The bar
One target: the best article on that keyword that day. Not the most urgent, not the most optimised. The best.
Two things people get wrong about this format. The first is that sponsored means an easier brief. It is the opposite: a news article earns its readers with reporting, and we have no reporting to lean on, so we earn them with a sharper angle, better numbers and cleaner structure. The second is that FOMO is the product. It is not. Urgency is one tool in Chapter 5, used when it is true and skipped when it is not.
How the editor scores it
85 and above publishes. 70 to 84 goes back for revision. Under 70 is rewritten.
| Category | Points | Full marks means |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy & attribution | 25 | Every project figure attributed to the project. Every number consistent. Arithmetic correct. No return promise. |
| News anchor | 20 | A real, dated, named-source event in the first 60 words, still current at publication. |
| Substance | 20 | Every coin, market and metric you name carries a real number with a date. Description without data scores zero. |
| Structure & headings | 15 | One H1, no skipped levels, statement H2s, one closing block. |
| Language | 10 | Reads like a person wrote it. No clichés, no em dash, keyword use natural. |
| Links, images & disclosure | 10 | No raw URLs in the body, three CTA placements, real alt text, one clear label. |
Urgency is not a scored category. You cannot gain points with FOMO, only lose them by faking it.
Open on the news
The single change that separates our pages from the ones outperforming them. An article that opens on something that happened has a reason to exist today. One that opens on a mood does not, and the reader knows within a sentence.
What qualifies
- A regulatory action, filing or official statement, with its date.
- A named institution's move: a listing, a fund flow, a treasury purchase.
- A protocol upgrade or published roadmap with a date.
- A dated market event carrying a number: an ETF flow, a liquidation total, a level broken.
What does not
- "Crypto markets rarely run out of surprises." A mood is not an event.
- A price that has been flat for a week.
- The client's own presale stage. That is the pitch, not the anchor.
- A rumour. A rumoured launch window is not a date.
HOUSEPublish while the anchor is still current, ideally the same day. A stale anchor reads worse than no anchor, so ask for a new one rather than filing late. If a brief arrives without an anchor, it is not a brief yet. Send it back.
The eight rules
Forget everything else and keep these.
Structure and headings
HOUSE1,000 to 1,300 words in the editorial body, then the FAQ and summary on top. Total lands around 1,300 to 1,600. Under 1,000 in the body there is no room for both the news and the client.
| Block | Words | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor (before the first H2) | 90 to 130 | The news event, dated and sourced, in the first 60 words. Keyword once, naturally. Client named by the end. First CTA anchor. |
| The news (H2) | 200 to 300 | What happened, who said it, what it changes. Real numbers. This section earns the trust the pitch spends. |
| The client (H2) | 350 to 450 | Stage, price, raise, holders, audit. The arithmetic paragraph lives here. Every claim attributed. One plain risk sentence. |
| How to take part (H3) | 120 to 180 | Numbered steps. Official site only, verify the domain, never share a seed phrase. Second CTA anchor. |
| Comparison (H2) | 150 to 250 | Two or three named coins, each with a price or metric and a date. No coin without a number. |
| Close (H2) | 90 to 130 | One closing block. The date to watch, stated once. Third and final CTA anchor. |
| FAQ (H2) | 150 to 250 | Four or five questions. Real questions a reader would type, real answers, 40 to 70 words each. Never copy sentences out of the body. Each answer carries at least one number or date. |
| Summary (H2) | 60 to 90 | Three or four bullets, or one tight paragraph. What the news was, where the client sits, the date to watch. New sentences, not a paste of the close. |
| For More Information | — | Fixed block, always last before the disclosure. Website, Telegram, X. Chapter 6. |
Headings
A heading level exists to show hierarchy, never to place a keyword.
| Level | How many | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| H1 | Exactly 1 | The title, nothing else. News element first, client second. HOUSE55 to 70 characters. If the template already renders the title as H1, do not add another. |
| H2 | 4 to 6 | Statements, not a stack of questions. One question H2 is fine, six is an FAQ template leaking into the body. The first H2 is the news, not the client. Each H2 delivers its point in the first two sentences under it. |
| H3 | 0 to 2 per H2 | Only under an H2, and only when that H2 has two or more distinct sub-points. An H3 that is the only child of its H2 gets deleted or promoted. |
| H4 | Rare | Only inside an H3, for step labels in a long process. No H3 means no H4. |
Broken, from a live page
H1 Whitelist Countdown Begins…
H3 Can 66 Proposals Signal a Shift? <-- skipped
H2 1. Apeing – A Contender <-- no information
H3 Apeing Upcoming Presale…
Correct
H1 White House summit lands as EXAMPLE opens Stage 1
H2 Stalled bill leaves agencies writing the rules
H2 EXAMPLE opens Stage 1 at $0.0001
H3 How to join the EXAMPLE presale
H2 Cardano and Solana show a mature entry
Three habits to drop
- Numbered listicle headings with no information. "2. Cardano" tells the reader nothing. "Cardano trades at $0.1724 with a different risk profile" tells them whether to keep reading.
- Dashes inside headings. Use a colon, or split the sentence.
- The keyword in every H2. Two across the whole set is plenty.
Title and description
Two fields, written last, after the article exists. You cannot write an honest title for a piece you have not finished, and a title written first turns into a promise the body has to keep.
The two rules that never change
Anatomy
[ NEWS OR MARKET ELEMENT + NUMBER ] as [ BRAND ] [ CONCRETE FACT + NUMBER ]
Avalanche holds $44 as Apeing crypto presale opens Stage 1 at $0.0001
^ what is already true ^ brand ^ focus keyword + the offer
Left of "as" is the reason a reader stops. Right of "as" is the reason they click. The focus keyword sits on the right, next to the brand, because that is the half of the title we are actually selling.
The four categories
Every sponsored brief lands in one of these. The formula changes, the two rules above do not.
1. Comparatives — two established coins plus the client
Formula: [Coin A + live number] as [Brand] [focus keyword] [stage and price]
2. Listicles — the client among N coins
Formula: [News element] puts [N] [focus keyword] in focus as [Brand] [concrete fact]
The number of coins is not the hook. The news that makes those coins worth listing today is the hook.
3. Missed ICOs — the retrospective
Formula: [Coin A] [historical move, as a number]. [Brand] [focus keyword] opens at [price]
This is the category that most often drifts into a return promise. The past move is a fact and can carry a number. The future one is not, so it never appears in the title.
4. Price prediction
Formula: [Coin] price prediction [level] as [Brand] [focus keyword] opens at [price]
The level has to be a real one somebody publishes, with support or resistance behind it, not a number we picked.
The description
HOUSE150 to 160 characters. Three moves, in this order: the market element from the title, the brand with the focus keyword and one number, then what the reader gets by clicking.
| Category | Description | Chars |
|---|---|---|
| Comparative | Avalanche holds $44 while the EXAMPLE crypto presale opens Stage 1 at $0.0001 against a published $0.01 target. Prices, audit status and how to join. | 149 |
| Listicle | Ethereum's 66 proposals reset the altcoin picks traders watch. EXAMPLE opens Stage 1 at $0.0001 with a SolidProof audit and a published $0.01 target. | 149 |
| Missed ICO | Litecoin turned early buyers into 12x holders. The EXAMPLE crypto presale opens Stage 1 at $0.0001 with a published $0.01 target and a completed audit. | 151 |
| Price prediction | Dogecoin price prediction centres on $0.11 support. The EXAMPLE crypto presale opens Stage 1 at $0.0001 against a published $0.01 listing target. | 145 |
Six ways a title fails here
- Over 70 characters. Every one of our current live titles is. The tail gets cut and the tail is where we put the brand.
- Opening on the client. "Whitelist Countdown Begins for Apeing" spends the first four words on something no reader was looking for.
- No number anywhere. If the title has no figure, go back to the article and take one.
- A command instead of a fact. "Don't Wait for the Crowd", "Don't Miss". Delete and start with the market.
- Dashes. Em dash and en dash both. Use a full stop or "as".
- A claim the body does not make. If the title says "Made Early Investors Rich", the body owes a sourced number. If it cannot produce one, the title is wrong, not the body.
Urgency, honestly
There is no minimum. Use what is true for this client today and skip the rest. A manufactured deadline is worse than no deadline, because a reader who catches one stops believing every other number on the page.
| Device | Use when | How it reads |
|---|---|---|
| Live stage and price | There is a published stage with a price that has moved | "Stage 20 is live at $0.02707 after Stage 19 closed." |
| Raise against target | The project publishes both figures | "$6.8 million raised toward an $11 million target, about 62% of the way there." Check the division first. |
| Participation count | The project reports it and you say who reported it | "The project reports more than 11,000 holders before public trading." |
| A dated event | The date is confirmed. Not a rumour. | "The launch update lands on 19 August." |
| The multiple, as arithmetic | Both the entry and the published target exist | "$0.0001 to a published $0.01 target is 100x on the project's own figures, and none of it is guaranteed." |
| A named audit | You can name the firm and link the report | "SolidProof completed the contract audit." Unnamed audit: delete the sentence |
| A mechanic with a clock | The project runs a real bonus window the client has cleared | "The bonus stays active for 48 hours on qualifying purchases." Describe it exactly as published, never invent the rates. |
Urgency comes from arithmetic and dates, never adjectives
Links, CTAs and images
Every link in a sponsored article points at the client. Minimum five, and they are all ours.
The link budget
| Link | Count | Where |
|---|---|---|
| CTA to the presale page | 3 | The anchor paragraph, the participation steps, the close. Same destination, different anchor text each time. |
| Official website | 1 | For More Information block. |
| Telegram | 1 | For More Information block. |
| X | 1 | For More Information block. |
| Internal links | 0 to 3 | Related articles on the host site, if the outlet allows them. Descriptive anchors. |
That is six client links as standard, comfortably above the five-link minimum.
No outbound links to anyone else
These are paid placements on somebody else's news site. Every link out of the page spends value we bought and sends a reader who is already engaged somewhere else.
- Client destinations only. No link to a news outlet, no link to a price site, no link to the audit firm.
- No third-party references in the text either. Not as a link, not as a mention, not as a source list at the bottom. This is a paid placement, and every outlet or data provider we name is free advertising for somebody who did not pay for it.
- Attribute to the actor and the date instead. "The Treasury proposed the rule on 18 August", "Cardano trades at $0.1724 on 19 August", "SolidProof completed the audit". Each is specific and checkable without crediting another publication.
CTA rules
- Always a linked anchor. Tracking parameters live in the
href, never in the visible text. - Anchor text describes the destination: "the official EXAMPLE presale page". Never "click here", never a bare domain, never the article title.
- Never inside a heading.
The For More Information block
Fixed format, every article, immediately before the disclosure. All three lines are hyperlinked on the label. The URL stays visible in brackets so the block still works on outlets like openPR that strip anchors and publish plain text.
For More Information: Website: Visit the Official EXAMPLE Website ( https://www.example.com/ ) Telegram: Join the EXAMPLE Telegram Channel ( https://t.me/examplecoin ) Twitter: Follow EXAMPLE on X (Formerly Twitter) ( https://x.com/examplecoin )
Do not add a fourth channel, do not reorder it, and do not turn it into a paragraph. It is a fixed block so the reader learns where to find it.
Images
Three images per article, each doing a different job.
| Image | Size | Placement and job |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1200×900, or the outlet spec | Top of the article. Carries the headline idea. This is the one that appears in feeds and previews, so it gets the most attention. |
| Small banner | Roughly 728×200 | After the news section, before the client section. Marks the pivot from news to project. |
| Large banner | Roughly 1200×628 | After the participation steps or before the comparison. The visual CTA: stage, price and logo, matching the numbers in the text. |
- Banner figures must match the article. If the text says Stage 1 at $0.0001, the banner cannot say Stage 2. A stale banner is the same failure as a contradictory number.
- Alt text describes the image, not the article title, and never the article title with a number after it.
Language
| Banned | Why | Instead |
|---|---|---|
| "in the ever-evolving landscape" | The clearest AI fingerprint there is | Delete it |
| "set the stage for" | Stock AI transition | Name the consequence |
| "It is important to note that" | Carries no information | Delete it and state the point |
| "Only time will tell" | An escape hatch from doing the work | Give the date to watch |
| "substantial potential upside" | An adjective doing a number's job | Show the multiple |
| "guaranteed", "is set to", "will reach" | Return promise. Automatic reject. | "if the planned listing is reached" |
| "Don't miss", "act fast", "last chance" | Pressure with no fact behind it, and every reader discounts it | State the actual date |
| Em dash and en dash | Strong AI tell, and it breaks headings | Comma, colon or full stop |
| Emojis | Not our register | Nothing |
Mechanics
- Sentences average 15 to 20 words. Never three long ones in a row.
- Active voice. "The project published a $0.01 target", not "a target was published".
- Paragraphs of 2 to 4 sentences.
- One number format throughout: "$2.37 million" or "$2.37M", pick one.
- Consistent price precision. $0.0001 stays $0.0001 in every mention.
- Read the draft aloud before submitting. Doubled words and missing verbs only surface this way.
Byline and disclosure
Four things, all cheap, all currently wrong somewhere on our sites.
Worked example
One model article, written to every rule above. The client is called EXAMPLE and its figures are placeholders. The news anchor and the ADA and SOL figures are real, from 18 and 19 August 2026. Copy the shape, never the numbers. Image placements are marked in grey.
The White House hosts crypto industry leaders on Wednesday 19 August, with the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate and no floor vote scheduled before September. With the legislation frozen, the SEC and CFTC are shaping digital asset policy through rulemaking instead. That leaves new token launches waiting on rules nobody has written yet, which is part of why attention is moving toward projects that finished their compliance work early. Stage 1 of the EXAMPLE crypto presale opened this week at $0.0001.
Washington's stalled bill leaves the agencies writing the rules
The summit follows two weeks of movement without a decision. The SEC put an open meeting on its calendar for 14 August to launch formal rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Assets, then cancelled it, citing an unforeseen scheduling issue. No replacement date has been announced.
The Treasury moved separately. On 18 August it proposed federal definitions for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, opening a 60-day comment window. The proposal confirms that payment stablecoins will not be treated as securities by default, and it arrives after the law's one-year rulemaking deadline had already passed in July.
Congress is not going to close the gap this month. The Senate Banking Committee has not scheduled markup, and the chamber does not return from recess until September, which leaves a procedural vote as the earliest realistic step. Two industry groups have already asked the SEC to reopen the cancelled meeting rather than fold the work into the Treasury track, and the agency has not responded publicly.
For anyone launching a token, the practical read is simple. The path for raising money from US buyers is being written by two agencies at once, on no fixed schedule, while the bill that would settle it sits in recess. Projects that already carry a completed audit and published tokenomics are the ones with the least to redo when the rules land. Projects still choosing a structure are exposed to whichever definition arrives first.
EXAMPLE opens Stage 1 at $0.0001 against a published $0.01 target
EXAMPLE is a community token with a published utility roadmap, and its crypto presale opened Stage 1 this week. According to the project, Stage 1 is priced at $0.0001 and the planned listing price is $0.01. On those figures, and only if that listing price is reached, the gap between the two is 100x. The project has not confirmed a listing date or an exchange.
The project reports $1.4 million raised against a $4 million Stage 1 allocation, putting the stage roughly 35% complete as of 19 August, and 8,200 wallets holding before any public trading. Those are project-reported figures, and the live dashboard is the only accurate source for the current number. SolidProof completed the smart contract audit before the sale opened, and the report is published in full.
The published tokenomics put total supply at 10 billion tokens, with 40% allocated to the presale across sixteen priced stages and 15% held for exchange liquidity at listing. The project states that team tokens are locked for twelve months with a further twelve-month vesting schedule, and the lock contract address is listed on the site. Those terms are worth reading directly rather than taking from any article, including this one, because presale allocations are frequently revised between stages.
What EXAMPLE does not have is any of the things a listed token has. There is no market history, no liquidity, no order book and no guarantee that a listing happens at all. Every figure above is a target published by the project rather than a price anyone has paid.
How to join the EXAMPLE crypto presale
- Open the official EXAMPLE site and check the domain in the address bar before connecting anything.
- Connect a non-custodial wallet such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet.
- Confirm the live stage and price on the dashboard, because the stage advances as the allocation fills.
- Choose ETH, BNB or USDT, enter an amount, and review the token quantity the interface returns before approving.
- Approve in your wallet. Never enter a seed phrase on any website, and never use a link sent to you in a direct message.
Stage 1 details and the current allocation sit on the official EXAMPLE presale page.
Cardano and Solana show what a mature entry looks like
The contrast is worth pricing. Cardano trades at $0.1724, below its 50-day EMA at $0.1795 and well under its 200-day EMA at $0.2623 on 19 August. Solana sits at $76.23 against a 200-day EMA of $92.94. Both are liquid, both have years of price history, and both can be sold at a known price this afternoon.
Both also sit inside the regulatory question the summit is about. Cardano and Solana have spot ETF applications pending, and those decisions depend on the same agency rulemaking that stalled last week. An established token gets a slower, more visible path through that process. A presale token does not appear in it at all, which cuts both ways.
That liquidity is exactly what an early-stage crypto presale lacks, and it is also what closes the early window. ADA and SOL can still appreciate, but nobody is buying them at a first-stage price any more. The trade-off is real in both directions: EXAMPLE offers an earlier entry and carries every risk that comes with having no market at all. Which side of that trade suits a given reader is not something a sponsored article can answer for them.
The date to watch is the Senate procedural vote in September
Wednesday's summit produces no binding rule. The date that decides the next six months for US token launches is the Senate procedural vote on the CLARITY Act in September, with the Treasury's 60-day stablecoin comment window running alongside it.
Until then, the EXAMPLE crypto presale price and remaining allocation are published on the official presale dashboard, and that dashboard is the only figure worth acting on.
EXAMPLE crypto presale: frequently asked questions
What is the EXAMPLE presale price right now?
Stage 1 is priced at $0.0001 according to the project. The sale runs across sixteen priced stages, so the figure changes as each stage fills. The live dashboard is the only reliable source on any given day.
What is the listing price EXAMPLE has published?
The project has published a $0.01 listing target, which is 100x the Stage 1 price. No listing date and no exchange has been confirmed, and a published target is not a commitment that the price will be reached.
Has the EXAMPLE contract been audited?
SolidProof completed the smart contract audit before Stage 1 opened, and the project publishes the report in full. An audit covers contract code. It does not assess whether a token will hold value.
How much has the presale raised so far?
The project reports $1.4 million against a $4 million Stage 1 allocation as of 19 August, roughly 35% of the stage, with 8,200 wallets holding. These are project-reported figures and were not independently verified.
What is the main risk with a presale token?
There is no market. A presale token has no trading history, no liquidity and no order book, so there is no way to sell at a known price and no guarantee that a listing happens at all.
Summary
- The White House summit on 19 August produces no binding rule, and the CLARITY Act remains stalled until the Senate returns in September.
- With the bill frozen, the SEC and CFTC are setting US token policy through rulemaking, and the Treasury opened a 60-day stablecoin comment window on 18 August.
- EXAMPLE opened Stage 1 at $0.0001 against a published $0.01 target, with $1.4 million raised of a $4 million allocation and a completed SolidProof audit.
- Cardano at $0.1724 and Solana at $76.23 offer liquidity a presale cannot. The date to watch is the September Senate vote.
Website: Visit the Official EXAMPLE Website ( https://www.example.com/ )
Telegram: Join the EXAMPLE Telegram Channel ( https://t.me/examplecoin )
Twitter: Follow EXAMPLE on X (Formerly Twitter) ( https://x.com/examplecoin )
Why it passes
| Element | Rule |
|---|---|
| Opens on the summit and its date, with no outlet credited | Chapter 1, anchor in the first 60 words, actor attributed not the reporter |
| Headline 67 characters, news first, client second | Chapter 4, title formula and house length |
| First H2 is the news, not the client | Chapter 3, the news earns the attention the pitch then spends |
| "According to the project", "project-reported figures" | Rule 2, attribution throughout the client section |
| $0.0001 to $0.01 given as 100x | Rule 3, arithmetic checked. 0.01 ÷ 0.0001 = 100 |
| $1.4M of $4M given as roughly 35% | Rule 3, arithmetic checked. 1.4 ÷ 4 = 0.35 |
| "only if that listing price is reached" | Rule 4, conditional, no return promise |
| ADA and SOL with price, EMA levels, source and date | Rule 5, no entity without data, zero encyclopedia filler |
| SolidProof named, no link and no other third party credited anywhere | Chapter 5, named firm or no sentence. Chapter 6, no third-party references |
| "no market history, no liquidity, no order book" | Chapter 8, risk in the writer's own words, inside the body |
| Three CTA anchors plus three official channels, six client links, no outbound link to anyone else | Chapter 6, link budget and the five-link minimum |
| Cover, small banner and large banner, each with descriptive alt text | Chapter 6, three images, banner figures match the text |
| Five FAQ answers, each carrying a number or a date, none copied from the body | Chapter 3, real questions and real answers |
| Summary is four scannable bullets written fresh, not a paste of the close | Chapter 3, close and summary do different jobs |
| "crypto presale" appears at a natural rate across the piece | Rule 8, house target hit without a forced sentence |
What it deliberately does not do
- No countdown. There is no confirmed listing date, so inventing one fails Chapter 5's test. The Senate vote does the work instead, and it is real.
- No bonus tier. The client was not running one, and an invented tier is the fastest way to lose a reader who checks.
- No question repeated from the body. Every FAQ answer says something the article did not already say, which is the only way a five-question block earns its space.
- No superlatives. The word "best" never appears. The arithmetic carries the pitch.
Checklists
The writer completes theirs before the draft goes to the editor. The editor completes theirs before publication. P0 a fail stops the article. P1 exceptions with editor sign-off. Ticks are saved in this browser.