Do the work on
every single coin.
A fair launch removes one risk: a deployer selling into you from wallets you can't see. Every other risk is still on the table. This is the minimum check before buying any coin, ours included.
Check the top holders
Concentration at the top is the risk, whoever deployed it. A handful of wallets holding a large share of supply can take the price apart whenever they choose, and a fair deployment does nothing to stop them.
- Open the holder list on the token's explorer page.
- Add up the top 10 wallets, excluding the liquidity pool.
- The bigger that number, the more the price belongs to a few people, not the market.
Run the bubble maps
A holder list can look spread out while actually being one person. Wallets that funded each other and moved together will show up on a bubble map as connected clusters.
- Load the token in a bubble map tool and look for clusters of linked wallets.
- Check where the clusters got their funds: many wallets funded by one source is one holder.
- Watch for clusters that bought in the same block. That's coordination, not community.
Size the position to what you can lose
Assume zero is a real outcome, because it often is. This is true of coins we deploy too: a fair start is not a floor, and there is no backstop behind any of them.
- Pick a position size where losing all of it changes nothing about your life.
- Decide before you enter, not after: numbers chosen mid-trade aren't decisions, they're reactions.
- No coin's story, ours included, is a reason to break the size you set.
Never buy a token because KNOWN deployed it. Our mark tells you who launched it and what we were paid. It tells you nothing about whether the coin is worth owning. That judgment is yours, and it's the one that decides how you do.