Cointelegraph Today: ct.com, cointelegraph.com and What Happened

Where to Read Cointelegraph Now

Cointelegraph publishes crypto news daily at ct.com, and cointelegraph.com still serves the same articles as a live mirror, with no redirect in place. X, Telegram, eight newsletters and the RSS feed all work. Both apps still point to cointelegraph.com.

Cointelegraph has announced no domain move, the start date is unknown, and ct.com is where it publishes now.

What Is Cointelegraph and Who Owns It

Cointelegraph is a crypto media brand founded in 2013 with more than ten language editions. Its own pages name no owner or headquarters; its terms name only Cointelegraph Media Group and its affiliated operating entities. Yana Prikhodchenko leads Cointelegraph Global as CEO, per its own LinkedIn post and event bios.

Apple lists CT Media Group Inc. as the iOS seller, Google Play names COINTELEGRAPH DMCC in Dubai, and LinkedIn points to New York.

CoinDesk's October 7 report said Luna Media acquired Cointelegraph in 2022. The July 11, 2022 press release says Luna PR bought only the Middle East and North Africa franchise, CoinDesk corrected that line on October 9, and the deal says nothing about the global owner.

Cointelegraph as an Investor

Our investor database records 13 investments by Cointelegraph in crypto projects, none as lead investor. The latest round was on November 20, 2025, and the portfolio centers on blockchain services, social and infrastructure startups.

The recorded rounds cover 13 projects, among them Bluwhale, U2U Network, Datagram Network, Belong and Velvet. Of the rounds with a disclosed size, the largest were U2U Network's $13.8 million in November 2024 and Bluwhale's $10 million Series A in January 2025. Our database labels three entries Incubation, and echo, Outlier Ventures, JDI Global and Poolz each co-invested twice with Cointelegraph.

Cointelegraph's investor profile is new and still being filled in, so treat its ROI figures as incomplete.

What Happened to Cointelegraph

Cointelegraph's traffic collapsed in late 2025, and at some undated point it began publishing at ct.com, with no announcement. CoinDesk reported a Google manual penalty that Google never confirmed. The archive returned in stages from October 1, 2026, with no official explanation.

How to read the diagram below:

• Each circle is one monthly visits figure from Similarweb estimates cited by reporters. Circle area is proportional to visits, and figures marked ">" are drawn at their lower bound.
• The circles are spaced evenly, not to scale in time, so read the date under each one: December 2024, July 2025, early October 2025 and September 1, 2026.
• The hatched gap covers early October 2025 to September 2026, when no traffic figure was published, so the path from about 5M to over 700K is unknown.
• In the archive shelf, each cell is one year of Cointelegraph articles from 2013 to 2026. Dashed empty cells are years taken offline, and solid blue cells are years online.
• The top row shows the state reported around April 30, 2026, after a site revamp removed the pre-2026 archive. The bottom row shows October 1, 2026, when every year from 2013 was listed in the sitemaps again, though not every article was back yet.

Brian Cohen, a former Cointelegraph writer, posted on October 2, 2026 under his @inthepixels account that Cointelegraph had restored its pre-2026 articles the day before and had earlier taken the archive down.

I am unblocking and refollowing @Cointelegraph after they restored their articles prior to 2026 yesterday (some of which are mine).

The sale story broke on October 7, 2026, when CoinDesk reported a buyer search resting on one anonymous source, and Cointelegraph denied it on X the same night.

We are not for sale. Your article is based on false information and contains multiple factual errors.

We compared 12-month US Google Trends for cointelegraph, crypto news and bitcoin. Cointelegraph and crypto news both fell 84% and bitcoin fell 50%, so search interest cannot separate a Cointelegraph problem from a cooling market.

A widespread view online holds that this directory triggered Google's site reputation abuse policy and a domain-wide penalty, on the theory that a news site's authority was used to rank casino and gambling pages. That view is not independently confirmed, and Google has said nothing about Cointelegraph. The directory now returns status 410 on cointelegraph.com, which means "Gone": the server states the pages were removed on purpose and are not coming back. On ct.com the same address returns 404, "not found".

Is the Cointelegraph Comeback Real

Cointelegraph is operating and reachable, and no independent data confirms a full recovery. Google's August 28, 2026 policy change applies to searchers in the European Economic Area (EEA) and names no site. The last checkable count, from September 1, 2026, shows just above 700,000 monthly visits.

Google's August 28, 2026 blog post is the only official document. From August 30, "For users inside the EEA, the impact of the manual action won't apply", it says, after discussion with the European Commission, and it names no site and says nothing about lifting any action. The EEA, the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, is the one official mechanism that fits a partial return, and Google has never linked it to Cointelegraph. Outside the EEA, nothing changed.

Andrey Sergeenkov posted the return observation on X on October 5, 2026, under his @Nikopolos account.

Look who's back on Google: @Cointelegraph. Around 80% of its pre-2026 archive is back online, and articles are showing up in search again. …

We opened the sitemap index on both hosts. It holds 167 entries, one for every month back to August 2013, and new update batches keep arriving, so the restore is still running.

Is Cointelegraph Legit

Cointelegraph is a real, actively publishing newsroom with a written editorial policy dated April 7, 2026. Paid items carry a Press release or Commissioned tag, a "Commissioned by" client credit and a disclaimer. A byline alone does not prove editorial content.

The Editorial Policy sets independence rules, a "three pairs of eyes" review, and anonymous sources only with editor approval and independent verification.

Paid content carries labels at item level. Press releases show a Press release tag, a "Commissioned by [client]" credit and no byline. Commissioned articles show a byline marked "commissioned content", a Commissioned tag, a "Commissioned by [client]" credit and the line "This content is part of a paid partnership".

Two examples: the Justin Sun prize press release and a commissioned article on crypto exchanges.

• Under the headline, the tag read Press release on one page and Commissioned on the other.
• Below the summary, each page named its client: Commissioned by Office of Justin Sun and Commissioned by Gate.
• The commissioned article had a named byline, Erhan Kahraman, followed by "commissioned content", so a name alone does not mean editorial.
• At the end, each page stated that the text is paid and not part of Cointelegraph's editorial content.

Ads are a separate risk. In June 2025 attackers used the site's own ad code to show fake airdrop pop-ups, so never treat a link inside an ad slot as Cointelegraph's own content.

Best Cointelegraph Alternatives

CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block and Bitcoin Magazine publish free crypto news, and all four label their sponsored material. Three of the four have exchange, venture or investor ties, so check who funds an outlet before trusting its take.

Cointelegraph Press Release Cost

Cointelegraph accepts paid material through advertise@cointelegraph.com and its Formula agency, and it publishes no price list. Press-release pages carry a robots nofollow tag, so a placement buys a labelled story without a followed link. Post-collapse reach is unproven.

Two official routes exist, an email to advertise@cointelegraph.com behind the About page's Advertise link, and the affiliated Formula agency, "Powered by Cointelegraph", with a "Cointelegraph Advertorial" option. There is no Advertise web page, no submission form and no price list.

Reseller prices you may see elsewhere are not Cointelegraph's, and ct.com warns of impersonation scams.

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