Ethics Policy

Crypto is a market where the people writing about assets frequently own them. Pretending otherwise is not credible, so we handle it by disclosure rather than denial.

Personal holdings

Anyone writing about a specific asset must disclose a material position in it at the top of the piece. Contributors may not trade around the timing of their own coverage, and may not write about an asset they have been paid to promote in any capacity.

Independence

Advertisers, affiliate partners and sponsors get no influence over editorial coverage, no advance sight of stories about them, and no ability to have a story amended or removed. Exchange reviews are scored against a rubric published with the review; a commercial relationship never moves a score.

Gifts, tokens and paid travel

We do not accept tokens, airdrops, allocations, equity or paid travel in exchange for coverage, and we do not accept payment to publish a story or to omit one. Offers of this kind are declined, and if the offer is itself newsworthy we may report it.

Sources

We protect sources who face genuine risk, and we do not grant anonymity simply so someone can promote an asset or attack a competitor without accountability. An anonymous claim about price, listings or enforcement is not something we will publish on trust alone.

Raising a concern

If you believe something we have published breaches this policy, tell us and we will look into it. Where a breach occurred we will say so publicly on our corrections page rather than fix it silently.