# Honeypot screen

A honeypot is a token that is easy to buy and hard or impossible to sell. Its chart and market cap can look healthy while holders are trapped. rangebound screens every meme and leaves honeypots out of every meme figure.

## What the screen checks

Solana tokens can carry settings that let their creator control who can move them. The screen reads each token's on-chain settings and flags any of these:

| Setting | Why it's a risk |
|---|---|
| Freeze authority | Someone can freeze holders' token accounts, so they can't sell |
| Mint authority | Someone can mint new tokens at will and dilute holders |
| Transfer hook | A program runs on every transfer and can block sells |
| Permanent delegate | Someone can move or burn tokens out of any holder's account |
| Pause switch | Someone can halt all transfers |
| Frozen by default | New holders' accounts start frozen |
| Non-transferable | The token can't be moved at all once bought |
| Transfer fee of 5% or more | A large cut is taken on every transfer, including sells |

It also looks at trading: a token with many buys in the last day but almost no sells is treated as a honeypot, whatever its settings say.

## Launchpad fees are not red flags

StonkFun tokens charge a 1% transfer fee by design, with an authority that controls it. That is the launchpad's business model, not a trap, so fees under 5% don't trigger the screen.

## Limits

The screen catches the common mechanisms. It can't prove a token is safe: a creator can hold most of the supply, liquidity can be pulled, and new tricks appear. Treat a passed screen as the absence of known red flags, not as an endorsement.

The tokenised stocks themselves carry some of these settings, such as a permanent delegate and a pause switch, because regulated issuers need them. They are the assets rangebound tracks, not memes, and are not screened.