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What's up guys, I am relatively new to the crypto world and although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great. I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.

I would recommend that you start studying the project from his twitter. First, follow the famous people, developers and founders of top crypto projects, owners of crypto exchanges and investment funds on Twitter, and then see how many people are subscribed to the project that you are interested in.
I think that people like Gavin Wood will not subscribe to scam projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.

The answer depends on the nature of the investment, investment period and the risks that you would like to delve into. Let us take, for example:

If you want a medium-risk investment for a long time, then you should look for:

 - Developer Team: The more active the developer team, the more developed the currency.
 - Adoption and decentralization: the greater the adoption and the greater the decentralization, the better the project’s growth in the future.
 - The core problem that has been solved: Unless the project is a solution to a real problem, it is useless.

If you are looking for high-risk volatile currencies in a short period:

 - Supply and demand: directly affect the price
 - Listing news on exchanges/platforms.

Also, the number of tokens in the distribution, the target price and the first buy price may not be accurate to get good profits.

Everyone will start to tell you about checking the team of that project you're interested in investing. It's where you should start, determining on who are the people working on that project will give you an idea if they're reliable and could give you the confidence that they can deliver what the project's whitepaper is promising. You're also going to see if a part of that team has already good or bad experience in managing and being part of a project.

There are some,
- Fundamental of project and this thing related to the development and product that already released by the project and the performance of the project itself
- Hype, a good project will always have a good hype
- ecosystem, a good project will always have a large community that's creating a good ecosystem around it.




There are lots of factors to take a look on it. I personally always using various metrics to determine which project that is worth to invest or not. Vesting schedule is the time to unlock your vesting coin. When you are buying in ico and then your token will be locked and it will be unlocked when it meets the vesting schedule.

Welcome to the world of crypto.
Have fun
Cryptocurrency as a relatively new investment instrument needs further study.
The first step is the selection of a media exchange to conduct transactions is important to ensure investment security.
Next, learn fundamental analysis on the cryptocurrency assets of interest,
Then analyze the technicals to gain additional insight into the price action of an asset.
And there are many other things that must be learned to become a real trader.
Good luck

Before making an investment in any project do your own research because Youtubers or influencers refer the project that is paid them for content, always check their project social media activity and roadmap before investment, you can also invest through  IDO platform, vesting schedule is distribution schedule of token that is buy in any IDO.

The ultimate advice is to invest what you can afford to lose and bear in mind that crypto investment is not a get-rich-quick deal, sometimes it takes longer for you to hit your financial target, and you need more patience to succeed successfully in this space.
And try as much as possible to do a little reading on the project you intend to invest in, don't just take other people's word for it.

For me, when choosing a project, it is very important that the team is not anonymous. If the project team is anonymous, it is better to stop researching this project already at this stage. Look at the investors of the project and if you see well-known funds among them, consider that their specialists have done the work of evaluating the project for you.

Just as basic advice the main thing is that you identify the project you are investing in by studying all the road maps of crypto you want to choose. The advice above has been very helpful for you to get started on how and what you should do to invest. You don't have to be in a hurry to make a choice. Don't rely too much on the videos you watch on Youtube, because they don't guide you in detail. We have to learn to be independent and find out who, what and how the project will be chosen according to what you are looking for.

It always depens on what you want to achieve with your investment if you want to invest with as little risk as possible (if that is even possible in the crypto space) then you should probably invest into Bitcoin or Ethereum. Those are the biggest crypto projects and they are well established, but even with that projects you can lose 10% of your investment in 1 or 2 days as the last week has proved again. If you want to invest into smaller projects or new and upcoming project than i would recommend you to really only use money that you can completely afford to lose without having any impact on your life. I personally always look for the team, the whitepaper, the use-case and also the investors, if for example big exchanges like Huobi or Okex have invested, then it is pretty certain that this project will be listed pretty quickly on those exchanges.

Always follow links through coinmarketcap and coingecko many newbies don't know this and they end up visiting the fake groups on telegram which leads them into buying fake tokens using fake smart contract, also fake projects or SC projects always find their way to even coinmarketcap and coingecko but make sure that the project you choose have doxxed team and they are audited

In my opinion, the most important aspect to look at before investing in a crypto project is about how the project will change the crypto world, that's the reason why projects that bring new systems or are in the hype of new systems will increase in price over time. As we recently learned about Metaverse, you can see that in the past Decentraland (MANA) was very undervalued, and with the new system coming (Metaverse) it is a breath of fresh air for projects related to Metaverse.

For reading material about the crypto world, I strongly encourage you to always look at the news on Cointelegraph (https://cointelegraph.com/), because they are always updated.

A vesting schedule is a schedule where other tokens that are not in circulation will be circulated to token buyers (usually to seed investors and private investors), I personally think that a good token is a token that has a vesting schedule that is not too fast, because it is very clear that, the sooner tokens increase, the scarcity will also decrease.

I always try to go social media first because that's where people share their knowledge after research. You will find economists, mathematicians, and a lot of different type of people sharing their opinion about the project they are trying to invest with.
This is the fastest way but if you really want to go deep then you can go ask them yourself using platforms like Telegram or Discord where support are lively to encourage investors to buy their tokens. After that, it's up to you if you think they are telling you the truth or not. Because there is no way you could tell a project will be 100 percent successful. That's the risk in this industry.

1. Look into the project utility, this is what will determine its adoption and also it's future

2. Make sure the teams are real and not anonymous, this days we don't need teams to be anonymous unless the project is a privacy coin like Monero

3. Invest only what you can afford to lose because even good projects have unfortunate turn outs, things can go wrong so no project is 100% guaranteed

There is no clear cut way to find out what are the projects will become successful in future because future is unpredictable so all you can do is to pick the best out of the available with the futuristic vision. But for me all the new projects are scam no matter they are coming with new ideas, new technology, better and faster, etc...

Usually check each of their social media platforms if they've got a lot of users, the real users with interaction. Like in their telegram channel or discord server.

You'll eventually get to see if the interactions are for real and they're really answering questions that should be brought as communication is very important while they're starting out.

As for the token distribution, it's always that the devs have part of it. Look if the cut they have is justifiable and the utility of that token is also important.

You must put your attention to the fundamental of project. To be honest TA doesn't matter a lot when the project didn't have a fundamental. The top coins have very good fundamental and that was making them all worth billions valuation right now. We can learn a lot from there if the project with a good fundamental can sustain for long term unlike the project that being used as a way to make fast money from the market. This project will be alive only for short term. You can use this as a key to determine which project is worth to invest during the bearish trend right now.
i can't deny the fact that if any coin can be profitable once the bearish trend will end and recovery will happen.

Telegram interactions can be engineered these days, you must be cautious too. Dubious projects can recruit multiple users to push conversation on their channels, Interactions on telegram and discord channels are indications of good projects but not full assurance. If you feel that you may be biased in your research and decision, that is unsure of your judgement after researching, employ the help of a third party professional whose judgement is sound to help in your decision making process.

Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125435.0)

That will help you identify all the red flags that a project can have especially on its initial stage of ICO/IDO and the likes. There is also an interesting post on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n9cby0/not_every_new_coin_is_a_shitcoin_how_to_spot_the/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) that discusses the technicalities of finding a gem on a sea of shitcoins.

On a related note, are there any profits to be made from investing in ICOs? As far as I can tell, whitelisting and investing in NFT projects appears to be a replacement for ICOs in which, instead of purchasing their token, you are purchasing a jpg that claims to have a real usecase that generates their value.

When looking for an investment opportunity, I would focus on the following things: media coverage, community, finances, famous people or companies behind the project. 5 years ago I would've said that you should look at their whitepaper, but now I think it's a waste of time. It might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that the concepts don't matter if there's no way the team will actually succeed in implementing them, and projects that are very similar but have lots of funding can become successful even if they're not original.
So skip the whitepaper, and start with their social media. How many followers do they have, compared to numbers of followers of some projects that became very successful? How many likes and other engagements are available? This stuff can be bought, but if they have the money and willingness to invest in marketing, it's a good sign.
Then look at the media coverage. Have any famous news outlets written about them? Again, you can choose a successful project and compare with its coverage at the time when it was a new one.
Another very important thing is the team. Is there anyone famous there, and what are they famous for? Keep in mind that ICOs might lie about their team members, so make sure to fact-check if a certain person indeed has anything to do with some project.
As for the financial part, I wouldn't trust the mere numbers on their official website or media profiles, as those can be fake. What counts, instead, is any big companies or famous investors giving money to this project.

Very good question for anyone who looking for investment in a project. If you look at cryptocurrency history first thing you have to be patient without this you can't get big profits. Other thing project should be legit project or have large usecase project, if project became a scam then you will not get a penny. Community should be good because in today's world everything goes on hype if community is big then your investment can go big. Legit project with big community and holding power will make you a big investor.

Having enough knowledge about crypto investment including its risks, the coin that you're investing with, and the team behind it as well as your target goal are some of the things that you have to consider before investing. It could be a long process of learning but being knowledgeable about what you're doing is always an advantage. You must be emotionally prepared to face the risks of investing because the market flow is like a roller coaster ride.

I hope that OP is still following this thread and have some glimpse.

I am afraid that he made a step without learning about crypto and much more without listening to the people around him. As to learn investment is not all about money and how much we are able to get but it was more important to know or have the knowledge of what we are doing. Or else, we expect losses as the opposite results from what we aim for.

I suggest to OP to have more time in the forum for the sake of gaining some ideas and lastly, to be aware of the situation. As nothing will happen to us if we just neglect all of these things.

The important factors that you need to consider before investing is really few but unfortunately these days devs are too smart hence they will easily convince you to go investing with them. So, the better option for you must be, avoiding new projects but investing into bitcoin and major coins like BNB and ETH. This way, you may save your time and more importantly you will easily get good profits. Now decide, how many more videos that you need to watch.

There cannot be any definite answer for this because coins with different approaches have succeeded hence these cannot help you to filter out.

Therefore, before going further to invest having basic knowledge is the main thing. In so many ways nowadays there is no need to worry anymore as long as the OP is a loyal reader and applies it to the project he wants. Selling in a panic, not only beginners but sometimes we are also often exposed to issues that always make us decide to sell. Plus investing in projects that initially went well but along the way their team encountered many problems which eventually hampered the project. So the best decision is not to hold their coins too long.

Advice on what to consider when making an investment?
My advice, there are many things to consider when choosing a trading platform for crypto assets, including;
In choosing an exchange, the thing that must be considered is security. Check if the exchange offers two-factor authentication (2FA) security which is standard security.
Then choose an exchange with a payment method that suits your needs.
Furthermore, checking the details about fees is an important factor to look at if you want to choose a platform for buying and selling Bitcoin.
And also before you invest in a cryptocurrency, check the historical price of the coin and analyze whether it is in an up or down trend.
good luck

Crypto investments are not an easy undertaking especially if you going for coins off the top 100 or generally those not listed on coin marketcap or coingecko... But the basics of giving it a litmus test still stands, you can check their socials and see if they are organically active and not just some bots interacting with people, secondly check if coin has been listed on a reputable exchange as others scam exit with phony exchanges which is a big red flag. And lastly check for authenticity of white paper and team and once or these are all good you can pick your project.

Out of those things, I would say famous people are the least important part. I get that because of Elon Musk many people think that viral marketing is possible via other famous people but we had so many celebs going out of their way to promote projects all the time and it ended up not being that great.

This is enough proof that celebs promoting a project is not enough at all, it is something that you should not rely on while you are investing. Aside from that, fundamentals, roadmap, code, media coverage, community, and so forth are all great parts of it and I definitely agree that you should check them out before you make an investment.

hugeblack pretty much summed up all the things you need, OP.
To add up to the "Developer Team" part, check their Github repositories or at least activity in the past months. You don't need to know how to code to check that in Github as you can check the project being developed there. It is open for anybody. Check also their LinkedIn pages, which are commonly noted on their past employment history though don't rely in it too much as it can be faked out sometimes.

First you should analyze the project team and its features. Because this is a very important factor. New ones are added to the crypto money market every day. Most of these additions are in pursuit of defrauding people because they are after making short-term money. If you do not see any problems in the project team, then check their social media accounts. Because social media is the most important element for a project and team to do business. Because the more active social media is, the more people it can reach. The most important point is that you do not invest according to the opinions of others. Otherwise, you may lose your assets. Always do your own analysis.

Had a few pieces of advice that pretty much will apply to any investment in the crypto space:

1. Look at the initial distribution.

Was there a huge premine that goes to some sort of centralized foundation? That shouldn't be a dealbreaker, but if the foundation is not doing anything with the funds and just holding onto billions of dollars of tokens, then that becomes an issue.

2. Look at community engagement. Has there been active discussion on Reddit/Discord?

3. Look at the devs/team. Are they known previously? Are they anonymous? Not any one of these metrics should be used to be the deciding factor, but too many negatives would ring alarm bells for me.

Yes, that's why I've said about real users.

I think we have an idea to figure out if those conversations are too obvious and they're fake conversations just to attract investors. It's common for those projects that are coming out in the market daily.

They're looking for their PR team to do the thing and hire people just to make their channels very active. But, it's better if you'll investigate first to see if those interactions are for real.

That unless if we are dealing with the stock market but as we are in crypto, anonymity seems to see. And this is sometimes a problem as scammers will easily trick us and use known names just to attract investors but in the end, it was an exit scam. That is why it is very important to spare time studying the market and so the panned project, otherwise, we fall into the wrong investment and lose our hard-earned money. We don't suppose to do that and so we need to be careful.

Anonymity has become commonplace, even many projects hide the identity of their team because they don't know the reason for what is clear, there is a lot of anonymity in new projects that will come, we here of course have to choose and consider whether anonymity is good or not sometimes this too it is a trap because we don't know what they are doing while we only know coins, and this is what you need to know that a true investment must know all the basics so that it doesn't disappoint in the future.

You must study the project and don't follow the hype. Try to search a project based on its fundamental. There are some things that you must looked at
Project
product
team
ecosystem
Venture capital

These things will help you in making a choice to pick up a coin as your investment. The track record by the team is determining on how good the development in the project can be done and remember that when it was getting supported by so many popular venture capital and it can be a good point to invest in the project. Venture capital was always doing research before try to invest in any crypto

Maybe start at how they are building their community. Of course, it will start from scratch then continue following them to see if there's an improvement in their community. While they are working on that, check if project developers are actively engaging with their people who are asking some queries.

Later on, you can now exchange opinions and views at those people there about how they looked at the project then the rest will now be up to you.

You will soon be used to doing it and will discover some other ways on how to research a good project.

It is hard to say because I saw an advertisement on the freelance websites, some people offer their services hiring their community to back up the project so the project looks to have big support. When you want to invest in a new project, that will not be easy to find because all of the new projects will almost be the same. They offer something useful for us and will work best for us in the future, but many of them can not prove what they say.

Maybe the only thing that we can do is just invest in small money while we see their progress for a while. If they can achieve their goals step by step, maybe we can add more money, but we still need to be careful because that will not always guarantee their project will succeed in the future. So only invest in the projects with the money you can afford.

For people new to the crypto world, it's best to avoid investing in new projects, especially if you don't have a way to screen potential new projects by not. I prefer to choose a project that has been around for a long time and has been proven to be good.
however, if you still want to invest in a new project, then try to see the complete information from the team, concept, development, partnership, social media activity, and you can find out information about a project on this forum. other than that pay attention to the activity of telegram. there you can see how active the project is and their plans.

First you should consider whether a coin that you’re gonna invested is having the potential that you expected basically seeing whether it's already near reaching highest value or still have potential and later on you should see the roadmap of the coins and decide whether it’s good for long term investment.
If it's a new coin the first thing to consider is the tokenomic.
A good coin that could mantain its value are coins that are vested for its distribution basically it will prevent it from flooding the market and bring down the value of the coin that’s why it's  also called good token distribution when a coin vesting its coin and maybe they have some plan like staking to mantain the value of the coins or even buyback, I think these few things are the most important.

Sometimes potential could be reached and be at 100% so it is no longer potential but the price could still go up. Development is very important but it is not the whole thing, bitcoin has been bitcoin for a decade and the only "improvement" was segwit, sure we had some other stuff but that was the biggest one and we did not have any change in bitcoin that we see monthly in some other smaller ones, yet it is still the biggest one and still breaks ATH after ATH, which is a proof that as long as you are good, you do not need to keep improving, coins could go up as it is when the market goes up. So, just find fundamentally great coins and you will profit.

There is a big difference between new projects and those that are already well established.
When it comes to what you should always check, there are whitepaper, dev team, roadmap and tokenomics.
It is also always good to check the industry the project is in and compare it with other existing projects. Whether other projects in this industry are successful gives us information that the industry is developing and the project in which we invest also has a chance of success.

The most important aspect should be the fundamental of project and this related to the what already achieved, how good the product, how big the traffic on its platform/product.
I do believe all of these aspects are really important to determine whether the project is legit or not. All of platforms with big marketcap has so many userbase and they are developing their platforms perfectly.
This is the most difficult thing but these days if you're seeing the marketcap and you can identify that easily and as far as I know when a coin has a big marketcap that means if has the trust from the users. I meant the real marketcap and it's also placed at the top rank of CMC. you can see that how top 100 marketcap coins are doing so good for now.

I would suggest you to join some crypto community (in Discord or Telegram) and listen to some smart guys on youtube - the ones who are good in analytics. I don't think there are any strict rules when you analyse a crypto project. But you should know how to filter obvious scammers - at least.

You need to sacrifice your time a little bit by doing your own proper research without depending on any influencers on youtube. Because they know how to manipulate you by pretending to disclaim what they promoted and you on the other hand will gonna blindly believe what they said. Give yourself time first, you can look for the most of information you need here. From the experiences, the users had to the basic stuff you can start by reading them and make your own conclusion.

Free advice, the only coin that a newbie should get into is bitcoin but try to buy it at the bear market. Current price of 41k USD is in a bearish trend but I feel it will go into the 35k USD range at which point you should think of buying it. Remember that bitcoin is still cheap compared to what it can become once mining new bitcoins end.

Whatever stuff you watch on youtube, you will find altcoin shills are looking to promote their own vaporware - each of those are short term stuff but when they are going to crash you will never know. Hence they are a waste of time and money and if you value those things, dont get into buying any altcoin.

Look at older charts and identify support/resistance levels and use these place orders. No need to buy any book or course for trading, you learn indicators and their use by trading more than reading. Paid courses are only made to make the creator rich, not you.

Vesting schedule is not applicable here, you are only one making your traders. Do not give access to your portfolio to a third party, this market does not work like that. Keep your private key/seedphrase safe, whoever has that can spend your coins without you knowing.

About token distribution, I prefer the top five coins on coinmarketcap. They are time tested and safer than the rest. Rest if upto you if you want to lose your money.

I would recommend to look for a project that will still exist and still be useful after 5 years, there are some projects which goals is just a short term. If you are going to make an investment go with the project that still useful after more than 5 years since that kind of projects were worth investing for you don't want to make an investment on something like memecoins which doesn't have true purpose it's just for the sake of entertainment and those kinds of projects were only for short term investment and not for long and serious investments.

Yes, I think this is a good question and will be useful for all readers reading this thread in making investments. for example, the most important aspect that we must pay attention to when we want to invest in a project is to have a great developer and team or the project is developed by a developer and team that is experienced in crypto and has a good reputation. I think a lot of projects nowadays have great developers, and have good resources like ethereum, cardano, and bnb.

If that will be their mindset, I think they have to expect losses than having a profit. Because the market doesn't behave like that, there is a huge difference as we look into it compared to actual investment. I'm not saying we always think about losing but we can't just ignore any possibilities, yet, we need to be prepared than being surprised. That is how important to understand the situation and get some idea of how it works. As the more we gain knowledge, the merrier it comes and we can make decisions right.

As you were advised here, the first is, of course, the community of the project. Next, the team and goals of the platform. It's good if you can use a ready-made product and read about it in different social networks. Here you were prompted some options, but the choice is always yours, so study very carefully.

You are right, sometimes not only on YouTube, in tradingview there are many market analysts who make the different analyzes they do available, sometimes it is difficult to choose a good currency with a market whose short-term trend is bearish, it is difficult to decide what risk taking to avoid losing money, then the most logical thing is before looking for any analysis to do a personal analysis, reach a conclusion and start to see other points of view. When it comes to investment or investment advice, even the possible fundamentals should be taken into account at the global level, because all that can turn into not making money, losing or winning.

I think the most important thing when we invest is knowing everything in detail, and what most people forget is the risk of loss, remember that cryptocurrencies are a type of high risk investment so we have to choose the right project so we don't get scammed.

The product gets higher priority if you ask me. Community depends on a lot of factors. It is easy these days to generate higher views and higher followers by inorganic paid means. Then following that would mislead an investor. If you ask about the owners and developers who are working on the project, well and good, but most of the times they will only be able to give you guarded answers that will not help decide on investing or not.

If you find the product useful for the population targeted and if there is a genuine need in that population for that product then the demand will rise on its own, the community will inflate and the market price of their token will rise. But this is close to zero in the crypto market because majority of such projects have already been done in the mainstream market.