Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Editing and Proofreading Services
Consumer crypto businesses write for an audience that has been trained by the sector's own history to look for what is being left out. Users know that platforms have failed, that "your funds are safe" has preceded insolvency more than once, and that the reassuring sentence and the operative term are often in different documents. In most markets the regulatory position has hardened accordingly, and firms now have to make plain the things the industry spent years phrasing carefully. That is a writing problem before it is a compliance one.
We edit what exchanges, custodians and digital asset firms produce — user terms of service and account agreements, custody and asset segregation disclosures, risk warnings and appropriateness assessments, onboarding and verification communications, staking and yield product documentation, fee schedules and spread disclosures, withdrawal, delay and outage communications, proof-of-reserves explanations, institutional custody and prime brokerage documentation, security and key management descriptions, incident and hack disclosures, tax reporting guidance for users, marketing and financial promotion copy, and licensing applications and regulatory correspondence. Our editors check that user-facing reassurance is supported by the terms, and that nothing is described as protected when it is not.
The custody disclosure is the document that matters most and is written worst. Users want the answer to one question — if this company fails, do I get my coins back — and the standard text answers it obliquely, with language about industry-leading security and cold storage percentages that describes theft risk while saying nothing about insolvency risk. We rewrite these so the legal position is stated first and plainly: whether assets are held on trust or as a general claim against the company, whether they are pooled or individually segregated, which entity actually holds them and in which jurisdiction, whether any assets are lent or rehypothecated and under what permission, and whether any compensation or deposit protection scheme applies, including the answer "none does". Firms resist this because the honest version sounds worse than the vague one. It is also the version that survives a regulator's review, a journalist's reading, and the aftermath of a competitor's collapse.
Everything you send is treated in strict confidence, including terms in draft, incident documentation and licensing material. We are editors rather than legal, regulatory or financial advisers, and nothing here is investment advice; crypto promotions must be approved by whoever is authorised to do so in your market. What we can do is make your documents clear, consistent and honest about what they describe.
Key Cryptocurrency and Blockchain vocabulary
- Digital asset
- Stablecoin
- Reserve attestation
- Proof of reserves
- Proof of liabilities
- Custody
- Self-custody
- Qualified custodian
- Omnibus wallet
- Segregated wallet
- Cold and hot storage
- Multi-signature
- Key management and shard
- Rehypothecation
- Client asset trust arrangement
- Insolvency treatment
- Compensation scheme coverage
- Order book
- Maker and taker fee
- Spread
- Slippage on execution
- Withdrawal limit
- Withdrawal delay
- Network confirmation
- Gas fee
- Staking
- Unbonding period
- Slashing risk
- Yield product
- Counterparty risk
- Travel rule
- Know your customer verification
- Wallet screening
- Financial promotion approval
- Incident disclosure
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