Audit a crypto white paper's credibility claims

Make a claim inventory

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List named customers, partners, licences, executives and completed milestones separately from future plans. Record page references and the document version. Statements such as intends to build and has deployed describe different stages. Keeping them separate prevents a roadmap from being mistaken for evidence of a working product.

Check the external assertions

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Use the named organisation's own records or independently obtained contact details to verify the relationship. A testimonial appearing only on the project's site is not independent corroboration. The Titanium case demonstrates that fabricated social proof can sit beside detailed technical writing. If a claim cannot be checked, label it unresolved and explain which evidence is missing.

Review the money questions separately

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Identify the entity raising funds, the intended uses and the stated custody or spending controls. A technically coherent document does not validate those controls. The FCA's clone-firm guidance also cautions against relying on copied registration details. Preserve the version you reviewed so that later changes to claims, team members or promised uses can be compared accurately.

Annotate a white paper by claim type

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Mark each material statement as a technical proposal, existing product claim, partner claim, financial promise or intended use of funds. For each, record the evidence needed and the source actually supplied. A proposal should not be labelled delivered; a testimonial controlled by the issuer is not independent partner confirmation. Save the document version and date so removed claims remain traceable. Keep unanswered questions in the register instead of filling them with a technical opinion about a different part of the paper.

Sources, dates and limits

Checked 23 October 2026 against the criminal sentencing release and the reproduced signed court order. The signature date is 17 February; the hosting site's metadata says 20 February. The order, rather than the publisher's case summary, controls the account here.