New evidence can raise or lower confidence. Missing proof stays beside the affected claim, and payment, popularity, or visitor opinion cannot change a CSR status.
Three evidence gates
A provider passes only what the record can support.
Gate 1
Identity and offer
The gate passes when official route control is confirmed, claimed people or entities are matched where applicable, and the current product, pricing, billing, refund, and access terms are dated. Unresolved ownership or term conflicts fail the gate.
Gate 2
Performance proof
The gate passes only for a named period when every call in that period is reviewable from original records, including losses, open calls, edits, deletes, fees, slippage, leverage, exits, and result math. Selected periods prove only those periods. Apply the crypto signal accuracy evaluation method before relying on a percentage.
Gate 3
Delivery and operational risk
The gate passes when delivery timing, access, payment, cancellation, support, automation, custody, and API permissions are documented or observed where relevant. Material failures or unsafe permissions remain risk notes. For Telegram-led offers, apply the pre-payment red-flags checklist before paying or granting account access.
Binary verification status
Every provider is CSR Verified or CSR Unverified.
CSR Unverified is the default
Used whenever any required gate is missing, incomplete, rejected, withdrawn, or stale. An active review or a documented caution can be shown as a separate research note, but neither creates another verification status.
CSR Verified requires every gate
All three evidence gates, technical checks, current source access, independent calculation, and named human approval must pass. The evidence record separately names the period, sample, source access, assumptions, included products, exclusions, and last-check date.
Failure returns the status to CSR Unverified
If evidence expires, access stops, a material conflict appears, or approval is withdrawn, the public badge changes to CSR Unverified. The dated reason remains visible in the evidence record.
Risk notes remain separate
Confirmed route or identity mismatches, selective records, omitted losses or edits, unsupported result math, unsafe permissions, and payment or refund conflicts remain visible as risk notes. They never become a third verification status.
Freshness and expiry
Current evidence has a 90-day clock.
On day 91, if current-evidence requirements no longer pass, the public status becomes CSR Unverified. A refresh may continue as a research activity, while the earlier evidence remains visible as dated historical context.
Missing proof and corrections
Unknowns stay visible. Corrections change the record, not the past.
CSR names the gap beside the claim and leaves that claim unproven. Member counts, testimonials, screenshots, anonymous comments, provider assurances, and paid production do not fill it.
Material corrections show the correction date and what changed. Losses, old claims, prior limitations, and earlier statuses are not silently erased.
For Dutch-language experience research, use the crypto signals ervaringen evidence workflow to separate attributable observations, provider claims, and unresolved proof before treating an experience report as decision-grade evidence.
Best 21 boundary
Best 21 is a research-priority shortlist, not a league table.
Every Best 21 file displays CSR Verified or CSR Unverified. Research activity, missing proof, and caution notes are displayed separately because comparison can be useful before trust is earned. Coverage is not endorsement.