This page explains how we produce The CBDC Watch, how our live market and FX data works, and how we approach coin content — so you can judge our coverage on its sources, not just its conclusions.
The CBDC Watch
The CBDC Watch is an editorial tracker, not a live feed. For each central bank digital currency we record the issuer, jurisdiction, and current stage (research, pilot, or live), a plain-English explanation of how it works and how it differs from crypto and stablecoins, and the market implications. We define the stages consistently: research means design or consultation with no decision to issue; pilot means live testing with a limited group; live means generally available. Each entry is sourced from official central-bank publications and reputable public trackers, cited, and dated with a “last reviewed” note. Status changes over time, so we review entries on a cadence and point readers to the primary source to verify the current position. Everything is framed as reporting — never a how-to for obtaining, converting, or using any CBDC.
Live prices, charts, FX, and sentiment
Live data is proxied server-side (keyless) and cached briefly in our own infrastructure, so nothing loads from third-party trackers in your browser. Specifically: crypto prices, 24-hour changes, and charts come from Binance market data; foreign-exchange rates used to price crypto in your currency come from a keyless public FX source; the Fear & Greed Index comes from alternative.me; and stablecoin and total-value-locked figures come from DefiLlama. Market cap is derived from a live price multiplied by a curated circulating-supply figure.
Never fabricated: the last-good rule
If a data provider is briefly unavailable, we show the last good value with an “as of” timestamp rather than a fabricated number, a zero, or an em-dash placeholder. We never display placeholder or zeroed data as if it were live. Transient loading uses skeleton states, not fake values.
Multi-currency
Prices default to US dollars and can be shown in your selected currency using live FX rates, remembered in your browser. Multi-currency conversion is an approximation for context — useful for understanding scale in your own currency, but not a quoted rate for any transaction.
Coin content
Per-coin “About” explainers are written for this site in our own words. We do not copy descriptions from other sites, and we do not fabricate tokenomics, supply figures, or claims; where a detail is genuinely uncertain we omit it rather than guess. Coin pages combine this human-written context with the live, sourced market data described above.
Which coins we track, and the limits of this data
We track a curated set of major assets by market relevance rather than trying to list every token — a deliberately smaller, better-maintained universe over an unmanageable long tail. Because prices come from a single primary venue and supply figures are curated, our numbers can differ slightly from aggregators that blend many exchanges or update supply continuously; we treat them as a clear, consistent reference for context, not as the definitive tick-by-tick record for trading. Coverage of a coin is never an endorsement, and inclusion says nothing about its quality or safety.
Accountability
This methodology sits alongside our editorial guidelines and our corrections policy. If you believe a source is out of date or a figure is wrong, please tell us — we would rather fix it than defend it.
Not financial or legal advice. Crypto Ruble Coins is an independent news and education publication. It is not a cryptocurrency exchange, a currency-conversion or off-ramp service, or a payment facilitator, and it does not facilitate sanctions evasion. Crypto is volatile and high-risk. Do your own research.