Liquidity is not locked or burned
The liquidity pool tokens are held in ordinary wallets rather than locked in a contract or burned.
Why it matters
Whoever holds them can withdraw the pool — the "rug pull" in its original sense — leaving the token unsellable at any price.
- Severity in our model
- Warning
- Applies to
- all supported chains
- Where we read it
- Contract analysis (GoPlus Security)
- Tokens we found it on
- 348 tokens of 5,361 checked
Tokens where we found this
From the tokens we have checked, most traded first. A finding on this list is a property of the contract or the pool — read the token's page for the full picture before drawing a conclusion.
- PYUSDPayPal USDEthereum · $100.19MSome risk
- USDSUSDS StablecoinEthereum · $50MSome risk
- cbBTCCoinbase Wrapped BTCBase · $17.65MSome risk
- cbBTCCoinbase Wrapped BTCSolana · $8.83MSome risk
- EURCEURCBase · $1.25MSome risk
- crvUSDCurve.Fi USD StablecoinEthereum · $46.48MSome risk
- ARBArbitrumArbitrum · $1.9MSome risk
- KMNOKaminoSolana · $1.94MSome risk
- CARDSCollector CryptSolana · $4.1MSome risk
- STONKSTONKSolana · $2.22MNo blocking indicators
- PRIMEPRIMESolana · $9.8MSome risk
- USD1World Liberty Financial USDSolana · $9.9MSome risk
- AEROAerodromeBase · $44.01MSome risk
- GBTGBTBNB Chain · $4.8MSome risk
- NVDAxNVIDIA xStockSolana · $3.06MSome risk
- cbBTCCoinbase Wrapped BTCArbitrum · $1.63MSome risk
- stETHLiquid staked Ether 2.0Ethereum · $90.4MSome risk
- EURCEURCSolana · $566.5kSome risk
- SISuper InuSolana · $678.8kSome risk
- BPBackpackSolana · $5.87MSome risk
- SOLSOLANABNB Chain · $1.25MSome risk
- JitoSOLJito Staked SOLBase · $14MNo blocking indicators
- JLPJupiter Perps LPSolana · $2.22MSome risk
- JUPJupiterSolana · $2.05MSome risk
- ZROLayerZeroBase · $187.8kNo blocking indicators
What the number actually means for you
Market findings are about whether you can get out, not about what the code allows. A quoted price only exists at the size the pool can absorb: in a thin pool, selling a position worth a few thousand dollars can move the price by tens of percent, so the figure on a screener is not the figure you would receive. Volume matters for the same reason — a pool with money in it but nothing trading has no buyers, only a number.
What to check next
Compare the pool size with the daily volume, and both with the token's fully diluted value. Real markets trade a meaningful fraction of their liquidity every day and hold a pool that is a fraction of the token's value. When those ratios are far outside that, the price you see is being produced rather than discovered.
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
- Supply concentrated in few wallets The largest holders together own a large share of the supply.
- Very new token The trading pair was created in the last few days.
- Almost no trading There has been little or no trading volume in the last 24 hours.
- The pool holds almost the entire supply The reported liquidity is close to the token's entire fully diluted value.
- Noticeable trading tax Buying or selling costs between 5% and 20%, taken by the contract.
- Creator holds a large share of supply The deploying address still holds a significant percentage of the supply.
Questions
What does "Liquidity is not locked or burned" mean on a token?
The liquidity pool tokens are held in ordinary wallets rather than locked in a contract or burned. Whoever holds them can withdraw the pool — the "rug pull" in its original sense — leaving the token unsellable at any price.
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. On its own it does not stop you selling. It is context, and it matters most alongside the other findings on the token page.
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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