Overview
Cardano Ninja is a community-maintained security guide that helps Cardano users avoid scams and keep their assets safe. The site is a single page that covers eleven practical safety tips specific to the Cardano ecosystem, pulls in scam alert lists from CardanoShield, and gathers educational videos from Cardano content creators.
The project is maintained by selfdrivenOcto, which describes itself as part of the selfdriven Foundation, an independent Cardano-focused community that also runs related tools like cardanowallets.io and drep.tools. Cardano Ninja stands apart from generic security checklists because the advice is specific to Cardano: scam tokens with spoofed identifiers, fake giveaway sites, deep-fake videos of community figures, and phishing links targeting Cardano app users. Cardano Ninja's own alert data is published as open-source files under a public-domain (CC0) license on GitHub so other ecosystem tools can reuse it1.
The site requires no signup. It is a single page with eleven numbered safety tips, links to the CardanoShield blacklists, and embedded educational videos, so a reader can scan for a specific threat or work through the tips in order.
Key Features
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Eleven Cardano-specific safety tips. The advice covers the threats Cardano users actually face: checking where you download a wallet from, spotting fake airdrops, recognizing deep-fake videos, muting scam keywords on social media, and a tip on keeping most funds in a separate offline (cold) wallet while using a hot wallet for transactions2.
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Scam alert lists from CardanoShield. The site pulls in known scam tokens, malicious websites, and flagged addresses maintained by the CardanoShield open-source project, a community-funded effort that uses pattern detection and community reports to identify threats3.
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Curated educational videos. Four embedded videos from Cardano-focused creators including dApp Central, Nova, and Learn Cardano cover topics like crypto fraud awareness, the Eternl Guard feature, and general scam prevention2.
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Open data, public domain. The project's scam alert data is published separately on GitHub under a public domain license, so any Cardano ecosystem tool or directory can plug it in without restriction1.
What to Expect
Cardano Ninja presents a clean, single-page layout organized into three sections: Alerts, Protect Yourself, and Community. The heart of the site is Protect Yourself, which lists eleven numbered safety tips. Readers can either work through them in order or scan for the specific threat they want to learn about. Each tip gives concrete guidance rather than abstract advice, with references to lookup tools such as pool.pm and CardanoCube.
The Alerts section links to the CardanoShield blacklist data, where users can look up flagged scam tokens by identifier, known phishing websites, and suspicious stake addresses. The Community section offers four embedded videos and links to related Cardano ecosystem projects from the same team. Feedback and content suggestions are collected through the selfdrivenOcto account on X.
