Question 1

What is Stablecoin issuer?

Accepted Answer

A regulated or corporate entity that mints a redeemable, fiat-pegged token on a public blockchain. Issuers such as Circle (USDC) and Tether (USDT) publish periodic attestations and operate redemption programmes through which the token is supposed to maintain its peg. See https://www.circle.com/en/usdc.

Question 2

What is Proof-of-reserves (PoR)?

Accepted Answer

A cryptographic or attested audit that shows a stablecoin issuer’s on-chain holdings match the off-chain reserves backing its supply. Public PoR pages let a holder verify that every circulating token is fully backed at a stated point in time. See https://www.circle.com/en/transparency.

Question 3

What is Reserve attestation?

Accepted Answer

A written verification from an independent auditor (typically a Big-Four or similarly-named accounting firm) that an issuer’s reserves back its circulating supply 1:1, refreshed on a published cadence. Attestations are signed letters of assurance, hosted on the issuer’s transparency page. See https://www.circle.com/en/transparency.

Question 4

What is SEC 8-K?

Accepted Answer

A Current Report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that discloses a material event at a publicly-traded U.S. company. Cited for stablecoin issuers that are SEC registrants, an 8-K is the canonical primary source for a partnership, a leadership change or a regulatory development that affects the issuer’s business. See https://www.sec.gov/about/forms/form8-k.htm.

Question 5

What is Money transmitter license (MTL)?

Accepted Answer

A U.S. state-level licence (or FinCEN registration for federally chartered transmitters) required to move fiat currency on behalf of others. Stablecoin issuers, custodians and payment processors handling redemptions or treasury flows typically must hold money-transmitter licences in each state where they operate. See https://www.fincen.gov/msb-registration.

Question 6

What is RFP (Request for Proposal)?

Accepted Answer

A formal buyer ask published on a procurement portal — the U.S. federal pipeline runs on SAM.gov — that describes requirements, deliverables, timeline and budget. RFPs are late-stage buyer intent signals: the buyer has funding, a written brief and a scheduled vendor evaluation window. See https://sam.gov.

Question 7

What is Bounty?

Accepted Answer

A paid task posted by a sponsor, paid out on completion against pre-agreed criteria. Web3 bounties (e.g. Immunefi security disclosures, Gitcoin-funded issue programmes) reward specific deliverables — vulnerability reports, audits, shipped code — rather than ongoing sponsorship. See https://www.immunefi.com/bounties.

Question 8

What is Grant?

Accepted Answer

Non-dilutive funding awarded by a foundation, DAO or programme for ecosystem work. Grants rounds (Gitcoin Grants, Optimism RetroPGF, foundation RFPs) reward alignment with a public mandate rather than equity and accrue to a recipient’s treasury, not a cap-table. See https://grants.gitcoin.co.

Question 9

What is Intent signal?

Accepted Answer

A citable public event indicating a buyer’s near-term procurement of tools, services or talent. On Crypt Scryer every Intent signal carries a public source URL, a 0–100 score and a labelled likely-need — see the methodology page for the full rule. See /methodology.

Question 10

What is Citation?

Accepted Answer

The three-field provenance stamp required on every cited row: sourceUrl, sourceDomain and date. Without those three fields the row is dropped at the gate — see the methodology page for the citation standard and the FACT vs INFERENCE boundary. See /methodology.

Question 11

What is FACT vs INFERENCE?

Accepted Answer

The provenance boundary used on every row. FACT cells (company, source URL, source domain, date, signal excerpt) are verbatim from the source page, while INFERENCE cells (0–100 score, likely need, stage, outreach angle) are derived by the rule-based scorer. Per-cell badges make the boundary inspectable on each row. See /methodology.

Question 12

What is 0–100 Intent score?

Accepted Answer

The deterministic, rule-based composite the scorer applies to every Intent signal: signal-type base weight + recency bump + size-fit bump + optional preference-fit bonus, clamped to [0, 100]. Four bands of the rubric drive the label the feed shows next to each row. See /methodology#rubric.

Question 13

What is Stablecoin Intent Radar?

Accepted Answer

Crypt Scryer’s live feed of cited buyer intent for stablecoin, payments and Web3 teams. Every row carries company, claim, source URL, citation, date and 0–100 score; weak or duplicate signals are stripped before delivery (Radar $299/month and up). See /signals/intent.

Question 14

What is Cited Web3 Opportunity digest?

Accepted Answer

The Monday 08:00 UTC summary of grants, RFPs, accelerators, hackathons, bounties and public contracts, personalised to a reader’s saved preferences. Each row carries a source URL plus a date and is deduped against prior issues (Free tier). See /sample-digest.

Question 15

What is Allow-listed source domain?

Accepted Answer

The pre-score gate the pipeline applies before any Intent signal can reach the scorer: only public, named sources (company blogs and press rooms, regulatory filings, grants / bounty registries, .gov / .edu hosts). Bare social aggregators (X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Substack, Medium) are denied upstream. See /methodology.