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How Project Check scores a project

Project Check is the mirror image of Kollab's creator scoring: before you put your name on a project or take a token deal, it scrutinizes the project the way brands scrutinize you. Here's exactly what it looks at and how it decides.

Three principles
Cites facts, never accusations
Every flag points to a number — “liquidity is $38k,” not “scam.” You draw the conclusion.
Fails safe
When in doubt it under-rates rather than falsely reassures. A risk tool that flatters a sketchy project is worse than useless.
Honest about coverage
A signal-coverage meter shows how much it could actually see. A thin, unseeable project reads as “we can’t fully verify this yet” — never a falsely precise score.

The four dimensions

A project's standing (0–100, mapped to a risk band) is a weighted blend of four dimensions. Each is built from cited factors; a dimension with too little data is marked uncovered rather than guessed.

01Legitimacy & Substance
Is this a real, tradable market — or a shell?
  • Verified contract — the address is a deployed contract, not an empty wallet.
  • Liquidity depth and liquidity-vs-valuation — is there real money to trade against, and does it back the market cap?
  • Market activity — healthy turnover vs a dead market or wash-trading churn.
  • Contract control — ownership renounced, mint entrypoints, and (on Solana) mint/freeze authority.
  • Sellability — the honeypot check: can buyers actually sell?
  • Liquidity lock — how much of the pool is burned or locked.
  • Official-account verification — the token’s X handle cross-checked against its CoinGecko listing (catches copycat tokens reusing a real name).
02Durability & Staying power
Will it survive the test of time?
  • Market age — how long the oldest market has existed.
  • Supply overhang — fully-diluted value vs market cap, i.e. how much supply could still unlock onto holders.
  • Holder concentration — how much of supply the top wallets hold.
  • Holder base — how many wallets actually hold the token.
  • Listing recognition — whether it’s listed on CoinGecko and its market-cap rank.
03Community & Traction
A real, organically-engaged community — or a manufactured mirage?
  • Account authenticity, engagement legitimacy, and growth legitimacy — the project’s own X account run through the same engine that scores creators.
  • Archetype-aware sentiment — an LLM reads replies and judges health relative to the project type. A meme’s authentic hype is healthy; botted or farmed engagement is not. The archetype is grounded in the project’s real CoinGecko categories, not guessed.
  • Vetted-creator overlap — how many creators from our scored corpus actually engage the project’s posts (a signal no one else can compute).
04Fair-dealing & Counterparty
Will they treat the creator right?
  • Built from how creators rated this project’s brand after completed Kollab campaigns — reliability, communication, and working experience.
  • Lights up as a project runs campaigns on Kollab; escrow (cash released on delivery) also removes the payment risk of an off-platform token or vesting deal.

Cross-plane divergence — the mirage detector

The most useful signal isn't any single number — it's the relationship between the on-chain market, the social audience, and the vetted-creator graph. A legitimate project keeps them roughly in sync; a manufactured one is loud on one plane and hollow on the others. A big following with almost no liquidity or on-chain holders, or a large valuation with a low-authenticity community, trips this detector — which both raises a cited flag and caps the score.

CoinGecko grounding & official-account verification

For listed tokens we cross-check against CoinGecko: the project's official X account, its authoritative categories, and its market-cap rank. If the X account attached to the token matches the official one, you see a verified badge. If it doesn't, you get a copycat warning — the exact trap where a scam token reuses a real project's name and imagery. This grounding is free for everyone.

Protective caps

A few critical red flags bound the score no matter how well everything else grades — because for a creator, one of these is disqualifying on its own: a honeypot (can't sell), an active freeze authority (your tokens can be locked), near-zero liquidity, extreme holder concentration, an owner who can still mint supply, or an X account that doesn't match the listed official one.

Two ways to check

By token — a chain and contract/mint address gets the full on-chain read plus community and grounding. By X handle — for pre-token or non-crypto projects, the community and grounding planes only. Data comes from free on-chain sources, the X API, CoinGecko, and an LLM for community sentiment. It's a starting point for your own diligence, not financial advice. Always DYOR.

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