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Description
Rug or Not? A scam checker that AI trading bots pay per question.
THE PROBLEM
Crypto Twitter is full of coins hyped to "100x". Most are rug pulls: the creator takes the money and runs. More and more, the buyers are trading bots, and they get scammed too. Checking a coin needs data, and data costs money. A card costs 30 cents per payment, so an AI can't buy a 2 cent answer.
HOW IT WORKS
1. A trading bot sees a coin shilled on Twitter and sends us its address.
2. It pays us 0.25 USDC on Stellar with x402. No account, no API key.
3. Our AI (Claude) hires expert AIs and pays each one a few cents: an on-chain detective (can the creator print coins or freeze wallets?), an identity checker (is it a copy of a famous coin?), a liquidity analyst (could you even sell?).
4. It declines the 0.80 premium audit: too expensive for a quick check. The budget is enforced in code, not just in the prompt.
5. The bot gets a verdict in about 40 seconds: SCAM, RISKY or LEGIT, with a risk score and the reasons.
WHAT IS REAL
Every payment is a real USDC transaction on Stellar testnet, visible on stellar.expert. The data is real and live: RugCheck and DexScreener for Solana coins, stellar.expert and Horizon for Stellar tokens. The coins come from a live radar of coins being paid to be promoted right now. Today we run the experts ourselves; any API can become one with one line of x402 middleware.
WHY STELLAR
5 second settlement, near zero fees, native USDC and x402 support. That makes 2 cent payments between robots possible.
BUILT WITH
Stellar testnet, x402 (@x402/stellar), USDC, Claude, TypeScript, Express, Next.js.