Advice on what to consider when making an investment ?

[SEB...]

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.

[zasad@]

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.

[hugeblack]

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.

[batang_bitcoin]

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.

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.

[VanDeinsberg12]

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,

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.

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.

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.

[Teknisi88]

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.

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

[zulfi125]

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.

[pealr12]

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.

[tvplus006]

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.

[hyudien]

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.

[Jackl87]

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.

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.

[CryptoATM]

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

[MAAManda]

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.

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, 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.

[Reid]

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.

[BitKongy]

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

[jrrsparkles]

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...

[jossiel]

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.

[bittick]

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.

[Rruchi man]

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.

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.

[Maus0728]

Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects

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 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.