August's Presale Shop-Window: AI Branding and Audit Badges
The month's most heavily marketed presales share one playbook — countdown timers, staged pricing, audit badges, and an AI suffix wherever one will fit.
Presale Press — Token launches, risk first
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Token Sniffer and the Limits of Automated Due Diligence
A free contract screener that catches the mechanical scams — and a case study in why a clean automated score is an instrument reading, not a verdict.
An Audit Badge Is Not a Safety Rating
A smart-contract audit is a scoped, point-in-time review of code — not a verdict on the team, the treasury keys, or anything that happens after the report is filed.
CoinList, Reviewed as a Venue
We review the token-sale platform the way an analyst reads a term sheet: KYC rigor, exclusions, queue mechanics, lockups — and what none of it can promise.
