Are Whitepaper Claims Reflected in Market Structure? A Contamination-Aware Pipeline and a Power-Limited Null
Version note · 25 September 2026
Research Square v2 was posted on 23 September 2026 and contains the June 2026 manuscript, subtitled “A Contamination-Aware Pipeline and a Power-Limited Null”. The September Financial Innovation revision, “An Auditable Non-Detection”, is in preparation and is not this public preprint. A later corrected public PDF is available here; each repository retains its own version history.
Summary
A contamination-aware study of whether claims made in cryptocurrency whitepapers correspond to observed market structure. The analysis combines corpus verification, NLP classification and factor comparisons. Non-detection is interpreted in light of the corpus, power and measurement limits; it does not establish that whitepaper claims and market structure are unrelated.