Terms of Service
[LIKE_THIS] marks what a lawyer still has to draft. Everything else on this page is the text we stand behind.ChainChoice is an editorial decision engine for crypto products (exchanges, wallets, staking platforms, etc.). It scores providers against your stated situation and returns one recommendation with reasoning, runner-up, and tradeoffs.
ChainChoice is an information service. It is not a broker, custodian, exchange, advisor, or licensed financial entity in any jurisdiction.
Recommendations from the engine are informational, not investment advice. Cryptocurrency products involve significant risk including total loss of capital. Always do your own research, verify provider terms directly, and consider consulting a licensed financial advisor in your jurisdiction.
Past performance, fee structures, and provider availability change. Verify everything at the source before acting.
You must be of legal age to use cryptocurrency products in your jurisdiction. Some recommended providers are restricted by region — the engine respects this where possible, but final eligibility verification is your responsibility.
Where ChainChoice is offered in full: the European Economic Area (the 30 EU and EEA states), where links to providers and, where a provider's authorisation is on file, referral links are shown.
Everywhere else, including the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland, ChainChoice is information only: rankings and facts stay readable, but no page carries a referral code or invites you to sign up with a provider, while our review of the local promotion rules is open. Products you buy, hold, stake, lend or trade crypto-assets through are shown as facts with no link; tools such as hardware wallets, tax software and block explorers keep a plain link to the provider’s own site. The same applies while we cannot tell which country you are browsing from, though while any market’s links are paused (below) no provider link is shown then at all.
Links to providers are paused for readers in the United Kingdom since 2026-10-23, while we complete a review of its financial-promotion rules: rankings, scores and comparisons stay fully visible, but no page links to a provider, not even a tool’s own site, and none carries a referral code or an offer.
ChainChoice is not offered in Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Syria, the markets under EU or US (OFAC) sanctions programmes, or EU bans on crypto-asset services to their residents, that we apply (read 2026-10-21; sources: the EU Sanctions Map at https:/
Which market sits in which group is our conservative reading, not a legal opinion, and may change after legal review; the country you state and the country your connection comes from are both checked, and the stricter one applies.
When you follow a link on this site that carries a provider's referral code and then sign up with, deposit at or transact with that provider, and the provider confirms it, the provider pays Simi Ventures GmbH, which operates ChainChoice, a commission. These commissions never affect scoring, ranking, or editorial coverage. Providers cannot purchase placement in the engine.
Full editorial policy: see /editorial-policy.
Don't scrape, automate, or attempt to overwhelm the service. Don't reverse-engineer the scoring engine for commercial use without written permission. Don't use the service to facilitate illegal activity.
[STANDARD LIABILITY LIMITATION CLAUSES — to be drafted by counsel.] At minimum: ChainChoice is not liable for losses arising from acting on recommendations, provider failures, market movements, or third-party service outages.
These terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not take away the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation).
If you are a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and you can be sued only there (Art. 17–19 Brussels Ia Regulation). Only if you are a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law are the courts of Bonn, Germany, the seat of Simi Ventures GmbH, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes arising from these terms (§ 38 ZPO).
Changes are posted here with a new effective date, at least six weeks before they take effect, and sent by email to readers who have saved a decision or asked for alerts. If you do not agree with a change, you can stop using the service and delete what you saved before it takes effect. Silence or continued use is never treated as agreement to a change that takes away a right of yours.
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ChainChoice's data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (SPDX CC-BY-4.0, https:/
The licence does not cover the site's other pages: their text, design and code stay under German copyright, all rights reserved. Nor does it cover provider names, logos and trademarks, or third-party figures and text inside a file; those stay with their owners.
Section 5 governs use of the website itself.
Provider names and logos shown on ChainChoice are the trademarks of their owners. ChainChoice uses them only to name the provider a ranking, review or comparison is about (§ 23(1) Nr. 3 MarkenG, Art. 14(1)(c) EU Trade Mark Regulation), never to suggest endorsement, sponsorship or a partnership. Whether a provider pays ChainChoice is stated beside its link and in the affiliate disclosure.
Each logo is the provider’s own icon, taken from its own website, shown small and unaltered; the address it came from and the day are on record.
A trademark owner who objects to how its mark is shown can write to legal@chainchoice.io.
To complain about a ranking, a review, a fact we print or a provider link, use "Report an error" on the page or write to legal@chainchoice.io; about your personal data, write to privacy@chainchoice.io. Reviewed within 7 days, and the answer says what was checked and what changed.
A correction is published in the corrections log at /methodology/corrections. A complaint about your personal data is answered within one month (Art. 12(3) GDPR).
If the answer does not settle it, ask for the managing directors of Simi Ventures GmbH to review it. You can also complain to the authority for the subject: about personal data, the LDI NRW (Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf); about editorial content, the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (Zollhof 2, 40221 Düsseldorf).
ChainChoice does not take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).
Single point of contact (Arts 11 and 12 Digital Services Act): authorities of the EU Member States, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services, and every reader, reach ChainChoice at mathias@cryptopaymentfinder.com. Write in English or German. A person reads and answers every message; no automated tool answers for us.
What readers can put on ChainChoice (Art. 14 DSA): a question asked to the assistant is stored on a receipt that anyone with its link can read at /r/<id>. Do not put illegal content, or anyone else’s personal data, in a question. We remove a receipt, or make it private, when it holds illegal content or breaks section 5. A person takes every such decision after reading the content; no automated tool moderates, ranks or removes what readers write.
Reporting illegal content (Art. 16 DSA): use "Report this page as illegal content" at the foot of the receipt, or write to mathias@cryptopaymentfinder.com. Say why you think the content is illegal, give its exact address, give your name and email address (not needed if the notice concerns child sexual abuse material), and confirm in good faith that the notice is accurate and complete. We confirm that the notice arrived, decide carefully and without undue delay, and tell you the decision and how to challenge it.
If we remove or restrict something you wrote, and we can reach you, we tell you which content, what we did, why, on which rule or law, and how to challenge it (Art. 17 DSA). You can request a review of the decision by writing to mathias@cryptopaymentfinder.com within six months, and you can turn to the Digital Services Coordinator in Germany, the Bundesnetzagentur (Tulpenfeld 4, 53113 Bonn), or to the courts.
If content gives us reason to suspect a criminal offence that threatens a person’s life or safety, we inform the law enforcement or judicial authorities of the Member State concerned at once (Art. 18 DSA).