If you hunt low-caps, you already know the usual traps: stealth mints, proxy upgrades with god-mode, transfer taxes you only notice on sell, blacklist/whitelist toggles, max-tx/wallet limits, and LP shenanigans. Most people learn after they ape. Here’s a quick 60-second DYOR checklist and a plain-English screening approach you can run before you click buy.

60-second DYOR checklist

• Proof-of-sell: Can a fresh wallet buy and sell a tiny amount via a common router? Any revert on sell = hard pass until explained.
• Owner & roles: Who can pause, mint, set fees/limits, or upgrade logic? If upgradeable, who controls the beacon/implementation?
• Taxes & limits: Max tx/wallet, fee-on-transfer, blacklist/whitelist, cool-downs. Fixed or silently adjustable?
• Standards quirks: Non-standard transfer/transferFrom or fee paths that can break swaps.
• LP reality check: Age, liquidity depth, volume, trading activity.
• Disclosure sanity: If the team claims “no mint/paused/fees,” verify on-chain—don’t trust banners.

Why this helps

You don’t need to be a dev to catch a lot of avoidable pain. A plain-English pre-trade screen that flags admin powers, upgrade paths, taxes/limits, blacklist patterns, and basic liquidity context will filter out many bad bets. It’s a safety screen, not a crystal ball—use it to decide whether to dig deeper or pass.

How to use this approach in practice

1. Select the chain used
2. Select Free Scan or Deep Scan (you have 3 for free)
3. Enter Contract Address
4. View risk summary
5. Do deeper DD (team history, comms quality, roadmap realism).

Transparency: OP helped build a tool that automates this plain-English screen. Posting as a PSA/tool for safer Moonshots – not a price call. NFA