# Scout 16 Oct 2026
x.com not fetchable; WebSearch only. Little new; most finds repeat items 8-10, 16-21.
## 22. Waiver-and-bundle crews at scale: Bitquery 467 clusters + 56 launches ($15.5M); GoPlus second ring ($9M/30d)
Source: https://cryptonews.net/news/security/33511324/ ; https://www.theblock.co/news/defi/2026-09-27-onchain-analyst-links-18-4-million-in-robinhood-chain-memecoin-extractions-to-single-rug-pull-operation-416960
Claim: creator tx exempts 15-25 wallets from Pons 99% launch tax, one tx 1-3 blocks later empties the curve; bundling contract is a commercial tool shared by unrelated users (25/53 launches). Red flags: curve filled in 1-3 blocks, many wallets one funder, tax-exempt wallets, single contract doing opening buys.
Test: (a) rug-gate feature "curve filled <=3 blocks by one contract/one funder" vs our rug labels and vs runners (do any runners also show it? then the flag cannot be a hard block); (b) shared bundler contract address as a blocklist feature. Caveat: attribution is probabilistic; totals not independently replicated; 467-cluster figure is Bitquery's own. Extends item 8-10.
## 23. Open-source Pons V2 tooling for clone/decoy and deployer memory
Sources: GitHub bored2boar/novamp (read-only clone resolver, "you bought the copy"); kocer6/MEERKAT (Pons V2 lifecycle + wallet intelligence); 0xmfox/rabiq (deployer memory); Pons V2 factory 0x7ed598bcef8bd9edd8c97a195c6d13f40801ec7e (verify vs our feed before using).
Claim: copycat tokens with the same name/ticker as a pumping coin exist. Test: for each missed runner, were there same-name decoys launched earlier, and did our bots buy the decoy instead? Needs: tokmeta name/symbol join. READMEs not read (search snippets only).
Context: SIF (Oct 4) ATH next day; PONS $286M, fees falling (crypto.news / airdropalert).