Editorial Policy

1. Who writes CryptRing

Everything on the news and learn surfaces is published by CryptRing Research — the same team that builds the scanner. We don’t run guest posts, we don’t accept submitted articles, and we don’t use named bylines: a piece is signed “CryptRing Research” because the measurements behind it come from our own system rather than from a personality.

Drafting is AI-assisted. A model helps turn a set of measurements into readable copy; a person decides what is worth writing about, checks the numbers against the source, and approves publication. Nothing publishes itself.

2. Where the numbers come from

A RingScore is computed by our own engine from on-chain and market facts — mint and freeze authority, liquidity and how much of it is locked, holder concentration, trading depth, token age and the rest of the signals described in how RingScore works. Prices, liquidity and volume come from public market data sources; on-chain state comes from a Solana RPC provider. We don’t resell another company’s risk rating under our name.

Every score in an article is a snapshot of the moment we measured it, and each one links to the live report page where you can see the current number and the signals behind it. Scores move. An article that quotes a score is a dated observation, not a standing claim.

Where a signal has no data, the report says “No data yet” and the engine renormalises over what it does have. We never fill a gap with a plausible-looking number — not in a report, not in an article.

3. We don't give investment advice — ever

CryptRing measures risk. It doesn’t tell you what to buy, sell or hold, and it never will. We publish no price targets, no predictions, no “this one is going to run”, and no portfolio suggestions. A low RingScore is not a sell signal and a high one is not an endorsement — a token can pass every automated check and still be worthless.

This rule is enforced in code, not by good intentions. Every draft is scanned for advice language — buy and sell instructions, price predictions, guarantees, multiplier claims — and a piece matching any of those patterns cannot be published until the wording changes.

Nothing we publish is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and we aren’t licensed to give any of it. What you do with the information is your decision alone. The full statement is in our Terms.

4. What has to pass before a piece goes live

Publishing is gated. A draft can’t go live until every one of these checks passes — the button is disabled, not merely discouraged:

• Length. At least 250 words for a news piece and 600 for a guide. Thin pages that exist only to rank don’t get published.
• No advice language. The scan described in section 3.
• Real links. At least two internal links, one of them to a token report, a guide or a hub — so a claim can be checked against the live data behind it.
• A described image. Hero image with alt text. No article ships with an undescribed picture.
• Honest metadata. Headline, search title, meta description and feed excerpt all present and within length — the title in a search result has to be the title of the piece you land on.

Scheduled pieces run the same gate at the moment they publish, not only when they were queued.

5. Money never touches a RingScore

No project can pay to raise its score, to be covered, to be left uncovered, or to have a piece taken down. The scoring engine has no input for money, and there is no commercial route to one.

CryptRing earns from reader subscriptions (Pro, $20/mo) and from paid audit work. A paid audit is a deeper manual review that a project commissions about itself — it produces its own report, and it does not change that token’s RingScore, its position in any feed, or whether we write about it.

If anything we publish is sponsored, paid for, or produced in exchange for something of value, it is labelled as such at the top of the piece in plain language — not in a footnote, not as “partner content”. We don’t use affiliate links to exchanges, and we don’t take payment for a link inside an article.

We publish no buy, sell, swap or trade action anywhere in the product. CryptRing tells you what we measured; it never moves your money.

6. When we get it wrong

We will get things wrong — a misread field, a stale snapshot, a sentence that says more than the data supports. When we do, we fix it visibly: the article carries a dated correction note explaining what was wrong, and the earlier version is never quietly overwritten.

How to report one, what counts as an error, and what we do about it is on the Corrections page.

7. Sources, links and other people's work

When a fact comes from somewhere other than our own measurement, we say where from and link to it. We quote sparingly and attribute what we quote. We don’t republish other publications’ work, and we don’t present a screenshot of someone else’s dashboard as our own finding.

Claims a project makes about itself — team, partnerships, audits, roadmap — are reported as claims and attributed to the project, never repeated as fact. Where we can verify one on-chain, we say how.

8. Changes to this policy, and how to reach us

This page is versioned with the site. When the standards change, the “last updated” date at the top changes with them.

Questions, disagreements, or a correction to report: hello@cryptring.com. Data and privacy questions go to privacy@cryptring.com.