Rugsight's automated checks for USDT and PayPal USD, two Solana stablecoins tokens, side by side. Everything below comes from public on-chain and market data.
| USDT USDT | PYUSD PayPal USD | |
|---|---|---|
| Rugsight score | Issuer-controlled technical score 50/100 (grade C) | Issuer-controlled technical score 0/100 (grade F) |
| Verdict | Issuer-controlled stablecoin: Tether holds the mint authority and the freeze authority by design. That is issuer (counterparty) risk, not a rug-pull pattern; the 50/100 technical score still counts those controls. Holder distribution was not checked. | Issuer-controlled stablecoin: Paxos (for PayPal) holds the mint authority, the freeze authority and a permanent delegate by design. That is issuer (counterparty) risk, not a rug-pull pattern; the 0/100 technical score still counts those controls. |
| Mint authority | ! Active: Tether can create new tokens at any time (normal for this kind of asset; supply should track reserves). Held by an SPL multisig (2 of 3 signers required). | ! Active: Paxos (for PayPal) can create new tokens at any time (normal for this kind of asset; supply should track reserves). Held by an SPL multisig (1 of 5 signers required). |
| Freeze authority | ! Active: Tether can freeze token accounts, which would stop a holder from selling or moving them. Held by an SPL multisig (2 of 3 signers required). | ! Active: Paxos (for PayPal) can freeze token accounts, which would stop a holder from selling or moving them. Held by a regular account (a wallet key or a program-derived address). |
| Token program / extensions | ✓ Classic SPL Token program: no Token-2022 extensions that could move, block or tax transfers. | ! Token-2022 permanent delegate: one address can move or burn tokens from any wallet. |
| Holder concentration | ? Could not be read at the last check; the score excludes it. | ✕ Extreme: the top 10 wallets hold most of the supply. |
| Liquidity | ✓ Deep liquidity across trading pools. | ✓ Deep liquidity across trading pools. |
| Trading age | ✓ Trading for more than 30 days. | ✓ Trading for more than 30 days. |
| Confidence | partial | full |
| Last checked | ||
| Mint address | Es9v…wNYB · Solscan | 2b1k…4GXo · Solscan |
Higher score = fewer technical risk signals. "Issuer-controlled" marks a short allowlist of regulated or issuer-backed assets whose mint and freeze controls are held by a known issuer by design; that is counterparty risk, not a rug-pull pattern. Scores refresh about every 12 hours.
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