New accounts start frozen
Freshly created token accounts are frozen by default and must be unfrozen one by one.
Why it matters
Trading only works for the accounts someone decided to unfreeze.
- Severity in our model
- Critical — on an anonymous token this alone sets the verdict to "blocking risk"
- Applies to
- Solana
- Where we read it
- Contract analysis (GoPlus Security)
- Tokens we found it on
- 0 tokens of 5,361 checked
How it plays out
The token looks normal while you are buying. Price charts, a Telegram group, maybe a website — none of that touches the property we found, because the property lives in the contract, not in the marketing. People usually discover it at the moment they try to take profit, which is the moment it is designed for: the buy goes through, the sell does not, and the balance in the wallet stays a number on a screen. The pattern is old and it works because almost nobody reads a contract before buying.
If you already hold it
Try to sell a very small amount and see what the wallet says. If the sale fails or the amount received is a fraction of the quote, that is your answer and the rest of the position is unlikely to behave differently. Do not send more money to anyone who offers to "unlock" or "release" your tokens for a fee — that offer is the second half of the same scheme. Keep the transaction hashes; they are what a police report or a bank recall needs.
How to check it yourself
Everything we report can be verified without us. Open the contract on the block explorer for its chain, read the verified source if there is one, and look at the holders tab: who holds the supply, whether the pool tokens sit in a lock contract or a personal wallet. For market data, compare the pool size with how much actually trades — a pool nobody trades in is a number, not an exit.
If you are about to buy, the cheapest test is the smallest one: buy a tiny amount, then immediately try to sell it. A contract that blocks selling will tell you so for a few dollars instead of everything you were about to put in.
Related checks
- Buying is blocked The contract currently rejects purchases from ordinary wallets.
- Very high buy tax Buying costs more than 20% of the amount, taken by the contract.
- Honeypot: selling is blocked The contract lets you buy the token but blocks you from selling it again.
- Very high sell tax Selling costs more than 20% of the amount, taken by the contract.
- The pool number is not a real market The pool reports a large amount of money, but almost nothing is actually traded — a handful of transactions and a few dollars of volume in 24 hours.
- You cannot sell your whole balance The contract refuses a sale of the full balance — you can only ever sell part of what you hold.
Questions
What does "New accounts start frozen" mean on a token?
Freshly created token accounts are frozen by default and must be unfrozen one by one. Trading only works for the accounts someone decided to unfreeze.
Does it mean the token is a scam?
No. It is a property of the contract or a fact about the market, read from a public source at a point in time. It is the kind of property that blocks a buyer or hands someone control over your holding, which is why we treat it as blocking — but the word "scam" is a conclusion about people, and we do not make it.
Where do you read it from?
From contract analysis (GoPlus Security), which reads the deployed contract and its authorities directly on chain.
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