DeFade
WHITEPAPER v1.9 · JULY 2026
What is DeFade?
DeFade is a real-time multi-chain memecoin analysis platform covering Solana, Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, with BNB Chain built and awaiting release. It scans any token contract address and delivers comprehensive risk intelligence across 31 on-chain analytical modules — the full suite on Solana, and 25 of them on every EVM chain — from rug pull probability scoring to insider network detection, fresh wallet flagging, holder overlap mapping, and Pro-tier deep bundle analysis — plus a wallet tracker with trading performance analytics, portfolio scanning, token comparison, a historical rug database, a live rug alert feed, token survival curve tracking, automated rug receipts that prove each early catch with the token's real chart, and Telegram watchlist alerts that fire the moment a watched token shows LP pulls, dev sells, or whale dumps. DeFade is available across web, iOS (App Store), Android (Google Play), Chrome extension, and Telegram bot (@DeFadeAnalyzerBot). A public API (v1) with tiered access lets developers integrate token risk data into their own apps, bots, and dashboards, and the same API is published as an MCP connector (Model Context Protocol), so Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client can run real DeFade scans inside a conversation through fifteen read-only tools — with a connector key included in every DeFade Pro subscription. Built for traders who need the truth before they ape.
The Problem
The memecoin market moves at lightspeed — on Solana and across every EVM chain alike. Thousands of tokens launch daily on token launchpads, and the majority are designed to extract value from unsuspecting traders. Rug pulls, bundled launches, insider networks, and sniper bots cost traders millions every week. Existing tools are either paid, incomplete, or too slow. Traders need fast, comprehensive analysis before making decisions.
How It Works
Paste any token contract address — Solana, Ethereum, Base or Robinhood Chain — and DeFade runs up to 30 parallel on-chain analyses in real-time. Every module below is chain-native, not a Solana result relabelled: the EVM engine re-implements each one against EVM's own mechanics (ERC-20 transfer logs, internal calls, v2/v3/v4 pool shapes) rather than approximating it.
① Rug Pull Probability — Composite risk score (0-100%) computed from all signals
② Holder Distribution — Top holder concentration, protocol wallet filtering
③ Whale Tracker — Identifies large holders, their % of supply, and risk level
④ Bundle Detection — Traces coordinated launch buys by funding source and timing, shows current holdings vs bought amounts with sold/holding status per wallet
⑤ Sniper Bot Detection PRO — Identifies bot wallets that bought within the first 120 seconds, with buy/sell breakdown showing SOL spent, tokens bought, current holdings, and sold/transferred/holding/partial status per sniper
⑥ Insider Network PRO — Force-directed graph mapping transfers and shared funders between top holders. Reveals coordinated insider clusters, sybil networks, and dev-linked wallets that hide as separate addresses.
⑦ Dev Wallet Tracking — Monitors creator's sell/hold/transfer activity
⑧ LP & Liquidity Analysis — LP burn/lock status, liquidity depth, and pool info
⑨ Smart Money Tracker PRO — Detects experienced wallets with high win rates
⑩ Smart Money Signals PRO — Real-time active buys from top-performing wallets
⑪ Copy Trade Detection — Finds wallets that mirror each other's trades
⑫ Creator Intelligence — Serial deployer detection, wallet age, and creator history
⑬ Token Lifecycle — Timeline from creation to graduation with key milestones
⑭ Fresh Wallet Detection PRO — Flags top holders whose wallets were created within 24 hours (extreme), 7 days (critical), 21 days (warning), or 45 days (caution) of the token launch, with tiered risk scoring and supply concentration breakdown. Catches dev wallets, insiders, and sybil clusters that look like real holders.
⑮ Wallet Performance — Trading performance analytics for any wallet: win rate, realized PnL (SOL + USD), per-token PnL breakdown, smart score classification, and average hold time calculated from last 100 swap transactions
⑯ Exit Liquidity Calculator — Estimates price impact and slippage for different sell sizes using constant-product AMM math against live pool data, with max safe exit threshold, liquidity-to-market-cap health ratio, and an interactive calculator for custom position sizes
⑰ Social Sentiment Timeline PRO — Aggregates X/Twitter mention volume and sentiment, DeFade community bullish/bearish vote history with 7-day timeline chart, and social presence scoring across Twitter, Telegram, Discord, and website into a unified 0-100 sentiment score
⑱ Bundle Detection Pro PRO — Deep launch-window bundle analysis with Jito atomic bundle detection, multi-hop funding chain tracing, identical-amount clustering, dev-funded wallet flagging, and confidence-scored bundle groups. Uses 5 genesis strategies including DexScreener pool pagination to reach launch data on high-volume tokens (40k+ tx) where the standard scan can't.
⑲ Historical Bundles PRO — Detects coordinated buys during post-launch pump cycles (not just at launch). Scans volume spikes (3× rolling 7-day average, $50K min floor), identifies bundles within each spike window, and reports total bundled supply across all detected pump events.
⑳ Holder Overlap PRO — Maps the top 20 holders of up to 3 tokens and surfaces which other tokens those wallets share, with a force-directed bubble graph. Shared tokens with 3+ overlapping holders appear as bubbles colored by their strongest input link, revealing coordinated wallet clusters, narrative groups, and insider networks across multiple tokens at once.
㉑ Funding Origin PRO — Traces each top holder's funding back to its source and attributes it to a specific exchange hot wallet, grouping origins by KYC tier (Major KYC, Standard KYC, Low-KYC, No-KYC) and flagging mixer and bridge inflows. Surfaces how a token's holder base was funded rather than just listing exchange names.
㉒ Cross-Funding Graph PRO — Builds the wallet-to-wallet funding edges between top holders, exposing chains where one holder funded another directly. Visualizes the funding relationships as a graph so coordinated groups that route SOL between themselves before launch become visible.
㉓ Sybil Band Clustering PRO — Collapses the cross-funding edges into bands of wallets that behave as a single actor, excluding shared CEX, mixer, and bridge sources so wallets aren't grouped just for using the same exchange. Feeds a Sybil concentration signal into the composite risk score.
㉔ Fee Fingerprint PRO — Groups wallets whose transactions pin an identical compute-unit price or Jito tip. Those are settings an operator types into a trading bot, and they ride along in every wallet that bot drives — so an exact match is evidence of shared software configuration, not of shared timing, and it is never counted as bundled supply. Its value is the operator who sells their launch wallets and re-enters through a fresh generation: new wallets, no funding link to the old ones, same bot settings. Values most of the launch used are excluded as client defaults rather than reported, round values and groups confined to one short window are scored down (two bots in dynamic-fee mode hit the same congestion), and only high-confidence groups may extend a Sybil band — and only where funding evidence already put one of their wallets in it. Solana only: it reads ComputeBudget instructions, which have no EVM equivalent.
㉕ Deployer Reputation PRO — Scores the creator's full track record across every token they've launched: survival rate, serial-rug detection, thriving versus dead outcomes, average liquidity, and a clickable history of their previous tokens to spot repeat ruggers before they strike again.
㉖ KOL Detection — Checks every current holder against a database of known Solana KOL and influencer wallets, surfacing which influencers are holding the token and how much, so you can spot KOL-backed launches and exit-liquidity setups. Free for everyone and informational only: it does not affect the risk score.
㉗ Signal Fusion PRO — Cross-references every wallet flagged across the detection modules and surfaces the ones caught by two or more independent evidence families (launch timing, wallet age, insider transfers, shared funder, prior rug history). A wallet wearing three disguises at once is one operator; each module alone sees one disguise. Feeds a capped correlation bonus into the composite risk score.
㉘ Wallet Reputation PRO — A persistent cross-token intelligence database. Every scan records which wallets were flagged and in what role; when a token later dies on-chain, every wallet sighted on it becomes a confirmed rug participant. Future scans then flag repeat offenders on sight ("this wallet appeared in 4 previous rugged tokens"), even before they act — intelligence that compounds with every scan and cannot be replicated without DeFade's scan history.
㉙ EVM Contract Safety — For EVM tokens: reads the contract directly on-chain to verify it is a real token, checks whether ownership has been renounced (an un-renounced owner can retain mint, blacklist, or fee privileges), and scans the deployed bytecode for the risky capabilities themselves — mint functions (supply inflation), blacklist functions (wallets blocked from selling) and whitelist functions (trading restricted to approved wallets) — reporting upgradeable proxies as unknown rather than falsely clean. A mintable contract with a live owner feeds the composite score directly, on top of the liquidity depth, liquidity-to-market-cap and pair-age warnings. On EVM this replaces Solana's mint/freeze authority check as the contract-control signal.
㉚ Top Holder History PRO — Reconstructs how the current top 50 holders' positions changed over time from on-chain balance checkpoints, charting the supply share held by the top 10/20/50 with per-wallet trend lines and 24h/7d deltas. Labels each whale as accumulating, distributing, holding, or new — so quiet distribution into your entry is visible before the price chart shows it. Pool, CEX, contract and locked wallets are excluded, and the "now" figures always match Holder Distribution.
㉛ Top Traders — The DexScreener-style leaderboard for any token: which wallets made (and lost) the most on it, with bought / sold / PnL per wallet at trade-time prices, ranked best first over selectable windows from 1h up to 30 days. On Solana every fill carries its own trade-time USD from the swap feed; on the EVM chains fills are reconstructed from on-chain pool transfers and priced at their trade-time hourly candles (Moralis lifetime PnL where it indexes the chain), with the covered window always disclosed. Free for everyone and informational only: it does not affect the risk score.
Platform Tools
Rug Database — Auto-records every token flagged ≥40% rug probability, searchable and filterable by risk level
Token Comparison — Side-by-side comparison of two tokens across safety score, holders, market cap, and security
Wallet Tracker — Paste any wallet to see holdings with risk scores, recent trades, portfolio health, diversification analysis, risk heatmap, and full trading performance with PnL breakdown and smart score classification
Rug Alert Feed — Live feed of tokens flagged ≥40% rug probability by DeFade's risk engine, with real-time stats, search, and filtering by risk level
Token Survival Curves — Tracks how long Solana tokens survive after launch by monitoring liquidity over time, with Kaplan-Meier style decay charts, age distribution, per-token lookup with survival percentile, and recent deaths feed
Rug Receipts — When a token DeFade flagged later rugs, the platform auto-generates a provable receipt card: the risk score at first scan, how many hours before the collapse it was flagged, the token's real price chart with the cliff, and how many of its wallets were already known from previous rugs. Every receipt is timestamp-verifiable, published as a shareable page, and strong catches auto-post to the DeFade Telegram channel
Deployer Lookup — Paste a deployer wallet or any token it launched and get that deployer's full launch record across every supported chain: how many tokens they've shipped, how many survived, how many died, and the outcome of each one
Wallet Lookup — Any address's cross-token rap sheet: every token DeFade has sighted that wallet on, the role it was flagged in (bundler, sniper, insider, fresh, dev), and which of those tokens later died. Per-chain, and it deepens with every scan the platform runs
Caller Tracker & KOL Leaderboard — Scores the people calling tokens on what actually happened afterwards: hit rate, average return, and how many of their calls ended up in the rug database. Paired with a KOL wallet leaderboard ranking influencer wallets by realised performance
Watchlist Notifications — Watch any token from the Telegram bot (/watch) and DeFade monitors it every 5 minutes for a week, alerting instantly on LP pulls, price collapses, dev wallets selling or moving tokens, and whale dumps. Confirmed deaths automatically feed the Wallet Reputation database
Technology Stack
DeFade is built as a Node.js / Express backend with a vanilla JavaScript frontend and no build step. On-chain data is fetched from Helius (Solana RPC + parsed transaction history), DexScreener (price, liquidity, pair metadata), GeckoTerminal (OHLCV charts), CoinGecko (market data and discovery feeds), and pump.fun (bonding curve metadata). The EVM engine reads chain state over JSON-RPC through Alchemy with automatic failover across a per-chain pool of keyless public endpoints, reconstructs launch windows and coordinated buys from raw
eth_getLogs transfer data across Uniswap v2/v3/v4 and every fork, and layers indexed history from Blockscout where a chain hosts one. Lock verification uses Streamflow, social data comes from SocialData, and EVM wallet connectivity supports MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet and every EIP-6963 wallet, plus WalletConnect. A guiding constraint throughout: when a data source is unreachable or a probe fails, modules report what they could not see rather than inferring a clean result — an unverifiable holder is never counted as safe. Persistent state lives in PostgreSQL (rug database, wallet reputation ledger, watchlist state, sentiment votes, API keys, Pro subscriptions, scan history, smart wallet cache). A multi-tier smart cache (in-memory permanent / medium / short TTLs plus Postgres-backed persistent cache that survives redeploys) cuts Helius RPC usage by an estimated 70-85%. Frontend deployed on Vercel; backend on Railway. Mobile apps built with Capacitor wrapping the web app. Chrome extension uses content scripts to inject DeFade analysis into DexScreener, Birdeye, GMGN, Photon, BullX, and Solscan. Telegram bot is a thin wrapper around the same API, and so is the MCP connector: a stateless Streamable-HTTP JSON-RPC endpoint at api.defade.org/mcp that relays each tool call to the v1 API under the caller's own key, so a tool call is metered, rate-limited and logged exactly like a REST request.
Roadmap
Q1 2026 — Foundation SHIPPED
✓ Core platform launch with 20 analysis modules ·
✓ Bundle detection with current holdings tracking ·
✓ Sniper detection with buy/sell status ·
✓ Creator-proxy genesis fetch for high-volume tokens ·
✓ Real-time price charts ·
✓ Wallet connect & in-app trading via Jupiter ·
✓ Watchlist with change tracking ·
✓ Historical rug database ·
✓ Token comparison tool ·
✓ Portfolio risk scanner ·
✓ Public API v1 with self-serve Stripe payments ·
✓ USDC on Solana checkout (on-chain verified, monthly & yearly) ·
✓ Third-party API integrations (Telegram bots, dashboards) ·
✓ DexScreener social links integration ·
✓ Community sentiment voting ·
✓ Telegram bot (@DeFadeAnalyzerBot) ·
✓ Chrome extension (auto-analyze on DexScreener, Birdeye, Solscan) ·
✓ iOS app (App Store) ·
✓ DeFade community (t.me/DeFadeChat)
Q2 2026 — Expansion SHIPPED
✓ Native Android app (Google Play) ·
✓ API customer dashboard with magic-link auth ·
✓ Pay-per-use overage credits system ·
✓ Fresh Wallet Detection ·
✓ Wallet Performance Analytics (PnL, win rate, smart score) ·
✓ Deployer Reputation Score ·
✓ Social Sentiment Timeline ·
✓ Exit Liquidity Calculator ·
✓ Rug Alert Feed (defade.org/rugs) ·
✓ Token Survival Curves (defade.org/survival) ·
✓ Terminal — trading-terminal attribution: which bots and apps the top 100 wallets execute through (40+ named terminals, router-program + fee-wallet fingerprinting, per-wallet labels across every module, all chains) ·
✓ DeFade Pro with 15 Pro-only modules (Sniper Bot Detection, Insider Network, Fresh Wallet Detection, Smart Money Tracker, Smart Money Signals, Bundle Detection Pro, Historical Bundles, Holder Overlap, Funding Origin, Cross-Funding Graph, Sybil Band Clustering, Top Holder History, Social Sentiment Timeline, Deployer Reputation, Terminal) ·
✓ Cross-surface paywall (web, Telegram, Chrome extension)
Q3 2026 — Advanced Intelligence IN PROGRESS
✓ Signal Fusion (cross-module wallet correlation in the risk score) ·
✓ Wallet Reputation database with Repeat Offenders detection ·
✓ Automated Rug Receipts (provable early-flag cards with real charts, auto-posted) ·
✓ Watchlist notifications via Telegram (LP pulled, price collapse, dev sells, whale dumps) ·
✓ Multi-chain expansion: Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain scanning, multi-chain trending & discover feeds, chain-aware rug database ·
✓ EVM wallet connectivity (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, EIP-6963 wallets, WalletConnect) with Definitive-powered trading on every EVM chain ·
✓ Full EVM module parity — the complete forensic suite rebuilt chain-native for EVM: holders, bundles, snipers, insiders, fresh wallets, smart money, funding origin, cross-funding graph, sybil bands, deployer reputation, historical bundles, holder overlap, top traders, exit liquidity, dev tracker and the composite rug score ·
✓ Deployer history lookup (every token a deployer launched, with outcomes, on any chain) ·
✓ Wallet reputation lookup page (any address's cross-token rap sheet, per chain) ·
✓ Caller tracker & KOL leaderboard (callers scored on what happened after the call) ·
✓ Per-token pages for every chain, indexed and crawlable ·
✓ MCP connector — DeFade as a Model Context Protocol server for Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client: fifteen read-only tools over the v1 API (full scan, rug score, holders, whales, liquidity, launch bundles, snipers, wallet links, smart money, dev tracker, funding sources, look-alike clusters, fee fingerprint, price, usage), structured results with output schemas, one key for REST and MCP alike, and a connector-only key included with DeFade Pro that spends the plan's own scan allowance ·
DeFade Signals — a discovery engine that inverts the scanner: instead of checking a coin you already found, it surfaces coins showing evidence of quality attention — sustained momentum, growing liquidity, healthy holder distribution, clean dev behaviour and smart-money presence — delivered as timestamped events in an Opportunities feed, with every signal's outcome (forward returns and drawdowns) tracked and self-reported honestly. Signals surface evidence; they are never buy calls (in internal testing) ·
Quick snipe checker (sub-2-second critical signals) · Multi-wallet dashboard · Webhook API for API customers
Q4 2026 — Ecosystem
BNB Chain public launch — the full module suite is built and verified on BNB Chain and is held back only on data-sourcing economics: BNB is the one supported chain with no keyless indexer, and the metered provider that fills the gap prices a single deep scan far above what the other chains cost. Release follows the migration of wallet-history reads onto a sustainable source, so the chain launches at the same depth and reliability as the rest rather than a degraded version of it ·
Connector growth — the remaining forensic modules exposed as MCP tools, listings in the Claude and ChatGPT connector directories, and a hosted sign-in flow so a subscriber connects without pasting a key ·
Additional EVM chains (Arbitrum and beyond) · Public API endpoints for the EVM chains · EVM KOL wallet database (the one module without EVM parity, since no public EVM KOL wallet registry exists — it needs building from scratch) · Token comments & community notes · Auto-generated daily & weekly rug reports · API analytics dashboard for paying customers · Chrome extension upgrades (overlay scores on trading platforms) · Push notifications & real-time alerts
Revenue Model
DeFade operates a freemium model with four revenue streams.
(1) DeFade Pro subscription — $19/month unlocks 300 scans a month on every chain (Gold, $79/month, raises the allowance to 2,500 for people who work the feed all day) plus the seventeen Pro-only modules. Fifteen are deep analysis scans: Bundle Detection Pro (Jito atomic bundles, multi-hop funding chains, 5 genesis strategies), Historical Bundles (coordinated buys during post-launch pump cycles), Holder Overlap (cross-token holder mapping for up to 3 tokens), Insider Network (transfers and shared-funder mapping between top holders), Fresh Wallet Detection (flags top holders whose wallets were created within hours or days of the token launch), Sniper Bot Detection (bot wallets that bought within the first 120 seconds, with sold/transferred/holding classification per sniper), Smart Money Tracker (scores top holders by historical win rate and PnL to flag experienced wallets and bagholders), Smart Money Signals (surfaces what those top-performing wallets are actively buying), Funding Origin (per-exchange CEX attribution by KYC tier with mixer and bridge flagging), Cross-Funding Graph (wallet-to-wallet funding edges between top holders), Sybil Band Clustering (collapses funding edges into same-actor bands feeding a Sybil signal into the score), Fee Fingerprint (groups Solana wallets that pin an identical compute-unit price or Jito tip — one bot's settings across every wallet it drives), Top Holder History (how the top 50 holders' positions changed over time, with accumulating/distributing trend labels per whale), Social Sentiment Timeline (X mention sentiment, community vote history, and social presence in one score), and Deployer Reputation (the creator's full track record across past tokens: survival rate, serial-rug detection, and thriving versus dead outcomes). The other two, Signal Fusion and the Wallet Reputation database, cross-reference every flagged wallet across modules and against previously rugged tokens, surfacing repeat rug operators on sight. Every Pro plan also includes the Telegram bot, the Chrome extension and a key for the MCP connector, so the same allowance can be spent from Claude or ChatGPT; that key is connector-only and is not an API key. Free users get 3 token scans per day with access to the other 14 modules.
(2) DeFade Public API — developers and businesses subscribe to tiered plans (Starter $99/mo, Pro $399/mo, Enterprise $1,999/mo; every plan covers every supported chain, and a free 7-day trial key is issued on request) for programmatic access to the 23-endpoint REST API. An API key also opens the MCP connector, so one subscription serves both an integration and an assistant. Paid plans are self-serve with the key delivered at checkout.
(3) Trading fees — when users trade directly through DeFade (MEV-protected execution powered by Definitive, plus Jupiter swaps on Solana), the platform earns a small integrator fee on each trade, on every supported chain.
(4) Pay-per-use overage credits — API customers can purchase credit packs ($5–$50) to continue making requests beyond their plan allowance at $0.02/request, with volume bonuses up to 10%.
Payments are processed via Stripe (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay) for recurring subscriptions, or in USDC on Solana for users who prefer to pay on-chain directly from their wallet. Crypto plans are prepaid for the chosen term, verified on-chain via Helius, and grant access instantly. Every plan, on either rail, is available monthly or yearly, with yearly billed at a 20% discount. Subscription management is self-serve with instant key delivery.