About this archive
thecryptochat.net ran block explorers for 37 small altcoins, each on its own subdomain, all serving the same ledger page. The site went dormant. The subdomains stopped resolving, and the coin directories, wikis and forum posts that had linked to those explorers were left pointing at nothing.
Those links are being pointed back at an entry for the coin they were about, rather than dumped on a homepage. That is the entire architecture: the old links decided what pages this site has.
Why most of this archive is still blank.
A status needs a named source and a date. No source, no status. An entry that says unverified is doing its job.
Unverified gets published as unverified. An honest gap is more use than a confident guess, particularly for a coin somebody may still be holding.
Every page says when it was last reviewed. An undated archive is a rumour.
No wallet connections, no token links, no price calls. This is a record, not a venue. Nothing here is investment advice.
Who runs this and how it decides what to publish.
This archive is maintained by its owner, working alone. There is no editorial board and no contributor network, and saying so is more useful than implying one.
Every entry is built the same way: what this domain's own link and hosting data says about a coin, checked against a named source before any status changes. The method is set out in full in the notes, including the coins it has confirmed and the candidates it checked and rejected. Nothing is marked verified on a name match alone.
Some pages on this site may in future carry a sponsored link. Any sponsored link is disclosed on the page it appears on and marked as such, so a reader never has to guess which links are commercial. A sponsored placement does not fund what this archive says about a coin, and it is never the only thing on a page.
Corrections are read and acted on. If an entry is wrong, out of date, or missing a source that would change its status, the entry is updated and the correction is dated on the page it affects, so the change is visible rather than silent. A public contact address for corrections is being set up and will be published here.
The same problem, further up the stack.
ChainDrop
Which Ethereum and L2 testnets are still supported, which are being retired, and on what date. The same habit of checking applied to infrastructure instead of coins.
chaindrop.orgLA Blockchain Summit
Where a good deal of this gets argued out in person before it reaches anyone's documentation.
lablockchainsummit.com