Your problem: the Chinese and English crypto tutorials online split roughly into machine-translated marketing copy and pieces written by people who never actually pressed the buttons. You ask in a Discord and get a referral link in DM. You ask in a Telegram group and someone offers "1:1 coaching." You search Google and the first result is a phishing wallet download. We fix this one specific thing: press every button, record every number, publish every correction. You shouldn't have to trust us — you should be able to reproduce what we did.

Editorial Lead

Lin Zhixing (pen name / 林知行)

Five years of Web2 backend turned Web3 security research, six years of self-custody. Research focus: wallet security, cross-chain bridge risk, on-chain phishing defense. Writes most of the articles on this site; two anonymous editors cross-review each piece and one external proofreader does a final reader-perspective pass.

Full bio & disclosures →

Why a named editor with an anonymous review pool

Top crypto SERPs (Chinese and English) are dominated by pseudonymous individuals or anonymous editorial teams. Our shape — named lead + anonymous reviewers — is chosen deliberately:

• The lead is named so the reader knows who's writing. Google E-E-A-T weights "author identifiability" via stable byline + public résumé + traceable history. Lin Zhixing's author page carries background, research areas, and full conflict disclosure.
• The reviewers stay anonymous so review doesn't get colored by reputation. Institutional structure means every piece passes ≥ 2 cross-reviews. Anonymous reviewers don't have to protect their public name and can push back on the lead's mistakes directly.
• A pen name reduces blast radius. On-chain tools iterate fast. A real-name author getting phished, switching position, or caught in a controversy drags the whole site. Pen name + public résumé accumulates byline credit while keeping personal risk bounded.
• Regulatory flexibility. Chinese-language crypto content sits across several jurisdictions with regulatory uncertainty. Pen name + anonymous review keeps publication viable.

How we work

One Editorial Lead (Lin Zhixing, named) + two core reviewers (anonymous) + one external proofreader. Workflow per piece:

1. Topic proposal — editorial discussion sets priority
2. Hands-on first — core numbers must come from actual operations
3. First draft (mostly by Lin Zhixing)
4. Two anonymous reviewers cross-check, all suggestions logged
5. External proofreader for the reader perspective
6. Final sign-off + publish + internal archive log
7. Post-publish errors logged to corrections with full diff

What we cite — all primary

• Project official docs: OKX, MetaMask, EIPs, whitepapers
• On-chain verifiable data: Etherscan, BscScan, OKLink, DefiLlama, Chainalysis reports
• Security firm public disclosures: SlowMist, PeckShield, CertiK, Halborn

Editorial opinion is labeled "the editorial team thinks" and kept separate from verifiable facts.

How we keep the lights on

ChainStudy is an independent third-party information site with no operational or equity relationship to OKX, MetaMask, Phantom, or any other project mentioned. Two revenue paths:

1. OKX referral compensation. Our OKX mentions use referral code OK18866. If you sign up and trade, OKX shares a portion of platform fees with us. It doesn't add anything to your cost. This is the FTC-standard affiliate disclosure that footer-links every page.
2. Reader sponsorship / subscription (not enabled yet; if it launches, the mechanism and use of funds will be public).

We do not accept sponsored posts, paid reviews, private project pitches (including from OKX — our OKX coverage is independently written), course revenue, signal-group revenue, or any token-promotion holdings.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure

Editorial members may hold:

• BTC / ETH / SOL / USDC / USDT (mainstream coins, for testing and daily use)
• OKB (X Layer gas and testing)
• Small amounts of ARB / OP / BASE L2 governance tokens (testing residue)

Editorial members commit: no holdings in any "project-specific token", meme coin, or unreleased project airdrop expectation that we positively recommend. Our OKX coverage is based on the product itself, not OKB holdings.

Contact

• Email: privacy@okexcex.com
• Corrections via corrections page top form

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