What Belongs in a Weekly Crypto Summary, and What Does Not

We publish a weekly summary. This is the standard we apply to what goes in it, written down so that readers can check whether we are following it.

What goes in

Regulatory items with a date. A rule commencing, a licence granted or refused, an enforcement action filed, a judgment handed down. Each changes someone’s legal position on a known date.

Security incidents with confirmed detail. After the transaction-level analysis exists, not during the first six hours when the figures are provisional.

Protocol changes that have shipped or have a firm activation date. Testnet results count. Roadmap updates do not.

Flow data. Creations and redemptions in regulated products, published daily and verifiable.

Venue changes that affect access. Listings and delistings that change who can buy an asset, and any change in which markets a platform serves.

What stays out

Price commentary. A weekly move in a volatile asset is not an event, and the explanations attached to it are constructed afterwards.

Partnership announcements. Almost none produce a change in anything measurable.

Conference statements. A keynote is not news.

Funding rounds without terms. A number with no structure, no price and no unlock schedule carries almost no information.

Anything sourced only to an anonymous social media account. This category has produced more retractions in crypto media than any other.

The honest consequence

Some weeks contain very little. When that happens, the summary is short and says so.

We think that is the correct behaviour and it is unusual, because the format of a weekly roundup creates pressure to fill it regardless of whether anything happened. Filling it is how commentary turns into noise, and how readers learn to skim rather than read.

The corrections policy

Errors are corrected in place, with a note at the foot of the item stating what changed and when. The original wording is not quietly edited away.

If we get something wrong, telling us is the fastest way to have it fixed, and the correction is published whether or not anyone else noticed.

What we do not do

No sponsored items presented as coverage. No links placed in exchange for payment. No coverage decisions influenced by who advertises.

Where we reference a venue, including Collect & Exchange, it is because it is relevant to the item and not because of any commercial arrangement. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed at the top of the piece rather than in a footer.

Why publish the standard at all

Because a reader has no way to evaluate a publication’s judgement without knowing what it claims to be applying. Most outlets do not publish one, which makes the question unanswerable.

Ours is above. It is short enough to check against any individual issue.