Turn ChatGPT into your personal crypto Red Flag Scanner 🚨

Want to make sure you never baghold another scammy token? Use the prompt below and paste it into ChatGPT. You will only need to edit [TOKEN_TICKER] field and insert your ticker, for example: [MOVE] 👇

[instructions]
You are a ruthless crypto red flag scanner.
Your mission: protect retail investors from bagholding scams, vaporware, and VC exit tokens.
Be maximally realistic, critical, and blunt.
Do not hype. Do not sugarcoat.
Assume that most projects are useless unless proven otherwise.
Always check unlocks, token utility, VC/team history, insider behavior, and whether governance is a smokescreen for insiders.
If a known VC or founder has a shady record (rug, failed project, fund collapse), call it out explicitly.
Your job is to warn, not to sell.

[config]
Token: {[TOKEN_TICKER]}
[/config]

[task]

1. Token Basics
- One line: what the project claims to be.
- One line: what the token is actually used for (if anything).

2. Tokenomics Scan
- Supply, FDV, circulating % unlocked.
- Unlocks in next 3, 6, 12 months (with % of supply).
- Inflation rate.
- Verdict: bullish / neutral / bearish.

3. Utility Check
- Is the token actually needed to use the product? (yes/no/partial).
- If only governance or staking without real utility → flag useless.
- Verdict: useful / weak utility / useless.

4. Insider & VC Scan
- List main VCs, team, and notable backers.
- Note if any are tied to failed projects, rugs, or serial money printers (e.g., 3AC, Kyle Davies, Su Zhu, Do Kwon, Alameda, Multicoin, etc.).
- One line per red flag.
- Verdict: safe-ish / risky / toxic.

5. Governance Scan
- Is governance real or controlled by insiders?
- % of supply held by team/VC wallets if known.
- Any history of governance abuse?
- Verdict: decentralized / insider-controlled / fake governance.

6. Market Structure
- Liquidity depth on CEX/DEX.
- Holder concentration (top 10 wallets).
- Incentive dependence (are volumes just mercenary yield farmers?).
- Verdict: strong / fragile / at risk.

7. Final Red Flag Verdict
- Short bullet summary of top 3–5 biggest risks.
- Overall signal: ✅ safer, ⚠️ risky, ❌ avoid.
- One sentence to retail: “This is likely just a VC exit scam” or “This has some fundamentals but still high risk.”

[approach]
Use all available data: DefiLlama, Token Terminal, Dune dashboards, on-chain explorers, governance forums, X, Telegram, Discord.
Timestamp all metrics.
Be opinionated and blunt.
If unknown, state “unknown” but warn that lack of data is itself a red flag.

[output_format]
Return in clean markdown sections:

# Token Basics
...
# Tokenomics
...
# Utility
...
# Insider & VC Scan
...
# Governance
...
# Market Structure
...
# Final Verdict
...
# Sources
(list with links + dates)

From this prompt, you’ll get a brutal, no-BS scan of any token:

🚩 Tokenomics check (FDV, unlocks, inflation)

🚩 Utility scan (is the token actually needed or just governance fluff?)

🚩 Insider & VC background check (did these guys rug or blow up a fund before?)

🚩 Governance reality check (real decentralization or insider-controlled?)

🚩 Liquidity & market structure scan

In the end, you will get a clear red flag verdict:

✅ safer, ⚠️ risky, or ❌ avoid.

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ASTER Pumps 88% — But Who Really Owns It? 🔍

🔼 The ASTER token surged nearly 90% today. It’s the native token of Aster, a new decentralized perp and spot exchange with backing tied to former CEO of Binance, CZ.

🤔 Many on crypto Twitter see this as CZ’s answer to Hyperliquid, which has been eating up market share in the perp DEX space. Unlike Hyperliquid, ASTER was rolled out with a heavy push and hyped up as “the next HYPE.”

Team wallets currently control 95.77% of all ASTER tokens. Even if you exclude proxy contracts they fully manage, the number still sits at around 80% 👛

🟢 This cuts both ways. On one hand, with insiders controlling such a massive share, pumping the token is cheap and easy, especially with Binance-level connections.

🔴 On the other hand, there’s little here beyond speculation. If insiders hold almost everything, why would retail buy into it?

❗️ Important to note: I think, shorting ASTER is probably a very bad idea. Fundamentals don’t matter when insiders can washtrade, inflate metrics, and move price at will.

In practice, betting against ASTER means betting against CZ who is worth $81 billion and his ability to send any token to any valuation he wants 🚀🕐

Fun fact: September 21 is Bitcoin’s unluckiest day 📉

🟠 If you look at BTC’s history since 2013, this date stands out. On most days, Bitcoin closes green about half the time, but September 21 is different. It has ended red on 8 out of 10 occasions, with the average daily loss close to -2% 😧

Vietnam showed why crypto matters 😐

🚫 Vietnam’s State Bank is moving to close 86 million bank accounts by 2025 if they are not verified with digital ID or biometrics. These are accounts that have not completed the required verification.

Out of over 200 million bank accounts in the country, only those verified will remain active. The unverified ones will be shut down or made inactive under the new rules.

This is how easily banks can be used as tools of control. If the government wants you to do something, in this case accept a digital ID, they just threaten to cut off your access to the financial system. You either obey, or you get debanked 🏦

Crypto offers an alternative. No banks, no accounts to freeze, no intermediaries that can make your life hard if you don’t follow the rules. You can send or receive funds globally in minutes, without asking anyone for permission.

That is the core difference. Traditional banking is centralized and easy to control. Crypto gives you custody, and no one can take that away 🟠

@CoinPost

Bulls got too comfortable. High leverage longs were printing money for weeks longing local highs, until the market finally snapped back 🔽

🫡 In the last 24 hours, $1.6B worth of long positions have been liquidated.

This morning Bitcoin dumped 2.15% in just 30 minutes, briefly touching $111,980 before bouncing. It’s now back above $112k, but still trading under $113k 📉

A reminder that in crypto, nothing goes straight up. The bull market has been going on for almost three years now. With each passing month, you should become more conservative and cautious.

😐 However, the opposite usually happens: the closer we get to the end of the cycle, the more risk people tend to take.

Many people don’t even realize they’re eligible for free crypto airdrops. Here’s a list of recent ones you can check right now 👇

⏺0G Labs – CLAIM
⏺OpenLedger – CLAIM
⏺Bless – CLAIM
⏺Lombard – CLAIM
⏺Falcon Finance – CLAIM
⏺DILL – CLAIM
⏺Boundless – CLAIM
⏺Plume – CLAIM
⏺Hyperwave – CLAIM
⏺Avantis – CLAIM
⏺MANTRA – CLAIM

Check if your wallet address qualifies. Better to claim what’s yours than let it expire.

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Right now, the crypto market meta is all about decentralized perp exchanges. Hyperliquid, Lighter, Aster — all eyes are on these projects 👀

🗓 Back in July, I wrote about Lighter, when it was still under the radar. If you started trading back then, you definitely farmed some points. Today those points are trading OTC for around $50 each 💰

Time is running out. Lighter is about to close its private stage and points program. Every week farming points gets harder as competition grows. It's still a great opportunity to get big airdrop just like the one from Hyperliquid last year.

You don’t even need to risk losing money trading. Just open equal long and short positions on two accounts (or two exchanges). For example: long 10 ETH on Lighter account #1 and short 10 ETH on Lighter account #2 ⚖️

They reward points for high % PnL, trading volume, and for using pairs with low open interest and volume. Entry is still only possible only with invite codes, here are some 👇

🔗 Invite №1
🔗 Invite №2
🔗 Invite №3
🔗 Invite №4

Please, only use these codes if you are planning to trade actively and farm points

@CoinPost

Some people are wondering if we are witnessing an AI bubble. It doesn't even look like a bubble anymore, it's more as if these people have discovered a way to generate infinite money. Here are just some of the recent headlines 👇

1️⃣OpenAI signs a $300 billion deal with Oracle for cloud compute. Oracle stock rises. Its founder's net worth increased by $100 billion overnight.

2️⃣Oracle then spends tens of billions on Nvidia GPUs to make it happen. Nvidia's stock price rises.

3️⃣Nvidia commits up to $100 billion back into OpenAI to secure future demand. OpenAI's valuation increases to $500 billion.

🏃‍♂️ OpenAI → Oracle → Nvidia → back to OpenAI 🏃‍♂️

Debt, hype, and future revenue keeping the wheel spinning 💸

The market continues to correct 🔽

🤑 Bitcoin dumped as low as $110,700

🤑 Ethereum touched $3,930

A total of $511.32 million worth of long positions were liquidated in the last 24 hours 🫡

Be careful when buying dips with size, you may get extra ones

Remember when I wrote about the Plasma token sale in June? 😲

🔼 Today, the token began trading on exchanges, with the current FDV of the XPL token standing at $12.2 billion.

If you participated in the token sale back then, you would have multiplied your money more than 24x 💸

In addition, the Plasma Foundation airdropped 9,304 XPL tokens to everyone who participated in the token sale, even if you deposited just one single dollar.

🧠 At the current valuation, that's $11,250 just for putting in at least $1 during the ICO back in July.

❗️This is yet another reminder to read everything I write about potential earning opportunities. In this case, all you had to do was participate in the token sale with any amount, and today you would have earned an easy $11k.

@CoinPost

How Should You Act in Money Decisions? 💸

Most people lose money in crypto not because they lack skill, but because their instincts betray them. We move too quickly when chasing profit and too slowly when protecting capital. The paradox is that doing the opposite often works better 👇

1️⃣Loss Aversion.
Behavioral studies show people hate losing money more than they enjoy making the same amount. This bias makes traders freeze when a trade turns red. Instead of cutting the loss, they wait, hoping it reverses. More often, the loss grows. The smarter move is to cut risk early and protect capital.

2️⃣Greed and Overconfidence
When we see opportunity, emotions push us to act without thinking. A coin pumps, news breaks, or a setup looks perfect. Greed and FOMO drive us to jump in before fully analyzing the situation. This rush often leads to bad entries or overexposure.

3️⃣Decision Reversal
The simple rule is to flip natural instincts. If the choice is about protecting money, act fast. If it is about chasing profit, act slow, think for a few days at least.

👉 Quick defense avoids major losses. Slow offense avoids reckless bets. Together, this counterbalances human bias and creates discipline.

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#FAQ

The Richest Person in Crypto You’ve Never Heard Of 🔍

Tether is the engine of global crypto. It prints the USDT stablecoin everyone trades against, moves more volume than Visa, and earns billions in profit each year. By margins, it is one of the most profitable private companies in the world. Everyone wants a piece of it — but Tether is private 💸

Everyone knows CZ, Vitalik, Satoshi. Few know Giancarlo Devasini.

🤑 He is the hidden power behind Tether. Reports say he owns about 47% of the company.

Recent news: Tether is selling 3% of its shares at a $500b valuation. That implies Devasini’s stake is worth more than $235b — making him one of the richest men alive.

Yet almost nobody knows his name. No stage presence, no hype, no fan base. Just quiet control over the financial operations of one of the most successful companies ever created 🌍

@CoinPost

Should You Use Trading Bots? 🤖

If someone is trying to sell you a trading bot, stop and think. If the algorithm really made money consistently, why would they share it? Why sell a money machine instead of just running it privately and compounding forever?

👉 A trading bot is just software that automates orders. It follows preset rules — when to buy, when to sell, how much to size — and it never sleeps.

Bots can run grids, dollar-cost averaging, arbitrage, or your own custom strategy. They remove emotion but they don’t create an edge 🕯

There is no strategy with a 100% win rate. Every system has drawdowns. A strategy that works in a trending bull market can bleed in chop or sideways ranges. Bots don’t fix this reality — they only execute faster.

👎 Most bots sold to the public fail. They look good in backtests or in selective screenshots, but real markets change. Sellers make money from subscriptions, not from the “secret edge” they claim to offer.

Automation can help if you already have a proven approach and know when it performs best. But buying a “winning bot” off the shelf is almost always paying to be the product ❗️

#FAQ

Grayscale published their Q3 research. The report shows how capital is shifting across crypto as we head into Q4. Here’s a summary of main points, with relevant tokens attached 👇

⏺Application fees exploding: protocols like Jupiter, Aave, Hyperliquid push blockchain app revenue >$10B annualized. Expect consolidation with a few winners capturing most activity: $JUP, $AAVE, $HYPE

⏺Stablecoins as growth engine: post-GENIUS Act, stablecoin supply jumped 16% to $290B. Chains hosting flows see sticky demand regardless of market cycles: $ETH, $AVAX, $TRX, $ENA

⏺Exchange tokens regain relevance: CEX volumes hit highest since Jan ’25, boosting exchange-linked assets. Beneficiaries are: $BNB, $CRO, $OKB, $KCS

⏺Digital Asset Treasuries: Public companies adding altcoins to balance sheets create a new structural bid, echoing the MicroStrategy playbook: $ETH, $SOL, $BNB, $ENA

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Dr. Younghoon Kim, known as the "smartest man alive" and for holding the highest recorded IQ of 276, has stated that he converted all his assets into Bitcoin 🤑

He also said that:

Bitcoin is the only hope for the future economy

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Why Liquidity Matters More Than Market Cap 🧠

Market cap is one of the most misleading numbers in crypto. It’s just price multiplied by supply. That means you can create astronomical market caps with almost no money involved.

💸 If you mint a billion tokens, keep 99.99% locked, and sell one token to yourself for $1, suddenly the “market cap” is $1 billion. With the same trick and a little wash trading, you could give your coin a $1 trillion market cap with only a few hundred dollars. Congratulations, you’re a trillionaire (on paper)

Liquidity is what actually matters. It means how much real money it takes to buy or sell without moving the price. A token with deep liquidity lets big players enter and exit. A token with shallow liquidity collapses the moment someone tries to cash out 📉

Plenty of coins look huge by market cap but are untradeable in size. That’s why serious traders watch liquidity pools, order books, and exchange depth.

👀 The lesson is simple: market cap can be faked, liquidity can’t

#FAQ

Tether, the largest company in the crypto industry, bought 8,888 bitcoins today, worth $1 billion 🤑

Hmm, that explains the recent price increase

I wonder why they chose such a mysterious number? Any ideas? 💬

Telegram's CEO and founder, Pavel Durov, said he believes Bitcoin will be worth $1,000,000 sooner or later 🟠

He also revealed that his Bitcoin investments, rather than money earned from Telegram, fund his lavish lifestyle 💸

Pavel said that he bought his first Bitcoin when the price was $750 per coin

Markets are showing some strength today 📈

Bitcoin pushed above $117,500 and Ethereum reclaimed the $4,300. Over the last 24 hours, $429.56M in short positions were liquidated, which helped fuel the rally 😁

🔼 Most altcoins followed with solid bounces, with many major ones posting double-digit gains. The overall sentiment is turning risk-on again.

🇺🇸 On the macro side, the Fed is now almost guaranteed to cut rates by 0.25% on October 29, with odds at 99.9%. That adds even more fuel to the bullish outlook.

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