Daily Brief

Sunday, 18 October 2026

Generated from live verification data · written with Claude · read it on Telegram with alerts

The brief

Launch activity was heavy today, with more than a third of scanned tokens flagged and the average trust score at 49.1.

Market pulse

Of 5,057 launches, 3,734 were scanned and 1,335 flagged (35.8%). Solana led with 4,162 launches, then BNB Chain (582), Base (188) and Ethereum (54). Uniswap (direct) was the cleanest venue, with 28.7% risk and an average trust of 50.3. PancakeSwap (direct) was the riskiest, with 85.7% risk and an average of 42.2.

Worth a look

$VIRTUAL on Base scored 97.0 (verified) and $BAT on Ethereum scored 92.2 (verified). Both have no flags. $Surplus on Base rose from 8 to 88 and is now verified. $POP on BNB Chain rose from 8 to 86 and is also verified.

Stay away

$SHIB on Base (28.0, high-risk) has 0% of LP locked, and its top 10 wallets hold 100% of supply. $AgenC on Solana (28.0, high-risk) keeps both mint and freeze authority. $USRD on Base fell from 60 to 28, with one wallet holding 99.0% of supply.

Automated analysis from public data. Not financial advice.

New in 24h

5,057

Flagged high-risk

35.8%

Average trust

49.1

Top chain

Solana

4,162 launches

Worth a look

Newest tokens that passed our checks with real liquidity

VIRTUALVirtual Protocol

Base · Unclassified · liq $254.0K

BATBasic Attention Token

Ethereum · Uniswap (direct) · liq $123.4K

WETHWrapped Ether

Optimism · Uniswap (direct) · liq $422.9K

UNIUniswap

Arbitrum · Uniswap (direct) · liq $439.9K

WETHWrapped Ether

Arbitrum · Uniswap (direct) · liq $5.8M

Stay away

Funded pools that failed critical checks

SHIBShiba Inu

Base · Clanker · liq $14.2M

Liquidity locked / burned: 0% of LP is locked: liquidity can be pulled.

PaperPapertrade

Base · Uniswap (direct) · liq $10.6M

Liquidity depth: $0: effectively illiquid.

AgenCAgenC

Solana · Direct DEX listing · liq $6.4M

Mint authority: Creator can mint unlimited new tokens and dilute holders.

SPASPA

Solana · Unclassified · liq $1.2M

Liquidity locked / burned: 0% of LP is locked: liquidity can be pulled.

SPAPLUSSPAPLUS

Solana · Unclassified · liq $1.2M

Liquidity locked / burned: 0% of LP is locked: liquidity can be pulled.

Score drops

$USRD · Base60 → 28 $DOTF · Base55 → 28 $FTR · Solana66 → 50

Score rises

$Surplus · Base8 → 88 $POP · BNB Chain8 → 86 $AKE · BNB Chain8 → 86

Automated analysis from public data. Not financial advice. Scores can be wrong or out of date.