Editorial Policy

This page explains how NFTinger selects, verifies and corrects its content. It is written to be checked, not to be admired — if our output does not match what is described here, that is a failure on our side.

1. Scope

We cover the cross-chain NFT market: trading activity, market structure, marketplaces, royalties, mint economics, security and regulation. We do not cover individual token price speculation, and we do not publish price targets.

2. Sourcing

• A fixed source whitelist is used for every edition: CryptoSlam, Dune Analytics, DappRadar, NFTGo, NFT Price Floor, DefiLlama, Nansen, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.
• Marketplace disclosures: OpenSea, Blur, Magic Eden, Tensor, OKX NFT, LooksRare, X2Y2.
• Explorers: Etherscan, Solscan, Basescan, Ordinals.com, Ord.io, BscScan.
• Primary sources: official project blogs, official X accounts, GitHub, issuer transparency reports.
• Industry media and research: The Block, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, DL News, Protos, NFT Now, Chainalysis, Messari, Galaxy Research, a16z crypto.

3. Verification

1. Gather from the whitelist.
2. Deduplicate overlapping reports of the same event.
3. Judge importance by expected relevance a month out, not by same-week volume of coverage.
4. Classify and summarise the fact.
5. Cross-check against a second whitelist source where one exists.
6. Comment, clearly separated from the summary of the fact.

Where a claim traces to a single source we cannot corroborate, we publish it labelled not independently confirmed. We do not drop such items: absence of corroboration is not evidence of falsity.

4. Separation of Fact and Commentary

Every news and analysis item separates what happened from what we think about it. A reader should be able to accept our summary and reject our commentary.

5. Data and Measurement

Metric definitions and week boundaries are stated in place wherever a table is published, and the full set of formulas used is listed at the bottom of the Weekly Data Report. Where a figure is an estimate — most importantly our wash-trading range — we say so and we publish the method's limitations alongside it.

6. Independence and Disclosure

• We do not accept payment for coverage.
• Commercial relationships, where they exist, are disclosed on the about page and in the site footer.
• Sponsors have no input into editorial content.

7. Column Pipelines

Each of our weekly and monthly columns runs a documented pipeline. The summary of each pipeline lives here so article pages can lead with the substance and not the process description.

• Weekly News Review — gather from the source whitelist; deduplicate overlapping reports of the same event; judge importance by expected relevance a month out rather than by same-week coverage volume; classify each item by topic and impact; summarise the fact in 4–6 sentences; cross-check against a second whitelist source where one exists; add a clearly separated 1–2 sentence commentary. Single-source items are labelled as not independently confirmed.
• Weekly Data Report — derived from the shared six-week data series so the news column can never quote a different number from the data column. Each edition publishes the main week-over-week table plus chain share, marketplace share, blue-chip floors, mint costs and royalties. The five analytical questions are answered in order.
• Weekly Intelligence — answers five fixed questions in a fixed order (Market / Chains / Blue Chips / Costs / Outlook). Section headings are identical in every edition so weeks can be compared and answer engines can locate them.
• Market Intelligence — weekly pulse plus monthly market report. The monthly report includes a blue-chip floor index with methodology published in full, new-issue retention by decile, a wash-trading range with method and limitations, royalties, and correlation with the majors (only when a quarter of observations is available).
• Deep Dives — long-form research in report form: background, event timeline, data, competing views (including the one we disagree with), implications, and open questions. Positions are stated clearly but uncertainties are preserved.

8. What We Do Not Do

• No price forecasts or price targets.
• No project ratings or rankings.
• No correlation statistics from fewer than a quarter of observations.
• No treatment of a floor price as a valuation.

9. Corrections

Errors are corrected on the page, and substantive corrections are noted in the next weekly edition so that readers who follow only the weekly columns still see them.