
I Built an AI Agent That Checks If a Solana Token Is a Rug Pull — Before You Buy
I Built an AI Agent That Checks If a Solana Token Is a Rug Pull — Before You Buy The ugly truth: a large percentage of new Solana tokens are scams or honeypots — industry estimates range from 60-80%, depending on the data source and time period. I learned this the hard way. So I built an MCP server that checks any token's risk score in real-time — and makes AI agents actually use it before trading. The Problem I was building an AI trading agent. It was supposed to be smart: analyze tokens, detect trends, execute trades. Then I fed it a token that looked legitimate. Clean contract. Decent liquidity. A website with a roadmap and a Telegram link that had 5,000 members. The agent bought in. The token was a rug pull. $2,400 gone in 11 minutes. That's when I understood the uncomfortable truth: AI agents can analyze sentiment, write code, and debug — but they can't verify if a token is a scam. They have no way to check: Is the liquidity locked or burnable? Does the contract have a mint functi
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