discovery / pre-token

how to discover pre-token crypto projects

everyone claims to catch projects early. almost no one actually does the work. here's what the work looks like when you strip out the theatre.

the four sources that matter

yc winter and summer batches (crypto-tagged startups). colosseum solana cohorts. alliance dao. and the ecosystem grant recipient lists from base, monad, sui, and hyperliquid. these publish every 3 to 6 months and get almost zero coverage the day they drop.

the signals worth tracking

founder x accounts under 2k followers with weekly product commits. domains registered within the last 90 days. github repos with real activity, not just readmes. mentions from credible ecosystem accounts (not from paid promo accounts). funding announcements that don't specify a token.

the noise to ignore

cmc trending. any project already covered by cointelegraph. anything with a "confirmed airdrop" claim before the team announces it. anything without a technical co-founder. anything with more marketing hires than engineers.

how we do it

wwshemi tracks roughly 300 sources every hour: x founder accounts, ecosystem grant pages, hackathon results, github organizations, and vc portfolio updates. each project gets a unified score across traction, credibility, and momentum. you get the shortlist. we handle the noise.