Every piece of editorial on this site carries a named author. Every rating carries the analyst who verified it and the date of that verification. This page explains who they are and what that accountability actually commits us to.

Named bylines, not house accounts

Anonymous bylines are not used for editorial content. When an article is wrong, there is a person responsible for it, and that person's other work is listed on their profile so a reader can judge whether they have a record worth trusting. A house byline removes that accountability, which is why we do not use one.

Beats rather than generalists

The desk is organised around subject areas — Bitcoin and monetary design, Ethereum and Layer 2 infrastructure, DeFi protocol research. An analyst writing outside their beat is reviewed by someone inside it. Depth in a narrow area produces better work than breadth across everything, particularly in a field where the details determine whether a claim is true.

What an author profile records

Each profile states the analyst's beat, their background and the pieces they have published here. Where an author has relevant prior experience it is stated plainly rather than inflated, and where they do not, we do not manufacture credentials.

Conflicts and positions

An analyst with a holding in, or a relationship with, a provider does not assess it. Where a position is relevant to a piece of coverage, it is disclosed in the piece. This applies to ratings, guides and market coverage equally.

Who verified a score

Ratings are not published under a house name. The analyst who checked the indicators is recorded on the review along with the verification date and the rubric version that produced the score. If a score changes by 0.3 or more, a dated entry names the indicators that moved and the evidence behind them.

Contributions and corrections

Readers who find an error can write to the desk, and corrections are handled editorially rather than commercially. Where a correction results from a reader's evidence, the correction note says so.

Adding to the desk

New analysts are brought on for a defined beat rather than to increase output. Before a byline appears, their first pieces are reviewed by an analyst already covering that area, and their profile states what they actually bring rather than a list of asset classes they have heard of. We would rather publish less and stand behind all of it.