$74.9M Extracted in Week 28 – Rug Pull Fraud Surges 16.5% as 2026 Total Crosses $1 Billion

Week 28, 2026: $74.9M extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – up 16.5% vs Week 27, the highest single-week figure since W23’s $73.4M. Rug events climbed to 8,318. The 2026 running total has now crossed $1 billion. New pool mints held at 13,427 with a rug-to-mint ratio of 61.9%.

$64.3M Extracted in Week 27 – Running Total Crosses $950M as Fraud Reaccelerates

Week 27, 2026: $64.3M extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – up 1.2% vs Week 26, confirming the W26 dip was a pause not a trend break. Rug events rose to 8,139, the highest since W23. New pool mints climbed to 13,893. Running W1-W27 total: $950M – $1 billion milestone projected in Week 28.

$63.5M Extracted in Week 26 – Fraud Stabilises as Running Total Approaches $900M

Week 26, 2026: $63.5M extracted across PancakeSwap V2/V3 and Uniswap V2/V3 – down 7.1% vs Week 25, with rug events declining to 7,579. New pool creation stayed elevated at 12,682 mints, keeping the rug-to-mint ratio near 60%. Running W1-W26 total: $885.8M – approaching the $900M milestone.

55% of the Top 10,000 CoinGecko Tokens Are High Risk. ChainAware Token Audit Shows Why.

55.2% of the top 10,000 CoinGecko tokens by market cap are HIGH RISK. 131 confirmed honeypots. 139 upgradeable proxy contracts controlled by a single private key. ChainAware Token Audit ran 127 security checks across 6 blockchains and found threats invisible to GoPlus, CertiK, and TokenSniffer. Full results at chainaware.ai/token-audit.

ChainAware Token Audit Launched – We Tested 10,000 CoinGecko Tokens. Here Are the Results.

ChainAware Token Audit is live – 127 automated security checks across 9 modules, tested against the top 10,000 CoinGecko tokens by market cap. The results: 55.2% high risk, 131 confirmed honeypots, 13.2% upgradeable proxy contracts – including 139 controlled by a single private key. ChainAware catches threats invisible to GoPlus, CertiK Skynet, and TokenSniffer: transitive approve() analysis, phantom balanceOf, EIP-2612 permit correctness, reentrancy detection, and asymmetric pause – powered by behavioral intelligence across 20M+ wallet personas on 8 blockchains. Free at chainaware.ai/token-audit.

$64.4M Extracted in Week 25 – Reacceleration Confirms New Baseline, Total Crosses $800M

Week 25, 2026: $64,404,228 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – up 18.9% from Week 24, reaccelerating rather than reverting to the earlier plateau. Three consecutive weeks above 10,000 rug pull events. Running 25-week total crosses $800M: $822,350,515.

$54.2M Extracted in Week 24 – Value Pulls Back, Event Count Hits New Peak

Week 24, 2026: $54,181,856 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – down 21.4% from Week 23’s record, but still the second-highest weekly value in the dataset. Rug pull events climbed to a new peak of 11,164 (+1.9%). The extraction baseline has structurally shifted upward. Running 24-week total: $757.9M.

$68.9M Extracted in Week 23 – Extraction Doubles as the Predicted Cycle Hits

Week 23, 2026: $68,937,024 extracted from retail investors across PancakeSwap V2, PancakeSwap V3, Uniswap V2, and Uniswap V3 – more than double Week 22’s level (+112.4%) and a new single-week peak. Rug pull events also hit a new high at 10,955 (+67.1%). The predicted W24-W26 acceleration cycle arrived early. Running 23-week total: $703.8M.

$32.5M Extracted in Week 22 – Two Consecutive Weeks at the Same Level

Week 22, 2026: $32,459,995 extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 – virtually unchanged from Week 21’s $32,422,973 (+0.1%). Two consecutive weeks at the same extraction level signals a plateau. The $32.5M floor is not a recovery – it is the baseline the rug pull industry sustains between cycles. Running 22-week total: $634.8M.

$32.4M Extracted in Week 21 – More Rugs, Lower Value Per Rug

Week 21, 2026: $32.4M extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2 – down 15.7% vs Week 20, but rug pull events jumped +24.4% to 6,768. More operators, lower average value per rug. The W20 high-value spike is giving way to broader-volume extraction. Running 21-week total: $602.7M.