01Definition
Planned slow-rug behavior extracts value over time through recurring distribution, transfers, or liquidity removal.
02Why it matters
Extraction can unfold over hours, days, or longer while a lively chart consumes incoming demand.
03What to check
- Related inventory, transfers, and repeated sales over time
- Selling around attention spikes and failed rebounds
- Liquidity changes and evidence connecting suspected wallets
04Healthy / Dangerous
Healthy
Ownership broadens and fresh demand absorbs observable selling.
Dangerous
A suspected cluster repeatedly extracts value while exit depth weakens.
05Beginner mistake
Treating fresh addresses as independent owners.
06Takeaway
Follow the inventory, not just the pump.
See the idea
- 01
Attention returns and new buying lifts price.
- 02
Suspected related wallets sell into successive rebounds.
- 03
Trace the transfers before attributing coordinated extraction.
Try it on a token
See it in Meme Fast → InspectLook for repeated observed selling. Trace funding, transfers, remaining supply, and ownership externally; sampled flow cannot prove coordination or intent.
Go deeper
Common funding is a lead, not proof: exchange customers can share a funding source. Combine transfers, timing, balances, and repeated behavior. Estimated cost basis can miss earlier trades or transfers. Falling balances may reflect a transfer rather than a sale; keep those events separate.
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