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Crypto Red Flags: The Projects Our Research Trusts Least

The projects our documented research trusts least, with the red flags it found and where each came from. How to read a red flag, and what it doesn't mean.

By StakeBible

In this article
  1. The list
  2. What a red flag is
  3. How to read the trust score
  4. What to do with a red flag

Every coin we cover goes through the same documented research. It reads public sources about the project, writes down what it finds with a link to each source, and gives the project a trust score from 0 to 1000. Some of what it finds are red flags: specific problems serious enough to read before anything else.

This page lists the projects where that research found the least to trust.

The list

Least-trusted projects with red flags

Projects our research scores 400 or less out of 1000, with at least one red flag. Lowest score first; each row opens the full dossier and its sources.

  1. Terra LUNA Founding entity Terraform Labs and co-founder Do Kwon found liable for multi-billion dollar fraud 35/1000 Red flags: 3
  2. Ultima Identified by independent investigators as an MLM Ponzi scheme. 40/1000 Red flags: 3
  3. Rain Direct on-chain wallet and funding links to networks associated with serial crypto fraud allegations (Moshe Hogeg, TOMI, DOP, Sirin Labs). 95/1000 Red flags: 5
  4. Zerebro Co-founder fake death scandal accompanied by insider token dumping 110/1000 Red flags: 3
  5. Melania Meme MELANIA Class-action fraud lawsuit filed in federal court alleging an orchestrated insider pump-and-dump scheme. 120/1000 Red flags: 4
  6. Movement MOVE Core developer Movement Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware in July 2026. 120/1000 Red flags: 4
  7. RaveDAO RAVE Publicly exposed by ZachXBT for insider market manipulation and coordinated short squeeze activities 160/1000 Red flags: 4
  8. World Liberty Financial WLFI Unilateral smart contract wallet freezing functions used to block investors and developers. 210/1000 Red flags: 6
  9. Comedian BAN Controversial launch involving deployer insider trading and wallet concentration allegations 210/1000 Red flags: 2
  10. Terra Luna Classic LUNC Originates from one of the largest systemic collapses in crypto history (May 2022 UST de-peg wiping out over $40 billion). 220/1000 Red flags: 3

Live from our data, updated with every site build.

The list is rebuilt from our data every time the site is published, so it changes when the research changes. Each row opens the coin's page at its research section, where every red flag, strength and risk sits next to its source.

What a red flag is

A red flag is a finding, not a mood. It is a sentence the research wrote about the project, backed by the documents it read: a supply concentrated in a few wallets, an anonymous team, a history of exploits, an unlock schedule nobody discloses, a market where the volume does not add up. You can check each one yourself.

It is also a reason to read, not a verdict. A single flag on a large, long-lived project can matter less than three on a young token. The trust score is how the research weighs them together.

How to read the trust score

The score runs from 0 to 1000. Below 150, the research has found an abandoned or dead project, and we do not publish a forecast for it at all. Above that, the score does two jobs in the product: it decides whether a coin is eligible for a forecast, and it caps how much confidence we publish in that forecast. A low score means we say less.

Two things it is not.

  • It is not a safety rating. A high score does not mean your money is safe in the token, and it says nothing about the exchange that holds it.
  • It is not a price signal. We tested it: scored blind on coins whose outcome we already knew, the research put a token that went on to lose more than 99.95% against Bitcoin above most of the winners. That project was alive; its token was not. The score judges the project, not the chart.

What to do with a red flag

  • Open the source. The research may be right about the fact and wrong about how much it matters, or the other way round.
  • Check the date. Research ages; the page says when it was written.
  • Size the position as if the red flag is the whole story. If you would still hold it, hold less of it.

How the score itself is produced is explained in how we score trust in a crypto project.