Risk Scout
New hooks appear on Elysium every hour. Risk Scout reads each one as soon as it's used and tells you, in plain words, what it is able to do to traders and liquidity providers. Ask AskHook directly, or see the live list at askhook.fun/hooks.
Ask AskHook
Open the app and ask:
- "Scout the new hooks from the last 24 hours."
- "Any new hooks I should look at closely?"
- "Is the hook at 0x… risky?"
- "What can this hook do to my trade?"
For one hook, paste its address. AskHook inspects it and includes the Risk Scout reading.
What it checks
| Check | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Can change swap amounts | The hook can take or add tokens in your trade. That's how fee, tax and burn hooks work, and it also means the hook decides how much it takes. |
| Can change liquidity amounts | The hook can change what goes in or comes out when liquidity is added or removed. |
| Upgradeable | The hook is a proxy: whoever controls it can replace its code later, so today's behaviour isn't guaranteed. |
| Runs before every trade | It can set the fee, enforce limits, or refuse a trade. |
| Can refuse withdrawals | It can stop liquidity from being removed. |
| Controls deposits | It decides who can add liquidity. Common for launch hooks that keep the pool to their own liquidity. |
| Reacts after trades | It counts buys, pays a pot or keeps records, without changing amounts. |
Each hook also comes with context: whether its contract is verified, which launchpad opened its first pool, and how widely it's used.
Attention levels
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Look closely | It can move value in your trade or liquidity, or its code can change. Read its source before you trade. |
| Check | It can set fees or refuse trades or withdrawals. |
| Light touch | It only reacts to trades or controls who adds liquidity. |
What Risk Scout is not
Risk Scout reads a hook's powers, not its intent. Many honest hooks, including launchpad fee hooks, burns and the games AskHook builds, need the same powers as a harmful one. A "Look closely" hook isn't a scam, and a "Light touch" hook isn't guaranteed safe.
Powers come from the hook's address and on-chain checks, so they're certain. What a hook actually does with them is in its code: read the verified source on the Elysium explorer, and see Security before trusting a pool with funds.
Agents can read the same data through AskHook's MCP server, with the risk_scout and inspect_hook tools.