At first, you have to specify what is your primary interest. Are you going to create a blog about DeFi protocols? Or any ranking website? Or you are going to create own DeFi protocol? These are the most important things because the domain address should correlate with your focus. 

The best what you can check is activity on social sites, admins activity on Telegram group, number of proposals on Github and then compare it with the market capitalization. I am sure, that there are tens of hidden gems in the market. 

I am not sure if fiat money is the future, look at how governments and central banks would like to solve the upcoming crisis. More printed money, negative interest, and helicopter money. Do you think that we can still make money from the air? 

Not only bounty threads that are self-moderated are dangerous, but even more risky is when announcement thread is self-moderated with a number of fake positive reviews. This could easily lead into misinterpretation that this is a solid project, especially if you are a newcomer and do not understand it. 

That's crazy that this bounty campaign is here for 2 weeks and no one from bounty hunters made a deep research to find out that it is a pure Ponzi scheme. This website will crash before the bounty hunters get their rewards for sure. 

The question should be if ICOs are still profitable and not if they are legit. I do not see any difference between ICOs that are in the market nowadays and ICOs that were here 1-2 years ago. The problem is that investors realize that ICOs are extremely risky and without the bull market the probability that they will earn is extremely low. 

Technical analysis help you to manage the risk strategy. The best traders are working with potential risks versus possible returns. So if you are good in technical analysis, you reduce the risk and maximize your profit. That is the true power of trading. 

Dogecoin! Who would say 6-7 years ago that Dogecoin will overtake all coins like FeatherCoin or ApeCoin. After some time we realize how good strategy it was to build this coin on a joke - it has self-spreading marketing. 

There are so many buzzwords and it is hard to understand what is a new big thing and what is totally crazy idea that can´t be achieved.
After 3 years there is no trusted independent rating company for ICOs and IEOs. 

Among the real low cap coins with high risk, but really big potential return I rank these coins: LHCoin, TheKey and SirinToken.
All of these three coins have a real working business, all of these tokens are more than 99% down since ICO price. And all of these tokens have big names behind the projects: like Lionel Messi or Chinese government. 

Are you talking about bounty and airdrop tokens? It depends on your skill to predict which is good and has a future and which is not. If you do not believe in the token, then I highly recommend you sell it at least for few dollars and invest into altcoin with a potential. I believe that one day we will see another 100x growths.

Coinbase or Binance. Why I should use another crypto exchanges? Coins that are not listed on these two exchanges are probably not worth your attention and avoiding them will save your money and nerves .

If you read OP´s post correctly you will find out that he is asking what is the use case of the token. He is not asking about smart-contract (token) standards like you mentioned ERC-20, ERC-1155 or ERC 721.

You can read information about BEP8 tokens on GitHub: https://github.com/binance-chain/BEPs/blob/master/BEP8.md

Do you have any independent auditors? Who guarantee that you emit only tokens that are really backed by silver? Where you store your silver? These questions need to be answered to judge if this token is legit or not. Personally I believe only in PaxGOLD that seems to be enough transparent.

It shows that these tokens do not comply with Binance standards and that's okay. You will know that probably it is better to sell these coins and Binance will remain its quality and credibility. Because, as we know, what is listed on Binance, is probably a promising coin to the future. Binance has a big team of experts that focus on what is good and what probably is not. This helps newcomers to understand which coins are good to HOLD.

Publishers are not responsible for advertisers, they only pay to list their ad on a Coinmarketcap website. They do not pay for listing as a product/service on the website. They do not guarantee it, they do not sell it or resell it. The difference would be if Binance exchange list a scam IEO... 

It is obvious - it comes from the name initial exchange offering, that's why IEOs were created to bring trust into this crazy industry. Exchange with its credibility list a startup and for this takes money. If they list a scam, next time it will be much complicated to raise enough money.

The difference between bounty campaigns and freelancing, as you mentioned, is that bounty campaigns are for everyone, do not require some special skill. Bounty campaigns can be done by every individual and it requires only your time. While when you are a freelancer, you have to be very good in something to earn money.

For what use case you are creating a telegram group? Are you going to make an ICO or altcoin and you just want to create a community around it? Or you are a trader, investors with tips? Or you would like to share bounty campaigns and airdrops here and take the commission from it? There are several cool tools/bots for telegram, but you didn´t tell us for what you need a telegram group. 

I do not understand why top exchanges didn´t adjust the listing fees for the new IEO projects. They still collecting same amount of money like in 2017, but the difference is that investors do not invest even one-tenth of what they invested in 2017.