all types of altcoins and whatever platform is used there is a risk. New altcoins and old altcoins have their respective risks in crypto. so what we need to do is how for us to reduce the bad risk that will happen to us in the future. by finding the best information about the altcoins we want to invest in so that they can give us an advantage.
all coins have risk and none of them were totally safe from any risk potency. the only thing we can do only as you said find proper information and trying to analize about altcoin that we hold or buy. make check list and see did it filled our check list or not. by doing all of this our risk could mnimize and we have great future later.