Conflict of Interest Policy
ChainSift · Last updated: 19 August 2026
Our only asset is that our assessments can be trusted. This page states the
rules that protect it. They are not aspirations; they are the terms we operate under.
Three things we will never do
1. We will never accept payment to improve a score.
Not a fee, not a token allocation, not an advertising deal contingent on an outcome.
There is no price. Requests of this kind are declined and we keep the record.
2. We will never promote tokens.
No paid placements, no sponsored coin mentions, no affiliate links to specific assets,
in any channel we operate. If we ever accept sponsorship, it will be for security tooling
only, and it will be labelled.
3. We will never put a risk warning behind a paywall.
Depth costs money. Warnings do not. If we find something that could cost people their
funds, the finding is published publicly and free.
What projects can pay us for
A project may purchase specific work about itself:
- verification of facts — founder identity checks, confirmation of the operating entity,
documentation review
- monitoring of its own contracts and treasury
- pre-launch review of its documentation
- grant proposal preparation
Four conditions apply to all of it, without exception:
- The price is fixed and paid before the work is done. The fee never
depends on the outcome.
- The result is published regardless of what it says. Accepting this is
a condition of the engagement. A project cannot pay us and then bury the answer.
- The score is not negotiable. It is not discussed in advance, not
adjusted on request, and not previewed for approval.
- Payment is disclosed on the page. Any report a project paid for
carries a visible note saying so.
Buying facts is legitimate. Buying conclusions is not. This is the line, and it does
not move.
Right of reply
If you run a project we have assessed and believe we published something inaccurate,
write to [email protected] with the specific
claim and the evidence.
- Factual errors are corrected, dated, and the correction is noted on the page.
- The original assessment stays visible. We do not quietly delete history.
- A disagreement about interpretation is not an error. We will publish your response
alongside our assessment, and readers can judge.
Corrections
Every correction is logged with what changed, when, and why. This applies to our own
mistakes as well as to updates driven by new information.
We would rather be publicly wrong and visibly corrected than quietly wrong.