Overview
Cardano Ninja is a community-maintained security guide focused on helping Cardano users avoid scams and protect their assets. The single-page site covers eleven practical safety tips specific to the Cardano ecosystem, integrates scam alert blacklists via CardanoShield, and curates educational videos from established Cardano content creators.
The project operates under the selfdriven Foundation, an independent Cardano-focused organization that also maintains tools such as cardanowallets.io and drep.tools. Cardano Ninja distinguishes itself from general-purpose security checklists by addressing threats specific to the Cardano wallet ecosystem: scam tokens with spoofed policy IDs, fake airdrop websites, deep-fake impersonation of community figures, and phishing links targeting DApp users. All alert data is published as open-source JSON under a CC0 public domain license12.
Key Features
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Eleven Cardano-specific safety tips. Covers the breadth of threats facing Cardano users, from verifying wallet download sources and detecting airdrop scams to recognizing deep-fake videos, muting scam keywords on social media, and separating funds between hot and cold wallets1.
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CardanoShield blacklist integration. Surfaces known scam tokens, malicious domains, and flagged stake addresses maintained by the CardanoShield open-source project, a Catalyst Fund10-backed security initiative that uses machine learning and community reporting to identify threats3.
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Curated educational videos. Features four embedded videos from Cardano educators including dApp Central, Nova, and Learn Cardano, covering topics such as crypto fraud awareness, the Eternl Guard wallet protection feature, and general scam prevention strategies1.
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CC0 open-source alert data. The project's scam alert data is published separately on GitHub as CC0-licensed JSON files, making it freely available for integration by other Cardano ecosystem tools and directories2.
What to Expect
Cardano Ninja presents a clean, single-page layout organized into three sections: Alerts, Protect Yourself, and Community. The core content is the Protect Yourself section, which lists eleven numbered safety tips that users can read through sequentially or scan for specific threat types. Each tip provides actionable guidance rather than abstract advice, with references to trusted verification tools like pool.pm and CardanoCube.
The Alerts section links to the CardanoShield blacklist data repository, where users can look up flagged scam tokens by policy ID, known phishing domains, and suspicious stake addresses. The Community section offers four embedded educational videos and links to related Cardano ecosystem projects maintained by the same team. The site includes planned features for a full reporting system and community suggestion mechanism, with feedback collected through the selfdrivenOcto account on X.
