How AI Agents Detect Crypto Scams Before They Happen

Every day, hundreds of new tokens launch on Solana. A significant fraction of them are designed to take your money. ARC AI's Sentinel agent was built to spot them before they can.

The anatomy of a crypto scam

Most rugpulls share a predictable pattern: concentrated token supply, locked liquidity with a short unlock window, anonymous team, and a wave of coordinated social media activity. Sentinel cross-references all four signals simultaneously.

What Sentinel checks in real-time

• Contract bytecode analysis — hidden mint functions, ownership renouncement status, and proxy upgrade patterns that allow post-deploy rug mechanisms.
• Liquidity lock duration — anything under 6 months on a new launch is flagged. Under 30 days is an automatic high-risk classification.
• Holder distribution — if the top 10 wallets hold more than 40% of supply at launch, Sentinel raises an alert.
• Social velocity — sudden Twitter/Telegram follower spikes with low engagement ratios are a strong indicator of purchased hype.

RugCheck integration

ARC AI integrates directly with RugCheck.xyz's API, pulling real-time contract audits and combining them with our own on-chain analysis. The combined score drives the risk badge you see on every token in the platform.

Results

In internal testing across Q1 2025, Sentinel flagged 94% of tokens that subsequently rugpulled within 72 hours — with a false positive rate under 3%. The remaining 6% were sophisticated slow-rugs that evolved after the initial scan window.

Staying safe in crypto doesn't require luck. It requires better intelligence than the person trying to take your money.