| Risk factor | Finding | Evidence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sellable | No — the sell tax takes the whole sale | ChainSift simulation | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Buy tax | 0% | ChainSift simulation | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Sell tax | 100% | ChainSift simulation | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Admin mint | No data | Contract | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Transfers pausable | No data | Contract | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Address blacklist | No data | Contract | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Upgradeable proxy | No data | Contract | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Source verified | No | Block explorer | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Holders | 0 | Token contract | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Deployed by | 0xd92d44…37d9aa |
This automated check simulated a sale of BASEAI on Base and found that the transaction path for selling is blocked: the contract applies a sell tax of up to 100%, which means a holder attempting to sell would have the entire value of that sale taken by the contract rather than received as proceeds. This is what's referred to as honeypot behaviour — buying is possible (the simulation shows a 0% buy tax), but exiting the position is not. In practice, this means tokens acquired could become stuck in the holder's wallet with no way to convert them back to other assets through normal means. Because the contract's source code is not verified on the block explorer, ChainSift could only examine the deployed bytecode, and several standard checks — including whether the owner can mint new tokens, pause transfers, blacklist addresses, or upgrade the contract logic — returned no data rather than a clear pass or fail. A token that cannot be sold automatically scores 0 out of 12 on this check, regardless of how any other mechanic might look.
It's important to be clear about what this check does not do. It reads contract mechanics only, as they existed at the time of the scan — it does not assess who is behind the project, how tokens are distributed among holders, what the stated purpose or roadmap is, whether any marketing claims are accurate, or whether the team's intentions are honest or otherwise. No human has reviewed this contract or the project around it; the findings above come entirely from automated simulation and bytecode analysis. The absence of data on mint, pause, blacklist, or upgrade functions means those behaviours were not detected or confirmed in this scan — it does not mean they are absent from the contract.
Given that selling is currently blocked by the contract, there is no transaction size that avoids this risk — a test purchase, however small, would still be exposed to the same inability to sell, since the funds would not be recoverable through a sale. Anyone wanting to understand this token further, independent of this check, might look at the contract's transaction history on a block explorer to see whether any wallet has successfully sold, review whether the holder count and distribution suggest meaningful trading activity, and look for whether the project has published verified source code elsewhere or addressed the sell-tax behaviour publicly. None of this substitutes for the fact that, as of this scan, the contract's own mechanics show selling is not functioning as a standard token transfer would.
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