Facts and sources
- Primary sources first. Protocol facts come from the protocol’s own documents and public chain data; regulatory facts from the regulator or the statute; product facts from the provider’s own pages, read on the date shown.
- Every manual, review and data page lists its sources, and every page except the home page shows a verification stamp under the title. A page reviewed by Rai reads “Last verified
by Rai”. A page checked by our research pipeline and still awaiting his review says so. - Time-sensitive facts carry a date. Prices, fees, holdings, node counts and anything else that moves are written with the date they were read. We do not present an old number as current.
- Freshness windows. Pages about products, partners, law and tax are re-verified at least every 30 days. A page past its window is marked out of date until it is checked again.
- Corrections follow the policy on the Corrections page. Nothing is silently edited.
Verdicts: products only
Exchanges, wallets and tools can carry one of three stamps:
| Stamp | Meaning |
|---|---|
| RUN IT | Tested; works as claimed; fees are fair. Comes with a concrete first step. |
| SHELF IT | Solid, with a real limitation: too early, too expensive, or a better option fits most people. |
| SKIP IT | Failed the test. Partners get SKIP IT too. |
| IN TEST | No verdict yet. |
A stamp requires a published test log: the tasks performed, the amounts and fees involved, the dates, and masked screenshots. Until that log exists the product shows IN TEST, and we do not describe it as tested. Scoring criteria and their weights will be published here, with a version number, alongside the first tested review; any later change to them is logged on this page.
Commissions never change a verdict. Whether a product pays us has no bearing on its stamp or its place on a page.
Coins and tokens: Fact Cards, no rating
A rating on a coin would be a buy or don’t-buy call, which is a price prediction by another name. Coin and token pages therefore carry a Fact Card: launch date, supply, consensus mechanism, fees, real usage and a section on the risks, each with a source. There is no rating row, and there never will be.
Partner checks
Before a platform can appear with a link, it is checked for regulatory status in each region we serve, its security and incident history, and its terms. A platform that has a serious security incident, loses a licence or stops serving a region is put on hold automatically: its links pause and its entries show the hold until the issue is reviewed. Platforms on hold are named on the Deals page.
Regions
Platforms are shown by region. US visitors are never pointed to offshore exchanges. UK visitors see no referral bonuses or incentives, as FCA rules require. EU visitors see deal links only for providers authorised under MiCA, after a review of each provider. All regional versions of a page are in the same HTML for every visitor and for search engines; only what is displayed changes.
What we never publish
Price targets or predictions; urgency language such as countdowns or “last chance”; paid placements; how-to content for evading identity checks or sanctions; user testimonials; and reviews we did not test and write ourselves.