Editorial Standards & Ethics

Last updated: June 10, 2026

Proof Street operates under the standards below. We publish them so readers, sources, sponsors, and the subjects of our coverage know what to expect.

Independence

Proof Street is editorially independent. The editor sets editorial direction.

Sources and subjects may review pieces for factual accuracy before publication. No outside party approves framing, wording, or conclusions, and no outside party decides whether a piece runs.

Mission and scope

Proof Street covers privacy-preserving computation as an infrastructure category: ZK, FHE, MPC, and TEE, the companies building privacy infrastructure, the institutions deploying it, the researchers testing it, and the regulatory environment shaping what can be deployed where.

We do not cover token markets, trading, or price action. We do not publish investment advice.

Sourcing

Proof Street works from named sources and primary documents: papers, filings, code, official statements, and on-the-record interviews. We link to primary sources wherever they exist.

Interviews

Interviewees are told the topic in advance, and conversations are recorded with their consent. Interviewees may review the piece for factual accuracy before publication. Requests that go beyond accuracy, to framing, structure, or conclusions, are declined.

Sponsorship

Sponsors underwrite the publication and the coverage areas they support, at a flat rate. No article has a price, no payment is conditional on what any piece says or whether it runs, and no sponsor-written or sponsor-approved material is published as editorial.

Sponsors, like sources and readers, may suggest topics. Editorial decisions, including what any piece says and concludes, rest with the editor alone.

Sponsors do not have copy approval, takedown rights, or the right to require or prevent coverage of any company, technology, or topic. Coverage of sponsors' direct competitors is not avoided, delayed, or softened.

Sponsors are listed publicly on the Funding page. When a sponsor's company is the subject of a piece, the article carries a disclosure noting the relationship.

Fairness and corrections

Subjects of substantively critical coverage are contacted for comment before publication and given reasonable time to respond.

Factual errors are corrected promptly and the correction is noted on the piece. Write to news@proofstreet.xyz.

AI

AI tools are used for research support, transcription, and editing. Articles are written and edited by humans.

Attribution

Direct quotation and paraphrased ideas require attribution. Reuse of another publication's reporting is credited and, where substantive, linked.

Proof Street articles may be quoted with attribution and a link. Wholesale republication or commercial reuse requires written permission.

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