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# Why Crypto Under the Hood exists and who writes it.
What this site is
Crypto Under the Hood covers one thing: onramp, offramp, swap, corporate wallet, custody, acquiring, stablecoin payments, bitcoin payments, otc, licensing, cards, industries, exchange. Everything published here stays inside that scope. If a topic is interesting but outside it, it does not get published, because there are better sites for it.
How crypto payment infrastructure actually works
Who writes it
Every article on this site is written by Ivan Kruse. Six years on the operations side of crypto payments. Explains how the plumbing works without talking down.
Readers are assumed to be operations, finance and founder-level readers choosing crypto payment and custody infrastructure.
How articles are written
Claims that can be checked are checked. Where a number matters, the article says where it came from and when it was measured. Where something is uncertain, the article says so instead of rounding the uncertainty away. Costs, risks and inconvenient details are included, because leaving them out is how crypto writing usually goes wrong.
What this site does not do
No price predictions. No investment advice. No paid placements dressed up as reviews. Nothing here should be read as a recommendation to buy or sell anything. It is written to explain how things work so you can make your own decision.