How claims are researched, checked and labelled
Published
Sources, in order of weight
- Regulators, courts, legislation, company filings, official protocol documentation and the XRP Ledger itself.
- A company’s own statements about itself, always labelled Company-reported.
- Major financial press and named data providers, dated and attributed.
- Crypto trade press, only as a pointer to a better source, never as the only proof.
Every source is opened, and the exact words that support the claim are saved. If a source relies on another document, I follow it back to the original. Before a fact is marked Confirmed, I look for anything that contradicts it.
Labels
| Label on the site | What it means | How it maps to the research record |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed | Stated in a primary source | Confirmed, primary grade |
| Company-reported | A company’s own figure or claim about itself | Confirmed or partly confirmed, company grade |
| In development | Announced or in progress, not yet live or measurable | Marked pending |
| Analysis | My reasoning from sourced facts | Derived figures and interpretation |
A page’s label is the label of its short answer. Any sentence with a different status carries its own label. On Hype Check, verdicts read Supported (Confirmed evidence), Partly supported (some parts Confirmed, some not), Not supported (the evidence says otherwise) and Too early to tell (In development, or no evidence either way yet).
Claims that couldn’t be traced to any source are never written as answers. They’re listed on Claims we could not verify, with what was searched and when.
How every page is checked
- A writer drafts only from the facts in the research record.
- A separate AI fact-checker, seeing only the draft and the saved source text, ties every sentence to a source or labels it Analysis.
- An AI model from a different company (GLM, by Z.ai) checks each claim against the saved source text. It blocks the page for any unsupported, mismatched, overstated or unattributed claim, any advice, or any contradiction.
- Flagged pages are corrected and checked again. A claim that still fails after two rounds is downgraded to Analysis or moved to the unverified list.
- Automated build checks catch broken links, pages nothing links to, dates that don’t match, and invalid page data.
- A fresh check re-opens the live sources for a random sample of pages. One error sends the whole batch back.
How this site stays current
XRP Breadcrumbs is always looking for new crumbs. The research doesn’t stop at launch; it runs on a schedule:
| How often | What happens |
|---|---|
| Daily | Every page is rebuilt, and dated items are checked: facts due for a re-check, and anything on the Timeline’s “What to watch” list whose date has passed. |
| Weekly | Any item that came due is researched again, and the pages that depend on it are updated and re-checked. |
| Monthly | A full research sweep. Every company, product and regulator on the site is searched from every angle (rules, filings, launches, money flows, ledger data, partnerships, competitors and risks), using different wording, viewpoints and time windows. A separate reviewer pushes back on every conclusion until no gaps remain, and a second AI search engine from a different company runs the same checklist. |
| Quarterly | A roundup page lists everything that changed that quarter, with links to the updated pages. |
New findings don’t create duplicate pages. A new event goes on the Timeline. A changed number updates every page that uses it, with a dated line in that page’s update log. A genuinely new question gets its own page. Everything goes through the same checks described above before it appears.
Dates
Each page shows when it was published and when its content last changed. A re-check that changes nothing is noted in the page’s update log and doesn’t move the date. Every number carries the date it was true.
What I won’t do
- Predict prices or tell anyone to buy, sell or hold.
- Recommend an exchange, broker or wallet.
- Present a company’s claim about itself as independent fact.
- Take paid links, sponsored posts or affiliate money.
Corrections
Errors are fixed on the page with a dated note and listed on the Corrections page. To report one, email [email protected].