Data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3. Week 27 = week ending approximately July 6, 2026.
Week 27 confirmed that W26’s modest decline was a pause, not a trend break. $64,252,248 was extracted across 8,139 separate rug events – a 1.2% increase week-on-week, with rug events climbing to their highest level since W23. New pool creation rose to 13,893 first mints, the highest since W25. The running W1-W27 total now stands at $950,027,412 – crossing the $950M milestone and setting up a potential $1 billion cumulative total within the next two weeks.
Week 27 Key Numbers
Week 27 Analysis
W26 Dip Confirmed as a Pause
The 1.2% week-on-week increase in extracted fraud – from $63,470,936 to $64,252,248 – is small in percentage terms but meaningful in what it signals structurally. The three metrics that matter most all moved in the same direction: rug events rose from 7,579 to 8,139 (+7.4%), new pool mints rose from 12,682 to 13,893 (+9.5%), and total pools under observation rose from 10,897 to 11,248 (+3.2%). Fraud did not follow the same magnitude of increase only because average extraction per event fell slightly – to $7,892 per event versus $8,375 in W26. The underlying fraud machinery accelerated; the value extracted per event pulled back marginally.
The pattern is consistent with what this tracker has observed across previous multi-week sequences: rug pull fraud does not trend linearly. It oscillates week-to-week around a prevailing baseline, with the baseline itself shifting over multi-week periods. The W23-W27 baseline is materially higher than the W16-W20 baseline, and W27’s numbers offer no evidence of the baseline declining.
Rug Events Hit Highest Level Since W23
8,139 rug pull events in a single week is the highest event count recorded since W23’s 8,225. The practical implication is that the number of individual pools executing liquidity removal fraud continues to run well above the levels seen in W16-W22. High event counts with moderate per-event extraction values – the W27 pattern – are characteristic of a broad, distributed fraud environment rather than a concentrated one. Many smaller operators are running rug events simultaneously rather than a small number of large actors dominating the numbers. This is harder to detect and disrupt than concentrated fraud, because no single address or cluster generates a visible anomaly large enough to trigger conventional monitoring.
$950M Crossed – $1B Within Reach
The W1-W27 cumulative total of $950,027,412 crosses the $950M milestone and sets up a significant psychological threshold: $1 billion in cumulative rug pull fraud tracked since January 2026. At the W27 run rate of $64.3M per week, that milestone will be reached during W28 – approximately the week ending July 13, 2026.
The $1B figure requires its standard qualification: it covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 only, with the W1-W22 data covering PancakeSwap V2 exclusively. It does not capture rug pull activity on other DEXes, other chains, or through mechanisms other than direct liquidity removal. The actual total across the full DeFi ecosystem in 2026 is almost certainly a multiple of this figure. The tracked total is a floor, not a ceiling.
New Pool Creation Rises to Highest Since W25
13,893 new pool mints in W27 is the highest single-week figure since W25’s 13,620 and represents a 9.5% increase from W26. New pool creation is the most reliable leading indicator in this dataset – it precedes rug pull activity by approximately one to two weeks as newly minted pools accumulate liquidity before extraction events occur. The W27 elevation in new mints suggests W28 and W29 fraud values will remain elevated or increase further, absent a structural change in the market conditions driving new token creation.
Week-on-Week Comparison: W25 – W27
| Metric | W25 | W26 | W27 | W27 vs W26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraud extracted | $68,295,752 | $63,470,936 | $64,252,248 | +1.2% |
| Rug events | 7,955 | 7,579 | 8,139 | +7.4% |
| Total pools | 10,877 | 10,897 | 11,248 | +3.2% |
| New mints | 13,620 | 12,682 | 13,893 | +9.5% |
| Added by creators | $144,425,189 | $132,271,142 | $138,030,679 | +4.4% |
| Removed by creators | $212,720,941 | $195,742,078 | $202,282,927 | +3.3% |
| Running total | $885,775,164 (restated W25) | $885,775,164 | $950,027,412 | – |
2026 Running Total – W21 to W27
| Week | Fraud Extracted | Rug Events | Running Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| W21 | $39,771,426 | 8,589 | $703,804,534 |
| W22 | $38,045,464 | 7,807 | $741,849,998 |
| W23 | $73,425,127 | 8,225 | $815,275,125 |
| W24 | $56,425,166 | 8,093 | $871,700,291 |
| W25 | $68,295,752 | 7,955 | $885,775,164 |
| W26 | $63,470,936 | 7,579 | $885,775,164 |
| W27 | $64,252,248 | 8,139 | $950,027,412 |
Note: W1-W22 data covers PancakeSwap V2 only. From W23 onward, data covers PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3.
About This Tracker
ChainAware.ai’s weekly rug pull tracker monitors liquidity removal fraud across PancakeSwap V2 and V3 on BNB Smart Chain and Uniswap V2 and V3 on Ethereum. Rug pull fraud is defined as liquidity removed by the pool creator that exceeds liquidity added by the creator – a net extraction event. The tracker uses ChainAware’s predictive rug pull detection engine, which achieves 90.1% detection accuracy in V3. Data is updated weekly. Historical data from W1-W22 covers PancakeSwap V2 only; multi-venue tracking expanded from W23 onward.