How We Research and Source Our Crypto Facts

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Every fact on this site should be traceable to a page you can open yourself. This page explains which sources we use, how we date what we publish and what we leave out.

The sources we use

We use primary sources, in roughly this order:

1. The ATO. The ATO's crypto asset pages for tax, record keeping and reporting.
2. ASIC and Moneysmart. ASIC's information sheet INFO 225 on digital assets, its media releases and consultation papers, and Moneysmart, ASIC's consumer website.
3. AUSTRAC. AUSTRAC's pages on virtual asset service providers and its register. A listing there is an anti-money laundering registration, not a licence or a safety rating, and Moneysmart says there is currently no public register to check the legitimacy of crypto exchanges.
4. Legislation. Acts and instruments on the Federal Register of Legislation, such as the Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Act 2026.
5. Scam reporting services. Scamwatch, ReportCyber and IDCARE.
6. A company's own pages. Only for facts about that company, such as its published fees or the name of the legal entity in its terms, and always attributed ("CoinSpot says", "Circle says").

We don't use comparison sites, forums, social media or other publishers' articles as sources, and we don't copy their wording.

How we date facts

Each guide lists its sources with the date we read them. Where an official page shows its own "last updated" date, we quote that date too. Fees and figures always carry their source and the date we checked them. We don't estimate, round or project figures, and we don't publish prices, interest rates or yields.

How we check exchanges

Before an exchange is named on this site, someone checks it by hand on AUSTRAC's register and, where the exchange says it holds a licence, on ASIC's professional registers. Exchange fact sheets then follow one template: the legal entity, the published fees, what the exchange says about its regulation, and a list of what we left out. They aren't reviews, there is no rating, and they don't link to the exchange.

What we leave out

If we can't check a fact on an official page or the company's own published page, it doesn't go on the site. We leave out marketing claims, awards, customer numbers and testimonials. We don't publish phone numbers or email addresses; official sites carry their own current contact details.

Reviews and corrections

Every page shows a published, updated and reviewed date. When the ATO, ASIC or AUSTRAC changes a rule, we update the pages that rely on it and change the updated date. Read our general information notice and about this site for more on who runs it.