Stablecard News covers stablecoins, cards, payments and the infrastructure underneath them. This page sets out how we decide what to cover, what we accept as a source, and what we will not do. It applies to every article published under our name.
What we cover
Four beats, and one story sits in one of them:
- News. Funding rounds, appointments, bank and institutional adoption, and market structure across the industry.
- Cards. Stablecoin card launches, issuers, networks, wallets, rewards and card programs.
- Stablecoins. USDC, USDT, PYUSD and their peers: supply, adoption, issuers and the regulation aimed at them.
- Payments. Settlement, cross-border flows, remittances and payment infrastructure.
We cover companies, products, regulation and market structure. We do not cover token prices as a subject in their own right, and we do not publish price forecasts, trading calls, or anything that amounts to a recommendation to buy or sell an asset.
Where our facts come from
Every factual claim in a story traces to a source a reader can go and check. In practice that means:
- Company announcements, press releases and product documentation
- Regulatory filings, rulemaking dockets, consultations and enforcement actions
- Issuer reserve reports and third-party attestations
- Earnings calls, investor presentations and transcripts
- Central bank, standard-setter and supervisory publications
- Court and corporate registry records
- Market data from named providers, as set out in our market data methodology
We name the source inside the story rather than tucking it into a footnote, and we link to the primary document wherever one is public. Where a figure carries the argument, we give the number, the unit, the period it covers and where it came from.
When we follow another outlet
If a story originated with another publication, we say so in the first or second sentence and link to their piece. We do not restate someone else’s exclusive as though it were ours, and we do not rewrite around a fact to avoid crediting the outlet that found it.
What we do not do
Stablecard News reports on the public record and on data. Being plain about that is more useful than implying a newsroom we do not have.
- We do not conduct original interviews or run investigations. When we describe what a company said, we are describing a document or a statement we can point you to, not a conversation.
- We do not publish claims sourced only to anonymous accounts, unnamed sources, or social media posts we cannot corroborate against a primary document.
- We do not accept embargoed briefings in exchange for favorable framing, and we do not send stories to the companies in them for approval.
Accuracy ahead of speed
We would rather publish an hour later with the filing in hand. Where something material is still unresolved at the time we publish, we say what is known and what is not, and mark the story as developing with the time of its last update.
Pilots, memoranda of understanding and announced intentions are not products. We describe each as what it is. A bank testing settlement with one counterparty has run a pilot, and calling it a launch would be wrong even if the press release does.
Right of reply
Where a story makes a serious allegation about a named company, we put it to them before publishing and carry their response, or note that they did not respond. That comes up rarely, because we report the public record rather than making allegations of our own. Where a company disputes something we have already published, it goes through our corrections policy like any other report of an error, and we reply either way.
Independence and funding
Stablecard News is funded by sponsorship and newsletter advertising. Sponsors have no say in what we cover, no advance sight of stories, and no involvement in any editorial decision. We do not sell coverage and we do not run sponsored posts in the editorial feed.
Any story that mentions a current sponsor carries a disclosure line naming the relationship. Where sponsored content appears anywhere on the site it is labeled as sponsored and sits outside the editorial feed. Advertising inquiries go to [email protected], the same address as everything else. We are small enough that claiming otherwise would not survive a follow-up email. What sponsorship does not buy is coverage, a say in coverage, or advance sight of a story.
Conflicts of interest
Anyone writing or editing for Stablecard News discloses holdings in, employment by, or an advisory relationship with a company or asset they are covering, and steps away from the story where that interest is material. We do not accept payment, equity, tokens or travel from companies we cover.
How stories are made
Drafts are AI-assisted; every story is reviewed by Stablecard News before publishing. Our AI use policy sets out exactly where AI is used, where it is not, and what the review consists of.
Getting something fixed
If we published something wrong, tell us and we will correct it in public with a date on it. See the corrections policy.
We correct, we do not delete
A published story stays at its URL. We do not quietly unpublish a story because a company asked us to, and we do not rewrite history to make a call look better than it was. In the rare case where a story has to come down, because of a legal requirement or because its factual basis has collapsed entirely, a note stays at the same URL recording that it was withdrawn and when.
Contact
Story tips, corrections, complaints and advertising inquiries all go to [email protected].