Establish identity
Record the network and full contract address before collecting statistics. Robinhood Chain mainnet uses chain ID 4663; its testnet uses 46630. Match official issuer records where they exist and keep the explorer link with your notes.
A token name, logo, or ticker is not a unique identifier. Code deployed at an address establishes that a contract exists, without establishing who endorses it or whether its logic has been audited.
Read the market and controls
Identify the pools behind a quote, the observation time, and the supply definition. Note missing fields explicitly. For contract research, look for minting, pausing, and spending permissions in the actual implementation and its configuration.
Keep project statements separate from what the contract and transaction records demonstrate. Source verification makes code inspectable; an audit claim needs a report whose scope matches the deployed version.
Write the unresolved questions
End with what you still cannot establish: incomplete history, unknown treasury ownership, stale pricing, or unverified supply. A useful research note preserves these gaps and a review date instead of converting them into a confidence score.