State of the Casino, week ending 2026-09-05: 131 scans, 4 confirmed rugs

Worst scores of the week

Lowest ApeCheck score each token received during the week:

• •ericY…y4wJh — 0/100
• •$ZUSHI — 3/100
• •$POPCAT — 18/100
• •G2GSk…oWije — 18/100
• •56Lc5…5KDCm — 18/100
• •$SQUAD — 30/100
• •$HotAir — 30/100
• •$GME — 39/100

Most scanned

What the community kept checking, with the latest score:

• •$Pumpooor — 5× scanned · 100/100
• •$HOOD — 4× scanned · 50/100
• •$HotAir — 4× scanned · 30/100
• •$fone — 3× scanned · 100/100
• •$BEN — 2× scanned · 100/100
• •$Shrek — 2× scanned · 100/100
• •$mikedyson — 2× scanned · 50/100
• •$FART — 2× scanned · 80/100

Called it

Tokens ApeCheck scored badly before their liquidity disappeared this week:

• •$ZUSHI — scored 3/100, now $486.20 liquidity
• •$POPCAT — scored 18/100, now $0 liquidity
• •$HotAir — scored 30/100, now $0 liquidity
• •$BONK — scored 28/100, now $0 liquidity

Trending as this went out

The top of the 24-hour trending board at publish time — scan before you ape:

• •$USELESS — +4.9% on $14.90M volume, $4.88M liquidity
• •$OTC — +185.3% on $5.43M volume, $417.2k liquidity
• •$STONK — +319.3% on $10.53M volume, $1.63M liquidity
• •$ZCAT — +332.3% on $2.96M volume, $833.5k liquidity
• •$fone — +46.1% on $7.74M volume, $736.2k liquidity

What Rug Radar caught this week

Rug Radar re-scans the trending list every hour. This week it logged 7 structural changes on trending tokens:

• •LP unlocked: 3× — e.g. $STONK, LP lock fell from 100% to 0%
• •Liquidity halved: 2× — e.g. $Pumpooor, Liquidity halved: $25,104 → $7,706
• •Top-10 concentrated (+10 pts): 1× — e.g. $Pumpooor, Top-10 holders now control 87% of supply, up from 43%
• •Holders left (20%+): 1× — e.g. $Pumpooor, Holders fell 3,948 → 2,109 (−47%)

State of the casino

How the trending list splits by regime as this goes out. A regime describes the last day and hour of flow, never the future:

• •Pumping: 2 tokens
• •Distributing: 1 token
• •Bleeding: 2 tokens
• •Accumulating: 3 tokens

Top apes this month

Referral codes with the most Ape Points so far this month, from the public leaderboard:

• •#1 cryptodutchx — 1,670 points

Track record so far

Since launch ApeCheck has run 138 scans across 103 tokens and flagged 7 of them as extreme risk. 4 of those flagged tokens have since lost their liquidity, typically about 17 hours after the warning.