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If you publish

You are about to ask a stranger to trust a page. That page has to say who gets paid, who can change the rules, and who can stop the money. A blank line stays blank.

A worked case

A founder writes that users are safe, and leaves the freeze out of the terms. A reader trusts the homepage. Later the firm halts withdrawals, and the halt was allowed on a page the founder never wrote. The missing line was the product.

The lines

Write the fee, the keys, the admin, and the freeze in sentences. A slogan about the future does not fill a line. If you do not know the line, publish that you do not know it.

What you do not ask

Do not ask for a seed. Do not promise a return. Do not take a deposit into a wallet you will not name. The terms are the rule. The pitch is the claim.

In Britain, inviting people into a crypto investment can be a financial promotion. This course is not legal advice. If you will be paid for the invitation, ask someone qualified before you publish it.

The homepage was the costume

The courses before this one are what a reader should be able to find on your page: who is paid, who can change the terms, who can halt the money. Celsius customers read an app that felt like a savings account. The halt came later, and the balance became a claim. FTX customers read balances on a screen. The screen was the firm's ledger. If you are the one writing the page, those are the lines you either publish or hide.

A blank you leave empty is more honest than a sentence about safety. A seed box on a signup form is the whole theft. A promised return is the costume the record already has a name for. In the UK, an invitation to invest in crypto can be a financial promotion, and this paragraph is not a ruling on your page. If the invitation pays you, ask someone qualified before you send it.

Write the three lines. Leave the missing one empty. Then let them decide. The school will not fill it for you, and it will not call the page safe.

Read it yourself

• FCA cryptoassets hub
• Celsius Network, a page customers trusted

These links are the record. They are not a recommendation, and they are not instructions. A news story or a court paper can still be wrong about a detail. The check does not change because a famous name is in the story.

Apply the check

Open a question. The line is about this topic. It is not a verdict that anything is safe.

Check yourself

Write it in your own words. The course's answer opens after that. Nothing is sent.