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Investing long term (especially 1+ year) is hard. Many coins haven't been around for that long. Recent bear market has wiped hundreds of projects.

You never know what is happening behind the scenes - everything can look great outside meanwhile the project can be weeks from going bankrupt.

CHECKLIST

Fund management

• Has the project been around for longer than I'm investing?

• In case of a long lasting bear market, how will they survive? Will they need to start selling tokens or do they have any other revenue streams?

• (If ICO), did they liquidate funds to USDT or did they hold ETH? (Redflag if they held - shows greed and stupidity)

• Are they on a respectable exchange? Ex: Binance

• Do they marketmake/trade their own tokens?

Current accomplishments and goals

• What have they accomplished in the current x months is a good indicator on what they are going to accomplish in the next y months.

• Mainnet/product launched: Are they getting users/developers - adoption?

• Mainnet/product not yet launched: When are they planning on launching? How will they get users/developers - adoption?

Team

• Is CEO/core team flashing rolex and lambos on social media?

• Is the CEO/core team involved in other projects or is he focused on just one?

• Big team? (Bad if bear market comes)

• Experience?

• How well have the different team members been doing their job so far? Devs: Check code if open source. CMO: Check social media / community size. etc.

• Use as many sources of information as possible and compare.

The project

• Is the project needed?

• Does this project need a token?

• Usecase?

• Will anyone ever use this?

• What is different from every other project?

• Whitepaper, study it.

Chart and token metrics

• Weekly/Monthly timeframe

• If you invest long term, remember not to check the daily chart 3 times a day.

• It's okay to take profits.

• What am I expecting from this investment? Be realistic.

• Inflaction/token release schedules for team/advisors/seed?

I probably forgot a few things here, if you see anything that should be listed let me know.

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