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Track 6Intermediate

Danger zone

Rugs, bundles, snipers, cabals and wallet scams: how people lose money in the trenches, and the habits that keep you from being next.

7 lessons · 26 min · final quiz

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The explorer walks a narrow plank path through a dark marsh past yellow warning signs, toward a gold coin set as bait on a mousetrap, while hooded figures watch from the reeds.

Lessons

  1. 1Rug pulls: hard, soft and slowWhat a rug pull is, the three kinds you will meet, and how each one takes buyers' money.4 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  2. 2Mint, freeze and LP pullsThe switches a creator can keep on a Solana coin, what each one lets them do to you, and how to check them before you buy.4 min read · 5 quiz questionsNot done yet
  3. 3How bundling works and why bundlers are dangerousHow a creator buys a big share of a new coin in the same instant it launches, hides it across many wallets, and why that bag is aimed at you.4 min read · 5 quiz questionsNot done yet
  4. 4How sniping works and why snipers matterWho buys a coin in its first second, how they do it, and why their bags decide what happens to yours.3 min read · 5 quiz questionsNot done yet
  5. 5Cabals, fake volume and fake callsHow groups coordinate wallets, bots and influencers to make a coin look alive, and how to see through it.3 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  6. 6Drainers, fake airdrops, address poisoning and impersonatorsThe scams that skip the coin and go straight for your wallet, and the habits that stop most of them.4 min read · 5 quiz questionsNot done yet
  7. 7Your safety checklistOne routine to run before every buy, while you hold, and for your wallet, plus what to do if something goes wrong.4 min read · 4 quiz questionsNot done yet
  8. Final quiz8 harder questions on the whole track, some of them tricky.Not done yet

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This guide is for learning. It is not financial advice. Most memecoins go to zero and most people who trade them lose money. Only ever trade what you can afford to lose.