How many dead coins already carry the name
A collision splits every search, every chart lookup and every bot command you will ever get. DexScreener only sees tokens holding live liquidity, so a launchpad full of corpses on your name still reads as clear. This counts the graveyard too.
Is your ticker already taken?
Not one of the 25 below — yours. This runs the same check the desk runs before it launches: DexScreener for live pairs, CoinGecko for a listing, and the launchpad's own search for the graveyard that DexScreener cannot see. Roughly two seconds.
The launchpad count is the one that catches people out. A name can read completely clear on DexScreener — which only lists tokens still holding liquidity — while the launchpad behind it holds dozens of corpses on the same ticker, every one of them splitting your search results and answering your bot commands. $LIFTOFF read clear and had fifteen. If a source does not answer, this says so and refuses the verdict rather than guessing at it.
Taken is not a spectrum
Sorted by how crowded the name already is. The interesting split is inside each bar: a token that never traded still divides a search result and still answers a bot command, but it is not competing for buyers. Most collisions are that kind.
Counted on the launchpad, not on the DEX. A name can look completely clear on DexScreener — which only lists tokens holding live liquidity — while the launchpad behind it holds dozens of corpses under the same ticker. Rows drawn as a dashed outline are names the launchpad could not be asked about, and they are not counted as clear. Two counts on this page differ on purpose: 12 are judged clear, meaning nothing live is trading under the name anywhere, while 10 have nothing on the launchpad at all. The 2 names in between carry only dead tokens — still enough to split a search, not enough to take the name.
Is this ticker burned?
Counted across DEX pairs, CoinGecko and the PONS launchpad's own search.
25 shown
| ticker | on PONS | never traded | live pairs | verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $OOF | 47 | 46 | 2 | taken |
| $PFOF | 11 | 8 | 0 | taken |
| $LOADING | 8 | 8 | 0 | taken |
| $BUYBUTTON | 7 | 6 | 0 | taken |
| $SLIPPAGE | 6 | 6 | 0 | taken |
| $DOWNTIME | 5 | 5 | 0 | taken |
| $SPINNER | 4 | 4 | 0 | taken |
| $NOPE | 4 | 4 | 0 | taken |
| $SHRUG | 4 | 4 | 0 | taken |
| $COLLATERAL | 4 | 4 | 0 | taken |
| $CRAYON | 3 | 1 | 0 | taken |
| $RESTRICTED | 3 | 3 | 0 | taken |
| $REJECTED | 3 | 3 | 0 | taken |
| $HALTED | 2 | 2 | 0 | clear |
| $MARGINCALL | 2 | 1 | 0 | clear |
| $GREYEDOUT | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $PENDING | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $CLOSEONLY | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $SELLONLY | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $CANTBUY | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $ONESIDE | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $DIMMED | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $HMPH | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $TSK | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
| $NOFILL | 0 | 0 | 0 | clear |
Checked , refreshed every six hours. n/a means the launchpad could not be reached, not that the graveyard was empty, and a ticker in that state is marked unchecked rather than clear. Publishing "clear" for a name nobody checked is the one mistake this table cannot make.
A clear ticker is one check of four, and the least decisive one. Whether the venue is trading when you launch, what the thing costs before it earns, and what happened to launches shaped like yours are the other three — and this page answers none of them. That is what an assessment is, if you launch often enough for it to be worth $1,200.