ARCI v2 — Press kit

Safe headline claim snippets

These snippets cite headline rows only. Aggregate-only — no per-exchange named comparison. Estimates, not quotes.

• Augea Retail Cost Index v2 — 2026 Q3 Edition (ARCI v2) measures retail crypto buying cost across 12 headline countries × 2 primary benchmark assets × 2 primary rails.
• The headline benchmark cites 9 cells passing all four headline thresholds. The expanded appendix surfaces 11 additional cells with MID/LOW confidence labels.
• Augea publishes the full coverage matrix — every supported (country × asset × rail) cell appears as a row in the dataset, with reason codes for cells not yet benchmarked. Hiding cells behind silent drops is forbidden.

Attribution

ARCI v2 is published under CC-BY-4.0. You may reuse, remix, and republish with attribution.

Augea, Augea Retail Cost Index v2 — 2026 Q3 Edition (Augea Research, 2026), https://augea.io/reports/arci-v2-2026-q3, accessed [DATE]. CC-BY-4.0.

Charts

Phase 1 ships a text-grade press kit. Chart pack (PNG + SVG, light + dark) ships in Phase 2 once the platform-portable rasterization pipeline lands. The dataset and methodology are sufficient for editorial reuse today; chart embeds will be added on the same route in a follow-up edition.

What press / editorial may NOT claim

• No “Augea recommends” or “cheapest” or “best for” framing — ARCI v2 is aggregate-only.
• No per-exchange named comparison without the right-of-reply protocol per SURVEY_DERIVED_CLAIM_CONTRACT §18.
• No projection / forecast claims (ARCI is historical / observed; not Class D).
• No headline claims built from appendix or tracked rows. Headline cites only headline rows.