by cooked axiom task updated 2026-10-07

how to check if a memecoin is a rug on axiom: the 30-second check

where the check happens

Open any token from Pulse or Discover. Three parts of the token page do the work:

• Token Info panel. Rows in this order: Tax %, Top 10 H., Dev H., Snipers H., Insiders, Bundlers, LP Burned, Holders, Pro Traders, Dex Paid. Under them, the CA line (contract address), the DA line (developer address) with Scan developer address, Token Banner and Reused Image Tokens.
• Tabs along the bottom. Trades, Positions, Orders, Holders, Top Traders, Early Buyers, Dev Tokens, Callouts and Show Hidden.
• Two header buttons. Hide token and Blacklist dev.

1. who holds the supply

Start at the holder rows. Axiom defines the matching Pulse filters:

• Top 10 H. The share of supply in the top 10 wallets. Lower means more spread out.
• Dev H. The share held by developers.
• Snipers H. Early buyers. A high reading may mean bots.
• Insiders. Private sales and team members. Axiom ties it to pump-and-dump risk.
• Bundlers. The share of supply in bundle wallets.

There's no safe number for any of them. Luke Giroud's line, from his September setup video: cap top 10, snipers, insiders and bundle at 40%, then do his own checks on whatever passes. He keeps it loose because on a coin minutes old, Axiom can count plain early buyers as snipers.

If a coin opened on one huge candle, let the snipers finish. Wait for Snipers H. to fall and Holders to climb before you buy. Distribution evening out is the sign the early wallets have sold into the crowd.

How each figure is counted, and where it misreads: how to read bundles, snipers, insiders and dev hold.

2. was it bundled

Bundlers is the row that answers it. Axiom flags four or more transactions in the same block as a possible bundle, and drops a wallet whose next transaction isn't bundled. It counts bundles at any point in a coin's life, not only at launch, and a bundle doesn't have to come from the dev or team. No method is foolproof, so expect the odd miss and a figure that differs from other tools.

The chart tells you too. Luke points at a coin that went straight up to 12K in a single candle: "Like that's obviously just a bundle in the coin". Its warnings read bundler, bundler, bundler, all on block zero, the coin's first block.

3. the contract rows

• Tax % and LP Burned. What you want to see is no tax and the liquidity burned. If either reads otherwise, find out why before you buy.
• Holders counts unique wallets. Pro Traders is the share of experienced traders holding or trading the coin.
• Dex Paid means, in Axiom's words, the token has paid for DEX listings. It records a purchase, not a verdict. what dex paid means

4. the dev

• The DA line holds the developer's address, with Scan developer address beside it.
• The Dev Tokens tab carries a count in its name. A clean deployer history is what you're after. A dev whose last few coins all died is a dev to skip.
• Dev H. moves with the meta. Luke leaves Dev Holding % out of his filters for that reason, so read it alongside the rest, not on its own.
• Reused Image Tokens carries a count too. When one post spawns a pile of copies, only the first few matter, and the first of its kind usually leads. Open it on a coin you already know first, so you learn what it shows. leaders and copies

5. who got in first

Open Early Buyers and Top Traders along the bottom. Orangie's routine, from his beginners course on Orangie Web3, covers the same ground on DexScreener: paste the contract address, see which KOLs are top traders and which still hold, and check the bubble maps. The CA line on Token Info is where you copy the address from.

pass or skip

• Skip the coin: press Hide token. Orangie hides plenty of tokens he doesn't want to see on stream. Show Hidden along the bottom brings them back.
• Skip the dev: press Blacklist dev. Luke's reason: "That way I never have to see coins from that developer again."
• Pass: buy an amount you're comfortable losing, as Orangie puts it in his video with Brez Scales.

screen before you open

Most of these rows are Pulse filters too. Audit holds Top 10 Holders %, Dev Holding %, Snipers %, Insiders %, Bundle %, Holders and Pro Traders, plus Image Reuse, Dev Migrations and Dev Pairs Created. Socials holds Dex Paid. Cap them there and the worst coins never reach your screen.

Orangie's take, in the Brez video: much of the memecoin game is "trying to filter out all the slop", and the way through is due diligence on each coin. Filters do the first pass at speed. This check is the second.

a setup to start from · every control in the panel

what a check can't tell you

A clean read lowers the odds of the obvious rug. It doesn't make a coin safe. The rows are Axiom's labels, not verdicts, and only the bundle figure comes with a published rule. A dev can sell later, and early holders can dump into you whatever the panel said when you bought. Luke says the same of filters: they clear out most of the garbage, but they won't rule out a rug pull. Run the check on every coin, including ones someone you follow just bought. Orangie's rule is never to copy anyone blindly.

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