Airdrop Scams Start With a Message You Believe
A fake airdrop empties your wallet in one click, but the click is the last step. Here is the funnel that leads to it, and the one habit that breaks it.
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Notes from the Cate Army
Research, safety guides, and what actually happened. Sourced and dated.
A Fair Launch Means Nobody Was Handed Tokens. It Does Not Mean Nobody Was Faster.
Fair launch is one of the few crypto claims you can actually check, and it is much narrower than it sounds. Here is exactly what it rules out, what it leaves wide open, and how to test it yourself on any coin.
How Much Should I Invest in Crypto? Nobody Honest Can Give You a Number.
Every page that answers this question answers it with a percentage of your portfolio. That advice was written about a different kind of asset. Here is what the question actually looks like when total loss is an ordinary outcome rather than a rare one.
What Is Slippage in Crypto? It Is Not a Speed Setting. It Is Your Price Floor.
Slippage is the gap between the price you see and the price you get. The tolerance box is not a dial for making trades go through faster. It is the worst price you agree to accept, and setting it to 100% agrees to almost anything.
How Do Meme Coins Work? There Is No Company Behind Them
A meme coin has no company, no earnings and no promise behind it. What you actually own, where the price comes from, and why market cap is not money.
What Is a Rug Pull? Nothing Vanishes. Somebody Walks Out With It.
A rug pull is not a token going down. It is specific people taking the money and leaving. Here is how it actually works in plain English, the two versions of it, why the price chart can look perfect right up until you try to sell, and what the warning signs can and cannot tell you.
What Is a Seed Phrase? The Twelve Words That Are Your Money
A seed phrase is the list of 12 to 24 words your wallet shows you once. It is not a password. It is the wallet. What that means and where to keep it.
A pump.fun Bonding Curve Never Gets Deleted. Here Is What $CATE’s Still Says.
How a pump.fun bonding curve prices a coin, why every SOL-paired curve takes 85.0054 SOL to graduate, and what the curve account still records after the coin moves to PumpSwap.
How to Read a DexScreener Chart Without Being Misled
How to read a DexScreener chart in the right order: the token, the pool, the depth, then the price. The data is accurate. The defaults are what mislead.
Cats Won the Internet. Dogs Won Crypto. The Gap Is Ten Years Wide.
Dogecoin launched in 2013 and spent a decade becoming the name everyone knows, so dog coins dwarf cat coins. Cats ruled the internet but came ten years late.