I think reading a whitepaper only gives you, at best, half the picture. However, because crypto tokens are fundamentally financial products, a whitepaper says l

I think reading a whitepaper only gives you, at best, half the picture. However, because crypto tokens are fundamentally financial products, a whitepaper says little about whether a particular project using said technology is a scam. The long list of scammy ICOs and rug pulls is plenty of evidence of that. Ironically, while blockchain technology decentralizes the bookkeeping of digital assets, you often have to trust the intentions of a very small group of unaccountable individuals to not get taken advantage of by insider trading, front running, wash trading, rug pulls, and various other financial scams.