All terms
Checking a project yourself before putting money in.
DYOR means do your own research, and it gets used to deflect responsibility as often as it gets used sincerely. Done properly it is a checklist: who is the team, is the contract verified and audited, is liquidity locked, what is the token distribution, who holds the largest wallets.
Ten minutes of this filters out most outright scams. It will not tell you whether something is a good investment.
Read the contract on a block explorer. If it is unverified, that alone is reason enough to walk away.
That doing your own research means reading the project's own materials. That is reading their marketing. Real diligence means checking things the team does not control: the contract, the holders, the liquidity, and whether anyone attached their name to it.
Common questions
What is the minimum research before buying something?
Is a project’s audit enough?
Where this comes up on the site
The guides that actually use this word, rather than a list of everything we have written.
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