How tokens get listed and screened
MemeSwap does not list everything. This is the sequence of automated checks a token passes before it is searchable, dealt into the swipe deck or included in a basket, with the thresholds taken from the code that applies them. Listing is not endorsement.
Updated 2026-09-17. All documentation.
Where candidates come from
MemeSwap does not launch, issue or market tokens. Candidates arrive from the basket books that track pools on each chain and from the on-chain ingest that watches new pools on Robinhood Chain. The books apply their own floors before a coin is even a candidate, published in How MemeSwap picks which meme coins to list: at least $750,000 market capitalisation on Robinhood Chain, Solana and BNB Chain, at least $500,000 market capitalisation and $50,000 of 24-hour volume elsewhere, a minimum of 200 holders, a deployer wallet that has emptied by about the third day, and buy and sell taxes read from the contract, with a sell tax heavier than the buy tax flagged.
The catalog gate
A candidate is published to the catalog (search, the token list, the token page) only when every one of these holds:
- Its book position is open. A closed position is not shown.
- It is not a tokenised stock. A name ending in the "Robinhood Token" marker is a stock token, not a meme coin, and is excluded.
- The meme classifier has returned a verdict and that verdict is meme. The gate fails closed: a coin the classifier has not judged yet is not searchable, because non-memes leaked into the app when it failed open.
- Its logo is ready. A token with no artwork is not published.
The owner can override the classifier in either direction through a config file, and the override source is recorded on the row (gateSrc: "owner").
Trap detection
Market cap on its own is easy to fake with an arbitrary supply and a pool nobody can exit through. The catalog compares it with the money that is actually there. A published coin is hidden, regardless of book status, when any of these is true:
- Market cap is more than 500x the pool's liquidity and the coin has fewer than 5,000 holders.
- Market cap divided by holders exceeds $100,000 per holder.
- Market cap is more than 5,000x the 24-hour volume and the coin has fewer than 5,000 holders.
A large holder base exempts the liquidity rule because established coins carry most of their liquidity on exchanges. A symbol that merely matches an exchange-listed coin does not.
The listed-elsewhere rule
A coin whose listing on Robinhood, Coinbase, Kraken or Binance has been verified is marked as established and is never removed by the on-chain rules above (trap, rug, copy flags). It still has to be a meme coin: a not-meme verdict or the stock marker hides it anyway.
The denylist
A token whose balances were burned or moved by an address that is not the holder's is added to a denylist with the reason and the date, and is never routed again. The entries are on-chain observations from MemeSwap's own trading, not third-party reports.
The swipe deck: security screen and tiers
The discovery deck applies a stricter, per-token screen on top of the catalog gate. The screen reads the GoPlus-shaped security answers, MemeSwap's own honeypot round trip and bytecode checks, the LP status, holder concentration and the deployer. A token fails the deck outright, at every tier, when:
- it has no symbol yet (an unnamed row is a pool nobody has read);
- it has not been screened, or the honeypot question is unanswered;
- the scan says honeypot, blacklist or can take back;
- it is mintable, transfer-pausable or a proxy, unless the contract is verified and the LP is safe (burned, locked, or at least 90% locked);
- the top five holders own more than 40% of supply;
- its deployer has rugged a previous token that MemeSwap tracked.
Taxes and unverified contracts are flags shown on the card, not failures. A liquidity reading above $1,000,000,000 is treated as a broken number, not depth. Tokens that pass the screen are placed in the strongest tier they qualify for; only liquidity and age move between tiers.
| Tier | Liquidity floor | Minimum pool age | Suggested buy cap | Where it appears |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| core | $5,000 | 15 minutes | none | The default deck |
| fresh | $1,000 | 2 minutes | $25 | The deck, with a marker and a smaller suggested buy |
| gem | $2,000 | 7 days | $10 | The deck, after the extra concentration, conviction, deployer and lock checks in the gem screen |
| watch | $0 | none | $10 | Search and address lookup only, never dealt |
The buy cap is the app's suggested default, not a limit the server enforces.
Basket eligibility
A Top 10 basket on a chain draws from published tokens with at least $5,000 of liquidity and a copy-token score below 2, ranks them, and takes up to 10.
The "About" text on token pages
The description on a token page is written by a rotating set of language models from a fixed set of sources only: GeckoTerminal, CoinGecko, MemeSwap's own on-chain facts and the project's official website. A validator drops any sentence that does not cite a source, any sentence containing a number that does not appear in its source, and any sentence with a prohibited claim (guaranteed returns, risk-free, "will moon", "the next Doge", investment framing). The model that wrote the page is recorded, and a challenger model only replaces it when it scores higher.
What removes a coin
One thing: a rug, meaning liquidity collapsing below a floor or to a fraction of what it had when the coin was added, or the pool disappearing. A price drop, a quiet week or a fall down the rankings does not remove a coin, because a coin that is simply down is still a coin you might own.
What this cannot do
These are automated checks against public on-chain data and third-party scans, evaluated at a point in time. They can be wrong, stale or gamed. They cannot tell you whether a project will exist next month, whether the team is real, or whether the price is fair. Every token page shows the underlying numbers so you can disagree with the screen. Read Rug pull warning signs and How to verify a token contract.
Nothing here is financial advice. Meme coins are high risk and most lose value. The transaction review and wallet confirmation are authoritative for any live route. Read the full risk disclosure.