already in use by a large project. Most collisions are innocent: two teams independently chose the same three letters years apart. The dangerous ones are deliberate, where a new token takes the symbol of something people already trust so that a search, a swap interface or a hurried buyer resolves to the wrong asset.
We see it on our own weekly scan. A token trading as BASE on the Base chain turned out to be an unrelated memecoin with a joke name, and tokens using AAPL, MSTR, HOOD and OPENAI all appeared in a single week. None had any connection to the company whose name they were using.
Yes, and there is nothing preventing it. Ticker symbols are not registered or protected anywhere. Anyone deploying a contract chooses whatever symbol they want, including one already used by a large project. Exchanges and data sites resolve the conflict differently, which is how the same three letters can mean different things depending on where you are looking.
By contract address, which is unique, rather than by ticker, which is not. Get the address from the project's own website or a major exchange listing, then confirm it on a block explorer before swapping. If you got the address from a direct message, a reply to a post, or a sponsored search result, assume it is wrong until proven otherwise.
Usually nothing, and it is better to hear that plainly. A completed on chain swap cannot be reversed and there is no support desk. If the token you received has any liquidity you may be able to sell some of it back, often at a heavy loss. Anyone who contacts you offering to recover the funds is running a second scam on someone already known to have lost money.
No. Most collisions are coincidence, two teams picking the same short name years apart. It matters because it creates room for error, and because a deliberate impersonator hides in the same space as the innocent ones. Treat a shared ticker as a reason to verify the address rather than as an accusation.
No, it means we have not scored an asset with that symbol. The directory covers the assets we have reviewed, not every token in existence, and new ones appear constantly. Use the contract address and the safety scanner instead of the ticker.
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.
