One founding supporter, named for one year
Stable Tape will name one founding supporter for one agreed year. There are no tiers or optional placements. Every candidate must pass the conflict screen below.
02 The founding year
03 What support helps sustain
Where the money goes
Support helps pay for the work behind the publication:
- Daily publication
- Preserving past evidence
- Provider licences
- Continuity and retention systems
- Free public and machine access
- Independent checks
- Time to do the work properly
Support is for Stable Tape as a whole, never a particular dataset, source, reading, record, entity or report.
04 What a supporter receives
What is included
We name the founding supporter here for the agreed year. Support also includes:
- Post-publication conversationsDiscuss work once it is public. There are no private or advance findings.
- Methodology discussionComment at the same time and on the same terms as other stakeholders.
- A direct corrections contactA named contact for possible factual errors.
05 What support cannot buy
What is not included
Support buys no place beside the record and no say in the work.
- No name or logo beside a Daily Tape reading, dated record, share card, citation or other evidence.
- No advance access, embargo or first look.
- No say over sources, methodology, classifications, findings, wording, corrections or withdrawals.
- No category exclusivity, joint branding, “official partner” or “verified by” status.
- No discounted, bundled or preferential data access.
- No co-branded or commissioned research about entities Stable Tape measures.
A supporter's name, logo or other identifier never appears with a hash, provenance stamp, dated reading or citation.
06 Who can support
Who we can accept support from
Every candidate is screened for conflicts, including how the relationship would look to a reasonable reader.
Potentially eligible
- Structurally neutral infrastructure
- Professional services
- Enterprise finance tooling
- Public-interest and open-data funders
Excluded
- Stablecoin issuers
- Blockchain ecosystems or foundations that Stable Tape measures
- Data providers that Stable Tape uses or compares
- Any organisation whose own factual reading would effectively be supporting itself
No supporter gets around the conflict rule by paying more.
07 Data licensing is different
Data licensing is separate
A data licence is not sponsorship.
If you license data
A data customer is not named as a supporter and has no editorial role or influence. A licence does not fill the founding supporter position.
If you support Stable Tape
Support includes no discount or preference on data rights. Licences are agreed separately.
08 Independence
Stable Tape makes the calls
We choose what to measure, which sources meet the published method, what to conclude, when to publish and when to correct or withdraw.
The full rule is in the published methodology.
09 Contact
Talk to us
To support Stable Tape, write to hello@stabletape.com. We check for conflicts before accepting support. Data licensing is a separate agreement.
Discuss the founding yearWeekly email
The weekly email.
The week’s stablecoin supply movement and the current benchmark level. One list, at most one email a week.