99% tax 3s 0% pre-exempted · paid 0% everyone else

99% tax for three seconds. Unless the creator put your wallet on the list.

Every pons launch opens with a tax that makes sniping unprofitable. The creator can exempt up to 32 wallets from it. That list is written into the creation transaction — public, permanent, and shown by nothing.

The finding

Those wallets don't stay.

Across every launch in the index carrying pre-exempted wallets, the pattern doesn't vary. They buy at zero tax, and they're gone before the window most people buy in has closed.

141smedian hold time of an exempted wallet
23mlongest hold across 925 wallet–token pairs
0exceptions in the entire dataset
57%of everyone else buys in the first 5 minutes

Why nothing shows it

The documented path isn't the one people use.

The pons docs describe one function for launching a token, and the exemption list is one of its arguments. There are four entry points in practice. 71% of launches come through one where that list isn't in the documented call at all.

A tool built from the docs reports 0 exemptions, clean on exactly the launches that have them. Not a bug — a blind spot with a shape. VITALS decodes all four.

The card

Worst concern first. Everything else on request.

Paste a contract address into the bot, in a DM or inline from any chat. You get seven lines back in about a second — enough to decide, not enough to study.

/full gives you every metric. /stats gives you the index. An image render sits behind a button, for posting somewhere that isn't Telegram.

VITALS $GHATS · 8d 🚩 1 wallet got in tax-free before you could 🚩 2 other tokens use this exact ticker 2 undetermined · /full 2 buyers · both already sold · 0.00% @vitalscheck_bot · not financial advice

Eight checks

Every one reads the chain, not a chart.

01Pre-exempted walletsHow many addresses the creator exempted from the opening tax, decoded across all four entry points
02Creator opening buyWhether the creator bought in the same transaction that created the token
03Deployer historyHow many tokens this address has launched, and how many of them survived a day
04Ticker collisionsMatches against every indexed token after unicode normalisation — 77 tokens compete for the letter b
05Ticker vs pair assetWhether the launch wears the ticker of the asset on the other side of its own pool
06Creator taxThe per-trade cut, fixed at creation, compared against the median across the index
07Buyback vestingWhether the creator locked their fees into a five-year buyback. Roughly one launch in two hundred does
08Pair assetWhat the launch is priced in, and the risk it inherits from that asset

What it won't do

No score. No grade. No calls.

People ask for a number out of a hundred, or a letter. It would be easy to add and it would be the wrong thing to build.

A grade reads as a recommendation. The moment one graded launch goes to zero, the tool is worthless — correctly, because it made a promise it had no business making.

Absence of a finding is not an all-clear. When the index can't support a negative, the card says undetermined — never clean.

No prediction, ever. Not will pump, not safe to buy, not good entry. Observations and flags, and you decide.

A median needs at least thirty observations. Below that, /stats says not enough data yet and shows you the count.

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