Guides

Short, factual answers to the questions people ask about crypto research.

• What is POPA Recon?

  POPA Recon explained: the public research chat for crypto projects, tokens and events, its sources, languages, limits and its Telegram bot.

• How to research a crypto token before buying

  What to check before buying a token: the announcement, the contract, the early holders and who funded them, the market and past trouble. One question can cover them on POPA Recon.

• How to check if a crypto project is a scam

  The checks that matter before you trust a project: the announcement, the contract, the big holders and their funders, past incidents and public channels — with links to the sources.

• How to find who bought a token sale first — and trace a wallet to its funder

  A real worked example: first buyers ranked by block time, one wallet traced to its funder through an Arkham label, and the first wallets' unrealised result estimated.

• POPA Recon, Arkham and ChatGPT: what is and isn't compared

  What POPA Recon does itself, what it uses other services for, and the comparisons this page does not claim: no benchmarks are promised beyond the site's own visible steps.

• How to follow a crypto project's changes

  Set a watch from an answer on the site: its updates about the subject arrive in the same chat, in time order, without any Telegram needed.