While building Wormbook, we started scanning every launch on
@ponsdotfamily for research purposes.
99,866 tokens checked. 351 flagged.
338 had zero-width characters: invisible text hidden in the name, ticker or description
13 had trading orders written straight into the metadata, aimed at AI agents
To a human, these look like normal coins. An agent reads every byte, so it can be pushed to buy a token it should never touch, or fooled by a ticker that only looks real.
That's roughly 1 in every 285 launches.
Every scan is public. See them all yourself: