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Conflicting source values

The same field carries different values across the exchange’s API, web UI, announcements, and terms and conditions, leaving its own disclosures internally inconsistent.

What this is

On the same product, the same field (APR, early-exit penalty, lockup term) carries materially different values across the exchange’s API, web UI, announcements, and terms and conditions. Pennyworth resolves to a single authoritative value per evidence priority but keeps the disagreement on record. The point is not that aggregators got it wrong; the exchange itself disclosed different numbers in different places.

What it means for you

Even after Pennyworth has resolved to the most authoritative value, this trap should be read as a disclosure-quality signal from the issuer. Term changes, support disputes, and cap changes are often preceded by this kind of cross-source disagreement; treat it as a stability discount on the product, not a precision issue on any single field.

In practice

A CEX USDT flexible-savings product: the web UI shows 6.5% APR, the API returns 5.8%, and an announcement page advertises a "7% promotional APR." Pennyworth records 5.8% per evidence priority (API plus terms and conditions) and surfaces this trap. Two weeks later, the product’s APR is cut to 5.2%, with the announcement posted two days after the change. In retrospect, the three-way disagreement was the earliest signal of the impending revision.