🔒Web3 Safety

The first rule of scouting is: safety first! Scouting sometimes involves visiting and even connecting your wallet to sites that you aren't familiar with. Also, being active in web3, as a Scout or otherwise, can make you a target for scams. So, how can you stay safe? Here are a few suggestions:

Protect Your Assets

• When visiting web3 sites that you aren't familiar with, always use an empty burner wallet. It's easy to create a burner wallet – just make a new account within your wallet, and switch to this account whenever you're scouting.

• If a site, for no good reason, requests permission to move your assets, get out! It's almost certainly a scam! You can avoid this risk by using an empty burner wallet.

• While it's not unusual for a site to ask you to sign a message to verify your identity, be sure to sign plain text messages only. Signing tx messages or messages that consist of "0x" followed by a long block of numbers and letters could be used to steal your assets! You can avoid this risk by using an empty burner wallet.

• In some cases, even signed plain text messages can be used to impersonate you later on another site. You can avoid this risk by using an empty burner wallet.

• If you think your wallet has been compromised, or see activity on your wallet that you don't recognize, move your assets to a new wallet right away!

Watch Out for Social Media Scams

• If you receive unsolicited DMs, it may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution. If possible, contact the relevant community and ask them if the DM is legitimate before clicking on any links or submitting an ability.

• Remember, Daylight will never DM you!

• If you believe someone is impersonating Daylight or Daylight staff, send a DM to @daylight on Twitter with screenshots

Avoid Submitting Scam Abilities

• As scouts, we not only want to keep ourselves safe, but we also want to protect the whole Daylight community.

• Learn to recognize common scams and avoid submitting related abilities.

• Scam tokens often have some or all of the following features:

  • Their token names, token images, and/or URLs impersonate famous brands

  • Their tokens have little to no trade volume on OpenSea, Uniswap, or Sushiswap

  • Their abilities seem too good to be true and/or could put users' assets at risk

  • The ability requirements apply to a variety of unrelated projects (spammy)