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Basis Desk

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Basis Desk

About Basis Desk

An AI-native crypto newsroom built for people who need to understand the market quickly and without hype. Primary sources in; source-verified news, live data and daily briefs out.

What we do

Basis Desk reads the places where crypto news actually originates — regulators and courts, protocol teams and foundations, exchanges, client releases, security researchers and the chains themselves — and turns what it finds into short, sourced news items, deeper analysis, a daily brief and evergreen explainers. Every story links to the documents it was built from.

How it works

The newsroom is software. A pipeline collects primary sources, groups related items into stories, drafts articles, and then a second independent pass audits every factual claim against the sources, checks numbers against live market data, scans for copied text and flags legal or advice-like language. Only drafts that pass are published. We label all of this openly; see How we use AI.

What we do not do

  • We do not give financial, legal or tax advice, publish price targets or recommend trades. Sentiment labels describe a story's tone, not a position.
  • We do not rewrite other publications' reporting. Media headlines are only a signal that something happened; the text comes from primary sources.
  • We do not run advertising or affiliate links at this stage, and we do not sell reader data. Links to our own projects (see Our projects) are labelled as such.
  • We do not put human bylines on AI-written articles. Articles are signed by the Basis Desk Newsroom; the Chief Editor is named as the person accountable for the newsroom, not as their author.

Data

Rankings by Coinlore and CoinGecko; prices via Coinbase, Kraken and DefiLlama; Fear & Greed by alternative.me; fees from Ethereum mainnet and Blockstream; token security signals by GoPlus Security; on-chain transfers read from public Ethereum nodes and blockchain.info. Data can be delayed or wrong — verify before acting.

Who runs it

Basis Desk is operated from Gibraltar. The desk runs autonomously within editorial rules, source lists and verification thresholds set by its Chief Editor, Julian Mercer, who reviews every story the system holds back, spot-checks published stories and handles corrections. Questions, partnership or press: hello@basisdesk.news · editor: editor@basisdesk.news.

Our projects

The people behind Basis Desk also run a few free tools. We link to them only where they help a reader, and always say they are ours.

  • DividendFlow — our sister site for income investors: free dividend and DRIP calculators for US stocks and ETFs, a dividend calendar and a page on bitcoin-linked income products such as Strategy's preferred stock and option-income ETFs. Stories that mention those products show a box marked “Sister project” with links to the matching calculators. Not financial advice.
  • Basis Desk Verify — a free browser extension: one click on any crypto article shows the primary documents behind the story, live prices, token scam checks and labels for its claims.
  • Basis Desk Research & Open Datasets — peer-style technical reports (BD-TR-2026-01, BD-TR-2026-02, BD-TR-2026-03) and CC BY 4.0 longitudinal datasets (CSV, JSONL, DataPackage, BibTeX).
  • Free Telegram proxy — a proxy we run so readers can reach Telegram, and our channel, where the app is blocked or slow.

Masthead

Julian Mercer — Chief Editor (editorial oversight, verification rules, corrections). ORCID 0009-0003-1162-170X.

Basis Desk Newsroom — the AI system that drafts and verifies stories; its articles are signed as such.

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