The best way to stay safe in crypto is be very careful when it comes to choosing a project or coin to invest in. To be careful here means the investor must read and research vehemently on the project in order to ascertain its authenticity and capabilities of becoming successful. Targets during the research should focus on the team and its expertise level, the product, the use case, the idea pf the project etc.
That is absolutely true of this, and in addition to this also, we have to learn to stop relying on hype, because what I have seen people use in choosing project in the past is because of hype, and it depend on the marketing strength of the project which hype should not be used as a criteria to know if a project will have a growth in future or not, but we need to focus more on the team and the product that the team chooses to offer.
If the product is another duplicated of the hundreds of projects that are already available in the market, believe me that there is nowhere that these projects are going to, it is only a real working project with a new concept and a very great team that can make a project to grow in value.