CHAINPRESS
A digital-assets news site with two kinds of page on it: briefings written here from reporting it credits, and headlines that link back to the publisher who wrote them.
Who writes this
No journalist works here. Chainpress monitors a broad network of digital-asset news sources and primary documents, groups reporting around the same underlying event, identifies corroborating coverage and primary-source confirmation, and presents the result in a concise intelligence format.
That is why every story carries the byline “Chainpress” rather than a person’s name, and why there is no masthead on this page. An earlier version of this site listed four desk leads and put a different invented name on each article. None of those people existed. Attaching a plausible human name to financial copy nobody wrote is the most damaging thing a site like this can do, so the names are gone and they are not coming back in some softer form.
No claim of editorial review is made either. There is no sub-editor and no sign-off, and printing a promise of one would be the same kind of lie as the bylines. Treat what you read as you would any unreviewed source: the facts should be verifiable in the reporting linked at the foot of each story, and if they are not, the story is wrong — tell us.
How stories are selected, grouped and sourced is set out on Methodology; the publishers behind them are listed on the Source network page.
What the labels mean
Every card and every article page carries one of four labels, so you know what you are about to open before you open it.
- Briefing
- Written here, from the reporting credited at the foot of the page. Opens on this site.
- Analysis
- Written here, longer, built on data rather than a single event.
- Opinion
- Argument rather than reporting. Not a news story and not presented as one.
- A domain name, e.g. coindesk.com
- Somebody else's article. The headline and summary are theirs, and the link opens their site in a new tab.
What you will not find is a Positive / Neutral / Negative tag. Every story used to carry one. There was no documented method behind it, no way to tell whether it was a judgement about the asset, the company or the news, and on a page showing live prices a green “Positive” badge reads as a recommendation. It was removed rather than explained, because the honest explanation was that it did not mean anything.
How this site behaves
- Facts are used, wording is not
- Where a story is written here, it is written from the reporting it credits. The facts in somebody else's article are free to use; their sentences are not. Source links sit at the foot of every piece, and the credit is to the outlet that established the fact.
- Nobody's photographs are borrowed
- A credit line is not a licence. News photography is licensed per publisher and does not transfer, so stories written here run generated abstract plates, labelled as illustrations. Aggregated headlines show the publisher's own share image beside a link back to them, which is what a share image is published for.
- Aggregated headlines stay aggregated
- For a story we have not written up, this site stores the headline, the summary the publisher put in their own feed, the byline and a link — nothing else. Reading happens on their site, where their advertising and subscriptions are.
- No paid placement
- Nothing on this site has been paid for by anyone, because nothing on this site is for sale. If that changes it will be labelled before it changes.
What is on the site
- 50
- Stories written here, kept permanently.
- 787
- Aggregated headlines inside the 30-day window.
- 54
- Headlines held back because a briefing here covers the same news.
- 45
- Held back for having no digital-assets connection — general AI and macro stories that arrive through crypto publishers’ feeds.
These reconcile: the latest feed holds 837 items, which is 50 of ours plus 787 aggregated. The full archive of our own work is not windowed — the 30 days applies to the feed, not to the writing.