Guides.
How to add on-chain token safety to AI agents on Base, and pay for it per call with x402 — no account, no API key. Written to be useful to humans and quotable by machines.
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Rug-check a Base token from your AI agent
Add a pre-trade rug/honeypot check to a Base trading bot in one call over x402 — no account, no API key. Drop-in for ElizaOS, a custom guard, or the raw API.
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How to avoid a crypto rug pull
How rug pulls actually work, the five on-chain red flags you can check before buying, and how to automate a pre-buy rug/honeypot check on Base.
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Honeypot tokens explained
What a honeypot is, why static contract scans miss them, and how an on-chain buy/sell simulation proves a token is actually sellable — including the max-tx / anti-whale trap.
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Static rug scan vs honeypot simulation
Why a token can pass a static rug scanner (Token Sniffer & co.) and still be a honeypot, what running a buy/sell simulation catches that a read-only scan can't, and how to verify sellability.
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A Token Sniffer alternative for AI agents
Token Sniffer is a web tool for a human; an agent needs an API. The agent-native rug check — one call (API/MCP/SDK/CLI), pay-per-call over x402, no account or API key. Side-by-side.
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The Base sniper stack — find, vet, follow
The new-token sniping loop (find launches, vet for rugs, follow smart money) on one agent-callable x402 rail — new-pairs + token-report + whale-swaps, no accounts, no API keys.
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Bought a token and can’t sell it?
Why a token lets you buy but not sell (a honeypot), whether the funds are recoverable, and how to check sellability before you buy — for traders and bots.
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Recover from a honeypot scam?
The honest answer on recovering trapped crypto, the damage-control steps that help, why "recovery services" are a second scam, and how to prevent the next one.
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Is it safe to approve this contract?
Why unlimited token approvals are the top wallet-drain risk, how to profile a contract before you sign (proxy, ownership), and how to revoke approvals on Base.
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How crypto wallet drainers work
The three ways drainers empty a wallet — unlimited approve, permit signature-phishing, and the CREATE2 trick — how to recognize each before you sign, and what to do if drained.
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Check who deployed a token
How to resolve a Base token's deployer wallet and read its reputation — wallet age, contracts shipped, fresh-throwaway flag — before you trade. Age is the signal; count is context.
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How to track crypto whales on Base
Read large trades straight from on-chain Swap events, the real limits of copy-trading whales, and how to pair whale flow with a safety check so you don’t follow one into a honeypot.
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What is x402?
The HTTP payment protocol for AI agents, explained: how software pays software over the 402 status code in USDC — no accounts, no API keys, the wallet is the identity. The flow, step by step.
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x402 vs API keys, Stripe, and L402
Four ways an app can pay for an API, compared — accounts, settlement, fees, micro-payments — and why an autonomous agent ends up at x402. With a side-by-side table.
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How AI agents pay for APIs without an API key
Why API keys don’t fit autonomous agents, and how the x402 protocol lets an agent pay per call in USDC with just a wallet — no account, no key, no KYC.
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Get cited by ChatGPT and AI search
The concrete moves that get content quoted inside AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews), and how to audit a page’s AI-citability pay-per-call.
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What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
A plain definition of GEO, how it differs from SEO and AEO, why it matters as search shifts to AI answers, and how to measure a page.
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Rank on Google but invisible to AI?
Why a page can rank in classic search yet never be cited by ChatGPT, the specific causes, and how to audit and close the SEO ↔ GEO gap.
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New to the terms? See the glossary, or build against the API reference.