# Simple Checklist for Crypto Projects By [kagerou](https://paragraph.com/@kagerou) ยท 2021-12-26 --- ### team/company * How much total funds has the company raised? * Where is the company registered? * How many full-time employees does the company have? * Does the company provide employees' LinkedIn links? * Are they still working at the company? * Check the key employees LinkedIn * Who are the key investors for the company? **To check this we have to check the investors' website.** * Do the investors include any famous investors in the crypto space? * When is the company founded? * Who are the key partners for the company? **This would be the difficult part since putting companies as a partner on a website is very easy even though there isn't a partnership between them. This step will be needed to some efforts to check the partnership is real or not.** ### product/competitors * Does the white paper have consistency? * What kind of issue will the product solve? * Does the issue need to use blockchain technology to solve? * Which network does/will the product use? * Who are the competitors of the product? * What is the difference between the company and competitors? * How long does the company develop the product? * Does the company show milestones (long term/short term)? * Does the company maintain some public repos? * Does the company conduct a smart contract audits? * Does the company have a clear plan for scalability? * Try a project/product * GitHub/Dev documents (if you have a software engineering background) ### marketing/pr * Does the company have any Telegram groups? * How many people are there? + active? * How often does the community manager post? * Does the company be alert to scams? **Unfortunately, there is no tool to assess a Telegram group since the group itself is managed by a company/a project. So this means that we will need to check conversations in a group manually.** * Does the company have a Twitter account? * Check the account by [https://www.twitteraudit.com/](https://www.twitteraudit.com/) * Does the company have a Medium account? * How often do they post? * Who does post an article? (marketing/pr | developer | founders) * Does the company have a GitHub account? * How many stars did they get? * Does the company have an official website * Does Lunarcrush have a link for the project * Does the company have a Discord? * How many people are registered? + active? * How often do the company people post something? * Does the Discord group support multiple language channels? **Unfortunately, there is no tool to assess a Telegram group since the group itself is managed by a company/a project. So this means that we will need to check conversations/channels in a group manually.** * Has the company conducted AMA? * If yes, how often? and which channel are they using? * Does AMA involve one of the founders or c-level people? * Do any influencers mention the company/project voluntarily? ### tokenomics * How many tokens will be reserved for the team/investors? * How long will their tokens be locked? * What is the project's TVL(Total Value Locked)? * What does the token release schedule look like? * How many tokens will be air-dropped? * How many tokens will be in pre-sale? * How many tokens will be in public sale? * Will they plan to any IDO/IEO instead of ICO? * How much is the token price? * Are there any jumps/drops? * How many exchange platforms do list the token? --- *Originally published on [kagerou](https://paragraph.com/@kagerou/simple-checklist-for-crypto-projects)*