Lyno AI launched in September 2025 with a pitch built for retail investors who felt locked out. The project promised an AI-powered cross-chain arbitrage engine that would level the playing field against institutional money. The presale widget on lyno.ai accepted ETH, USDT, and USDC. The launch price was set at $0.100.
Today, lyno.ai shows a “This deployment is temporarily paused” message — the hosting platform has suspended the deployment, though the domain still resolves. The Uniswap V2 pair holds less than one cent of liquidity. The presale contract is empty. Both deployer wallets are empty or near-empty.
The GoPlus Security API confirmed is_honeypot = 1 for the LYNO token contract at 0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8. That means buyers could not sell. The liquidity was locked for 30 days to appear credible. On October 14, 2025 — two days after the lock expired — the deployer removed all of it. The next day, the presale contract was drained.
LYNO token on Etherscan: 420,690,000,000 total supply, 1,018 holders, zero active market — https://etherscan.io/token/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
841 Times More Than Promised
The lyno.ai website stated a total supply of 500 million LYNO. The on-chain reality was different.
Etherscan shows a max total supply of 420,690,000,000 LYNO — 420.69 billion tokens. Against the 500 million stated on the project website, the actual supply was 841 times larger. The discrepancy was not announced. It did not appear in any presale communication found in the archived site.
The token uses 9 decimals, confirmed on Etherscan. The deployer created 420.69 billion units at launch and retained 264.89 billion of them — 62.97 percent of the entire supply. A second unlabeled wallet held another 10.95 percent. The top two wallets combined controlled more than 73 percent of all LYNO before a single public buyer made a trade.
GoPlus Security scan: is_honeypot = 1, slippage_modifiable = 1, creator holds 62.97% — https://gopluslabs.io/token-security/1/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
The Deployer Funded by a Bridge
The deployer wallet at 0xEA00b1c37f1cf0E24403C0E9C95b4285b3dFe8D9 was funded through the Across Protocol Ethereum Spoke Pool — a cross-chain bridge. The source chain is not disclosed in the Ethereum transaction record. Using a bridge to fund a fresh deployer wallet is a pattern that obscures the origin of funds and makes on-chain attribution harder.
The wallet executed exactly 15 transactions across its lifetime. Nothing before the launch. Nothing after the funds were moved. This is a throwaway wallet.
Deployer wallet 0xEA00b1c3…5b3dFe8D9: 15 total transactions, ETH balance zero, funded via Across Protocol bridge — https://etherscan.io/address/0xEA00b1c37f1cf0E24403C0E9C95b4285b3dFe8D9
A Coordinated Exit: LP and Presale Drained Together
On September 12, 2025 — the same day the LYNO contract was deployed — the token deployer locked the Uniswap V2 LP tokens on TrustSwap Team Finance. The lock transaction encoded an unlock timestamp of 1760309928. That Unix value converts to October 12, 2025. A 30-day lock.
The unlock came and went. Two days later, on October 14, 2025, the token deployer removed all liquidity from the Uniswap pool. The 0.99693029 ETH recovered went immediately to an unlabeled external wallet with no public tag on Etherscan. A separate 0.16149175 ETH had already been sent to a second unlabeled wallet on September 15.
LynoPresale contract (0x3F027b74…) on Blockscout: Contract name confirmed, Balance 0 ETH, Creator 0xA7…CAe4 — https://eth.blockscout.com/address/0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407
The LP removal was not the only exit. On October 15, 2025 — the very next day — the presale contract deployer at 0xA7565C6F03E0584671D945dD7949A26ABb1dCAe4 began withdrawing ETH from the LynoPresale contract at 0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407. That contract had collected ETH from buyers through the lyno.ai presale widget. The presale deployer is a different wallet from the token deployer — confirming multiple actors in this operation.
LynoPresale contract transactions tab: buyWithETH calls from multiple buyers, all flowing to the LynoPresale address — https://eth.blockscout.com/address/0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407
317 buy transactions flowed into the presale contract between October 2025 and December 2025, totalling 12.14 ETH. The exit happened in stages:
Presale deployer 0xA7565C6F… on Etherscan: 3.04 ETH balance, funded by Binance 18, 26 total transactions — https://eth.blockscout.com/address/0xA7565C6F03E0584671D945dD7949A26ABb1dCAe4
October 15, 2025: 7.57 ETH withdrawn to 0xfC1Bb9c8d90CD0aEfd7B8F54e130Ef7d96847248
October 19, 2025: 1.04 ETH withdrawn to 0x16fad1d600528c7BE49746A63b2D0a1e8a83a880
November 6, 2025: 0.40 ETH withdrawn to 0xB4DeB6F9764514CC9B5183F03f2FDB6e1193Cb99
January 7, 2026: 0.29 ETH withdrawn to 0xa4e37E57F42C8E8B058011E5B79F97DaBDc973De
Presale deployer outgoing transactions: 7.29 ETH OUT to 0xfC1Bb9c8… (Oct 15), 1.02 ETH OUT to 0x16fad1d6… (Oct 19), 0.40 ETH OUT to 0xB4DeB6F9… (Nov 6), 0.29 ETH OUT to 0xa4e37E57… (Jan 7 2026) — https://eth.blockscout.com/address/0xA7565C6F03E0584671D945dD7949A26ABb1dCAe4
All four destination wallets are now near-empty and carry no public labels on Etherscan or Blockscout. The presale deployer wallet retains approximately 3.04 ETH. Every destination used in this withdrawal chain is an unlabeled external wallet with no traceable next step.
The presale widget on lyno.ai was still showing as active in December 2025 — at least one month after 7.57 ETH had already been drained from the contract. Buyers sending ETH through the widget in November and December were contributing directly to a contract whose funds were already being withdrawn by its owner. The final drain transaction occurred on January 7, 2026.
Combined total extracted across both the LP removal and presale drain: approximately 13.14 ETH.
LYNO write contract tab: enableTrading, removeLimits, sendETHToFee, clearRandomStuckEth, manualSwap, manualsend all present — https://etherscan.io/token/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8#writeContract
The Contract Was Built to Block Sells
The verified source code at Etherscan contains a set of functions that go beyond a standard ERC-20. The contract includes clearRandomStuckEth (a backdoor to drain ETH from the contract), removetransfer_Tax (modifies transfer tax at will), sendETHToFee, manualSwap, and manualsend — all mechanisms for the deployer to extract value from the contract without buyer knowledge.
The GoPlus API flagged slippage_modifiable = 1 and external_call = 1 in addition to is_honeypot = 1. The slippage flag means the tax rate can be changed without notice. The external_call flag indicates the transfer function routes through an outside contract — a common pattern in honeypot setups where the swap simulation succeeds but the actual sell fails.
Token Sniffer assigned the contract a score of 0 out of 100 — the lowest possible rating. The creator wallet held 62.96 percent of circulating supply. The top 10 holders controlled 87.04 percent. The Uniswap V2 pool held less than 0.01 ETH at the time of the Token Sniffer scan. See the Token Sniffer report.
Token Sniffer: 0/100 score, creator holds 62.96%, top 10 control 87.04%, LP under 0.01 ETH — https://tokensniffer.com/token/eth/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
Presale Still Live After the Rug
The Wayback Machine captured lyno.ai on December 11, 2025 — 58 days after the LP was removed. The archived page still displayed “$LYNO Presale is Live!” and showed a working buy widget accepting ETH, USDT, and USDC. The presale contract address was not hardcoded in the archived HTML and could not be confirmed independently. What is confirmed: anyone who visited lyno.ai in December 2025 saw an active presale prompt with no disclosure that all trading liquidity had been removed in October.
The website claimed a launch price of $0.100 and a Stage 2 price of $0.055. No third-party presale platform — Pinksale, DxSale, Gempad — hosted this raise. The funds raised through the presale widget have not been traced on-chain.
lyno.ai archived December 11, 2025: presale widget still showing “Presale is Live!” — 58 days after LP removal — https://web.archive.org/web/20251211015129/https://lyno.ai/#presale
Multiple sponsored articles on ThePrint (earliest dated September 23, 2025) promoted Lyno AI as the “AI Ethereum” and stated it was “Audited by Cyberscope.” These articles appeared in ThePrint’s BrandIt section — paid placements, not independent editorial coverage. No audit has been submitted to Etherscan, Blockscout, or De.Fi scanner.
The @Lyno_AI X account posted marketing content on both October 14 and October 15, 2025 — the exact dates the LP was removed and the presale funds were first drained. On October 24, ten days after the LP was pulled, the account posted “Milestone Unlocked: $40K in $LYNO Sold!” — while the presale contract was already being emptied in the background.
@Lyno_AI X timeline October 2025: marketing posts active on Oct 14–15 — the precise dates of LP removal and presale drain — https://x.com/Lyno_AI
Google search for “LYNO AI” scam: AI overview flags project as high-risk, 99Bitcoins investigates in January 2026 — https://www.google.com/search?q=%22LYNO+AI%22+%22rug+pull%22+OR+scam+OR+honeypot
The Website Is Suspended
lyno.ai shows a “This deployment is temporarily paused” message. The domain still resolves, but the hosting platform has suspended the deployment. The project has not restored its website.
The Bubblemaps cluster analysis of LYNO token holders shows significant wallet clustering in the top distribution, consistent with insider or coordinated wallet concentration. The deployer and a second large unlabeled wallet together held more than 73 percent of supply at launch.
Bubblemaps LYNO token: top holder cluster visible, deployer at 62.97%, second wallet at 10.95% — https://app.bubblemaps.io/eth/token/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
The presale contract at 0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407 was confirmed by extracting addresses from the archived lyno.ai Next.js JavaScript bundle on the Wayback Machine. What the data does not fully resolve: the total USDC and USDT raised through the presale widget (only ETH inflows have been tallied on-chain), and the final destination of funds beyond the four unlabeled EOA recipients.
1,018 wallets hold LYNO today. They hold a token with no liquidity, no market, no active development, and two dead project domains. The deployer has zero ETH. The deployer wallet has no transaction since October 14, 2025.
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Research Notes
Presale Platform
Platform: Custom widget on lyno.ai (NOT Pinksale, DxSale, or Gempad)
Presale Contract: 0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407 — named “LynoPresale” on Blockscout
Presale Deployed: July 11, 2025 — 2 months before the token was created (September 2025)
Presale Deployer: 0xA7565C6F03E0584671D945dD7949A26ABb1dCAe4 — DIFFERENT wallet from token deployer
Accepted: ETH, USDT, USDC (buyWithETH, buyWithUSDC, buyWithUSDT functions)
Buy Transactions: 317 confirmed buy transactions (October–December 2025)
Total ETH Raised: ~12.14 ETH (317 buys, on-chain confirmed)
Stage 1 Price: Unknown (below $0.055)
Next Phase Price: $0.055
Launch Price: $0.100
LP Lock Promised: Not explicitly stated in archived presale content
Audit Promised: YES — September 23, 2025 paid sponsored article on ThePrint (BrandIt) stated “Audited by Cyberscope” (no audit found on Etherscan/Blockscout/De.Fi)
KYC: Not mentioned
Pinksale: “URL not found” for LYNO token contract — presale was NOT hosted on Pinksale — https://www.pinksale.finance/launchpad/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8/chain/ETH
ThePrint BrandIt (sponsored): September 23, 2025 — paid article claiming “Audited by Cyberscope” — not independent editorial coverage (screenshot verified) — https://theprint.in/brandit/lyno-ai-presale-uptake-accelerates-as-analysts-call-it-the-ai-ethereum/2749629/
Fund Flow
TOKEN DEPLOYER (LP side):
Token Deployer Wallet: 0xEA00b1c37f1cf0E24403C0E9C95b4285b3dFe8D9
Funded By: Across Protocol: Ethereum Spoke Pool V2 (cross-chain bridge — source chain unknown)
Total Token Deployer Transactions: 15 (throwaway wallet)
Token Contract Deployed: September 12, 2025 (block 23349993)
LP Locked: September 12, 2025 — TrustSwap Team Finance, 30-day lock
LP Unlock Time (encoded): Unix 1760309928 = October 12, 2025
LP Withdrawal from Lock: October 14, 2025 (2 days after lock expired)
LP Removed: October 14, 2025 — Remove Liquidity via Uniswap V2 Router
LP ETH Outflow 1: 0.16149175 ETH → 0xCAF2C823…1eEE741C (September 15, 2025)
LP ETH Outflow 2: 0.99693029 ETH → 0xc1280537…24E0b004a (October 14, 2025)
Token Deployer ETH Balance (current): 0 ETH — fully emptied
Days from Launch to LP Removal: ~32 days
PRESALE DEPLOYER (presale side):
Presale Contract: 0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407 (LynoPresale)
Presale Deployer Wallet: 0xA7565C6F03E0584671D945dD7949A26ABb1dCAe4
Presale Contract Deployed: July 11, 2025 (2 months before token launch)
Total ETH Raised via Presale: ~12.14 ETH (317 buy transactions, Oct–Dec 2025)
Presale ETH Drain 1 (Oct 15 2025): 7.57 ETH → 0xfC1Bb9c8d90CD0aEfd7B8F54e130Ef7d96847248
Presale ETH Drain 2 (Oct 19 2025): 1.04 ETH → 0x16fad1d600528c7BE49746A63b2D0a1e8a83a880
Presale ETH Drain 3 (Nov 06 2025): 0.40 ETH → 0xB4DeB6F9764514CC9B5183F03f2FDB6e1193Cb99
Presale ETH Drain 4 (Jan 07 2026): 0.29 ETH → 0xa4e37E57F42C8E8B058011E5B79F97DaBDc973De
Presale Deployer ETH Balance (current): ~3.04 ETH remaining
All Drain Destinations: Unlabeled EOAs — no public tag on Etherscan or Blockscout
Presale Widget Active During Drains: YES — widget still live Dec 11 2025 while funds being withdrawn since Oct 15
Mixer Check: No Tornado Cash interaction found in available tx history
COMBINED EXIT:
Total LP + Presale ETH Extracted: ~13.14 ETH combined
Exit Timeline: Oct 12 lock expiry → Oct 14 LP removed → Oct 15 presale drain began → Jan 7 final drain
Deployer 0xEA00b1c3…5b3dFe8D9: all 15 transactions visible — deploy, lock, remove liquidity, transfer out — https://etherscan.io/address/0xEA00b1c37f1cf0E24403C0E9C95b4285b3dFe8D9
Contract Security Audit
Honeypot (GoPlus): YES — is_honeypot = 1 (CRITICAL: buyers cannot sell)
Mintable: NO — is_mintable = 0
Blacklist: NO — is_blacklisted = 0
Slippage Modifiable: YES — slippage_modifiable = 1 (tax can change without notice)
External Call: YES — external_call = 1
Is Proxy: NO
Ownership Renounced: YES — owner_address = 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Anti-Whale: YES — is_anti_whale = 1
Buy Tax: Dynamic (GoPlus returns empty — modifiable)
Sell Tax: Dynamic (GoPlus returns empty — modifiable)
Source Verified: YES
Audit: NONE submitted to Etherscan, Blockscout, or De.Fi scanner
Token Sniffer Score: 0 / 100
Dangerous Functions: clearRandomStuckEth, removetransfer_Tax, sendETHToFee, manualSwap, manualsend, enableTrading
LYNO source code outline on Etherscan: enableTrading, removeLimits, clearRandomStuckEth, manualSwap all visible — https://etherscan.io/address/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8#code
Token Sniffer: 0/100 score — worst possible rating — https://tokensniffer.com/token/eth/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
Liquidity Analysis
DexScreener: 0 pairs returned (null)
GoPlus Pair: 0xa49D7acFAa443132fCb48c848946628efA4a55d7 (Uniswap V2) — liquidity < 0.01 ETH
GeckoTerminal: 404 — pair not indexed (below minimum threshold)
LP Lock: TrustSwap Team Finance — 14.503 UNI-V2 LP tokens, 30-day lock
LP Unlock Date: October 12, 2025
LP Removed: October 14, 2025 — 2 days after lock expired
LP Removal TX: 0xcefa4415…
Current LP Value: < $0.01 — essentially zero
0% LP Locked (current): CONFIRMED — all LP removed by deployer
Ghost Token Criteria: YES — 0 volume, 0 pairs on DexScreener, price unchanged, zero liquidity
Holder Analysis
Total Holders: 1,018–1,020
Creator (Deployer): 0xEA00b1c3… — 62.97% (264,893,955,376 LYNO)
Holder 2: 0xa9902bec… — 10.95% (46,075,198,444 LYNO) — unlabeled EOA
Holder 3: 0xfb72d292… — 2.35% — unlabeled EOA
Holder 4: 0x965c6522… — 2.35% — unlabeled EOA
Holder 5: 0x8c01bba1… — 2.15% — CONTRACT (Uniswap V2 pair address)
Top 10 Combined: ~85–87% of total supply (Token Sniffer: 87.04%)
Insider Cluster: Deployer (62.97%) + unlabeled wallet (10.95%) = 73.92% combined at launch
Holder Math Audit: 2 wallets named above: 62.97% + 10.95% = 73.92% — confirmed
Bubblemaps LYNO: heavy clustering in top wallets — deployer and second wallet dominate supply — https://app.bubblemaps.io/eth/token/0x04224a26b9d11ad45e20d4Fc470dFBC9cC3cd4E8
Tokenomics and Promises vs Delivery
Claimed Total Supply: 500,000,000 (500 million) — per archived lyno.ai website
Actual Total Supply: 420,690,000,000 (420.69 billion) — confirmed on Etherscan
Supply Inflation: 841x more tokens minted than stated
Allocation (claimed): Community Presale 28% / Team 10% / Advisors 5% / Liquidity 10% / Treasury 10% / Ecosystem 35% / Marketing 2%
LP Locked for 30 Days: DELIVERED — but only 30 days, then removed
LP Lock Promised Duration: Not explicitly stated in presale content
Audit: PROMISED (press coverage Sept 2025) — NOT DELIVERED
KYC: Not mentioned
AI Arbitrage Platform: NOT DELIVERED — no on-chain product, no GitHub found
Presale Active Post-Rug: YES — December 11, 2025 archive shows presale still running 58 days after LP removal
Victim Record
Holder Count: 1,018–1,020 wallets
Google AI Overview: Classifies LYNO as high-risk or potential scam
@Lyno_AI on X: Continued posting marketing content on Oct 14–15 2025 (LP removal + presale drain dates); posted “Milestone Unlocked: $40K in $LYNO Sold!” on Oct 24, 10 days after LP was pulled (verified from live X timeline)
99Bitcoins: “Is Lyno AI Legit or a Scam?” — published January 12, 2026 (screenshot verified)
ScamAdviser: lyno.ai: Trust Score 61 — “probably not a scam but legit” — automated tool missed on-chain honeypot signals (screenshot verified)
ChainAbuse Reports: API returned 308 redirect — check manually
Amount Raised (presale — on-chain confirmed): ~12.14 ETH from 317 buy transactions to LynoPresale contract 0x3F027b74cA9E619A587520b2f96F11498308d407
Amount Raised (LP removal — on-chain confirmed): ~0.997 ETH recovered when LP was removed October 14, 2025
Total On-Chain Loss Confirmed: ~13.14 ETH combined
Note: Presale widget also accepted USDC — USDC raised amount not separately tallied here (ETH only confirmed)
Google victim search results for “LYNO AI” scam — multiple red-flag signals — https://www.google.com/search?q=%22LYNO+AI%22+%22rug+pull%22+OR+scam+OR+honeypot
99Bitcoins “Is Lyno AI Legit or a Scam?” published January 12, 2026 — screenshot verified — https://99bitcoins.com/cryptocurrency/is-lyno-ai-legit-or-a-scam/
Verdict
Classification: HONEYPOT + COORDINATED RUG PULL (TWO-WALLET OPERATION)
🔴 HONEYPOT CONFIRMED — GoPlus is_honeypot = 1: buyers could not sell (Step 5)
🔴 LP REMOVED — October 14, 2025, 32 days post-launch, 2 days after 30-day lock expired (Step 6)
🔴 PRESALE DRAINED — 12.14 ETH from 317 buyers; first drain October 15 (the day after LP removal) (Step 4)
🔴 COORDINATED EXIT — Two separate wallets (token deployer + presale deployer) both drained same week (Step 4)
🔴 PRESALE WIDGET ACTIVE DURING DRAIN — Buyers still sending ETH in Nov–Dec 2025 while funds being withdrawn (Step 3)
🔴 SUPPLY INFLATION 841x — 420.69B actual vs 500M claimed on website (Step 8)
🔴 FUNDED VIA BRIDGE — Across Protocol obscures source chain of token deployer wallet (Step 4)
🔴 WEBSITE SUSPENDED — lyno.ai shows “deployment temporarily paused”; domain resolves but site is inaccessible (Step 2)
🔴 ALL DRAIN DESTINATIONS UNLABELED — 4 unlabeled EOAs received presale ETH, no traceable next step (Step 4)
🟡 TWO SEPARATE DEPLOYERS — token and presale deployed from different wallets (multi-actor operation) (Step 4)
🟡 PRESALE DEPLOYED 2 MONTHS BEFORE TOKEN — LynoPresale contract created July 11, 2025 (Step 3)
🟡 SLIPPAGE MODIFIABLE — tax can change at will (Step 5)
🟡 TOKEN SNIFFER 0/100 — worst possible score (Step 5)
🟡 NO AUDIT — none submitted anywhere despite press claims (Step 5)
🟡 CREATOR HOLDS 62.97% — massive insider concentration (Step 7)
🟡 TOP 10 HOLD 87.04% — extreme supply concentration (Step 7)
Lyno AI was a two-wallet honeypot operation. The token deployer created the contract on September 12, 2025, locked LP for 30 days to appear legitimate, then removed it on October 14 — two days after the lock expired. The presale deployer, a separate wallet, had set up the collection contract two months earlier in July 2025. It collected 12.14 ETH from 317 buyers. The day after the LP was pulled, the presale wallet began draining those funds to four unlabeled EOAs. The presale widget continued showing as active for buyers through December 2025, collecting fees into a contract already being emptied. Total confirmed victim loss across both operations: approximately 13.14 ETH. 1,018 wallets hold a token with no liquidity, no market, and no active project.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or legal advice.
