Six criteria, weighted by how hard each one is to fake. Years in operation and a body of trader reviews carry the most, because this industry closes firms regularly and survival is information. Naming a registered company carries next: half the firms that disclose an entity simply repeat their brand name, which tells you nothing, so we look for a company that would exist in a register. A named regulator and stated payout methods each count for less — welcome, but neither is standard here.
Verified payouts would carry the most of all, and today they carry nothing, because no payouts have been verified on the site yet. We show the criterion empty rather than quietly dropping it: it is the one piece of evidence that settles the question, and hiding its absence would be the opposite of what this page is for. When traders start submitting proof, it takes the largest weight and this order will change.
What deliberately counts for nothing: profit split, headline funding, promo codes and giveaway budgets. They describe an offer, not whether it is honoured.
