A paid promotion that raises a token's prominence on DEX Screener's listings. Projects buy them in batches; the count is how many are currently active.

Why is that worth watching?

Because promotional spend usually precedes attention, and in this corner of the market attention and price are closely linked. Seeing the spend directly is more informative than seeing only its effects.

Yes. It comes from The DEX Screener token-boosts endpoint, key-free. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.

Does it cost anything or need an account?

No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.

What is a decentralised exchange?

It is a trading venue run by smart contracts on a blockchain rather than by a company. Users trade from their own wallets against liquidity pools.

Does a high boost count mean a token is trustworthy?

No. A boost is paid promotion that anyone can buy, so it shows how much was spent on visibility and offers no assurance of quality or safety.

Why do tokens with the same name appear?

Anyone can deploy a token with any name or symbol, so copycats exist. The contract address on a specific chain is what identifies a token.

Paying To Be Seen Screensaver

The Paying To Be Seen screensaver ranks tokens by how many promotional boosts they have bought on DEX Screener. It is a marketing product whose leaderboard is published openly, which makes it an unusually candid signal. It runs in the browser with nothing to install; press ESC to exit.

How the Paying To Be Seen screensaver works

The saver reads The DEX Screener token-boosts endpoint, key-free.

No account and no key: the request goes straight from your browser, or from this site's own refreshed copy of the feed where the source does not permit browser access.

Values are drawn on a canvas that resizes with the window, so it works on a laptop or a wall display.

If the source is unreachable the saver says so on screen rather than showing stale numbers as though they were current.

How decentralised exchanges and boosts work

A decentralised exchange, or DEX, lets people swap tokens directly through smart contracts on a blockchain, with no company holding the order book. Because anyone can create a token and a trading pool for it, new pairs appear constantly across many blockchains, and trackers such as DEX Screener index them so people can find prices, liquidity and volume. A token is identified by its contract address on a specific chain, since names and ticker symbols can be copied freely.

DEX Screener also sells promotion. A project can pay to boost its token, which increases its visibility on the site, and its API exposes boosted tokens through token-boosts endpoints, including a “latest” and a “top” listing. The ranking here is therefore a ranking of marketing spend, not of quality, volume or trustworthiness. Some boosted tokens are serious projects, but many are speculative, and some are scams, since paying for attention is open to anyone.

Nothing in this view verifies a project’s claims, checks who is behind a token, or reflects how liquid it is. It is a window into who is currently buying attention.

A worked example

Each row shows the chain, the project's own description text and the number of boosts purchased. It is not a quality ranking and this saver does not pretend it is — it is a ranking of who is currently spending money to be noticed, which is a genuinely useful thing to be able to see plainly.

Settings & tips

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Frequently asked questions

What is a boost?: A paid promotion that raises a token's prominence on DEX Screener's listings. Projects buy them in batches; the count is how many are currently active.
Why is that worth watching?: Because promotional spend usually precedes attention, and in this corner of the market attention and price are closely linked. Seeing the spend directly is more informative than seeing only its effects.
Is this real data?: Yes. It comes from The DEX Screener token-boosts endpoint, key-free. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.
Does it cost anything or need an account?: No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.
What is a decentralised exchange?: It is a trading venue run by smart contracts on a blockchain rather than by a company. Users trade from their own wallets against liquidity pools.
Does a high boost count mean a token is trustworthy?: No. A boost is paid promotion that anyone can buy, so it shows how much was spent on visibility and offers no assurance of quality or safety.
Why do tokens with the same name appear?: Anyone can deploy a token with any name or symbol, so copycats exist. The contract address on a specific chain is what identifies a token.

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