Daily Brief

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Generated from live verification data · written with Claude · read it on Telegram with alerts

The brief

Flag rate rose to 37.7% today, with Solana accounting for most of the 56,324 new launches.

Market pulse

Of the launches, 44,032 were scanned and 16,585 were flagged. Yesterday's flag rate was 34.6%. Average trust was 48.6, against 48.7 yesterday. Solana led with 50,227 launches. pump.fun was the cleanest venue (average trust 49.5, 33.5% risky). Direct DEX listings were the riskiest (average trust 30.7, 97.3% risky).

Worth a look

$WETH on Arbitrum (97.0) and $BAT on Ethereum (96.1) are both verified with no flags. $Trump on BNB Chain rose from 42 to 74 (promising).

Stay away

$WLFI on Ethereum scores 28.0 (high-risk). It uses the name and ticker of the listed World Liberty Financial but is not its contract, and its deployer launched 7 other high-risk tokens. $HBAR on Base scores 28.0, with open mint authority and 0% of LP locked. $MEBT on Polygon fell from 79 to 28, and one wallet holds 92.9% of supply.

Automated analysis from public

New in 24h

56,324

50,536 previous 24h

Flagged high-risk

37.7%

+3.1 pts vs previous 24h

Average trust

48.6

-0.1 vs previous 24h

Top chain

Solana