TOKEN X-RAY · FREE · NO KEY · NO SIGNUP
Can you actually sell it?
Measure before you buy.
A honeypot lets you buy and never lets you leave. The only honest test is behavioural: try the exit. The X-Ray runs a simulated buy-and-sell against the real contract and measures routable liquidity through the same on-chain quoter that powers our swap — two independent instruments, reported separately, never stretched past what they measured.
The behavioural test
A real buy and a real sell are dry-run against the token contract. A honeypot is defined by this asymmetry — the buy lands, the sell reverts or is taxed toward 100% — so executing both is the one test the scam cannot dress up. Source code can lie; a revert cannot.
The depth test
One whole token is quoted into the chain's stablecoin through our own quoter — the same previewPlan read the swap page runs, across every venue family the engine measures. It answers a different question: does liquidity you could actually route through exist, and at what depth?
Why the verdict is asymmetric
A failed sell convicts: it is the honeypot behaviour itself, observed. An empty quote only suspects: most tokens without routable liquidity are merely new, thin, or traded in venues we do not measure. The X-Ray names which instrument fired and never lets absence of evidence impersonate evidence. A scanner that cries wolf gets ignored — and a scanner that gets ignored protects no one.
Built from the engine, not bolted on
The X-Ray is the public face of machinery the protocol already runs on every swap: the anti-scam projector Ξ that makes unsafe routes unrepresentable, hook permissions read from address arithmetic without ever calling the hook, and prices that only count when real capital anchors them. The scanner did not need to be invented — it needed to be pointed outward.
After the X-Ray: the Phoenix Check, on every trade
The X-Ray answers a question you ask once, before buying. On the swap page a second instrument answers it on every quote: the Phoenix Check — a deterministic invariant panel, not an AI, zero cost per use, and fail-closed: when a property cannot be established it says "not established" instead of showing a reassuring green. It verifies three things live: our on-chain quote against independent market prices, the governing price impact against a hard 20% line (worst of all reads wins), and the Iron Law floor — the contract-enforced minimum output that a compromised frontend can tighten but never relax. The same three verdicts are returned as JSON to trading agents through the API: one brain, two doors.
See it live on the swap →What the X-Ray explicitly does not do
- 01It does not audit source code. The behavioural test executes the contract as deployed; it never reads or interprets Solidity.
- 02It does not predict the future. A clean scan says the sell path worked and liquidity existed at the moment of the scan — liquidity can be withdrawn and contracts with owner privileges can change behaviour later. That is exactly why the embed badge re-runs the scan instead of certifying it.
- 03A CLEAR verdict is not investment advice and not an endorsement. It means one thing: no honeypot pattern was observable by these two instruments at scan time.
- 04The two instruments are named, not hidden: the buy-and-sell simulation runs on honeypot.is (a third-party public service, available on Ethereum and Base); the liquidity measurement runs on BlazePhoenix's own deployed Quoter contracts, and you can call the same
previewPlanyourself on any block explorer. - 05Nothing is stored, nothing is tracked: both reads happen from your browser, and this page has no backend of its own.
Questions people ask after it is too late
What is a honeypot token?+
A honeypot is a token designed so that you can buy it but cannot sell it. The contract lets purchases through, then blocks, taxes, or reverts sales — so the chart shows a price, the pool shows liquidity, and none of it can be turned back into money. The defining property is behavioural: the buy succeeds and the sell does not.
How do I check if a token is a honeypot for free?+
Use the BlazePhoenix Token X-Ray at blazephoenix.xyz/xray. Paste the token address, pick the chain, and it runs two independent checks in your browser: a simulated buy-and-sell of the token (the behavioural test), and a live routing measurement through BlazePhoenix’s own on-chain quoter. It is free, needs no API key, no wallet connection, and no signup.
Why is simulating a sell the only reliable honeypot test?+
Because a honeypot is defined by behaviour, not by appearance. Source code can be obfuscated, ownership can be renounced cosmetically, and liquidity can be real while the sell path is blocked. Actually executing a buy followed by a sell against the real contract — and watching whether the sell reverts or is taxed into oblivion — tests the one thing the scam cannot fake: what happens when you try to leave.
A token shows liquidity on the chart — can it still be a honeypot?+
Yes. Liquidity proves someone deposited tokens into a pool; it says nothing about whether the token contract will let YOU transfer them back out. Many honeypots deliberately carry deep, visible liquidity because the chart is the bait. That is why the X-Ray reports the liquidity measurement and the sell simulation as separate readings and refuses to let one stand in for the other.
If the X-Ray finds no route, does that mean the token is a scam?+
No, and the X-Ray says so explicitly. An empty quote means no routable liquidity exists in the venues BlazePhoenix measures — the token may simply be new, thin, or traded elsewhere. Absence of liquidity is a caution flag, not a conviction. Only the behavioural test — a sell that fails in simulation — is treated as evidence of a honeypot pattern.
Can a honeypot token be traded through BlazePhoenix itself?+
The BlazePhoenix engine is built so that a scam route is unrepresentable rather than merely discouraged: its anti-scam projector Ξ removes unsafe candidates during route construction, hook permissions on Uniswap V4 pools are read from the hook’s own address bits without ever calling the hook, and prices only count when real capital sits behind them. A honeypot can still exist as a token — but the engine will not manufacture a route that pretends selling it works when it does not.
What does the X-Ray embed badge mean on a project’s website?+
It means the project passed a scan at some point — and, more importantly, that you can re-run the scan yourself right now. The badge is not a certificate: it is a link to blazephoenix.xyz/xray with the token pre-filled, and clicking it re-executes both checks live in your own browser. A claim you can re-verify on demand is worth more than any static seal.
What is the Phoenix Check on the BlazePhoenix swap page?+
The Phoenix Check is a deterministic invariant panel that runs over every quote on the swap page — not an AI, costs nothing per use, and fails closed. It verifies three properties live: a cross-check of the on-chain quote against independent market prices, a price-impact guard against a hard 20% line using the worst of all reads, and the Iron Law floor — the contract-enforced minimum output that a compromised frontend can tighten but never relax. Where the Token X-Ray protects you before you buy a token, the Phoenix Check protects every trade at the moment you make it.
Which chains does the Token X-Ray support?+
The liquidity measurement runs on all five chains where the BlazePhoenix engine is deployed: Base, Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain (where the stable leg is USDG, the Global Dollar). The behavioural buy-and-sell simulation is available on Ethereum and Base; on the other chains the X-Ray reports the measurement alone and says plainly that the simulation is unavailable, rather than pretending it ran.