Would you put money into an idea, project, or mission without knowing who’s running it or knowing if your money is secure?…No? Then why do we do it with crypto?
This past year, so many people were frothing at the mouth while pouring trillions of dollars into crypto projects hoping for a big payoff. In their frenzy, many of them put their guards down so they could be an early adopter of the next meme token. Unfortunately, many of these folks were scammed out of their hard-earned money.
Given the pace of new tokens entering the market and the news of 10x, 100x, or even 1000x gains for those that got in before the hype, there is no time for individuals to do the appropriate due-diligence on these projects. So, the onus should fall on these large coin listing sites to put enough safeguards to prevent scam tokens from being listed. Adding a step to verify that the new tokens have their liquidity locked for more than 6 months would drastically reduce the amount of rug-pulls in the market. However, as we have seen over and over again, that is not the case.
We need to demand security, transparency, and verification from large coin listing sites. They need to worry less about increasing their traffic/ad-revenue and more on ensuring the tokens they market are projects we can trust.
Here are 3 safeguards we need from ALL coin listing sites:
1. Verification of token founders and developers via their LinkedIn
2. Verification that token liquidity has been locked for more than 6 months
3. Verification that team owned/controlled tokens are also locked for more than 6 months
These 3 steps will reduce the number of scam tokens that hit the market.
Until we get large coin listing sites to add these safeguards, Leap Token (LEAP) will do our part to establish a place of trust in the crypto community. We do this by auditing the tokens in the market to bring transparency and trust into the crypto space. Help us make crypto better for everyone.
Check out our token audits and learn more about our mission by visiting
www.leaptoken.us.