Many tokens take a percentage of every trade inside the contract itself. It does not appear in the quoted price and most buyers never see it until they work out why the numbers do not add up. This reads the buy, sell and transfer tax straight from the contract, and tells you whether the owner can change them after you are in.
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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 That covers the mechanical ways money is taken: liquidity that can be withdrawn, supply that can be minted, a sale that cannot execute, a tax that can be raised after you buy, a wallet that can be blocked.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.
Usually one of two things, and they are different. Slippage is the price moving between quote and execution, which is a market effect. A token tax is a percentage taken by the contract itself on every trade, which is written into the code and applies no matter how deep the liquidity is. If the shortfall is a consistent percentage every time, it is a tax rather than slippage.
Zero is normal for any established asset. Taxes of one to five percent are common on memecoins and are usually described as funding marketing or liquidity. Above roughly ten percent the tax becomes the main thing the token does to you, and you need a substantial price move just to return to where you started. Anything approaching total on the sell side is a honeypot with a friendlier name.
It means the owner can change the rate after you buy. This is the dangerous case and it is why the checker treats it as a failure regardless of the current rate. A token with a zero percent sell tax today, held by an owner who can set it to ninety nine percent, is not a zero percent sell tax token. It is a token where the exit is controlled by someone else.
Sometimes. A transfer tax applies to wallet to wallet movement, not just to trades, so moving your own tokens to a hardware wallet can cost you a percentage of them. The checker reports transfer tax separately for exactly this reason.
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.
