What We Investigate

The sudden removal of liquidity from a token pool, leaving holders with worthless bags. The MBI investigates deployer wallets, tracks fund flows across chains, and maintains a public registry of confirmed rugs. If you got rugged, we want to know about it.

Smart contracts designed to let you buy but never sell. These malicious tokens use hidden transfer restrictions, tax manipulation, and blacklist functions to trap unsuspecting degens. The Bureau maintains a real-time detection feed and blacklist database.

The practice of repeatedly buying and selling the same token between wallets controlled by the same entity to create the illusion of market activity. Our on-chain forensics team uses wallet clustering and timing analysis to detect coordinated wash trading rings.

Artificially inflated trading volume designed to lure degens into thinking a token has organic interest. Bot networks, MEV exploits, and sandwich attacks all contribute. The MBI tracks volume-to-holder ratios and flags statistical anomalies in real time.

When insider wallets use bundling tools like Axiom to simultaneously execute sells across multiple wallets in a single transaction, crashing a token's price before holders can react. The Bureau tracks bundled patterns and flags wallets linked to known dump clusters.

Crypto Twitter KOLs with large followings are paid to promote tokens they have no intention of holding. They receive allocations pre-launch, shill to their followers, then dump within hours. The Bureau tracks and maintains a database of known paid promoters.