Plexa /v1/pretrade/check — pre-trade token safety check on Base

Plexa /v1/pretrade/check — pre-trade token safety check on Base: can you still sell this token? avoid fires only on a trap proven on-chain now: no pool to exit into, an exit pot under 5% of your size, or the trading gate off (the honeypot shape). A drained pot is what a rug leaves behind — measured, not predicted. clear = no provable trap, NOT safe. Alias: same engine and price as /v1/pretrade/check.

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Endpoint

POST https://api.getplexa.com/v1/rug-check

Our checks, last 30 days

Example input (from the provider)

{
  "body": {
    "sizeUSD": "1000",
    "token": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913"
  },
  "bodyType": "json",
  "method": "POST",
  "type": "http"
}

Promised output schema (from the provider)

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "body": {
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "examples": [
            {
              "sizeUSD": "1000",
              "token": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913"
            }
          ],
          "properties": {
            "chain": {
              "description": "Optional, default \"base\". One of: base | polygon | matic | arbitrum | arbitrum-one | arb | eip155:8453 | eip155:137 | eip155:42161 \u2014 case-sensitive (see `enum`). The safety flags are Base-tuned, so a non-base value currently answers 422 rather than returning Base-calibrated flags for another chain.",
              "enum": [
                "base",
                "polygon",
                "matic",
                "arbitrum",
                "arbitrum-one",
                "arb",
                "eip155:8453",
                "eip155:137",
                "eip155:42161"
              ],
              "type": "string"
            },
            "sizeUSD": {
              "description": "Optional USD notional for the executable-quote sub-result, default \"1000\". A STRING, not a number; positive, no thousands separator (\"1,000\" is rejected) \u2014 see `pattern`.",
              "maxLength": 78,
              "pattern": "^(?:0\\.\\d*[1-9]\\d*|[1-9]\\d*(?:\\.\\d+)?)$",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "token": {
              "description": "ERC-20 to vet before buying. 0x + 40 hex (see `pattern`) \u2014 a symbol like \"WETH\" is rejected with 400.",
              "pattern": "^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "token"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "bodyType": {
          "enum": [
            "json",
            "form-data",
            "text"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "POST"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "http",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method",
        "bodyType",
        "body"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "output": {
      "properties": {
        "example": {
          "properties": {
            "confidence": {
              "description": "high | medium | low. On \"avoid\" this is confidence IN THE TRIGGER, which is a measurement taken this call, so it is always \"high\" \u2014 a check that failed elsewhere does not make the measured trap less true. On \"clear\" it is how COMPLETE the checks were: fewer axes computed, lower confidence. On \"unknown\" it is capped at \"low\" by construction: the check the verdict depends on did not finish, so a high number there would contradict the verdict word next to it. Either way the gaps are reported explicitly \u2014 see `reasons` and the null fields in `risk_profile`.",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "quote": {
              "description": "Executable quote sub-result (realizable fill under size, not mid/spot)",
              "type": "object"
            },
            "reasons": {
              "description": "Human-readable reasons behind the verdict",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "type": "array"
            },
            "risk_profile": {
              "description": "Structural risk as measured DATA (age, concentration, liquidity incl. exitLiquidityUsd, oracle availability, transfer restrictions), each section with a plain-language note. Never a severity: these factors do not separate live from dead tokens [M, n=40].",
              "type": "object"
            },
            "triggers": {
              "description": "Proven traps that fired \u2014 CLOSED list (NO_EXIT_VENUE, EXIT_LIQUIDITY_DRAINED, TRADING_DISABLED), empty when verdict is \"clear\".",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "type": "array"
            },
            "verdict": {
              "description": "avoid | clear | unknown. \"avoid\" = a listed trap was PROVEN at this block (see `triggers`); \"clear\" = none of them fired AND the liquidity sweep reached a conclusion; \"unknown\" = none fired but the sweep did NOT reach a conclusion (`liquidityCoverage.conclusive: false`), so absence of a trap is not established \u2014 see the `exit-coverage-incomplete:<what>` line in `reasons`. \"clear\" is NOT a safety rating and NOT a prediction \u2014 structural risk lives in `risk_profile`. verdict semantics changed 2026-08-01 (v2): avoid = provable trap only; ok/caution are gone. 2026-08-27 (P67): a THIRD value \"unknown\" was added \u2014 it takes over the cases that used to answer \"clear\" while `liquidityCoverage.conclusive` was false. No existing value changed meaning; code branching on \"avoid\" is unaffected, and code branching on \"clear\" now gets strictly fewer, better-founded clears.",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

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