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Soft Rug

A rug executed by the developer selling their pre-allocated supply into existing liquidity without touching the pool. Technically legal in most jurisdictions. Produces the 'death by a thousand cuts' chart — lower highs, lower lows, ATH formed early and never retested. The most common form of extraction.

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Tools Dev Holding % The percentage of total supply currently held by the deployer wallet — the one that signed the create-mint transaction. Above 10% is a hard skip without a verifiable lock or vesting contract. Above 5% requires explicit justification. The DS marker appears when the deployer has fully sold. → Security Hard Rug A rug pull executed by the developer directly withdrawing liquidity from the AMM pool. The liquidity disappears in a single block, the token price goes to zero, and there is nothing to trade against. Mechanically closed for Pump.fun-graduated tokens via automatic LP burn; still active on manually-deployed pools. → Security Slow Rug Structural value extraction via Pump.fun creator fees, cash-back trading rebates, and dev buyback theater. The chart looks alive — high volume, no dramatic collapse — while fees flow continuously to operator wallets. The treadmill pattern: high volume, flat or slowly declining price, no structural breakout. →
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