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title: How it works: Lorg Check
description: You ask, we check, you get one answer. What Lorg Check does with a token's address in the second before a trade.
url: https://lorglabs.com/how-it-works.html
---

# You ask. We check. You get one answer.

Three steps, in about a second. Each one is below, then the detail.

## 1. You ask.

Before a trade or a payment, your platform sends us an address and the chain it is on.

```
POST /v1/check/token

{ "chain": "base", "address": "0x…" }
```

## 2. We check.

About a dozen checks run at the same time against live blockchain data.

- Is the address on the sanctions list, or one we know as a scam?
- What can the token's owner still do to it: print more, freeze it, block wallets, change the fees, replace the code?
- Who made it, when, and what did they launch before?
- Where does it trade, and how much money is really there to sell into?
- If you buy it and sell it straight back, what do you get?
- Who holds the pool's money, and can they take it out?
- Is the supply in a few hands?
- Is it pretending to be a well-known token, or to be money: a fake USDC, USDT or ETH?
- For a wallet you are about to pay: is it a look-alike, planted to be mistaken for an address you have dealt with?

## 3. You get one answer.

Allow, caution or block, a risk score, the reasons from most to least serious, and one sentence written to be shown to a user. Signed, and stamped with the moment it was true.

**Allow**

We found nothing that should stop you.

**Caution**

There are real risks and we list them.

**Block**

It is a trap, or a sanctioned address.

**Unknown**

We couldn't finish a check we can't do without. You are not charged.

## Two kinds of check

ABOUT A SECOND

### The token check.

Answers "is this token safe to buy?"

ABOUT A FIFTH OF A SECOND

### The quick check.

Answers "is this wallet safe to pay?"

## Where it works

- **Chains**: Base and Ethereum.
- **Exchanges**: Uniswap (every version, including V4) and Aerodrome.
- **Launchpads**: Tokens launched through Clanker, Zora, Doppler, Flaunch and Virtuals.

## Three ways to use it

[Live]

### The API.

One HTTPS call before the trade: paid per check in USDC with no account, or with an API key. [Read the docs.](https://lorglabs.com/docs.md)

[Live]

### MCP.

Add Lorg Check as a tool in Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients, so an agent asks before it trades. It needs a key. [Try it with the public one.](https://lorglabs.com/agents.md#try)

[Pilot now]

### Inside your platform.

Built into your bot, wallet or agent toolkit, so every one of your users is checked without doing anything. [See the pilot.](https://lorglabs.com/platforms.md)