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 we sell, and what we do not

We do not sell findings. Everything we establish about a project is published free of charge, immediately, and stays published. What you can pay for is a request — putting a project into the queue so that it gets examined at all — and for notifications, access, and work on material you own.

We never disclose who requested a report.

Two services are private by design, because they concern the client's own material and not a third party: Whitepaper Analysis and Grant Proposal Writer.

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. The log is public: chainsift.org/corrections.

We would rather be publicly wrong and visibly corrected than quietly wrong.