The audit agent
Every press is checked by an AI audit agent before it can be published. Nothing goes live without passing.
The one rule
The audit asks: is this press accurate, and is it free of manipulation?
It does not ask whether the news is good or bad for the stock. True negative analysis passes. Opinion passes when it's framed as opinion. A publication that only printed good news would be a pump, and readers would be right to leave it.
What it checks
| Check | What it looks for |
|---|---|
| Numbers | Current prices, ranges, volumes and dates must match live market data. Figures it can't verify are noted, and are blocked only if implausible |
| Sources | No invented company announcements or quotes presented as fact without a named source |
| Manipulation | Guaranteed returns, pressure to buy or sell now, price targets stated as certain, coordinated-pump language |
| Relevance | The press is really about the stock token it's paired with |
| Defamation | No unsupported claims about named people |
| Originality | No spam or copied boilerplate |
| Preview | The free preview fairly represents the full version |
It also reads the publisher's wallet. If the wallet holds the paired stock token, the press is labelled Publisher holds for every reader.
How it decides
- Facts first. The agent fetches the token's live quote and the publisher's balance of that token.
- Hard rules. Obvious promotional phrases such as "guaranteed returns" are rejected immediately.
- Model review. The model reads the press against the facts and returns a verdict, a score from 0 to 100, and a list of issues.
Each issue has a severity:
| Severity | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Blocker | Must be fixed. A press with a blocker can't be approved |
| Fix | Should be corrected before publishing |
| Note | An observation. Doesn't stop publishing |
Verdicts
| Verdict | Result |
|---|---|
| Approve | The press can be minted and published |
| Revise | Fixable problems, with specific instructions. Edit and audit again |
| Reject | Manipulation, fabrication, defamation or spam |
A press can be audited up to eight times. After that, start a new draft.
AI-assisted presses
When a press began as an AI draft, the audit also receives the exact facts the draft was written from, and holds the press's numbers and news claims strictly to them.
What readers see
The audit score and a short summary are shown on every press. The text of the press is fingerprinted when it's approved, so it can't be changed afterwards without failing a check.
The audit can be wrong
It's an AI. It can pass something it shouldn't, or block something fair. Treat the score as one signal alongside the publisher's record and the votes.