What must a token pass?
| # | Criterion | How it is checked |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Age — at least 2 years on PulseChain | Creation transaction on the explorer; for fork copies, the fork in May 2023 |
| C2 | Verified source code | Verification status on PulseScan |
| C3 | No hidden mint or admin — or ownership renounced, or an admin role that is limited and documented | Reading every privileged function in the source, then owner() and role holders on-chain |
| C4 | Lasting liquidity — at least $25,000 combined across PulseChain DEXes, in genuine pools | Pools found through DexScreener; for smaller tokens only pools against WPLS and bridged stablecoins count, valued from on-chain reserves |
| C5 | Active team and community | Official site and channels with dated activity; transfers on-chain |
| C6 | No documented rug or exploit of the token itself | Search of press and security trackers |
A token must pass all six to be listed as trusted. Two groups are listed apart: the community-run group is an editorial selection of exactly two families — Maximus DAO and Hedron/Icosa — whose members miss C4 and C5, and bridged assets miss C3. Every listed token was checked on 2026-10-17, with its on-chain figures re-read on 2026-10-19; each token page shows its own date.
How is age counted for tokens copied at the fork?
PulseChain copied the entire Ethereum state when it launched, so a token created on Ethereum in 2019 or 2022 has existed on PulseChain only since May 2023. For criterion C1 the age on PulseChain counts. Token pages still show the original Ethereum creation date, because it tells you how long the code itself has been running.
Why a $25,000 liquidity threshold?
Liquidity is what makes a token usable: in a thin pool even a modest trade moves the price sharply. The $25,000 line is this portal’s own threshold, not an industry standard. It counts all PulseChain DEXes together — PulseX, 9mm and others — because some tokens trade mostly outside PulseX.
Which pools count?
Headline totals mislead in two ways. DexScreener returns at most 30 pairs per token, so its total is a lower bound. And many pools report value that cannot be sold for anything: pools priced through an unbacked fork copy such as pDAI, or through small tokens whose own price comes from the same thin pools.
So for every token outside the core four (PLS, PLSX, INC, HEX), only pools against WPLS or the bridged stablecoins eDAI, eUSDC and eUSDT count. Each pool is valued from its on-chain reserves as twice its WPLS or stablecoin side, with WPLS priced from the deepest WPLS/stablecoin pools. Both community families fall far below the threshold on this count: the Maximus DAO tokens between about $23 and $736 each, HDRN about $2,500 and ICSA about $3,200 (block 27,837,276, 2026-10-19 12:30 UTC). They are listed anyway, by editorial decision, and every token page states the figure and what it means for a holder. Other community tokens whose headline liquidity ran from tens of thousands to about $19 million also fell far below the threshold on this count and are not listed.
What does “community-run” mean here?
It is an editorial group, not a pass. It holds exactly two HEX-related families, each limited to the tokens its own official sites list:
- Maximus DAO — MAXI, TEAM and the Perpetual pools BASE, TRIO, LUCKY and DECI (maximusdao.com). Audited by SourceHat in 2022.
- Hedron/Icosa, built by a pseudonymous team that publishes as PulseFusion — HDRN and ICSA (hedron.pro, icosa.pro). Hedron was audited by CertiK in 2022; no audit was found for Icosa.
Their contracts are verified, have no owner or admin functions and are more than two years old. But every one of them misses two criteria: C4, because its liquidity on PulseChain is far below $25,000, and C5, because no active team was evidenced. Some carry documented allocations fixed in the code — TEAM’s Mystery Box and HDRN’s source address — explained on their pages.
They are listed by editorial decision, as two HEX-staking families covered in depth. A listing here is a description, not a pass — the card of each token names the criteria it misses, and its page explains what thin liquidity means for anyone holding it.
Why are bridged assets listed separately?
eDAI, eUSDC, eUSDT, eWETH and eWBTC are minted on PulseChain by the official bridge when the originals are locked on Ethereum, and burned when they go back. Nothing in their own contracts serves a project team — but the bridge that mints them is an upgradeable proxy controlled by single wallets, not multisigs. On 2026-10-17 its owner key could change fees and limits and point the bridge at a different message contract, its upgrade owner could replace the code, and the validator set — every transfer needs 5 of 8 validator signatures — was managed by separate single-key owners.
Strictly, that fails criterion C3. They are still listed, in a box of their own with the risk explained, because they are infrastructure the rest of the chain runs on: the largest WPLS pools pair PLS with bridged DAI, USDC and USDT.
- Do not confuse a bridged e-token with the p-copy of the same name, which is not backed by anything — see system copies.
- The explorer also shows unverified look-alikes with similar “… from Ethereum” names. Only the addresses on this site’s bridged-token pages belong to the bridge.
- How the bridge works and who can change it: the bridge.
What does a listing not mean?
A listing is a statement about a contract and its history on the date shown. It is not a recommendation to buy, says nothing about future price, and can change: liquidity and team activity are re-checked, and a token that stops meeting the criteria is removed. Read the disclaimer.
How can I check a token myself?
- Get the address from an official source — the project’s own docs, pulsex.com/links or the token pages here. Never from a chat, an ad or a search result.
- Open it on PulseScan. Is the source verified? When was the contract created?
- Read the owner. In the explorer’s read tab,
owner()returning the zero address means ownership is renounced. Look for functions such as mint, pause, blacklist or upgrade, and who can call them. - Check liquidity across DEXes and what each pool is paired with — count only pools against WPLS or real stablecoins; a pool priced through an unbacked copy is not real depth.
- Search for look-alikes with the same name and a different address.
- Look for dated activity from the team: releases, posts, documentation updates.
The verify on-chain guide shows how to read contract data directly.