Is PENGU safe to buy? Pudgy Penguins security analysis on Ethereum
Automated honeypot, tax, liquidity and contract-permission analysis of PENGU on Ethereum. 0x6418c0dd099a9fda397c766304cdd918233e8847
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SAFE
9 signals · 90% data completeness
Recursio scores PENGU 81/100 — the SAFE band — from 9 signals at 90% data completeness. The score is held back mainly by Liquidity (50/100), LP safety (0/100), Market activity (40/100).
There is no buy or sell tax, and sell simulation succeeded for 26 of 26 real wallets (0.0% fail rate).
$17.0K of liquidity across 2 pairs is enough for small trades, but a large sell will fill at a materially worse price.
No owner kill switches were found — no minting, pausing, blacklisting or adjustable tax.
Key risks for PENGU
- Only 0% of LP is locked
PENGU market & liquidity
| Price | $0.006436 |
|---|---|
| 24h change | 7.5% |
| Market cap | $296.9K |
| 24h volume | $3.0K |
| DEX liquidity | $17.0K |
| Holders | 1.5K |
| Trading pairs | 2 |
PENGU contract security checks
| Honeypot | No |
|---|---|
| Verified source code | Yes |
| Mintable supply | No |
| Transfers pausable | No |
| Blacklist function | No |
| Proxy contract | No |
| Owner can change balances | No |
| Hidden owner | No |
| Ownership can be reclaimed | No |
| Self-destruct | No |
| Tax modifiable by owner | No |
| Trading cooldown | No |
| Cannot sell all | No |
| Buy tax | 0% |
| Sell tax | 0% |
| Owner holdings | 0.0% |
| Creator holdings | 0.0% |
| LP holders | 1 |
| LP locked | 0.0% |
Real-holder sell simulation for PENGU
Recursio replays actual sell transactions for real PENGU holders. This catches dynamic honeypots that pass a static contract audit — a token can look clean and still block most wallets from selling.
| Holders simulated | 26 |
|---|---|
| Sold successfully | 26 |
| Failed to sell | 0 |
| Fail rate | 0.0% |
| Simulated buy tax | 0.0% |
| Simulated sell tax | 0.0% |
| Highest tax seen | 0.0% |
| Risk level | low |
How the PENGU safety score is calculated
The score is a weighted composite. Missing data lowers confidence rather than being silently skipped, and hard caps apply — a token with almost no liquidity or a failed sell simulation cannot score well no matter how clean its source code looks.
| Signal | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Honeypot risk | 100/100 | 22% |
| Contract security | 100/100 | 13% |
| Owner risk | 100/100 | 11% |
| Owner permissions | 100/100 | 11% |
| Holder distribution | 80/100 | 9% |
| Liquidity | 50/100 | 13% |
| Market activity | 40/100 | 9% |
| ERC-20 compliance | no data | 0% |
| Clone / fake token | 100/100 | 6% |
| LP safety | 0/100 | 6% |
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Frequently asked
Is PENGU a honeypot?
Automated checks did not flag PENGU as a honeypot at the time of this scan, with a 0.0% fail rate across simulated real-holder sells.
What are the PENGU buy and sell taxes?
Buy tax 0%, sell tax 0% when scanned.
Can I trust this score?
It aggregates GoPlus contract security, honeypot.is real-holder sell simulation and DexScreener market data into one number. It measures contract and liquidity risk — not whether a price will go up. Nothing here is investment advice.
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