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Trusting all individuals to make safe decisions in a marketplace flooded with scams is just not scalable. You cannot educate every user in how to identify a scam.

And excluding users who haven't gone through that education hardly seems like the democratization of finance that these services advertise.

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If we’re talking about Uniswap specifically, it actually does a decent job of adding guardrails (only listing curated tokens from the Token Lists standard) and warning about unsafe actions (confirmation prompts when you are adding an unlisted token to swap).

So uneducated users would really have to go out of their way to get scammed through there. Like having to go out of their way to follow up on a solicitation from something caught in a Gmail spam filter.

As much as If genuinely like a marketplace for shitcoin/scamcoins that I can gamble on and hope to beat the exit dump crash, I admit that uneducated consumers protections probably should trump my desires to participate in this gambles.

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