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Lessons
13- Danger zoneRug pulls: hard, soft and slowWhat a rug pull is, the three kinds you will meet, and how each one takes buyers' money.
- Danger zoneMint, freeze and LP pulls…give one wallet power over everyone else. If the creator keeps them, they can rug you without selling a single token. The good news is that you can check them in under a minute.…
- The trading playbookStop-losses and trailing stopsHow a stop-loss caps an ordinary loss, why it cannot stop a rug, how fees move your real stop, and how a trailing stop follows a winner up.
- Memecoins 101The slang you will hearApe, bags, paper hands, CTO, rug, ngmi: a plain-English decoder for the words you will see in every chat, with the warnings hidden…
- Case files: real coins, real lessonsLIBRA: a president's post and a drained pool…token, called himself a facilitator rather than part of the team and denied a rug pull. He called it a plan gone miserably wrong, said he held over $100 million as a custodian, and…
- Reading a coinLiquidity and volume…of them got out. Read liquidity before you read market cap. Liquidity can be pulled Who controls the pool matters. When pump.fun moves a graduated coin to its own exchange, PumpSwap,…
- The trading playbookPosition size: the choice that keeps you in the game…measured from where your stop-loss would sell. Memecoins break that maths. A rug pull or a crash in a single moment can jump straight past your stop. So ask a blunter question…
- Trading platformsThe four kinds of trading apps…Speed does not make a coin good, though. The fastest terminal will sell you a rug pull in under a second. A tool only helps after you have decided the coin is worth the risk. One…
- Memecoins 101The honest odds…from January 2024 to March 2025. It found that 98.6% showed signs of a rug pull or a pump-and-dump. Fewer than 100,000 kept more than $1,000 in their trading pool. From…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveWhat a launchpad is…a trading pool next to it. Because the creator owned that pool, they could pull the money out at any moment and leave buyers with coins nobody could buy. That move is called a…
- Danger zoneCabals, fake volume and fake calls…billion market cap. Then insider wallets added one-sided pools of LIBRA and pulled USDC and SOL out of the pools. Estimates of what left run from about $87 million to $107 million,…
- Narratives and metasCommunity takeovers (CTOs)…a few wallets holding most of the supply, and liquidity that can still be pulled all raise the odds of a bad ending. After a takeover, look at who holds the supply. If a handful…
- Launchpads and the bonding curveGraduation: what happens and what changes…that would let someone withdraw the pool's money, are burned. Nobody can pull that liquidity. From now on every trade goes through the pool. The curve is closed for good, and a…
Words
5- Rug pullA hard rug uses a switch the creator kept, like pulling the pool's liquidity. On launchpad coins, where those…
- Hard rugA rug that leaves holders unable to get their money out: the pool is pulled, new tokens are printed or…
- Soft rugThe dev abandons the coin and sells their tokens, without pulling liquidity or using any trick.
- Liquidity…Low liquidity means big price impact and painful exits. When the liquidity is pulled out of the pool entirely, holders are left with tokens nobody can buy, which is the classic rug…
- LP burnIf the LP tokens are burned, nobody can pull the SOL out of the pool, so the 'pull the liquidity and run' rug cannot happen. pump.fun burns…