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Warning signal

Owner Not Renounced

The contract still has an owner - nothing prevents a future privileged change.

Analyzer: Source-Code Analysis
Slug: no_renounce_ownership

What it means

The deployer or admin still controls owner-only functions: changing fees, pausing trades, blacklisting wallets, modifying limits. None of those are constrained by code.

Why it matters

Even a non-malicious owner is a single point of failure. A compromised key or an EOA-level attack on the deployer wallet is enough to rug the contract.

How RektRadar detects it

Ownership state is read directly from the contract (Ownable's `owner()`, AccessControl's `hasRole`). A non-zero owner with no time-lock raises the flag.

From our dataset

21,836
tokens carried this flag
13,983
of them classified scam
64.0%
of tokens with this flag end up classified scam
2,628
flagged in the last 30 days

Top brand-jacked tickers carrying this flag: $USDC, $USDT, $DAI, $WETH, $PENDLE-LPT

Pool version of the flagged tokens that trade: V4 6,369 · V2 1,748 · V3 790

Snapshot from RektRadar's token_analysis database as of 2026-07-20.

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