Editorial policy

How Crypto Policy Monitor decides what to cover, how it verifies what it publishes, and how it handles mistakes.

Independence

Editorial control over what gets covered and how it is described rests with the editor alone. No regulator, exchange, project or law firm pays for coverage, and none gets to see or approve an entry before it publishes.

Method

Entries come from continuous monitoring of regulator publications, official gazettes and credible reporting. Every entry carries its event date (when the thing happened) and its coverage date (when we recorded it), links to sources, and a category set: jurisdiction, authority, instrument type, topics, and status. Entries whose position may have moved since coverage carry a visible flag until re-verified. Where a development has a primary legal text (an act, a gazette notice, a published decision) we link it; where only press reporting exists at coverage time, we say so and chase the primary text. Coverage began with an African backlog (January to June 2026) and expands as the monitoring pipeline runs. Francophone sources are translated by us, with originals linked.

Corrections

If an entry is wrong or superseded, tell us: info@lawlab.africa. If the source documents bear it out, corrections are made in place with a dated note; we do not remove an entry because its subject finds it inconvenient.

Citing

Free to cite with attribution and a link. Each entry's reference code (for example cpm-2026-0001) is stable. Commercial reuse of the dataset requires a licence.