Editorial standards

Our editorial process

Every article on SolanaWire goes through three stages before publication:

1. Ingest. We fetch new articles from a curated list of source publications via their public RSS feeds. We do not scrape paywalled content. We do not bypass anti-bot protections.
2. AI first pass. A large language model summarizes the source against our editorial rules: neutral tone, concrete facts only, no invented details, length proportional to the source, source publication credited. The original author and publish date are preserved from the source metadata.
3. Human review. A human editor reviews every summary before it is published. Editors check accuracy, attribution, and relevance, and can edit, regenerate, or reject any article. Auto-approval (after a configurable delay) is enabled only for sources we have confirmed produce high-quality summaries consistently.

Use of AI — disclosure

We use a large language model to write the first draft of every article summary. This is disclosed transparently on every article page (“Summary based on original reporting by [author] at [source]”) and in our About page.

The AI is constrained by an editorial system prompt that requires:

• Rewriting in our own words; no copied sentences from the source.
• Direct quotes from named human sources may be reproduced verbatim with attribution.
• No invented facts, names, dates, or numbers.
• Neutral, skeptical tone; no echoing of project marketing language.
• No price predictions, financial advice, or speculative claims.
• Absolute dates only; no relative dates that decay over time.
• Length proportional to the source — short sources stay short.

The AI does not select stories, choose sources, or decide what to publish. Those decisions are made by editors and a curated source list maintained by humans.

Source policy

We only ingest from publications that meet a minimum bar: established editorial standards, transparent ownership, and a track record of accurate reporting on crypto and Solana topics. Each source is given a reliability score from 0 to 100 that adjusts over time based on the quality of stories we receive from it.

We publish the full list of our sources publicly: View all sources →

What we do not publish

• Press releases dressed up as news, project self-promotion, or paid content.
• Speculative price-prediction pieces (“X reasons SOL will hit $500”).
• Articles that fail factual review against the source.
• Republished content where the source explicitly forbids it.
• Stories that turn out to be off-topic to crypto or the Solana ecosystem.
• Content that violates platform policies on harmful, illegal, or abusive material.

Attribution and bylines

Every article on SolanaWire clearly identifies:

• The original publication that reported the story.
• The original author of the source article, when the source provides one.
• The date the source originally published the story.
• A direct link to the original article on the source’s site.
• Whether the published summary has been edited by a SolanaWire editor since it went live, and when.

Corrections

If we publish something incorrect, we correct it. See our corrections policy for how to report an error and what we will do.

Contact

Editorial questions, source suggestions, complaints: hello@solanawire.com