Published August 2026
Short version: some links here are referral links to trading bots. When you sign up through one, the bot pays me a share of its fees. It costs you nothing extra. Here is the whole arrangement, spelled out, because you should never have to guess how a site that recommends things gets paid.
Trading bots charge a fee on every trade, typically around 1 percent. When you join a bot through a referral link, the bot pays a share of the fees you generate to the person whose link you used. The fee you pay is identical either way: the referral share comes out of the bot's cut, not on top of it. So using my links funds these guides at zero cost to you, and not using them is completely fine too, every guide works the same without them.
Only two pages carry them: the buying guide and the trading venues page. They are marked "(ref link)" right where they appear, so you always know before you click. The rest of the site, including the airdrop page, the about page and this one, carries none, on purpose: pages whose job is to protect you should not sell anything.
Nobody pays to be recommended here, and nobody can pay to soften a warning. I only recommend tools I use with my own money, and the custody warning (only deposit what you actively trade) appears next to every bot recommendation, because it is true whether or not it costs me conversions. If a tool I earn from has a problem, the problem goes on the page: the bots covered here have their incidents and limitations documented where relevant. And when I cannot verify something, the page says so instead of pretending.
Partly because disclosure rules (FTC and EU) require it, and they are right to. But mostly because this site's entire value is that it tells you the truth in an ecosystem full of pages that do not. That has to include the truth about itself.
Questions about any of this: @BetmanJoe.