How the DegenPass Trust Score works
The DegenPass Trust Score is a 0–100 reading of nine things we check on every token. It is not advice: a higher score means our checks found fewer issues.
Formula version 5 · Last updated 2026-10-16
The nine parts we check
Each token's card shows the six parts that matter most for that token. The other parts are under “More checks”.
| Part | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Selling it back | Can you sell it? We check that a sale goes through and that nothing blocks or heavily taxes it. |
| Cost of a $1,000 trade | What buying $1,000 and selling it straight back would cost in price movement and taxes. |
| Control of the token | Whether anyone can create new tokens, change the contract or take tokens from holders. |
| Who holds the supply | Whether a few wallets hold enough of the supply to move the price sharply. |
| Is it the real token? | Whether the token is the one it claims to be, from public token registries and listings on major exchanges. |
| Track record | What is known about its creator's earlier tokens, and how the token's liquidity and trading have held up. |
| Age | How long the token has existed. Most tokens that fail do so in their first days, so a token under a week old reads Caution. |
| Number of holders | How many wallets hold the token. Fewer than 100 holders reads Caution. |
| Trading activity | Whether the last 24 hours of trading volume is in proportion to the money in the token's pools. Volume of 5 times the pool money or more reads Caution. |
What the four grades mean
- Clear
- Our checks found nothing to flag in this part. It takes little or nothing off the score.
- Caution
- Something worth knowing before you buy.
- Serious
- A finding that matters a lot for this part.
- Not confirmed yet
- We could not confirm this part yet. It is never shown as clear.
How the number is made
Start at 100. Each Serious part takes off 30 points, each Caution part 8, and each part we could not confirm yet 5 (10 when it is selling it back or control of the token). The score never goes below 0.
Within a grade, the number we measured still counts a little. A Clear part can take off up to 2 points (a token a few weeks old takes off a little more than one that is a year old), and a Caution on age, holders or trading takes off 8 to 12 points, by how far its number is past the line. So two tokens with the same grades can score differently.
| Grade | Points off |
|---|---|
| Serious | −30 |
| Caution | −8 |
| Not confirmed yet: selling it back or control of the token | −10 |
| Not confirmed yet: any other part | −5 |
Worked example
“Cost of a $1,000 trade” is at Caution and “Track record” is not confirmed yet. The other parts are Clear at their best reading, so they take nothing off.
| Starting score | 100 |
| Caution · Cost of a $1,000 trade | −8 |
| Not confirmed yet · Track record | −5 |
| Score | 87 |
Score ceilings
While one of these findings stands, the score cannot rise above its ceiling, however the other parts are judged. This table is read from the same rules the scorer runs.
| Rule | Highest score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| V3 dead market | 10 | When the latest market reading shows under $1,000 of liquidity, or under $5,000 with under $1,000 of 24-hour volume, or every trading pool has closed, the score stays at 10 or below until liquidity is back at $1,250. |
| Serious: selling or control | 25 | A serious finding in selling or in control of your tokens holds the score at 25 or below, placed between 11 and 25 by the rest of its health. |
| Trading volume far above pool depth | 40 | The last 24 hours of reported trading volume is more than 50 times the most liquidity we measured for the token — the larger of its deepest pool and all its pools combined. Volume that large against that little depth is unusual, so the headline is held at this ceiling while it lasts; compare the trade count and the pools' own history before relying on the volume figure. |
| Serious: holders, identity or track record | 45 | A serious finding in holder concentration, identity or track record holds the score at 45 or below, placed by the rest of its health. |
| Selling or control not confirmed yet | 55 | While selling or control of your tokens is not yet checked, the score stays at 55 or below, placed by the rest of its health. |
| V5 witness missing | 70 | Until a sale is seen to go through (a sell test, 20 or more sellers in 24 hours or a major exchange listing) and the pool lock is read, the score stays at 70 or below, placed by the rest of its evidence. |
| V5 unmeasured | 70 | While fewer than 6 of the 9 parts are measured, the score stays at 70 or below, placed by the rest of its evidence. |
| V5 tier ceiling | 100 | The highest score a token can reach grows with its evidence: the money in its pool, its holders, its age, a sale seen going through, a major exchange listing and healthy trading. |
How fresh the score is
- Every token is scored again every 30 minutes.
- If a score is more than 45 minutes old when you open the token page, the page scores it again as it loads.
- A score more than 3 hours old is not shown: the token reads “Re-checking” until the next pass.
- A new token, or one with too few parts confirmed, reads “Score pending” until enough of its parts are read.
What this score is not
It is not advice, not a guarantee and not a prediction. A high score means our checks found fewer issues; it does not mean a token's price will rise. Every step is on this page so you can check it yourself.
The score describes what a token is and the evidence we could check about it. It is not a price forecast.
Where the data comes from
- Our own sell test on EVM chains, and our own reads of each token's contract
- GoPlus contract checks on EVM chains
- RugCheck and Jupiter token checks on Solana
- CoinGecko and other token registries, and listings on major exchanges
- DexScreener and GeckoTerminal pool and trading data
- Holder lists for each token
- Block explorers such as Etherscan, for a contract's published code
Each token page shows when each of its figures was measured.
Questions
- What does the DegenPass Trust Score measure?
- Nine parts of a token: whether you can sell it back, what a $1,000 trade costs, who controls the token, who holds the supply, whether it is the real token, its track record, its age, how many wallets hold it, and whether its trading is in proportion to its pools. Each part is graded, and every part that is not clear takes points off.
- Does a high score mean I should buy?
- No. The score is not advice. A high score means our checks found fewer issues; it says nothing about the price.
- Why does a part say “Not confirmed yet”?
- No source we read reports that fact for this token yet. A part we could not confirm takes a few points off and is never shown as clear.
- How often is the score updated?
- Every 30 minutes. If a score is more than 45 minutes old when you open the token page, the page scores it again as it loads.
- Why does a score stay low when most parts are clear?
- Some findings set a ceiling. While one stands, the score cannot rise above that ceiling, however the other parts are judged. The ceilings and their reasons are listed on this page.
- What does a trust score of 80 mean?
- Every token starts at 100, and each graded part that is not Clear takes points off: a Serious grade takes the most, a Caution grade or a part we could not confirm yet takes fewer. A score of 80 means the parts took about 20 points off between them, for example a few Caution grades or parts not confirmed yet. It describes what those parts measured, not a verdict on the token: each token page lists every part with its grade, so you can see which ones took the points.
- Does it cost anything to see a trust score?
- No. Trust scores and token pages are public and free to read. Buying a token is optional and separate: reading a score never asks you to buy anything.