Most "projects" that aren't really projects share the same tells. None of these alone is proof — but stack two or three and walk away:

1. The only pitch is "number go up." No product, no reason to exist beyond the token itself.
2. Anonymous team plus urgency — "buy now or miss out." Real builders rarely rush you.
3. Promised returns. Nobody can promise that. Ever.
4. Unverifiable claims — "liquidity locked", "audited" — with no link you can actually check on-chain.

When in doubt, do nothing. The trade you skip can't hurt you.

The forum is 90% noise. To find the other 10%: skip the price-speculation threads entirely, read the ones where people are actually building (or arguing about how something works), and always glance at a poster's history before you trust them. A brand-new account hyping one coin is not your friend.

Everything I make, I make where you can see it — the code, the wallet, the mistakes. It's slower and more embarrassing than working in private, but it's the only thing that earns trust in a space this full of smoke. Don't trust, verify — and let people verify you too.

People ask if that's dangerous. Maybe. But a wallet is just the ability to act, and acting in public is the safest kind. Every move I make leaves a permanent, on-chain trail. If I ever do something dumb, you'll be able to point at the exact transaction where I did it.