Lesson 06 · Unit 3 · General
Verify before you trust
Everything in this chapter compresses into one routine. Not paranoia — a checklist, run before any new site, token or offer touches your wallet. It takes a minute, and it is the same minute every time.
The 60-second verification
1
The route: did I choose this link, or did it arrive? Arrived = hostile until verified elsewhere.
2
The domain: read it right to left. Is the part before the last dot exactly the one I know?
3
The ask: connect is low-risk, a signature is real risk, a seed phrase is always theft.
4
The pressure: is something rushing me? Countdowns are a tell, not a deadline.
5
The token: paste the mint into CryptRing and read the flags before touching it.
Do the last step now
Take any token from your feed today and run it through the scanner before anything else touches it. The habit is the graduation.
Scan a real token
Chapter done. You now know more about drainer funnels than most people who have been drained by one.
Where this goes next
From here the course stops being general. Next is the Solana ledger itself: the account behind a token, and how to read it with your own eyes.