Editorial policy

These are the rules our articles are written to. If you think one of them was broken, the contact page is the place to say so.

Our standards

Each article tries to answer one question, and its headline tells you which one. We explain how products and rules work. We don’t give personal financial or tax advice, and we don’t predict prices.

You won’t see a product called safe or guaranteed on this site. Where a provider has paused withdrawals or faces a live warning from a regulator, that sits at the top of the article rather than near the end, since it’s the first thing a reader would want to know before opening an account.

Sources and fact-checking

We start from the document closest to the fact. In practice that tends to be one of four things:

• the provider’s own fee page, terms or help center, for prices and limits;
• a regulator’s public register, such as ESMA’s interim MiCA register or the FCA register, for licenses;
• the text of a law, a court record or an official notice, for rules and deadlines;
• filings and attested reserve reports, for company figures.

Every figure is linked from the sentence that uses it. Fees and limits also carry the date we read them, because a pricing page can change overnight. We don’t lean on other news sites for a fact that a primary document can confirm.

Licensing gets extra care. Registered, licensed and authorized aren’t interchangeable, and a license belongs to one legal entity, often a subsidiary rather than the brand you know. So we name the entity and the register that lists it. If a number can’t be checked, the article says so or leaves it out.

Corrections

Mistakes get fixed as soon as we’ve confirmed them. The corrected article carries a note at the end explaining what changed, and the same note goes on the corrections page. Typos and formatting don’t get a note. To flag something, quote the sentence when you write to us.

Independence from advertisers

No advertiser, partner or company we cover sees an article before it’s published. They can’t approve it, and they can’t edit it. Money doesn’t change what we say about anyone’s fees or licenses either.

Anything paid is labeled. Partner articles carry a “Partner content” label, featured events are marked as sponsored, and a notice at the top tells you when an article contains affiliate links. The details are on how we make money.

Keeping articles up to date

We go back to guides and fee comparisons and check them against their sources again. When an article changes in a way that matters, an “Updated” date appears under the headline beside the original one.

Bylines

For now, articles carry the byline of The Crypto Economy editorial team, which answers for everything on the site, corrections included.