What it answers
TokenShield is the token lane made into a product. Point it at a token or a contract and it tells you whether the thing is what it appears to be, and whether the activity around it is honest. It is the read you want before you buy, before you add liquidity, before you list something, or before you show a token to your own users. The contract being verified does not answer this. A clean audit does not answer this. TokenShield answers it from behavior, the part a scam cannot fake just by publishing tidy source.How a result reads
You get the same shape as any TrustGate read, applied to a token. A tier, from BLOCKED up to ELITE, as the headline. Any flags that apply, in plain language, things like a honeypot pattern, coordinated buying, or a low-quality holder base. And a confidence level plus a state, so a brand-new token that has not graduated yet is not dressed up as a settled bet. See tiers, flags, and confidence and states for the full meaning of each.Official issuer tokens come back as VERIFIED rather than a behavioral tier. For something like a known stablecoin, the question is not how it trades, it is whether the asset is authentic, and VERIFIED answers that directly. More on this in the tiers.
What it looks at
Under the hood it weighs the token signals: who holds it and how they got in, how it actually trades, the standing of the wallet that deployed it, how many independent participants are involved, and whether volume is real and recent. The Signals page walks through these by category.Where it lives
- Arc (EVM)
- Sui
TokenShield runs on trustgated.xyz. Paste a token contract address to get a read. It handles standard tokens and detects non-standard ones rather than choking on them.
Who it is for
Anyone who puts a token in front of a decision. A trader sizing up a new listing. A DEX or aggregator that wants to warn users before a risky swap. A launchpad that wants to show standing next to each token. A wallet that wants to flag what it is about to let someone hold. If a token appears in your product, TokenShield is the read that belongs beside it.Put it in your product
Drop in the badge
Render a live TokenShield badge on any token in your UI with one script tag.
Consume the score
Read the tier and flags as data and present them however you like.