I've recently started recording some "small clues of credibility" for certain projects, mainly to avoid getting caught up in late-night chain browsing and losing focus... Especially lately, with meme + celebrity shoutouts coming one after another, the old player’s phrase "don't take the last baton" is really not just for show.

For beginners looking at GitHub, I think don’t worry about whether you understand the code or not; first check if there’s long-term maintenance, whether PRs and bug fixes are happening at a steady pace; don’t just look at the words "Passed/Reviewed" in the audit report, I’ll check if they clearly state the risk boundaries and if there are any unresolved issues. Upgrading multi-signature wallets is even more critical: who can change parameters, whether it can be switched with one click, whether there’s a timelock (giving you reaction time), these matter more to me than "0.5% higher interest rate."

The biggest benefit of recording this is: next time I encounter the same narrative, I won’t just rely on intuition; I can compare how I judged it before, which alert saved me, and which was just luck. Anyway, for now, I’ll do it this way—better to go slow.