A honeypot token lets you buy but stops you selling. The contract accepts incoming transfers and reverts outgoing ones, through a transfer restriction, a wallet blocklist, or a sell fee set so high no exit succeeds. The pool looks ordinary; the token contract is the trap.
The signature is asymmetry rather than price. Buys confirm, sells revert with an error, and the holder count only ever climbs. The standard test is simulating a sell before committing a buy — routing a small exit through the same pool to see whether it would succeed at all.
A liquidity lock does not address this, because the pool is not what blocks you, and neither does the absence of a rug pull: nothing has to be drained when nothing can leave. Read the token contract's transfer rules separately from the pool's lock state.
Every token page links the token contract and renders its trade history, where a buys-only pattern shows in the sell column. Locksley reports mechanisms and does not label any token a honeypot; Explore is the screener for comparing pools.
Honeypots: how they work covers the contract patterns, and I can't sell my token walks the diagnosis when a sell has already failed.
Frequently asked questions
Is a honeypot the same as a sell that fails from slippage?
No. A slippage failure is a market condition: the price moved past your tolerance, and raising it or splitting the order usually gets the trade through. A honeypot is contract logic — the sell reverts at any tolerance, at any size, for every wallet the rules exclude. Retrying never helps.
Honeypots: how they work
A honeypot token lets you buy and blocks the sell. The contract mechanisms behind it, the trade-history signals, and what a passed test does not prove.
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