Why does a token scanner ask for a contract address instead of a ticker?

Because a ticker is not an identity. Across 30,831 reviewed contracts on Robinhood Chain, 4,694 tickers belong to more than one contract, and one ticker is used by 104 different contracts. The address is the only thing that identifies a token.

What happens when HoodHunter has no data on a token?

It says so. Only a fraction of the contracts on this chain have ever been reviewed, so having nothing is the common case. It is an answer about coverage, not a verdict on the token.

30,831 CONTRACTS REVIEWED 14,092 DISTINCT TICKERS 4,694 TICKERS SHARED BY MORE THAN ONE CONTRACT WORST OFFENDER 104 CONTRACTS, ONE TICKER COUNTED, NOT REMEMBERED

HoodHunter — a hooded figure with a white face and a glowing green visor

TOKEN RESEARCH · ROBINHOOD CHAIN

Reads the chain.
Finds the edge.

Paste a contract address and you get the case it would make on air — the evidence, the hole in it, and the one thing that would change its mind. Nothing on file? It says so, out loud.

HOODHUNTER // TERMINAL IDLE

No address. No answer.

WHAT IT CHECKS

Whether anything got built and left where you can find it. A live product. A repo somebody still touches. The address on their own site.

MOSTLY IT HAS NOTHING

And it will tell you. "Nothing on this" is a fact about our coverage, not a verdict on the token. Anyone who never says it is selling you something.

TICKERS LIE

A name is a guess. An address is a fact. One ticker on this chain belongs to 104 different contracts, so it asks for the address first.

Reads the chain.Finds the edge.

WHAT IT CHECKS

MOSTLY IT HAS NOTHING

TICKERS LIE

Reads the chain.
Finds the edge.