The Solana ecosystem has developed several powerful tools specifically designed to help traders evaluate token safety:
RugCheck (rugcheck.xyz)
RugCheck is the most widely used token safety scanner on solanatools.io. Paste any token's contract address, and it will analyze liquidity locks, mint and freeze authority status, top holder concentration, and known scam patterns. It provides a simple risk rating from "Good" to "Danger" that gives you an instant overview of a token's safety profile.
BirdEye (birdeye.so)
BirdEye offers comprehensive token analytics, including real-time price charts, holder distribution analysis, transaction history, and liquidity depth. It is particularly useful for identifying wash trading patterns and monitoring how developer wallets are behaving. The holder analysis tab shows you exactly which wallets hold the most tokens and whether they are actively selling.
DEXScreener (dexscreener.com)
DEXScreener provides detailed trading data for tokens across multiple DEXs. It shows you liquidity pool sizes, transaction counts, unique traders, and price movements in an easy-to-read format. The "Makers vs. Takers" metric can help identify whether organic buying pressure exists or if the volume is being manufactured.
Solscan (solscan.io)
Solscan is Solana's primary block explorer. Use it to verify token metadata, check authority settings, trace wallet connections between developer wallets, and review the full transaction history of any address. Cross-referencing developer wallet activity across multiple tokens can reveal serial scammers.
RugCheck (rugcheck.xyz)
RugCheck is the most widely used token safety scanner on solanatools.io. Paste any token's contract address, and it will analyze liquidity locks, mint and freeze authority status, top holder concentration, and known scam patterns. It provides a simple risk rating from "Good" to "Danger" that gives you an instant overview of a token's safety profile.
BirdEye (birdeye.so)
BirdEye offers comprehensive token analytics, including real-time price charts, holder distribution analysis, transaction history, and liquidity depth. It is particularly useful for identifying wash trading patterns and monitoring how developer wallets are behaving. The holder analysis tab shows you exactly which wallets hold the most tokens and whether they are actively selling.
DEXScreener (dexscreener.com)
DEXScreener provides detailed trading data for tokens across multiple DEXs. It shows you liquidity pool sizes, transaction counts, unique traders, and price movements in an easy-to-read format. The "Makers vs. Takers" metric can help identify whether organic buying pressure exists or if the volume is being manufactured.
Solscan (solscan.io)
Solscan is Solana's primary block explorer. Use it to verify token metadata, check authority settings, trace wallet connections between developer wallets, and review the full transaction history of any address. Cross-referencing developer wallet activity across multiple tokens can reveal serial scammers.