Public scammer registries: does the 'wall of shame' actually work

Crypto can't jail a scammer - but it can make his next launch more expensive. The reputation layer - labels, registries, public exposés - is the only "police" operating at market speed.

What already works

• Labels in scanners and checkers: a "deployer linked to scam" flag in the interface where a degen checks the chart is the most effective warning point: zero effort from the victim.
• Automated pattern registries (like ours): linking wallets into serial offender clusters - the warning appears before the first victims of a new token, not after.
• Public investigations: doxxing threads apply pressure narrowly but loudly - a few scammers "retired" after exposure are worth hundreds of quiet labels.
• Exchange and aggregator blacklists: block scam tokens from listings and trending pages.

Honest limits

Fresh wallets with clean funding bypass registries - the cost of bypassing rises, but isn't infinite. False positives happen - without a dispute procedure, a registry becomes a weapon itself. And most important: the reputation layer only works for those who look - it doesn't cure inattention.

Our position is practical: every verdict flagging a repeat offender is a mark on the shared field. The denser the field, the more expensive the pipeline becomes. The registry is in the deployers section.