# DYOR **But how? How to do your own research?** Warning: There is absolutely no financial advice on this or on any other pages of this website.This is an article to explain how to do your own research.Without reading the solidity code of the contract you will never have 100% insurance on how a coin works, if it may be a scam or not. Investing in early crypto coin projects is equal to taking huge risks with your money. That being said, if you still want to try, below are a few reasonable things to do before doing a presale or buying a new crypto coin.To begin with, **security audits** are very important to check but you also need to **verify** the audits legitimacy too. However, most new coins have not been audited so you will need to do your own research.Here are some other important points to check:Telegram: Check if the number of members in the telegram group is botted or not. You can clearly see this by comparing the number of online members to the total number of members. If a telegram group has 8000 members but only a 100 online, chances are very high that it is botted, you may want to run away from these communities too.Bscscan: Check the "Holder" tab, try to see the percentage the top holders have, if a wallet has more than 10% you may want to consider this too risky to invest. This wallet could sell all of their coins, and it could have a huge impact (generally downwards) on the price. This can also cause panic and ultimately make everyone sell whatever they have. There are exceptions to this rule, for example: * the locked pancakeswap liquidity * 0x000...00dead address which is for burning coins, meaning that noone can ever sell those coins * in case of presale/prelaunch, the presale wallet can also have more than 10% (presales are obviously always more risky investments) Poocoin: You can scan two particular scams via this website. You can check if there is a red warning message under the LP box, this box says something along "liquidity is not locked, the dev can take everything if they wish". In that case, this coin can be a future rugpull, you may wanna run away. On poocoin, you can also check for honeypots. Under the graph, you have all the sell and buy orders, check if different addresses are able to sell. Honeypot is a particular scam, where the developer has put a rule that only allows particular wallet adresses to sell, so if you only see buy orders and only a few sell orders (generally huge dumps), you may want to run away. Other than these more technical points, a management and developer team that communicates properly and that is transparent, an always working website, clean social media accounts that are professionally managed are all good points to check before considering if you should run away or not. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://launchpads-organization.gitbook.io/launchpadtools/important-advices/dyor.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.