---
title: "Conflict of Interest"
path: "/policy/conflict-of-interest"
version: "1.0.0"
author: "Hydrate"
createdAt: "2026-07-31T21:21:44.707Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-31T21:21:44.707Z"
---

# Conflict of Interest

<Infobox>
| **Policy** | Conflict of interest (COI) |
| **Type** | Conduct policy |
| **Derived from** | [Neutral point of view](/policy/neutral-point-of-view) |
| **Applies to** | All articles; most often [Ecosystem](/ecosystem) project pages |
| **Enforcement** | *Conflict of interest* notice banner; attribution; sourcing |
| **Adopted** | 31 July 2026 |
</Infobox>

A **conflict of interest** (COI) exists when a contributor has an external relationship to a subject — employment, founding, funding, token holdings, or an official role — that could reasonably be expected to influence how they write about it.[[1]](#ref-1) A conflict is a fact about a contributor's position, not an accusation of bad faith: most COI editing on a wiki is done by people who simply know the subject best.

RADIX Wiki is open to wallet-authenticated editors and documents a live ecosystem, so COI editing is expected rather than exceptional. This policy sets out where conflicts arise, what a conflicted editor should do, and how an article that has drifted is marked.

## Where conflicts arise here

The [Ecosystem](/ecosystem) section is the main exposure: it documents live projects, and the people best placed to keep a project page accurate are usually building that project. [Neutral point of view](/policy/neutral-point-of-view) already names this as a structural conflict. The same applies to:

- **Project and token pages** — written or corrected by a founder, contributor, or paid contractor.
- **Validator and node-runner pages** — where the subject competes for delegated stake.
- **Biographies** under [Community](/community) — where the subject edits their own entry.
- **Financial position** — holding, or having sold, an asset a page discusses. Disclosure matters most where a page touches supply, distribution, or treasury.
Coverage of a project is decided by [notability](/policy/notability), not by who is willing to write it. A conflicted editor cannot create notability for a subject by writing about it at length.

## What a conflicted editor should do

- **Disclose.** State the relationship in the edit's revision message, and on the article's discussion thread for anything more than a typo fix.[[2]](#ref-2) The full revision history of every page is public.
- **Contribute facts, not framing.** Corrections of dates, addresses, versions, and broken links are the most valuable COI edits and are welcome without ceremony.
- **Cite independently.** A claim about traction, adoption, or performance needs a source that is not the subject's own marketing — see [verifiability](/policy/verifiability). The project's repository, on-chain state, and public filings are primary sources and are fine; a press release describing itself as a milestone is not.
- **Do not remove sourced criticism** or unfavourable but verifiable facts — a dormant status, a closed product, a failed audit — from a page about yourself or your project.
- **Propose, don't rewrite.** For a contested change to a page about your own project, open a discussion thread and let an unconflicted editor make the call.
Undisclosed promotional editing is the failure mode this policy exists to catch. Disclosed COI editing that sticks to sourced fact is normal and useful.

## Marking an affected article

When an article appears to have been shaped by an undisclosed connection to its subject, add a *Conflict of interest* notice banner to the top of the page rather than blanking it. The banner reads: *"A major contributor to this article may have a close connection with its subject. It may need additional review for a neutral point of view."* Where the problem is the writing rather than the authorship, the *Written like an advertisement* banner is the better fit. The full set of maintenance banners is catalogued in [verifiability](/policy/verifiability).

Banners are a request for review, not a verdict. Remove one once the article has been rewritten to neutral, sourced prose.

## References

1. Wikipedia — *Wikipedia:Conflict of interest* — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
2. Wikipedia — *Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure* — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure