Editorial policy

Sourcing

Claims on this site fall into three groups, and each is handled differently. Protocol facts about Solana are stated plainly and, where a reader may want to confirm them, linked to primary documentation. Statements about how a class of software behaves are derived from public documentation and terms of service, and are written as structural claims rather than as observations of any one product. Everything else is reasoning, and is written so that the reasoning is visible and can be disagreed with.

We do not cite anonymous sources, forum posts or promotional material as evidence. We do not treat a vendor's own marketing copy as a factual description of its product, and we do not repeat a specification we have no way to check.

Numbers

A number appears on this site only if it satisfies one of three conditions. It is a protocol fact, such as the number of decimals in SOL or the base fee charged per signature. It is arithmetic we performed from stated assumptions, in which case the assumptions are printed in the same block and the result is labelled illustrative. Or it is attributed to a named public source that a reader can open.

We publish no market statistics, no adoption figures, no success rates, no percentages of users, no review counts and no aggregate ratings. An illustrative calculation is a worked example of a method, not a forecast and not a claim about what a run would produce. If a page presents a figure without stating where it came from, that is an error and we want it reported.

Why there are no rankings

A ranking implies a comparable measurement across products. To measure volume tools comparably you would need the same token, the same pair, the same depth, the same venue, the same window and the same budget for each one, run more than once to separate signal from market noise. Nobody publishing a ranking in this category has done that, and neither have we. Publishing one anyway would make this site an example of the behaviour it warns about.

The alternative we chose is a scoring sheet the reader applies themselves, with the weights left to them, because only the reader knows which criteria are dealbreakers in their situation.

Commercial disclosure

One third-party product is referenced on this site: a Solana volume console operated by another company. It appears as a button in the header, in a contextual block on the home page, and in a small number of article contexts where a live console illustrates the point under discussion. Those links open in a new tab and are labelled as third-party.

The reference is not a review, not an endorsement and not a statement that the product performs well. We do not audit its results. We do not publish claims about its outcomes, its pricing or its reliability. No vendor pays for editorial coverage on this site, no vendor is given advance sight of a page, and no page is written or altered at a vendor's request.

Conflicts of interest

• No paid reviews, paid placements, sponsored articles or paid inclusion in any list.
• No product submissions accepted for review, because an unverifiable review is worthless.
• No affiliate arrangement is presented as an editorial judgement, and no editorial judgement is adjusted to suit a commercial link.
• Where a commercial link exists on a page, a disclosure appears on that same page.

Corrections

When a factual error is found, the page is corrected rather than quietly deleted, and the modification date carried in the page metadata changes. Substantive corrections that alter the meaning of a section are described in the text of the section itself, so that a reader who saw the earlier version understands what changed. Typographical fixes and clarifications are made without a note.

To report an error, use the address on the contact page and include the URL and the specific sentence. Corrections that come with a source get handled faster than corrections that come with an assertion.

Scope and limits

This site is educational. It is not financial advice, not legal advice and not an invitation to run a volume campaign. Automated trading can lose the funds committed to it. Rules about market conduct differ by jurisdiction and change; deciding what is permissible where you live is your responsibility and, if the amounts justify it, your lawyer's.

We also state the limits of the method itself. The nine criteria filter out tools that cannot be verified. They do not identify a tool that will produce a good outcome, because no external test can. That is why the test protocol exists and why it is written to produce evidence rather than reassurance.