Ownership & Funding
Why we publish this page
In crypto media, “who funds this publication” is not a formality; it is the first question a sensible reader asks and the question too many outlets hope nobody asks, since the honest answer is often a token project, an exchange, or a fund with positions to talk up. CRYPTO QUILL publishes this page so the question has a written answer that we can be held to. If anything on this page ever stops being true, the page changes; the page does not stay comfortable while the facts drift.
Who owns Crypto Quill
CRYPTO QUILL is independently owned and operated by the small editorial team that produces it. There is no parent media group, no exchange, no token foundation, no venture fund, and no market maker with any ownership stake, board seat, or contractual influence over the publication. Nobody outside the team can hire or fire anyone on it, and no outside party reviews, previews, or approves coverage before publication. We have no token of our own, we have never conducted any token sale, and we do not hold a treasury of assets whose price our coverage could serve. Any account, token, or “official partner” claiming otherwise is fraudulent, and we would appreciate a report of it to support@cryptoquill.com.
Where the money comes from
Running a news operation costs money, and readers deserve to know whose money. Our revenue comes from two sources:
- Advertising. Display advertising served on the site, sold either directly under the rules on our Advertise With Us page or through advertising networks. Sponsored content, where it appears, is labelled so that it cannot be mistaken for journalism.
- Affiliate commissions. Some articles contain links to services (typically exchanges or wallets) that pay a commission if a reader signs up through them. Affiliate links are disclosed on the pages that carry them.
That is the complete list. We do not receive grants from foundations or protocols, we do not take payment for coverage in any currency including tokens, we do not sell research to trading firms, and we do not monetise reader data beyond the advertising described in our Privacy Policy.
The firewall between money and coverage
Revenue and editorial are separated by rules with no exceptions clause:
- Advertisers and affiliate partners get no influence over what we cover, no preview of coverage, no veto, and no notice of stories about them.
- Being an advertiser buys no protection: we have and will run critical coverage of companies whose ads appear on the site, and every advertiser is told this before they spend anything.
- Affiliate relationships never decide editorial judgements. A service is covered, recommended against, or ignored on its merits; whether it has an affiliate programme does not enter the room. Writers are not paid by affiliate performance, and no coverage is commissioned to feed an affiliate link.
- Where an affiliate relationship exists with a company featured in an article, the article discloses it, in the article, not merely here.
The conflict-of-interest rules that bind individual team members, including the prohibition on undisclosed holdings and on trading ahead of our own reporting, are set out in our Editorial Standards, and they exist for the same reason this page does.
What independence costs, and why we pay it
We decline revenue regularly: token launch promotions, paid listings, “sponsored reviews” with a required conclusion, and marketing budgets offered in exchange for silence. Refusing this money is the price of being worth reading, and we consider it cheap at that price. If the funding model on this page ever changes, whether through new ownership, outside investment, or a new revenue stream, this page will be updated before or alongside the change, not after readers notice.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or if you believe our coverage has ever contradicted what this page promises, write to support@cryptoquill.com and say so with specifics. That is not a rhetorical invitation; the address is read, and challenges to our independence get answered.
