The Cryptominium Search Standard

The rules

1. A secret never leaves your device.

Anything that looks like a recovery phrase or a private key is checked in your browser and stopped before it is sent. If one reaches our server anyway, it is refused again, and the search log records that a search was refused, with nothing of what was typed.

2. What you look up is not kept.

For an address, a transaction, an ENS name or a web address, the search log records only what kind of thing was searched, and for an address its network. It never records the address itself. We don’t build a history of what anyone looked up.

3. Addresses are described, people are not.

A result for an address shows public on-chain facts and public list memberships, such as sanctions lists. It never guesses who owns the address, and lookups are never combined into a profile of a person.

4. Identity comes first.

A ticker or a contract must lead to the exact asset. When several assets share a symbol, search says how many share it and shows them, rather than quietly picking one. A wrong top result is a defect, even when the right answer is lower on the page.

5. Nothing is called “safe”.

A result can carry named risk evidence, or none that we found. The absence of a warning is written as what it is: no flags found by {source} on {date}.

6. Every figure is dated and sourced.

A measurement shows the day it was measured and links to how it was measured. An explanation names its source and the day it was read at that source.

7. Price is not exit.

The quoted price of a holding is not what selling it returns. Where we measure it, search shows what a sell actually returns, from live routing, after price impact. We call the difference exit friction and publish the method, the monthly index and the data.

8. A measurement, never a trade call.

Search does not tell anyone to buy, sell or hold, and it does not route trades.

9. Money cannot buy a result.

A company may pay to be seen in a labelled place. Payment never moves an organic result, removes a warning, or turns a claim into a verified one. Companies may pay Cryptominium to be seen. They cannot pay Cryptominium to be believed.

10. Verified on a blockchain is not verified as true.

A blockchain proves that a transaction happened. It does not prove the claim attached to it. Search keeps those two apart.

11. What we don’t know, we say.

When search recognises something it cannot read, such as an address on a network we don’t cover yet, it says so and points to where it can be read. It does not guess.

Use it

The Standard is free to adopt, quote and cite under CC BY 4.0. Cite it as:

Cryptominium. The Cryptominium Search Standard, version 1.0, 9 October 2026. https://cryptominium.com/search/standard

We don’t certify anyone, and nobody can pay to be called compliant. A search that keeps these rules can say so in its own words.

Changes

Each version is dated and kept. A rule can be added or made stricter. A rule is never quietly loosened: if one ever has to change, the old wording stays on this page beside the new, with the reason.

• 1.0, 9 October 2026: first version, eleven rules.

If you find Cryptominium breaking one of these rules, write to [email protected]. A confirmed breach is fixed and recorded here. Try it on Cryptominium search.