01 Canvass
Your query goes to two independent indexes: Jupiter's token search (names, symbols, verification, holder counts, audit flags) and DexScreener's pair search, filtered to Solana.
Case file · Solana tickers
Anyone can call
a token “USDC.”
Namesake lines up every Solana token answering to the same ticker or name, then weighs the evidence — liquidity, holders, age, verification, authorities — so the original stands out and the copycats don't.
Live exhibit
Counting tokens named USDC…
CASE NO. 0001
Open a case
Type a ticker (e.g. USDC) or a name. We query Jupiter's token index and DexScreener's Solana pairs, merge them by mint address, and rank the suspects.
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The lineup
Method How the investigation runs
02 Match by mint
Tickers lie; mint addresses don't. Results from both sources are merged on the mint address, so two tokens called “PEPE” are two separate suspects, never one.
03 Weigh evidence
Each mint earns points for verification, deep liquidity, many holders, an older first pool, and disabled mint/freeze authorities. Red flags are listed separately — nothing is hidden in the score.
04 Verdict
The strongest candidate is shown as the likely original, with its share of all liquidity among namesakes. Everything else is in the lineup with plain-language warnings.
Use cases What you can learn
Exhibit A
Check before you paste
Someone in a chat says “buy PEPE.” Before you search a DEX for the ticker, see how many PEPEs exist and which mint actually has the market.
Exhibit B
Spot stablecoin impostors
Fake “USDC” and “USDT” mints appear daily. They show up here with tiny liquidity, a handful of holders and a creation date from this week.
Exhibit C
Trend-chasing clones
When a meme trends, dozens of same-name tokens launch within hours. The lineup's “newest” sort shows the wave as it happens.
Exhibit D
Name your own project
Launching something? Search your intended ticker first. If ten tokens already answer to it, pick a name you can own.
Exhibit E
Look-alike letters
Some clones swap in Cyrillic or Greek letters that look identical. Namesake flags tickers containing non-ASCII characters.
Exhibit F
Authority red flags
A token whose mint authority is still active can be inflated; one with freeze authority can lock your balance. Both are flagged per mint.
Field guide Why tickers are not identities
On Solana, a token is defined by exactly one thing: its mint address, a 32-byte public key such as EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v. Everything a wallet shows you on top of that — the name “USD Coin,” the ticker “USDC,” the round blue logo — is metadata, stored in a separate account (Metaplex Token Metadata for classic SPL tokens, or the metadata extension for Token-2022 mints). Whoever creates a mint writes that metadata, and nothing on-chain stops them from writing a name that is already in use.
That is why the same ticker can belong to hundreds of tokens. There is no registry, no trademark check, and no first-come rule at the protocol level. Launchpads make it cheaper still: a new token with a bonding curve can be created in a single transaction for a fraction of a SOL. When a meme is trending, copies appear within minutes, sometimes with identical images and social links copied from the original.
Wallets and aggregators deal with this using verification lists — curated or community-driven tags that mark which mint is “the” USDC or “the” JUP. Jupiter exposes this as an isVerified flag plus tags like strict or community. Verification is a strong signal but not a guarantee: it reflects a list maintainer's judgement, and genuinely new tokens are often unverified for a while.
The second signal is where the money is. Liquidity and holder counts are expensive to fake at scale. The original of a popular ticker usually has orders of magnitude more pooled liquidity and holders than any clone. Namesake reports each mint's share of the combined liquidity of all namesakes so you can see that gap at a glance. Beware the counter-trick: a clone can create a pool against itself (or another worthless token) and report billions in “liquidity” that nobody can actually sell into. The tell is volume — real depth attracts trading. Pools showing over $1M of liquidity with less than 0.1% of that traded in a day are flagged Fake depth? and excluded from scores and shares.
The third signal is time. The first pool date shows when a token started trading. A “BONK” created yesterday is not the BONK that has traded since 2023.
Finally, check the authorities. A mint authority lets someone create more tokens at will; a freeze authority lets someone freeze any holder's token account. Major stablecoins legitimately keep freeze authority for compliance, so a flag is a prompt to understand why, not an automatic verdict. Meme tokens almost never need either.
Questions Interrogation room
Does the top result mean a token is safe?
No. It means it has the strongest public evidence among tokens sharing that name — usually the original. A real token can still lose value, and the score says nothing about the project behind it.
Why does a search show tokens with different tickers?
Both indexes do fuzzy matching on names and symbols. Keep “Exact ticker matches only” ticked to see only tokens whose symbol equals your query (case-insensitive). Untick it to see related names like “jlUSDC.”
Can I search by mint address?
Yes. Paste a mint and you'll get that token's evidence card; then search its ticker to see its namesakes.
Why might a clone have more holders than I expect?
Airdrops. Some copycats spray tokens to thousands of wallets so their holder count looks organic. That's why holders are weighed together with liquidity and age, never alone.
Where does “verified” come from?
From Jupiter's token index (isVerified). Namesake doesn't maintain its own list and doesn't verify anything itself.
Do you store my searches?
No. The page is static; searches go straight from your browser to Jupiter and DexScreener. There's no account, no wallet connection, no tracking script.
Why is a token missing?
Each index returns a limited number of best matches (about 20–30). Very obscure tokens, or ones with no pools, may not appear. Search the mint directly to check one.
Limits & honesty
- Sources: Jupiter lite token search and DexScreener pair search, called directly from your browser. Nothing passes through a server of ours.
- Coverage: each source returns its top ~20–30 matches, so very common names may have more namesakes than shown.
- The score is a formula (published above), not a recommendation. It can be wrong when a genuine project is new, or when a clone has bought liquidity.
- Holder and audit data come from Jupiter and can lag on-chain reality by minutes. DexScreener-only tokens have no holder or audit data.
- Rate limits: searches are limited to one every 2 seconds to stay polite to free public APIs.
- Read-only: no wallet connection, no signing, no transactions — ever.