DEXTools
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| type | charting and analytics platform |
|---|---|
| launched | 2020 |
| website | dextools.io |
DEXTools is a DeFi charting and analytics platform launched in 2020, one of the first widely used DEX pair explorers, with its own DEXT utility token.
Function
DEXTools is a decentralized exchange analytics platform offering live pair charts, a pair explorer, token scoring, wallet tools, and trending lists across many chains. Access to premium features is paid in its native DEXT token, and the team burns 10 percent of subscription tokens each month, making the model deflationary, according to project documentation summarized by RugDoc. Tokens on the site receive a DEXT Score intended to summarize contract and community health.
Use in the trenches
DEXTools was the original chart link of on chain trading: during the 2020 and 2021 Ethereum memecoin seasons, "check the chart" almost always meant a DEXTools pair explorer link, and appearing on its trending list could move markets by itself. Its role in Solana trenches culture is mostly ancestral, since DexScreener displaced it as the default chart during the Solana era, followed by Birdeye and terminal native charts in Photon and Axiom. It remains in use among EVM focused traders and as a secondary source for trending signals.
History
DEXTools was founded in 2020 by two developers and traders identified in project materials as Frederick and Javier, who met in a traders group in 2017 and self funded the project. The app launched as a public beta in June 2020 with a 200 million DEXT token supply, of which 50 million team tokens were burned, leaving 150 million. The platform rode the Uniswap boom to become a standard tool of DeFi trading and later expanded to dozens of chains, including Solana. Its cultural peak coincided with the Ethereum memecoin cycles; subsequent cycles saw its mindshare erode toward faster competitors.
Status in 2026
DEXTools continues to operate in 2026, publishing tutorials and news alongside its analytics products. Market trackers put the DEXT token around 0.11 dollars with a market capitalization near 8 million dollars as of May 2026, a fraction of its earlier highs, reflecting its diminished but persistent position.