This page sets out the standards this publication holds itself to. It is short on purpose: the rules are meant to be checkable, not aspirational.
The standard
Every factual claim in a BBVN Markets article should be traceable to one of four things: a primary document (court filing, regulator notice, licence register, official fee page), a dated on-chain or market record, a direct quotation from a named party, or a first-hand observation we made ourselves and can describe. Where a claim rests on secondary reporting, the article says so.
Sources and verification
- Dated, not just cited. Exchange fee tiers, licence statuses and regulatory deadlines carry the date they were checked. A correct figure becomes a wrong one when the regime changes underneath it.
- Contradictions are published, not smoothed over. If a company’s marketing page and its own disclosures disagree, the article presents both and states plainly which one a user would actually experience.
- Numbers keep their provenance. Self-reported figures — user counts, reserves, volumes, TVL — are labelled as self-reported. Where two credible sources disagree, both numbers appear with their sources.
- Unknowns are named. No claim is upgraded from “we could not verify this” to a confident assertion for the sake of a cleaner paragraph.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools for research assistance, drafting, translation and editing. We do not use them as a source of fact, and no figure, name, date, fee or licence status in our articles is taken from a language model’s memory.
- Every article is commissioned, structured, fact-checked and edited by the researcher who publishes under the BBVN Research desk name, who is accountable for what appears on the page.
- Facts, quotes and figures are checked against primary sources before publication — not against a model’s output.
- Articles are not generated in bulk from keyword lists. Publication frequency follows the research, not a calendar.
- If a correction is needed, it is made on the page with a dated note, regardless of how the draft was produced.
Corrections
We correct errors in place and log them. Material changes are explained in a note on the article itself, with the date. We do not silently delete or rewrite published claims. To report an error, write to [email protected] with the subject prefix [CORRECTION] and the source that shows the error.
Advertising, sponsorship and conflicts
- We have no commercial relationship with any exchange, token issuer or fund that we cover, and we publish no paid placement dressed as editorial.
- Referral links and affiliate arrangements are not used on this site. Absence of a referral link is not a claim about the product; it is simply the absence of a payment.
- Any future sponsorship or commercial arrangement will be labelled at the top of the article it affects. If a page carries no such label, there is no such arrangement.
Review and accuracy over time
Crypto rules, fee schedules and corporate structures change constantly, so articles on this site are living documents. We revisit published guides when a licence regime changes, when an exchange alters its fees or entities, or when a legal proceeding reaches a new stage — and we update the piece rather than leaving a stale version online.
In one sentence: we would rather publish a narrower claim we can prove than a broader one we cannot — and we would rather correct ourselves on the record than be right only by accident.
Questions about these standards, or about a specific piece, go to [email protected]. See also about us and contact.
