GOAT.CX editorial policy:
how claims become pages.
This policy explains the evidence hierarchy, automated assistance, correction process, market-data handling, and limits applied across GOAT.CX.
How the GOAT.CX editorial policy classifies claims
Technical claims should resolve to on-chain records, protocol documentation, or named data providers. Historical claims should resolve to dated archives, direct project material, or attributable reporting. Interpretive claims are labeled as analysis rather than presented as ledger facts.
Prefer the closest available evidence
GOAT.CX prefers primary records and official documentation when they answer the question. Independent reporting and established data directories provide corroboration and context. Community posts may document reception or lore, but popularity alone does not prove a technical or financial claim.
Timestamp changing market data
Current GOAT observations name the provider and freshness state. Price uses the deepest-liquidity pool returned by the live feed; aggregates may span multiple discovered pools. Historical charts identify their provider and period. A displayed observation is not an executable quote. Review the live-data methodology
Disclose how automated systems assist
Automation may assist with data retrieval, drafting, internal consistency tests, structured-data generation, and original visual production. It does not create first-hand experience, professional credentials, or a basis for unsourced certainty. Material factual claims remain attached to named evidence, and original AI-assisted illustrations are labeled.
Correct the record without hiding the route
Substantive updates change the visible modified date and sitemap signal. Corrections should preserve the page URL when the subject remains the same. Source challenges, rights concerns, and factual corrections can be sent to [email protected].
How GOAT.CX is funded and what that excludes
GOAT.CX does not sell coverage, paid placement, sponsored articles, press-release republication, or ranking positions in any list. No entity pays to appear in the evidence ledger, the research library, or the market pages, and no external party reviews a draft before publication.
The publication does not issue, market, or hold a position it promotes to readers. Where a page links to an external venue such as a market directory or a swap interface, the link exists because a reader needs it to verify something independently—not as a commercial referral. If that ever changes, the relationship will be disclosed on the page carrying it rather than in a site-wide notice.
Why an external link appears
Outbound links serve verification. A source is chosen for evidentiary weight, not for authority by reputation: an on-chain record outranks a market directory, a directory outranks a news summary, and a news summary outranks a social post. When the strongest available source is weak, the page says so instead of borrowing credibility from a better-known name that does not actually support the claim.
GOAT.CX does not control external destinations, and their content can change after a page is published. Market data providers are named wherever their figures appear, because their methodologies differ and a value quoted without a provider and a timestamp is not verifiable. The evidence ledger records which source carries each claim.
What this policy cannot promise
On-chain observations describe what a node reported at a moment in time. They cannot establish who a person is, what a custody agreement says, or whether an asset is safe. Holder concentration figures list addresses, not beneficial owners, and a single address may represent an exchange, a pool, a program, or thousands of customers.
Live market values can be delayed, incomplete, or wrong when an upstream provider fails; those states are labeled rather than hidden. Historical ranges cover only the period a provider actually returns. Where the public record does not settle a question—most often around deployer identity and key custody—the answer is recorded as unproven and left that way until better evidence exists. See the desk's stated limits.
No promise of returns or individualized advice
GOAT.CX does not present attention, market capitalization, or past highs as a valuation floor. GOAT can lose most or all of its value. Readers are expected to verify the mint, understand the transaction, and make their own decisions. Use the GOAT risk guide
Who is responsible for this policy?
The organizational GOAT.CX Editorial Desk applies this policy. The broader mission and domain-preservation position are available on About GOAT.CX