How this site checks its facts

. , 5 min read. Research guide, not first-hand testing.

Every number on this site comes from one of four places, and each page is supposed to tell you which. This page explains the rules, because a guide about money is only worth reading if you can tell how it knows what it claims.

It is also an honest account of what is still missing. There are things on this site that have never been verified first-hand, and they are marked as such rather than quietly smoothed over.

The four kinds of evidence here

What fomo publishes about itself. Its site, its blog, its answers pages and its press releases. This is the strongest source for what the company intends, and the weakest for what actually happens, because a company describes its product at its best. When fomo says bank withdrawals arrive “within 3 business days”, that is a commitment, not a measurement.

What Andrew checked in the app. A handful of figures come from opening the real fomo app and reading the screen. These always carry the date, in the form “checked in the app, 11 October 2026”. They are the only first-hand claims on the site, and nothing else is written as though it were one.

Public third-party data. Apple’s public App Store lookup endpoint for country availability, Hyperliquid’s public info endpoint and trade[XYZ]‘s published specifications for the perps market list, market data providers for token figures. These are checkable: the method is stated on the page so you can run it yourself.

What others report. Used last and always labelled. The 10% referral discount is the clearest case: third-party sites report it, fomo publishes no number anywhere, so the referral code page calls it reported and points you at the signup screen as the real answer.

Everything carries a date

A fee that was right in September is not evidence in January. So every checked figure is dated where it appears, every page shows when it was last updated, and that date is stamped automatically from the file’s own revision history at publish time rather than typed in by hand. Nobody here can make a page look fresher than it is.

If you are reading a page long after its date, treat the numbers as a starting point and check the app.

When sources disagree, both get printed

This is the rule that costs the most and matters the most.

fomo’s FAQ says a bank withdrawal arrives within 3 business days. The app showed a window of 1 to 5 business days when it was checked on 11 October 2026. Those cannot both be the whole truth, and we do not know which you will get. So the withdrawals page prints both, says where each came from, and suggests planning around the slower one.

The tempting alternative is to publish the number that makes the product look better, or the one that makes a more dramatic headline. Both are worse than admitting the sources disagree.

What this site refuses to publish

These are hard rules, not preferences.

  • No invented first-hand experience. No claim of having put money through the withdrawal flow unless someone actually did and left notes. Most of this site is research, and it says so.
  • No invented users. No reviews, no testimonials, no profit screenshots, no success stories. If you see a trading site quoting a delighted customer with no way to check them, assume they wrote it themselves.
  • No profit claims. Nobody here will tell you what you might make. The honest version of the odds is that most people who trade memecoins lose money.
  • No numbers built on guesses. The founders’ net worth is a good example. The company’s valuation is public, founder shareholdings are not, so any net worth figure is a valuation multiplied by an invented stake. The company page says that instead of printing a number.
  • No competitor fees without provenance. A competitor’s pricing appears only on comparison pages, only from that company’s own fee page or docs, with a link and the date checked.
  • No unverifiable discount codes. Codes promising 95% or 100% off circulate widely for this app. They are named and explained rather than repeated, because the arithmetic does not work.

What we still cannot verify

The gaps are as much a part of the method as the sources.

  • The in-app experience, mostly. A handful of screens have been checked. The rest of the app, the trade flow under load, what support actually does, is not first-hand knowledge here.
  • Anything behind fomo’s private systems. This site does not call fomo’s internal API and never will. Where fomo publishes nothing, the honest answer is that it publishes nothing.
  • Leaderboard and market snapshots. The top traders list is one screen on one day, not audited performance. The perps market list is reconstructed from the two venues’ public specs, and fomo may surface fewer markets than those venues carry.
  • Field performance data. Page speed here has been measured in a lab, on one machine, which is not the same as what real visitors experience.

How this site earns, and why that is on every page

The site earns a share of fomo’s trading fees when someone signs up through its referral link. That is disclosed in the footer of every page and again above the link on any page carrying one, and pages where selling would be inappropriate carry no referral link at all. A scam warning page should not try to sell you anything.

The incentive is real and worth naming: a site paid per signup has a reason to be generous about the product. The defence against that is everything above, plus publishing the parts that lose signups, like the section explaining that most memecoin traders lose money and the pages telling readers in some countries that the app is not available to them. For what the arrangement is worth in detail, see the referral code page and the about page.

Telling us we got something wrong

Corrections are welcome and get made. Use the contact form on the about page, say which page and which line, and include a source if you have one. Figures checked in the app by a reader are especially useful, because they are the evidence this site has least of.

Questions people ask

Does this site test the fomo app itself?

Partly, and only where it says so. Some figures come from Andrew Budai checking a screen in his own fomo account, and those carry the date he checked. Everything else is research from published sources. Where a page has not been checked in the app, it does not claim to have been.

Why do some pages give two different numbers for the same thing?

Because the sources disagree and hiding that would be worse. Bank withdrawals are the clearest case: fomo's own FAQ commits to within 3 business days, the app showed 1 to 5 when it was checked on 11 October 2026, and the withdrawals page prints both with attribution rather than picking the flattering one.

What does it mean when a page says a figure is reported rather than confirmed?

That the number comes from somewhere other than fomo and we could not verify it directly. The 10% referral fee discount is the main example: third-party sites report it, fomo publishes no figure, so the page says reported and tells you the signup screen is the real source.

How do you decide a competitor's fee is accurate?

It has to come from that company's own fee page or documentation, carry a link, and show the date it was checked, and it only appears on comparison pages. Competitor pricing changes often, so a number without a date is close to useless.

How do I report something that is wrong?

Use the contact form on the about page and say which page and which line. Corrections get made and the page's updated date moves. That date is stamped automatically from the file's own history, so it cannot be inflated by hand.

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