Token trust

Anyone can deploy a token called TSLA. The registry does not decide what may exist; it decides what Fletch will vouch for, and every surface renders the same verdict.

The five levels

  • verifiedRobinhood lists this address, and the contract answers with the listed symbol and decimals.
  • listedRobinhood lists this address. Fletch has not confirmed the contract against the listing yet.
  • lookalikeNot listed, and its symbol or name folds to a verified asset's. The answer names the real one and its address.
  • communityFound on chain, not listed. Everything shown is read from its own contract; nobody has verified it.
  • unknownNothing answered at this address: no name, no symbol, no decimals.

How a lookalike is caught

Symbols are compared with homoglyphs folded and invisible characters stripped, so a Cyrillic Т, a Greek Τ and the Latin T are one letter, and so are 0 and O. L and I are deliberately left apart: folding them together would make TSLA and TSIA the same word and label unrelated tickers as impostors.

A second source is the lookalike scan, which reads each candidate's EIP-1967 beacon slot. A contract whose beacon is the issuer's registry was deployed by the issuer, so it is recorded as unlisted rather than called an impostor.

Ask about any address

curl https://fletch.now/api/v1/tokens/0x6a45e05b82fe3ca90e92a8b6801e27d38f41d101

The answer carries the level, a sentence explaining it, what the token says about itself, where those facts came from, and for a lookalike the symbol and address of the asset it is imitating. The same verdict appears on the market table, on the token's page, and on every Telegram alert about it.