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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Week 20, 2026 produced the largest week-over-week spike in our 20-week dataset – $39.9M extracted from retail investors on PancakeSwap V2, a 191% jump from Week 19. 5,439 confirmed rug pull events. No media coverage. No industry response. The weekly tracker that publishes what nobody else measures.
$569,388,384. That is not a headline from a dramatic DeFi hack. No Twitter threads trended. No security firms issued emergency advisories. No mainstream crypto media