Veydor

A coin in your wallet you didn't buy: what is this?

Plain-language guide · updated 27 October 2026

Short answer

Anyone can send a coin to any wallet address, so a coin you didn't buy says nothing about you and costs you nothing while it sits there. Such coins are often a lure: the name contains a website or a word like ‘claim’, and whoever goes there and signs or pays something loses coins. Paste the coin's address into Veydor: the result tells you whether there is a market for it, and if the coin has known signs of a lure, that is shown at the top, without the link being named or opened.

Paste the address and check it yourself

Veydor shows, in plain language, which known dangers a Solana coin has right now. Free, no account, and Veydor never asks you to connect your wallet.

Go to the check

A check is a snapshot: a coin can change within minutes. A new check shows the situation at that moment.

Why you get such a coin

On Solana anyone can create a coin and send it to a great many addresses at once; it costs almost nothing. The goal is usually that you get curious, look the coin up and end up on the website in its name. There you are asked to connect your wallet, sign something or pay a small amount to ‘claim’ or ‘swap’; after that your coins are gone. Sometimes the coin is a copy of a well-known coin, with the same name but a different address, so you think you received something of value.

What you see in the result

Paste the coin's address (shown in your wallet app with the coin itself) into the check at veydor.xyz, or send it to the Telegram bot @Veydor_check_bot. If the coin has known signs of an unrequested coin, the result starts with the heading Coin you didn't buy and the answer to Can I swap this for money? It says, for example, that the coin has no real market, that the name contains a call to action (the link itself is left out on purpose), that the name looks like a well-known coin, or that the coin was sent to a great many wallets at once. The rest of the result is the same as for any coin.

What you can do

A coin that appeared in your wallet unasked costs nothing as long as nothing is done with it. A request to pay or to connect your wallet to ‘claim’ something is part of this trick.

Do not go to the website in the coin's name, not even to look. In most wallet apps you can hide the coin so it no longer shows in your list.

If you already did something

If you only looked and did not connect, sign or pay anything, probably nothing happened. If you connected your wallet or signed something, remove that connection in your wallet app. If you entered your words somewhere, move whatever is still there to a new wallet with new words, created on a device you trust. What else you can do is on the page about a rug pull and in the Telegram bot under /lost.

Frequently asked questions

Can such a coin empty my wallet just by sitting there?

No. A coin sitting in your wallet cannot do anything. Coins only disappear when you yourself sign something, connect your wallet somewhere, enter your words or pay something.

My wallet shows an amount next to the coin. Is that real money?

Usually not. A wallet app uses the last known price, even when there is no place where anyone buys the coin. Without a real market that amount cannot be swapped; Veydor's result shows whether there is a market.

Do I have to remove the coin?

No; leaving it alone costs nothing. Hiding it is possible in most wallet apps. Some wallet apps also offer to remove the coin; read carefully what you sign, and only do it in the app itself, never through a link from the coin's name.

Does this also work in the Telegram bot?

Yes. Send the coin's address to @Veydor_check_bot; you get the same result, with the same heading at the top when the coin gives reason for it.