Ownership & funding.

cryptopropfirmmatch.com is operated as an independent editorial property. The site is solely owned and operated by its founders — there are no external investors, no parent media company, and no venture-capital or institutional funding. We have not raised capital, taken on debt to build the site, or accepted equity investments from any of the firms covered.

The editorial desk is identified collectively under the CPFM Editorial byline. Replacing the collective byline with a named lead editor is on our roadmap — when that change ships, this page will identify the named individual.

The site has one revenue stream: affiliate commission earned when readers sign up for a covered firm through one of our outbound links. Affiliate links are explicitly marked on every firm page and in the footer. They route through /offers/[slug] redirects so the click attribution is observable.

We do not run display advertising. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored reviews, sponsored rankings, sponsored comparisons, or paid editorial. We do not sell our subscriber list. We do not launch a token, run an airdrop, accept crypto for coverage, or charge firms a listing fee.

Affiliate commission never enters the rating calculation. The four-pillar rubric on /methodology weights trading conditions, fee transparency, payout speed, and platform UX — affiliate economics are not one of the inputs. The editorial desk is informed of the firm’s commission rate only after the rating is set, not during.

When two firms rank within 0.1 editorial points of each other and a tie-break is needed, we choose the firm that pays less affiliate commission if its editorial score is higher or equal. The intent is to make the firewall observable — if we ever ranked the higher-commission firm despite identical editorial signals, the choice would be visible to readers.

We currently maintain an affiliate relationship with Crypto Fund Trader while simultaneously running an open advisory against the firm on Scam Watch. We publish both. We would rather lose the commission than bury the advisory.

Every firm with which we have an active affiliate agreement is listed on the affiliate program page, alongside the discount offer we negotiated for our readers and any disclosed commission band. When a firm declines to publish its commission rate, we say so on the affiliate-program page rather than implying we have one.

We commit to publishing, on this page, any material change to the operating structure of the site — new ownership, a sale, an investment round, a parent-company acquisition, a change in revenue model — within 30 days of the change taking effect. The last-updated stamp on this page is the source of truth for when ownership or funding facts last changed.

The site is an editorial publication, not a regulated investment firm, broker-dealer, or financial advisor. We do not solicit investment in any product. We do not custody client funds. We do not facilitate trade execution. Reader interactions are limited to reading content, clicking affiliate links, and emailing the editorial desk via the addresses listed on /contact.