Methodology: how we check, date and label every claim
Why this page exists
This site once published a claim that read as established fact and was not. Money moved on the strength of it. The rules below are the response. They are deliberately restrictive: a review site that cannot say where a number came from is worth nothing, and being vague costs readers more than being incomplete.
The four evidence buckets
| Bucket | What qualifies | How we write it |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Primary, Fomo's own | Something FOMO Labs, Inc. published: a blog post, the Terms of Service, an in-app screen we captured. | Attributed, with a date. "Fomo's blog announced X (September 2025)." "The in-app referral screen says Get a 10% discount on trading fees for a limited time (seen 4 September 2026)." The claim is about what Fomo said, which is why it can be stated as fact. |
| 2. We measured it | Something we ran, counted, queried or computed ourselves. | What was done and when. "We queried a third-party data API on 5 September 2026 and it returned 114 of 114 positions on Solana." Arithmetic derived from a rate we read in-app also lives here. |
| 3. Third party only | Something reported by a review site, a news article, a store listing or a user review, that we have not confirmed. | Labelled in the same sentence. "Reported by third-party reviews; we have not verified this independently." |
| 4. Not verified | Everything else, including things we tried to check and could not. | The words "Not verified". Never a guess, never a rounded-off placeholder, never silence. |
The four buckets are not a ranking of importance. A third-party report can be more useful to a reader than a primary quote. They are a ranking of how much confidence the wording is allowed to carry.
How figures are checked and dated
- Copy from the source, never retype from memory. Percentages, entity names, screen wording and dates are copied from the artefact in front of us.
- Every page carries a "Last updated" or "Last verified" date at the top, and it moves only when something on the page was actually re-checked.
- Stale is not the same as wrong. A figure that was right on its check date and has since changed gets a new date. A figure that was never right gets a dated entry on the corrections page.
- Third-party figures are re-checked at source. If a review site quotes a fee, we look for where the fee is actually shown before repeating it, and if we cannot get there, the figure stays in bucket 3 or 4.
- Screenshots are dated, not undated. An in-app screen is evidence of what the app displayed on one day to one account, and we say so rather than implying it is a permanent property of the product.
What this site refuses to claim, and why
| We will not say | Why not |
|---|---|
| A flat list of supported networks | Fomo publishes no definitive list. We have blog announcements for three networks, an in-app fee notice for a fourth, and our own API query that saw activity on one. That evidence supports a labelled table, not a list. fomofamily.com, the most rigorous competitor site we found, declines to publish a list too, on the grounds that it is account-specific. Full table on the review page. |
| How fast Fomo executes a trade | We have not benchmarked execution. User reviews describe lag under load and we cite them as user reviews. A latency figure would need instrumentation we have not run. |
| That the 10% referral discount is permanent | Fomo's own referral screen says "for a limited time" and publishes no end date. Any site calling it lifetime is not quoting Fomo. |
| That a referral code cannot be added after signup | What we can show is that the referral screen appears during signup. The impossibility of adding one later is asserted by third-party reviews and we have not tested it. |
| Which fiat funding routes work in which country | We hold a screenshot for Apple Pay only. Card, Google Pay, USDC and SOL routes, and their availability by country, are third-party reported. |
Scoring and versioning of data we publish
Where we give a rating out of five, it is a judgement, not a measurement, and the page that carries it lists the factors behind it. A rating never moves because of affiliate revenue; see the editorial policy.
Any figure produced by our own tooling, including the trader checks, is published with the date it was generated and the input it was generated from. Where a tool reads a public API, the page says which API and when. If we change how a score is calculated, the change is noted with a date rather than applied silently to old numbers.
If we get something wrong
Write to hello@fomofamilycode.com. We publish a dated note describing what was wrong and what it says now, on the corrections page. We do not quietly edit a claim out of existence.