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Source policy

How sources are archived, cited, and treated, including paywalled material.


Every load-bearing claim on Suit Up traces to a source captured at the time of citation. URLs are not used as the primary reference because they rot. Instead, sources are archived locally inside the project alongside the structured frontmatter the wiki layer reads.

Archival mechanics

New entries enter the pipeline through one of three paths: a curated RSS feed list, a Playwright-based scraper for sources without reliable RSS (most APAC bank press rooms, regulator publications), or a manual drop via the Telegram bot. Each entry is written into the project repository as a markdown file with structured frontmatter (title, source, URL, date, jurisdiction, named institutions and projects, asset class). The original HTML or PDF is preserved where the source permits redistribution; otherwise the canonical metadata is preserved alongside the citation.

Citation

Wiki entries cite their underlying source inline at entry-level. Where a source is paywalled, the citation points to the underlying document or filing rather than the paywalled summary. Where a claim is sourced from a primary regulator filing, the citation links to the filing on the regulator's site. Where a claim is sourced from trade press, the citation links to the trade-press article and notes the underlying source the article references.

Relevance and importance scoring

Each new entry is scored on two axes. Relevance answers "is this on-topic for institutional tokenisation?" Importance answers "does this matter operationally, or is this background noise?" Both scores are produced by Claude Haiku 4.5 against a calibrated rubric and written into the entry's frontmatter. The homepage news feed prefers high-importance items by default; the broader wiki layer surfaces entries by their structural relationships rather than by score.

An entry clears the relevance bar only with a clear nexus to tokenisation, digital-asset market infrastructure, stablecoins as payment or settlement instruments, tokenised deposits, CBDC (central bank digital currency), regulated digital-asset frameworks, or institutional custody and issuance of tokenised assets. Crypto-market noise is explicitly out of scope unless that nexus is the story itself: price action, spot ETF (exchange-traded fund) flow updates, bitcoin or ether treasury-buying, wallet and self-custody consumer incidents, speculative-token exchange listings, mining, and NFT (non-fungible token) markets. High-volume general crypto-market sources, whose feeds mix a small share of genuine tokenisation coverage into a much larger volume of the excluded categories above, clear a higher bar than a regulator's or an institution's own newsroom: a passing mention or an institution tag alone is not evidence of relevance from a source like that. This gate is re-evaluated across the whole corpus on every build, not only against new entries, so a rule tightened here also removes existing off-topic items.

Status classification

Every news item and article carries one status: live, pilot, consultation, proposal, or commentary. Live means operating now, settling real value with real counterparties, not a plan and not a pilot. Pilot means a named trial or sandbox with real counterparties but not yet full production. Consultation means a regulator or standard-setter is seeking public input, not yet binding. Proposal means a bill, draft, MOU, announced initiative, or stated intent that is not yet operating. Commentary means a speech, report, or opinion with no new operational fact of its own.

A mechanical guard checks every classified item's status against lexical signals in its own headline before publication and again in a standing corpus sweep. A headline reporting a delay, slip, or postponement can never carry live status; that class is corrected automatically, with the prior status preserved in the item's own record. Every other contradiction the guard finds, a headline describing an announcement, plan, consultation, or proposal that disagrees with the classified status, is queued for editor review rather than changed silently. Nothing bulk-changes without that review.

Editorial review

Every edition, wiki update, and operator read is reviewed and edited before it publishes. A flagged item getting a first-pass draft is not the same as it going live; that step belongs to the editor, and nothing skips it.

Corrections

Corrections are dated, attributed, and preserved in the wiki entry's revision history. The corrections log aggregates them in reverse chronological order. Where a correction changes the editorial conclusion of a wiki entry, the original conclusion is preserved in a struck-through form so the change is auditable.

What this does not do

Full articles from third-party sources are not republished. Paywalled material is not embedded. AI-generated content is not used as a primary source; AI is used inside the pipeline to score, classify, and route, never to write the editorial copy that appears in wiki entries or the weekly briefing. Paid placement, sponsored content, and sponsored research are not accepted. Editorial integrity is the only product.