How this is funded
Most crypto “top 10” pages are paid for by the services they rank. This site is not a referral marketplace, not a direct-ad platform, and not a paid-placement list — and that applies everywhere on it, not just the ratings. This page exists so you can check whether we are different, rather than take our word for it.
Across the whole site
- No affiliate links, anywhere. No link on this site — in the ratings, news, guides or market pages — pays us if you sign up. Outbound links go to the service’s own page and carry
nofollow. - No paid placements or sponsored posts. No service can buy a position, a mention, a review or a better score. There is no rate card because there is nothing to sell.
- No direct advertising. We run no ad units and no brokered promotions; the pages carry information, not adverts.
- Owner conflicts are excluded outright. Any service owned by or affiliated with this site’s owner does not appear in the ratings at all — not scored, not listed, not compared. That is broader than a disclaimer, and it settles the independence question rather than annotating it.
Why we bother
Not taking money is not a sacrifice here — it is the whole point. It is what lets a rating say that the largest exchange in the world publishes no status feed and cannot demonstrate its own reliability. It lets us tell you a service is not for you, or that the free open-source option is better than the paid one, or that we scored something 8.75 and only measured 62% of it. A page that earns a commission on your signup cannot write those sentences, and mostly doesn’t.
What you should still be sceptical about
- Absence of a commission is not absence of bias. We chose the criteria and the weights. We decided that a service you cannot audit scores worse than one you can. That is a judgment, and you may weigh it differently — the methodology spells out where the method is weak so you can discount it yourself.
- Outbound links still exist — they just don’t pay us. We link to the services we cover so you can verify them. Those links are
nofollowand earn us nothing; they are there for checking, not for conversion. - Check the numbers, don’t trust them. Every figure links to the source it came from. If one looks wrong, the evidence link goes to the provider’s page, not ours.