Token scanner: what to read on a token page before you buy
"Token scanner" usually means one thing in practice: you have a token in front of you and you want to know what is knowable about it before you act. This page walks the fields our own token page shows and, for each one, what it can and cannot establish.
We publish this page, so it describes our own screens. It is about reading a token you already have in front of you, not about finding new ones.
The headline figures
The token page carries Price, Market Cap, Liquidity, Supply, volume and the launch Platform, with an All Time High reading alongside.
What they cannot establish. Liquidity is a figure, not a depth model: what a trade of your size costs depends on the pool's design and your size relative to the depth near the current price, so two tokens showing similar liquidity can behave differently. Market cap is supply times price, so it moves with price and says nothing about who holds the supply. An all-time high is a past reading, not a reference point the market owes you.
Who holds it
This is the part most "scanner" questions are really about, and we break it out as its own section: Holders, Top 10 H., Dev H., Snipers H., Insiders and Bundlers — a count, then five percentages of supply held by those groups.
What they cannot establish. Addresses are not people. One person can control many addresses, so a high holder count can come from few parties and a low one does not prove concentration. The group labels are classifications, not identities: treat "snipers" or "insiders" as a prompt to look further, not as proof of who controls an address. A percentage tells you where supply sits now, not what those addresses will do.
The state of the pool
Two readings here. LP Burned or LP Locked — the page shows whichever applies — describes what has happened to the pool's liquidity tokens. Dex Paid is its own field.
What they cannot establish. These describe the pool's arrangement, not anyone's intentions, and not every way liquidity can leave a market.
The Audit section, and exactly what it is
We show a section labelled Audit that lists findings. That label is the product's own name for this list; it is not a third-party security audit of the token, and it is not a claim that we or the token have been audited. Each finding carries a severity we display as High, Review or Minor, and a finding can be marked Mitigated. The summary line is worded the same way: "1 high-risk finding", or "2 findings to review".
It also has two empty states, and they say different things. When there is no audit to show for the token, the section says "No audit available". When there is one and none of its findings is active, it says "No risks found". Neither says the token passed.
What it cannot establish. This is a findings list with severities, and that is all we present it as. "No risks found" means no active findings in this list, not a verdict; "No audit available" means exactly what it says; and a mitigated finding is a finding that was mitigated. Nothing in this section tells you a token is safe, and we do not describe it as a check on whether a token is one.
Whether you are looking at the token you think you are
This is a reading worth doing early. Different tokens can share a name and a ticker, so the mint address is what identifies the one you mean. Copy it from the token page and compare it with any address shared elsewhere before you trade.
We help with the comparison directly. The page can show Similar Tokens, with a Match by control for name or ticker, and Reused Image Tokens — other tokens using the same image — including a Reused on other chains grouping. There is also a Dev Migrations reading on the deployer.
What they cannot establish. A reused name or image tells you a name or an image was reused. It does not tell you which token is the original, or what anyone intended by it.
Looking outside the page
From the token's name you can run Search on X or Search on Google without retyping anything. That is deliberately an exit to the open web rather than a verdict of ours: the page gives you the readings, and some questions are not answerable from on-chain fields.
If you want to come back to a token rather than decide now, Add to watchlist keeps it without committing anything.
The tradeoffs
Worth being plain about, because a scanner framing can over-promise.
- Metrics describe, they do not predict. Every field here is a present-tense reading of on-chain state. None of them is a forecast, and reading more of them does not make a token behave.
- A clean reading is not a safe token. We do not offer a pass or fail, and you should be suspicious of anything that does. New tokens are high risk, and a new token can lose most or all of its value quickly.
- Figures move while you read them. Holder percentages, liquidity and price are live. A reading you took a minute ago may not be the state your trade meets.
- The fields vary. Not every token has every reading — audits, similar-token matches and image reuse all have empty states — and what is available differs by chain and by launch platform.
To open a token and read these fields for yourself, with the limits on this page in mind: Trade on Axiom
Crypto trading is high risk and you can lose everything you put in. Nothing here is financial advice.