How We Vet — Our Safety Promise

Vetting is the whole point of TokenSpin. This page explains exactly how we decide what goes on The Rewards Radar, how we rate risk, and — just as importantly — the things we will never do. Our live behaviour must match what’s written here. If it ever doesn’t, that’s a bug; tell us at /contact/.

What we vet, and what we don’t

We cover reward programs run by other projects — airdrops, staking and restaking, quests and campaigns, testnets, and learn-to-earn. We are a publication, not an operator: we never run a program, hold funds, or distribute tokens. The Rewards Radar is editorial — hand-checked by the desk — not an automated feed of a third-party “airdrop API”, because those pull in unvetted and outright fraudulent entries.

Our vetting method (every listing)

1. Trace it to an official source. We find the project’s own website, verified accounts, and documentation, and we confirm the reward is real and described there. If we can’t trace it to an official source, we don’t list it.
2. Check the participation flow for scam patterns. We look for the tells of a trap: a surprise “connect your wallet to claim”, requests to sign an unclear transaction, seed-phrase prompts, “gas fee to unlock”, look-alike domains, and impersonated accounts. Anything with those patterns is excluded or flagged, never listed for clicks.
3. Assign a risk rating with a plain reason. Every listing gets a rating — low, medium, high, or “avoid” — and a one-line reason a normal person can understand.
4. Record eligibility, realistic rewards, dates and a last-reviewed date. We describe who’s eligible in plain English, note that rewards are variable and never guaranteed, and date the listing so you can see how fresh our review is.
5. Exclude or clearly flag anything suspect or unverifiable. When in doubt, we leave it out. A smaller board of genuinely vetted programs beats a big farm of “free crypto” links that put readers in harm’s way.

Our risk-rating scale

• Low — established, official, widely used; the main risks are normal market and mechanism risks (e.g. variable yield).
• Medium — legitimate but with meaningful caveats: smart-contract risk, lockups/slashing, or a program that scammers frequently impersonate.
• High — real but carries significant, stacked risks (for example, newer restaking layers). Approach only with money you can afford to lose, and via official sources.
• Avoid — suspected scam or unverifiable. We surface these only to warn, never with a participation link.

A risk rating is our honest read for a general reader; it is never a recommendation, a guarantee, or financial advice.

The never-list — things TokenSpin will never do

• We will never ask you to connect a wallet, sign a transaction, approve a token, or enter a seed phrase or private key on this site. We collect none of that.
• We will never promote or link a “claim your reward” flow we haven’t vetted to an official source.
• We will never list an unverifiable program without flagging it as suspect.
• We will never present rewards as guaranteed income or as financial advice.
• We will never run faucet-farming, bot-reward, or referral-chain schemes.
• We will never take payment to list an unvetted program. There is no pay-to-list, and affiliate status never changes a risk rating or a listing decision. See our affiliate disclosure.
• We will never publish AI-generated article prose or invented author identities. See editorial guidelines.

Cadence and corrections

The Radar is reviewed on a regular cadence, and each listing carries its own “last reviewed” date. Reward programs change — eligibility shifts, deadlines pass, projects evolve — so always confirm on the project’s official channels before you act. If we get something wrong, we fix it and log it publicly at /corrections/. To report a problem or suggest a program, use /contact/; suggestions go through this same vetting before they’d ever appear.