TRANSPARENT BY DESIGN

How Chain Guard reaches a finding.

Chain Guard is an analysis layer. It reads observable blockchain and market data, applies published rules, and separates verified facts from heuristics and unknowns.

Status language

✓ PASSThe specific condition checked by that rule did not trigger the published risk condition. PASS is not a recommendation or guarantee.

! WATCHA condition deserves closer review. It may be normal in context, but the user should inspect the evidence.

! WARNINGA significant capability or condition has been detected. The finding explains exactly what Chain Guard observed.

? UNKNOWNChain Guard could not verify the condition reliably. The platform does not convert missing data into a positive result.

Contract & authority checks

Chain Guard reads the Solana mint account and identifies the token program. For supported token structures, it checks mint authority, freeze authority and parsed Token-2022 extensions. Revoking one authority only removes that specific permission; it does not prove the token is trustworthy.

Token-2022

When Token-2022 is detected, Chain Guard displays parsed extensions when available and explains extensions such as transfer fees, permanent delegate and transfer hooks. The presence of Token-2022 itself is not treated as a risk.

Holder intelligence

Where supported, Chain Guard enumerates token accounts, groups balances by owner wallet and calculates concentration. This avoids counting multiple token accounts belonging to the same wallet as separate holders.

Top 10, Top 20 and Top 50 percentages describe detected owner-wallet concentration. Known burn or system owners are excluded where Chain Guard can support the classification. A large wallet is not automatically malicious and may represent a treasury, vault, exchange or application.

Market & liquidity data

Market cap, price, liquidity, volume, transaction counts and price change are sourced from supported DEX market data. Values can differ between pools and providers. Chain Guard prefers the primary detected pair for the main market view.

Liquidity is not the same as market cap. Chain Guard does not claim liquidity is locked or burned unless that status can be independently verified; otherwise it is shown as UNKNOWN.

Creator / deployer heuristics

Solana tokens do not contain a universal “developer wallet” field. Chain Guard examines available mint history and creation-related transactions to identify a wallet that appears connected to deployment or mint initialization.

That association is explicitly labelled as a heuristic. A launchpad, relayer or service can pay for creation, so an on-chain relationship is not proof of a real-world identity.

Token age

Chain Guard prefers on-chain mint history when it can reach the creation transaction. If that is unavailable, it may use the earliest supported market-pair timestamp or show a minimum observable age. Approximate and minimum ages are visibly marked rather than presented as exact.

What Chain Guard cannot tell you

Whether a token will increase or decrease in price.
Whether anonymous developers will continue supporting a project.
Who controls every pseudonymous wallet in the real world.
Whether off-chain claims, social accounts or marketing statements are truthful.
Whether every possible smart-contract, program, wallet or market-manipulation risk has been detected.

Public Beta: rules, data coverage and detection methods will continue to evolve. Material changes are recorded in the Chain Guard changelog.