What To Check Before You Ape
Five boring checks that take four minutes and have saved more wallets than any alpha group.
By Chief Noodle · Published · Updated · 6 min read
Check the contract address twice
Copy it from the official site, not from a reply, not from a DM, not from a screenshot. Fake tokens with near-identical names are the oldest trick still working. Ours lives on the tokenomics page with a copy button so you never have to type it.
Look at the liquidity, then look at the lock
Liquidity is what lets you leave. If it's thin, big orders move the price hard and exits get expensive. If it isn't locked, it can vanish. Both facts are public. Both take thirty seconds to check.
Read the holder distribution
If a handful of wallets hold most of the supply, you're not early, you're exit liquidity with extra steps. Explorers show this for free. Look before you love.
- Top 10 wallets holding a huge share: think twice
- Team tokens with no vesting: think three times
- A treasury that explains itself publicly: good sign
Decide your exit while you're calm
Nobody makes good decisions mid-candle. Pick your rules now, write them somewhere annoying, and let past-you protect future-you.
And size it like a joke, because it is one. $HUB is a meme token with no intrinsic value. If losing the amount would change your week, the amount is too big.
About Chief Noodle
Head of Slurping
Writes the words, feeds the cat, refuses to look at the chart before coffee.
