Reading an alert

A CryptoFilter alert is a briefing, not a ping. It is dense because the alternative — a score and a link — asks you to trust us instead of letting you check.

This page walks through every line. Read it once properly and you will read every future card in about five seconds. Prefer it as a document? Download this guide as a PDF.

One alert, two messages

Most alerts arrive as two Telegram messages, and the split is deliberate:

1. The verdict message — the token's logo, the header, every serious warning, the project's own description, and our analysis of the story. If you read nothing else, read this one.
2. The numbers message — market data, the safety details, the deployer's history, the contract address, and the buttons.

When a card is short enough, both halves arrive as a single message. Either way, the rule underneath never changes:

The card

Message 1 — the verdict:

🥈 SILVER: $SAMPLE · 61/100 · ⛓ Robinhood · ⚡ DEGEN · 🦄 Uniswap V4 · 🏷 Utility
🚨 Insiders got 68% of the supply BEFORE launch — and already sold most of it
📝 "Our token powers the next generation of on-chain settlement."

🧠 THE STORY: What it claims to be, and why attention is on it right now. (utility)
👥 WHO: Who is actually pushing it — the project's own account, real KOLs,
   or small signal accounts.

Message 2 — the numbers:

💰 $138K MC · 💧 $35K liq (25%) · 📈 +159%/24h
👥 356 holders · top-10 hold 19% · ⏱ 10m · vol $67K (412 buys/254 sells)
🏗 Dev via pons-v2 · wallet 15h old · fresh wallet · track record unknown (funder in the 🛡 report)
⚠️ Before launch: insiders took 68.4% of supply · sold 68.4% · 3/5 wallets seen in 12–224 other launches

🔬 Tax 0% · 5.9% round-trip (fees+impact) · 26 organic sells
✅ Sellability: 6 of 6 checks passed
💧 12% pooled · ❔ no LP position found — owner unknown
🚨 Ticker collision: 4 other $SAMPLE on Robinhood — verify the CA

CA: 0x1234…full address…abcd
🌐 Site · 🐦 Twitter · 📊 DexScreener · 🔍 Explorer

[🐦 Tweets]   [🛡 Security]
[📖 Full story] [⚠️ Report issue]

Not every line appears on every card. A line we could not fill is left out rather than filled with a plausible default — an absent round-trip figure means the simulation could not run, not that it came back clean.

The header — read this first

🥈 SILVER: $SAMPLE · 61/100 · ⛓ Robinhood · ⚡ DEGEN · 🦄 Uniswap V4 · 🏷 Utility

• Tier and score. The conviction score and its band: 🥇 GOLD, 🥈 SILVER, 🥉 MONITOR. It measures verifiable substance at the moment we looked — it is not a price prediction, and we publish what each tier was actually worth so you don't have to take the word for it.
• Chain. ⛓ Which network this token lives on. One feed can carry several chains, so it is always stated.
• Trade label. The momentum read — a different question from the tier. A token can be GOLD and GAMBLE, or MONITOR and HOT. 💀 RUG-RISK here means provably unsellable, and the card will carry a DO-NOT-BUY headline to match.
• Venue. Which DEX or launchpad the pool is on.
• Category. 🏷 What kind of token it claims to be — the same vocabulary you can filter on. Unclassified (not assessed) means our classifier did not run; Unclassified means it ran and could not decide. Those are different facts and we print them differently.

🚨 The warning block — the lines that can save you money

Everything in this block sits above the description and the story, in the first message. Each one is rare, loud and specific:

Line	What it means
🚨 TIMED HONEYPOT — DO NOT BUY	Selling works right now, but the token's own code is set to block or punish selling minutes from now. We simulate the same sell a few minutes into the future; when the future sell fails, buying today means buying a trap with a timer.
🚨 HONEYPOT / TAX — DO NOT BUY	Our simulated sell reverts, or the cost of a buy-and-sell round trip is 50% or more. You cannot meaningfully exit.
🚨 WASH-TRADED (fake volume) — DO NOT BUY	The "volume" is the operator trading with themselves to look alive. The number that attracted you is manufactured.
🚨 NO TRADEABLE MARKET — DO NOT BUY	There is no pool you could actually trade against.
🚨 DUMP RISK — the dev holds X% and the LP is not locked	The developer holds a meaningful share of supply and nothing stops them pulling the liquidity.
🚨 Insiders got X% of the supply BEFORE launch	The majority of supply was taken before the pool ever opened — and the card says whether they already sold it. See launch forensics.
🚨 IMPERSONATOR / WRONG-CA SCAM	Accounts are promoting a different contract under this token's name. The real contract address is printed right below it, and the promoted one is marked ⛔ Do NOT buy. This block is never filtered out by any setting.
⚠️ OLDER $SAMPLE EXISTS	Accounts are posting a contract that is older than this launch — this alert may itself be the copy. Verify which one is real before trading either.

📝 The description — their words, not ours

The quoted line is the project's own description, taken from its paid DexScreener profile. It is marketing written by the people selling the token. We show it because you should know what they claim — and everything after it exists to test that claim.

🧠 The analyst brief

THE STORY is what the token claims to be and why attention is on it now, written by our analysis over the actual posts. WHO names who is driving that attention — the project's own account, genuine KOLs, or small signal accounts — because who is talking is usually more informative than what they say. A (name only) tag means the story rests on the token's name rather than on evidence.

If the token is a new pool on an existing token rather than a new token, the 🔄 line above the story says so, with the token's real age. That distinction catches re-launches dressed as launches.

💰 The market block — the first lines of message 2

💰 $138K MC · 💧 $35K liq (25%) · 📈 +159%/24h

• MC — market cap. Supply × price. On a young token this is a number nobody could actually realise by selling.
• liq — liquidity. The pool's depth: the money actually available to trade against. This, not market cap, decides whether you can exit at size. The percentage is liquidity as a share of market cap — lower means thinner: at 5%, a sale worth 5% of the market cap would effectively empty the pool.
• 📈 Price change over the last 24 hours.

👥 356 holders · top-10 hold 19% · ⏱ 10m · vol $67K (412 buys/254 sells)

• Holders and top-10 hold — how many wallets hold the token and what share the ten largest non-contract wallets control. How much concentration is normal depends on age — see holder concentration.
• ⏱ Age of the pool. 10m is ten minutes.
• vol — traded value in the last 24 hours, split into buys and sells so a one-sided market shows itself.

🏗 The deployer line — the one people skip and shouldn't

🏗 Dev via pons-v2 · wallet 15h old · fresh wallet · track record unknown (funder in the 🛡 report)

Wallet age, the launchpad it came through, and the wallet's history: how many tokens this deployer launched before, how many of those rugged, and how many at least doubled — with the most recent examples named on the card, like ↳ $ABC (rug) · $DEF (2.1×).

Three honest states to know:

• fresh wallet · track record unknown — the wallet is new, so an empty history proves nothing. Serial launchers rotate a fresh wallet per token; genuinely new builders also start with one. We say unknown, not clean, and the funding wallet is named in the 🛡 Security report.
• ⚠️ track record unverifiable — our lookup failed. That is a fact about our coverage, not about the deployer, and it is never silently upgraded to "no priors".
• platform executor (N launches pooled; no individual dev history) — on some launchpads one platform wallet deploys for everyone. Its pooled history describes the platform, not this developer, so we refuse to present it as a personal track record.

⚠️ The before-launch line

⚠️ Before launch: insiders took 68.4% of supply · sold 68.4% · 3/5 wallets seen in 12–224 other launches

How much of the supply was acquired before the pool opened, how much of that has already been sold — and whether the wallets involved are serial presale farmers we have seen in dozens of other launches. When the before-launch share reaches a majority of supply, this line is promoted to a 🚨 headline in the first message. Full method in launch forensics.

🔬 The safety details

The headline verdicts live at the top of message 1. These are the lines behind them. Full machinery in the safety stack.

• 🔬 Tax 0% · 5.9% round-trip (fees+impact) — the transfer tax our simulation measured, and the full cost of a buy immediately followed by a sell. Round-trip includes pool fees and price impact, so a "0% tax" token still shows a few percent here — that is normal friction, not a hidden tax. From 10% we warn; from 20% we print it loud; at 50%+ the token is treated as unsellable.

• ⚠️ Sell cost rises: ~2% now → ~23% in ~15 min — the future simulation again: selling works and stays possible, but the token's code makes it much more expensive shortly after launch. Not a honeypot — a haircut with a timer.

• The sellability line states plainly how much of the safety stack could actually run:

  • ✅ Sellability: 6 of 6 checks passed
  • ⏳ Sellability 2 of 5 — sell sim passed; no real sells yet to confirm — the simulation worked, but no independent holder has sold yet to corroborate it.
  • ⚠️ Sellability 3 of 5 — one check could not run · UNVERIFIED
  • ⛔ Sellability: NOT CHECKED — none of our sell checks could run.

  A missing check is named, never hidden. The word "clean" without its fraction is how people get hurt.

• 💧 12% pooled · 🔥 4% supply burned — the share of supply committed to the pool, and the share permanently destroyed. Burned supply can never be dumped.

• The LP line — who controls the liquidity itself: 🔓 LP unlocked · deployer can pull (the pool can be emptied at any moment), 🔒 LP in a locker · time-lock (unlock unverified), 🔥 LP burned, or the honest ❔ LP pull-risk NOT CHECKED. Sellability and withdrawability are different questions: a token can pass every sell check and still lose its entire pool one minute later.

• 🔐 Renounced / 🔑 Owner NOT renounced · ⚠️ Unverified — whether the team gave up admin control, and whether the contract's source code is published. No line here means the contract exposes no ownership to check.

• 🚨 Ticker collision: 4 other $SAMPLE… — other tokens share this symbol right now. The single most expensive beginner mistake is buying the right ticker on the wrong contract. Always trade the address, never the symbol.

• 🧩 GitHub 19★ TypeScript · predates — real build (15/30) — the product evidence: repository, stars, language, whether the repo is older than the token, docs, whitepaper, audit. And its sharp edge: ⚠️ not verified as THIS project's work — not scored means the linked site and repo exist but never mention this token's contract or accounts. Anyone can paste a famous repo into their token profile; borrowed evidence earns no points and the card says so.

• Website warnings — a listed site that redirects elsewhere, points to someone else's page, or links to a post instead of a real site is flagged, because a borrowed website is one of the cheapest costumes a token can wear.

📣 The social line

4 tw/hr · 7 authors · ⚠️ partly coordinated · 🚀 from a standing start · 🤖 7 signal-bots filtered

Tweets per hour, how many distinct authors, whether the pattern reads organic or orchestrated, whether the burst came from nowhere, and how many paid-signal bots we removed before counting. Coordinated promotion from small accounts is manufactured hype — ten posts an hour from authors who all found the same token in the same ten minutes is not ten opinions.

The footer and the buttons

The CA line is the token's full contract address — tap it to copy. The links row carries the project's site and socials (marked (self-declared) when they come from the token itself rather than a verified profile) plus the chart and the block explorer.

The buttons come in rows of two, and each one does something the card cannot:

• 🛡 Security — the full layer-by-layer safety report, including what could not be measured and why.
• 📖 Full story — the complete narrative: the evidence read, which posts were proven to be about this contract, and what was filtered out.
• 🔬 GitHub research — a deeper read of the repository, when there is one.
• 🐦 Tweets — a live search for the token, not a stored link.
• 📂 GitHub — the repository, rebuilt from the verified API record, never from a link the token declared.
• 🔔 Watch LP — arm a watch on the liquidity position; you are messaged when it moves, burns or is withdrawn.
• ⚠️ Report issue — one tap to tell us a card got something wrong. It lands directly in our review queue.

How to read severity

• 🚨 — do-not-buy class. At most a couple per card, always at the top. If you see one, you have our full answer.
• ⚠️ — caution. Real, specific, worth reading, not disqualifying on its own.
• ✅ — a check that ran and passed. Never printed without the check actually running.
• ⏳ / ❔ — we tried and could not fully verify, or could not check at all. Silence is never a pass — a card with ❔ is telling you where its blind spot is.

Every glyph on the card

The golden rule

An alert is a researched starting point, never a buy signal. We do the homework and show our working; the decision and the risk are yours.

Read the warning block and the sellability line every single time. Most new tokens go to zero, including the ones that pass every check on this page.