Recognizing scam patterns

Most crypto scams reuse a small set of patterns. Learn to read them from on-chain facts, not vibes:

• Extreme concentration — the top few wallets hold the overwhelming majority. They can dump on you at any time.
• Open mint authority — no fixed max supply, or a contract that lets the deployer mint freely. Your share can be diluted to nothing.
• Wash volume — high "volume" with very few unique participants. Depth-over-time and real holder counts expose it.
• Urgency + anonymity — "buy now or miss it" from an unverifiable team. Real projects can withstand questions.
• No right-of-reply — a project that cannot answer plainly when challenged. SoapBox builds the reply into the page.

None of these alone proves fraud. Together, low on several, they describe an opaque project — which is what the Clarity Score reports, and why the comments-under-graph exist for the project to respond.