Flags

Some wallets are marked flagged. This is what that means and what it costs the tokens they touch.

Where a flag comes from

Two sources, and the page always says which.

Derived — from our own outcome data. A wallet attached to several launches that all went to near-zero is flagged automatically. The threshold is calibrated against the real distribution of outcomes, not picked: most memecoins die, so "was involved in something that went down" would flag everybody and mean nothing. A flag means worse than roughly nine out of ten peers, across enough launches for that to be a pattern rather than a run of bad luck.

Imported — a small inherited list of addresses marked by hand.

Every flag carries its reason and a confidence, and derived flags are capped below the confidence of a human decision however much data accumulates. A statistical inference should not carry the authority of somebody who looked.

What it is not

A flag is not a claim of fraud. It is a measured statement that this address has been attached to launches that went badly, more than its peers.

Plenty of flagged wallets are simply prolific traders in a category where most things fail.

How it affects scoring

Two ways, and the second matters more:

• A flagged creator costs a launch points directly.
• The share of the known crew that is flagged is measured. Three flagged wallets out of five is a meaningfully different launch from three out of forty, and a count alone cannot tell those apart.

Where a token's crew includes flagged wallets, the token page says how many, out of how many known, and what the base rate is for comparison.

Flags expire

The derived list is rebuilt from current outcome data, so a flag can be removed as well as added. An inherited list that could only ever grow decays into a permanent blocklist that nobody can audit — which is what happened to the imported list this one replaced.