DYOR is the acronym for Do Your Own Research, which means "do your own research." It is often used when investing and trading Crypto. When someone says DYOR, what they mean is that youshouldn’t just listen to them or some Crypto Twitters.

The term became popular after hundreds of ICO projects collapsed between 2016 and 2018, leaving many first-time crypto investors with nothing. To lure these investors back and attract new ones, the community began using the slogan “DYOR” to promote independent research and responsible investing.

Some examples of DYOR applications in Crypto:

• Invest in newly issued Tokens: When a new Crypto is issued, an important step before investing is to do your own research. . This might include getting to know the team behind the project, understanding the token’s use cases, reading white papers, and looking at the token economics.
• Using a new decentralized finance (DeFi) platform: Before using a new DeFi platform, it is very important to understand how it works, what risks it has, and whether it has undergone a security audit. This requires research by yourself.

For example, the author of the tweet below added DYOR at the end of his tweet, hoping that readers would not follow blindly, but should make independent judgments based on their own research.