Noticeable trading tax
Buying or selling costs between 5% and 20%, taken by the contract.
Why it matters
It is a real cost on every trade, and it is worth knowing before you calculate a target.
- Severity in our model
- Warning
- Applies to
- Ethereum and other EVM chains
- Where we read it
- Contract analysis (GoPlus Security)
- Tokens we found it on
- 3 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.
- BBGBBGBNB Chain · $21.8kSome risk
- DCCDCC TokenBNB Chain · $274.2kBlocking risk found
- GICATGiggle CatBNB Chain · $41.8kSome risk
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
- Liquidity is not locked or burned The liquidity pool tokens are held in ordinary wallets rather than locked in a contract or burned.
- Very new token The trading pair was created in the last few days.
- Trust marks inside the token name The name or symbol contains characters such as a tick or a verified badge.
- Almost no trading There has been little or no trading volume in the last 24 hours.
- Supply concentrated in few wallets The largest holders together own a large share of the supply.
- Owner holds a large share of supply The owner address holds a significant percentage of all tokens.
Questions
What does "Noticeable trading tax" mean on a token?
Buying or selling costs between 5% and 20%, taken by the contract. It is a real cost on every trade, and it is worth knowing before you calculate a target.
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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