Editorial Policy

The numbers rule

A number appears on this site only if it belongs to one of two categories, and the category is always identifiable from context.

Protocol facts. Constants and behaviours that a reader can verify independently against public documentation or against the chain itself. Examples include SOL carrying nine decimals, a slot targeting roughly 400 milliseconds, a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, a transaction compute ceiling of 1.4 million units, a blockhash remaining valid for 150 slots, and the constant-product invariant used by the most common pool type.

Illustrative arithmetic. Calculations performed by the desk on assumptions the desk chose, presented so the mechanism becomes visible. Pool reserves, order sizes, fee tiers and landing rates in examples are inputs we invented for the calculation. Every table of this kind carries a caption that says so, and every worked example states its inputs before it states its result.

What is never published

• Statistics about market activity that this desk did not compute and cannot show the derivation for.
• Any figure presented as an observation when it is actually an assumption.
• Performance claims, profit and loss case studies, win rates or returns, for our own work or anyone else's.
• Review counts, star ratings, aggregate scores or testimonials.
• Author personas with fabricated credentials, photographs or biographies.
• Backdated publication dates or artificially aged content.

Sourcing

Protocol behaviour is checked against primary documentation from the relevant project rather than against secondary summaries. Where a claim depends on a specific implementation detail, the article says which implementation it is describing, because pool programs differ and a statement true of a constant-product pool may be false of a concentrated-liquidity pool.

External links are used to support claims, not to pad a page. They point at primary sources such as protocol documentation or public repositories, and they carry attributes that mark them as external references rather than endorsements.

Byline and authorship

Everything is published under the SolSpread Desk. There is no invented individual author, no photograph and no biography, because inventing one would be the first fabricated fact on a site whose entire argument is that fabricated facts are worthless. The desk takes collective responsibility for accuracy.

Commercial links

This site links to third-party execution software in a small number of places. Those links are commercial placements and should be read as promotional, not as a verified recommendation. The policy governing them has four parts.

1. Volume cap. A hard ceiling on how many such links exist across the whole site, set editorially and not raised on request.
2. Context requirement. A commercial link may only appear where the surrounding paragraph has already established the problem it relates to, and the sentence must describe what the reader will find rather than assert a benefit.
3. No claim transfer. No performance figure, price, guarantee or metric is attributed to any linked tool. This desk cannot verify such claims and therefore does not repeat them.
4. No editorial influence. The presence of a commercial link does not change the analysis on the page. Articles do not conclude that software is the answer to a problem the article itself framed.

Corrections

Errors get fixed rather than quietly deleted. A factual error in a published piece is corrected in place, and when the correction changes the substance of a claim rather than the wording, the page notes what changed. Requests should identify the page, quote the passage, and say what the correct statement is and how it can be checked. The route in is on the contact page.

Scope limits

This desk describes mechanisms, not markets. It does not forecast prices, evaluate tokens or projects, advise on position sizing as an investment matter, or claim to know the current state of any pool. Where a mechanism could plausibly change with a program upgrade or a market structure shift, the article says so instead of pretending permanence. Nothing published here is financial advice, and the arithmetic on this site is a teaching device rather than a trading system.