Editorial policy
This page describes how Chip & Chain produces what it publishes. It is short because the rules are short, and it applies to every essay on the site.
How we assess this sector
We cover crypto gambling as a due-diligence desk, which means we review mechanisms, not gray-market operators: payment rails, fairness schemes, licensing regimes, and the sector's published numbers. A review here asks the auditor's questions — what does this mechanism actually prove, who carries the risk it does not cover, and where does the fine print bite — and answers them from published material: scheme documentation, regulators' publications, operators' own stated terms, and industry reporting, each attributed as such ("per the regulator", "per industry reporting", "as of this writing"). We do not invent statistics, quotes, or test results; we do not present others' figures as our own measurements; and we publish no operator sign-up links, bonus codes, or "how to win" content of any kind.
What scores mean
Scores are editorial judgments of a mechanism's substance measured against its own marketing: what it genuinely guarantees, what it costs to rely on, and how honestly it is sold. A low score means the mechanism's promise is mostly vocabulary; a middling score means a real capability with exclusions a careful reader must carry themselves; a high score means a mechanism that delivers what it claims — and still lists its cons, because every mechanism has a boundary. No score is a recommendation to gamble, and no score is for sale, at any price, to anyone.
Disclosure
Chip & Chain is commercially supported and may earn affiliate commissions or advertising
revenue from links. Any paid or affiliate content carries a disclosure notice at the top of
the post, and paid links are marked rel="sponsored". Sponsors get clearly
labelled space; they do not get editorial control, and they do not get conclusions.
Bylines
The site publishes under house bylines maintained by the editorial team, in the manner of publications that write under a house identity. Theo Marsh, the byline on every review, is a disclosed house pen name — the site's accountable editorial identity, not a fabricated biography. News items run under Staff, Chip & Chain. We do not invent journalist biographies or credentials, here or anywhere.
Corrections
We correct errors of fact quickly and visibly. If you spot one — a figure, a regulatory status, a date — write to us through the contact page and flag it as a correction; that queue moves fastest.