2026-10-27T09:06:32Z https://basisdesk.news/api/research/oai

oai:basisdesk.news:bd-tr-2026-01 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z technical-reports

Primary-Source Grounding and Automated Claim Verification in Real-Time Cryptocurrency Newsrooms: Architecture, Dual-Pass Audit Thresholds, and Empirical Evaluation of the Basis Desk Pipeline Julian Mercer (ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X) Basis Desk Research Desk primary-source verification automated fact-checking cryptocurrency journalism grounding audit hallucination detection financial NLP Digital asset markets suffer from severe information asymmetry, latency-driven rumor propagation, and unverified secondary reporting. This paper presents the architecture of Basis Desk (https://basisdesk.news), an autonomous, primary-source-first newsroom engineered to ingest, cluster, draft, and verify financial and cryptocurrency news in real time. Rather than rewriting secondary media coverage, the pipeline ingests documents directly from regulatory agencies, courts, corporate filings, protocol repositories, and public blockchains, using secondary media headlines strictly as event-discovery signals to locate underlying primary documents. Every candidate draft undergoes an independent second-pass grounding audit that verifies factual claims, dates, entities, and numerical figures against the source text and live market snapshots, enforcing a strict verbatim-overlap ceiling and a minimum publication quality score of 80/100. Basis Desk 2026-10-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper Text application/pdf https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-01 https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Primary-Source-Verification-and-Grounding-Audit-Architecture.pdf BD-TR-2026-01 en-US CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

oai:basisdesk.news:bd-tr-2026-02 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z technical-reports

Cross-Venue Entity Resolution, Regulatory Filing Ingestion, and On-Chain Whale Flow Attribution at the Edge: Deterministic Knowledge-Graph Linking and Multi-RPC Block Scanning for Institutional Market Intelligence Julian Mercer (ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X) Basis Desk Research Desk entity resolution on-chain whale tracking SEC EDGAR 8-K regulatory intelligence blockchain analytics knowledge graph Tracking institutional and regulatory developments in digital asset markets requires linking off-chain legal documents (such as SEC Form 8-K filings, MiCA supervisory guidelines, and court orders) with real-time on-chain capital flows and spot market microstructure. This study details the zero-LLM runtime entity resolution and on-chain telemetry architecture deployed at Basis Desk (https://basisdesk.news). We describe (1) a deterministic entity-matching grammar that maps news coverage and primary citations onto canonical regulator, statute, corporate treasury, and topic hubs with Wikidata alignment, and (2) a fault-tolerant, multi-RPC Ethereum and Bitcoin whale scanner that detects and labels transfers >= $5,000,000 USD across exchange hot/cold wallets, custodians, and treasury addresses. Basis Desk 2026-10-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper Text application/pdf https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-02 https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Cross-Venue-Entity-Resolution-and-Onchain-Whale-Attribution-Study.pdf BD-TR-2026-02 en-US CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

oai:basisdesk.news:bd-tr-2026-03 2026-10-18T00:00:00Z technical-reports

Client-Triggered Claim Verification and Smart-Contract Risk Heuristics: Architecture of the Basis Desk Verify Benchmark: Epistemic Claim Labeling and Ownership-Renunciation Privilege Downgrading for Retail Investor Protection Julian Mercer (ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X) Basis Desk Research Desk claim verification browser extension smart contract security token scam detection ownership renunciation epistemic labeling Retail market participants reading third-party cryptocurrency articles, social posts, and decentralized exchange (DEX) pages rarely cross-check factual claims against primary filings or inspect underlying token bytecode for administrative traps. This paper presents the design and evaluation of Basis Desk Verify (https://basisdesk.news/tools/verify), a zero-background-tracking Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, and the Basis Desk Token Safety Checker (https://basisdesk.news/tools/token-checker). We introduce a four-class epistemic claim-labeling taxonomy (matches, differs, not_found, opinion) that avoids overclaiming falsity when evidence is absent, and we formalize a smart-contract risk-scoring refinement that downgrades owner-only administrative capabilities (mint, pause, blacklist, tax modification) when contract ownership is provably renounced to the zero or dead address without proxy upgradeability. Basis Desk 2026-10-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper Text application/pdf https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-03 https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Browser-Level-Claim-Verification-and-Token-Security-Benchmark.pdf BD-TR-2026-03 en-US CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

oai:basisdesk.news:dataset-2026 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z datasets

Basis Desk Longitudinal Primary-Source Crypto News, Regulatory Actions, and On-Chain Whale Flow Dataset (2026) Julian Mercer (ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X) Basis Desk Research Desk cryptocurrency news dataset primary-source verification financial NLP benchmark regulatory filings corpus on-chain whale transfers automated fact-checking Basis Desk Machine-readable longitudinal corpus of source-verified cryptocurrency news articles, regulatory actions (SEC, CFTC, ESMA, FCA, DOJ, Federal Reserve, EU MiCA), automated grounding-audit scores, and labelled on-chain whale transfers (>= $5M USD) produced by the Basis Desk autonomous newsroom. Basis Desk 2026-10-01 Dataset text/csv application/x-ndjson https://basisdesk.news/research https://basisdesk.news/api/research/dataset.csv https://basisdesk.news/api/research/dataset.jsonl https://basisdesk.news/api/research/datapackage.json en-US CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess