What the checks mean
Every coin page answers the same 9 questions. Each answer is a fact with a source and a date: Yes, No, Not disclosed (the project does not publish it), Not applicable, or Not checked yet. The answers are not added up into a score, and none of them is a rating or advice.
1. Can an admin key create new coins?
Yes if any person, company, foundation or multisig wallet can create coins beyond the schedule written into the protocol, for example through a mint function or an active mint authority. No if new coins come only from a fixed protocol schedule or none can be created.
2. Can anyone freeze or take coins from holders?
Yes if any party can freeze, blacklist, seize or destroy coins held in someone else's wallet, for example through a blacklist, freeze authority or burn-from role. No if no such function exists.
3. Can the token's contract code be changed?
Yes if the token is an upgradeable (proxy) contract, so whoever controls the upgrade can replace its code and rules, or a Solana token whose transfer rules an authority can still change. No if its code cannot be changed, including standard Solana tokens, which have no code of their own. Not applicable for coins that run on their own blockchain: their rules change only through network upgrades that node operators adopt.
4. Is the supply capped?
Yes if a maximum supply is enforced by the protocol or contract and nobody can raise it. No if there is no maximum or an admin can create more.
5. Any scheduled unlocks in the next 12 months?
Yes if locked or vesting coins (team, investors, foundation, ecosystem) are scheduled to become transferable within 12 months of the check date, of any size. The answer notes the share of circulating supply where known.
6. Does a team or foundation hold over 10% of supply?
Yes if wallets or unvested allocations of the team, early investors, the company, the foundation or the treasury add up to more than 10% of total supply on the check date.
7. Do network fees reach coin holders?
Yes if part of the fees or revenue goes to holders or stakers through burns, buybacks, staking payouts or fee sharing. No if fees go only to miners, validators' operators, the company or the treasury.
8. Main network hacked or halted in the past 2 years?
Yes if the coin's own network, token contract or the project's own protocol contracts were exploited, or the network stopped producing blocks, in the 24 months before the check date. Hacks of other services that only held the coin do not count.
9. Is a regulator or court case targeting the coin itself?
Yes if a live enforcement action or lawsuit by a regulator or prosecutor names the coin or the company that issues it. Private lawsuits and closed cases do not count.