How Chainpress works
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.
Coverage
Chainpress monitors 3 digital-asset publishers and a set of primary sources — regulatory filings, court records, official statements and company announcements. Reporting is read as one information set rather than as separate feeds.
Grouping by event
Several outlets covering the same news is the normal case. Chainpress groups those reports around the underlying event so it appears once, with the other accounts attached, instead of three times as three separate developments. Grouping is presentational: nothing is deleted, every report keeps its own link, and a story that becomes a member rather than a lead is still reachable from its desk and from search.
Grouping is deliberately conservative. Two reports are treated as the same event only when they share several distinctive terms — names, tickers, figures — within a short window. Common vocabulary does not count: a great many crypto headlines say “bitcoin”. A duplicate on the page is a smaller cost than a real story hidden behind an unrelated one, so the threshold sits on the cautious side.
Corroboration
Where a story shows a source count, that is the number of independent outlets whose reporting Chainpress has grouped around the event. It is a measure of how widely something was reported, not of whether it is true — but it is the best independent read available, and it is why the front page orders stories by how widely they were covered as well as by how recent they are.
Primary documents
Where an event rests on a filing, docket or official statement, that document is linked separately from the reporting about it. One is the record; the other is somebody’s account of the record. Stories with a primary document attached are marked as such.
What Chainpress publishes
- Briefings
- Written here from the reporting and documents credited at the foot of each one. Facts are credited to the outlet or record that established them; the wording is not taken from them. 115 have been published and all are kept permanently in the archive.
- Headlines
- A publisher’s own headline and summary, credited, with the article itself staying on their site. Chainpress stores the headline, the summary the publisher put in their feed, the byline and a link — never the article text. These cards name the domain they open before you click them.
- Images
- A credit line is not a licence, and news photography does not transfer between publishers. Stories written here carry generated illustrations, some photographic in style. They show the subject of a story — hardware, markets, buildings — never an identifiable person or a reconstruction of the event itself, and each is captioned as an illustration rather than presented as a photograph.
Market data
Prices come from CoinGecko, read at most once every two minutes and shared across the whole site. A reading is labelled Live for five minutes, Delayed after that, and Unavailable once it is three quarters of an hour old — at which point the figures are removed rather than shown under a warning.
There is deliberately no stored price snapshot to fall back on. A hand-written number in a column headed “Price” is an invented figure however the page is labelled.
The CP20 index
The pulse figure on the front page is CP20: the combined market capitalisation of the twenty largest digital assets, divided by what that same measure read on 2026-09-20 and multiplied by 1000. The 24-hour change is computed from each constituent’s own reported change in market capitalisation, so it is the real move of the basket rather than an average of price moves.
Stablecoins are excluded — a peg holding at 0.01% adds size without adding information — as are wrapped and liquid-staked derivatives, because WBTC’s market capitalisation is bitcoin’s counted a second time and stETH is ether’s.
Two limits, which are the reason the change matters and the level does not. The constituents are re-selected on every reading, so this tracks “the largest twenty” as a moving set rather than a basket anyone could have held — an asset climbing into the top twenty changes what the number measures. And the base date is 2026-09-20, so the level sits near 1000 by construction and carries no history yet. Read the 24-hour change; treat the level as a scale marker, not a track record.
It is not a benchmark, is not investable, and is not audited.
Nothing on this site is investment advice, and no figure here is a substitute for a live quote from a venue you can trade on.
Getting it wrong
Corrections are appended to the story and the change is timestamped — an “Updated” stamp under a byline means the text changed after publication. Silent edits are not the practice here. If something is wrong, tell us.