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Technical Papers, Verification Benchmarks & Longitudinal Datasets
Methodology papers, primary-source grounding architectures, smart-contract risk heuristics and machine-readable datasets published by the Basis Desk Research Desk under the editorial supervision of Chief Editor Julian Mercer (ORCID 0009-0003-1162-170X).
Technical Reports & Preprints (2026)
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Architecture, Dual-Pass Audit Thresholds, and Empirical Evaluation of the Basis Desk Pipeline
Authors: Julian Mercer (ORCID 0009-0003-1162-170X) & Basis Desk Research Desk
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.
Cite this technical report (APA 7th & BibTeX)
Mercer, J., & Basis Desk Research Desk. (2026). 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 (Technical Report No. BD-TR-2026-01). Basis Desk. https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-01
@techreport{basisdesk_bd_tr_2026_01,
title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-01},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-01},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Primary-Source-Verification-and-Grounding-Audit-Architecture.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
} 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
Authors: Julian Mercer (ORCID 0009-0003-1162-170X) & Basis Desk Research Desk
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.
Cite this technical report (APA 7th & BibTeX)
Mercer, J., & Basis Desk Research Desk. (2026). 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 (Technical Report No. BD-TR-2026-02). Basis Desk. https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-02
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title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-02},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-02},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Cross-Venue-Entity-Resolution-and-Onchain-Whale-Attribution-Study.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
} 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
Authors: Julian Mercer (ORCID 0009-0003-1162-170X) & Basis Desk Research Desk
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.
Cite this technical report (APA 7th & BibTeX)
Mercer, J., & Basis Desk Research Desk. (2026). 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 (Technical Report No. BD-TR-2026-03). Basis Desk. https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-03
@techreport{basisdesk_bd_tr_2026_03,
title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-03},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-03},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Browser-Level-Claim-Verification-and-Token-Security-Benchmark.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
} Machine-Readable Datasets & Citation Feeds (CC BY 4.0)
All exports are generated live from the Basis Desk verification database and may be freely cited, mirrored in institutional repositories (Dataverse, Zenodo, InvenioRDM, Figshare, OSF), or ingested by research pipelines under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Verified Crypto News & Grounding Audit Dataset
Up to 500 most recent source-verified articles with publication timestamps, categories, asset tickers, word counts, second-pass audit scores (0–100), hero scores, and regulatory statuses.
Longitudinal At-a-Glance & Citation Stream
Structured newline-delimited JSON records containing headlines, summaries, At-a-Glance causal fields (what_happened, why_it_matters), audit scores, and Markdown twin URLs for NLP benchmarking.
DataPackage Schema & Resource Manifest
Standardized Frictionless Data Package descriptor with column-level schemas, ORCID contributor identifiers, live corpus row counts, and direct links to all PDFs and datasets.
Complete BibTeX Bibliography
Ready-to-import BibTeX entries (@techreport and @misc) for all three Basis Desk technical reports and the longitudinal dataset.
Open Archives Initiative Repository Endpoint
Standard OAI-PMH 2.0 XML harvesting feed (Identify, ListRecords, ListIdentifiers in Dublin Core oai_dc) for BASE, CORE, OpenAIRE and library catalogs.
DataCite Kernel 4.5 & Citation File Format
Machine-readable DataCite 4.5 schema and CFF 1.2.0 descriptor for automated DOI/repository ingestion on Zenodo, Dataverse, Figshare and OSF.
Combined BibTeX Record
@techreport{basisdesk_bd_tr_2026_01,
title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-01},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-01},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Primary-Source-Verification-and-Grounding-Audit-Architecture.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
}
@techreport{basisdesk_bd_tr_2026_02,
title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-02},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-02},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Cross-Venue-Entity-Resolution-and-Onchain-Whale-Attribution-Study.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
}
@techreport{basisdesk_bd_tr_2026_03,
title = {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},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
institution = {Basis Desk},
number = {BD-TR-2026-03},
year = {2026},
month = {10},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/research/bd-tr-2026-03},
pdf = {https://basisdesk.news/papers/BasisDesk-2026-Browser-Level-Claim-Verification-and-Token-Security-Benchmark.pdf},
note = {ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X. Open access under CC BY 4.0}
}
@misc{basisdesk_dataset_2026,
title = {Basis Desk Longitudinal Primary-Source Crypto News, Regulatory Actions, and On-Chain Whale Flow Dataset (2026)},
author = {Mercer, Julian and {Basis Desk Research Desk}},
publisher = {Basis Desk},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://basisdesk.news/research}},
url = {https://basisdesk.news/api/research/datapackage.json},
note = {Longitudinal CSV/JSONL corpus under CC BY 4.0. ORCID: 0009-0003-1162-170X}
}
Linked Basis Desk Verification Infrastructure
- Source-Verified Newsroom — real-time primary-source dispatches
- Research-Desk Deep Dives — multi-source synthesis & analysis
- Regulator & Entity Hubs — SEC, CFTC, ESMA, FCA, MiCA & primary docs
- On-Chain Whale Telemetry — labelled $5M+ ETH, BTC & ERC-20 flows
- Basis Desk Verify Extension — Chrome & Firefox claim fact-checker
- Smart-Contract Token Checker — EVM & Solana bytecode risk scanner
- Evergreen Knowledge Base — 300 source-linked crypto explainers
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) — open JSON-RPC server at /mcp