Terms of Service

By accessing, browsing, connecting a wallet to, or otherwise using the Platform, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you use the Platform on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and "you" includes that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Platform.

To use the Platform, you must be at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into a binding agreement. By using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you satisfy these requirements. You further represent and warrant that you are not located in, organized in, ordinarily resident in, or otherwise subject to any jurisdiction where use of the Platform is prohibited or restricted, and that you are not the subject of any economic or trade sanctions or acting on behalf of any prohibited person.

ARKAiD is a non-custodial graphical user interface. We do not take custody, possession, or control of your digital assets, private keys, seed phrases, credentials, or funds at any time. You access the Platform by connecting a third-party, self-hosted wallet, and all transactions are initiated, authorized, and signed by you through that wallet and submitted to the applicable blockchain network.

Wallet addresses effectively function as your identity on the Platform. You acknowledge and agree that we may treat any activity, instruction, approval, signature, submission, or transaction associated with your connected wallet address as having been authorized by you. Because the Platform is strictly non-custodial, we cannot recover private keys, seed phrases, passwords, or assets, reverse completed transactions, or otherwise restore access to your wallet. You are solely and entirely responsible for the security of your wallet, devices, credentials, and all activities associated with them. Any loss arising from wallet compromise, device compromise, phishing, malware, user error, or unauthorized access is at your sole risk.

You acknowledge that the Platform is being launched in an alpha / experimental state and may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time. The Platform is highly experimental and is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind. You should expect that the Platform may contain bugs, errors, downtime, design defects, or security vulnerabilities that could interrupt functionality or result in the partial or total and irreversible loss of digital assets, transaction opportunities, data, or access. You use the Platform entirely at your own risk.

The Platform may display or utilize a "Points" system to track certain user activity. ARKAiD Points are entirely experimental, are maintained off-chain only, and have no monetary value. They do not constitute property, ownership, a security, a financial instrument, a deposit, stored value, redeemable credit, or any right to tokens, revenue, profits, governance, distributions, or other benefits.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• Points confer no expectation of profit, utility, governance rights, future distributions, or any other present or future entitlement.
• Points are discretionary bookkeeping entries only and may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, or discontinued.
• We may modify, suspend, reset, recalculate, delete, or permanently terminate the Points system, or any user's Points balance, at any time, in our sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without any liability or obligation to you.

You are solely responsible for:

• The security of your devices, wallets, private keys, seed phrases, credentials, and connected accounts.
• Carefully reviewing, understanding, and independently verifying all transaction details, including counterparties, addresses, outputs, inscriptions, content, terms, any disclosed Platform Fees, creator royalties, network fees, any dust-minimum top-up reflected in the transaction, and any associated PSBTs or other signing payloads, before signing, approving, or authorizing any transaction.
• Paying all applicable taxes, duties, and governmental charges, and complying with all tax reporting obligations arising from your use of the Platform.
• Ensuring that your access to and use of the Platform, and all related activity, complies with all applicable laws, regulations, sanctions programs, and legal restrictions in every relevant jurisdiction.
• All risks associated with the counterparties you choose to interact with and any resulting disputes, losses, or claims.

ARKAiD is a peer-to-peer marketplace and technical interface. We do not create, own, endorse, verify, investigate, guarantee, or assume responsibility for the authenticity, legality, validity, ownership, provenance, quality, safety, functionality, value, or transferability of any Bitcoin Ordinals, NFTs, digital assets, listings, metadata, inscriptions, or other content made available through the Platform. You bear the entire risk of browsing, listing, buying, selling, and otherwise interacting with digital assets and must conduct your own due diligence on all listings, content, and counterparties.

Digital assets are speculative, highly volatile, may be illiquid, and may lose all value. We expressly disclaim responsibility for counterfeit, fraudulent, infringing, misleading, malfunctioning, or otherwise problematic listings or content, including metadata issues, fake collections, scams, impersonation, or disputes regarding title, ownership, or infringement.

You acknowledge that blockchain transactions are irreversible, final, and may not settle as expected. Once submitted to the network, a transaction generally cannot be canceled, reversed, or modified, and we cannot recover or reroute assets sent to an incorrect address, underpriced transaction, or unintended output. You accept that you may suffer the total loss of funds or assets due to blockchain, network, software, or user-execution risks, with no recourse against us.

We are not liable for any losses or damages resulting from, relating to, or arising out of:

• Network congestion, mempool dynamics, fee spikes, miner behavior, or transaction ordering.
• Chain reorganizations, forks, node failures, indexer failures, delays, desynchronization, or other infrastructure issues.
• Bugs, exploits, vulnerabilities, design flaws, or failures in blockchain protocols, wallets, smart contracts, inscriptions, bridges, libraries, or related software.
• Failed, stuck, dropped, delayed, or erroneous transactions due to insufficient fees, malformed payloads, incompatible software, third-party service failures, or changing on-chain conditions.

The Platform provides a technical interface for interacting with blockchain networks and user-generated listings. Nothing on the Platform constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice, or a recommendation, solicitation, endorsement, or offer regarding any asset, transaction, or strategy. You should consult your own independent professional advisers before making decisions that may have financial, legal, or tax consequences.

Midcurve Corp retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Platform, including its code, design, branding, interfaces, content (excluding user-submitted or third-party content), and all related intellectual property rights. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to access and use the Platform for its intended purpose. Except for this limited license, no rights are granted to you. You retain whatever rights you may have in digital assets held in your wallet, subject to the applicable terms of the relevant asset creators, licensors, marketplaces, and underlying protocols.

You agree not to, and not to attempt to, engage in any of the following:

• Market manipulation, wash trading, spoofing, self-dealing, or any activity intended to mislead others or artificially affect volume, pricing, or market perception.
• Using the Platform for money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, fraud, theft, infringement, or any unlawful activity.
• Interfering with, disrupting, exploiting, hacking, probing, reverse-engineering, or attempting to gain unauthorized access to the Platform or related systems.
• Using VPNs, proxies, obfuscation tools, or other methods to evade geographic, sanctions-based, compliance, rate-limit, or access restrictions.

We may, at any time and in our sole discretion, without prior notice and without liability to you, suspend, restrict, block, rate-limit, condition, limit features of, refuse service to, or permanently terminate your access to the Platform, including with respect to any wallet address, IP address, device fingerprint, account linkage, or other identifier associated with you. We may do so for any reason or no reason, including suspected violation of these Terms, compliance, legal, security, fraud-prevention, operational, reputational, or risk-management purposes. Nothing in these Terms obligates us to continue making the Platform available to you or to any user.

We may charge fees for certain uses of the Platform ("Platform Fees"). Any applicable Platform Fees will be clearly disclosed to you in the transaction flow before you sign or authorize the relevant action. By proceeding, you agree to pay those disclosed Platform Fees. ARKAiD only receives the Platform Fee amount expressly disclosed in the transaction flow for the relevant transaction. There are no separate, additional, undisclosed, hidden, or back-end fees payable to ARKAiD or Midcurve Corp in connection with that transaction. Unless otherwise expressly stated by us in writing, Platform Fees are non-refundable to the maximum extent permitted by law.

For clarity in any transaction:

• ARKAiD / Midcurve Corp: receives only the disclosed Platform Fee amount.
• Creators: if creator royalties are enabled for a collection, those royalties are seller-side and are routed directly to the creator's designated address.
• Blockchain network / miners: receive the applicable network or miner fees required for processing and settlement.
• Dust-minimum top-up amounts: if required for transaction construction, reflect a blockchain technical requirement and are not an additional ARKAiD fee.

Creator Royalties: Some digital asset collections may have creator royalties enabled by the collection's creator. When applicable, those royalties are clearly displayed to sellers and operate solely as a seller-side amount deducted from the seller's proceeds, not as a buyer-side fee. Creator royalties are routed directly to the creator's designated wallet address. They are not Platform Fees and are never collected, processed, retained, or held by Midcurve Corp or ARKAiD.

Network Fees: You are solely responsible for all underlying blockchain network fees, miner fees, and similar charges required to construct, process, confirm, and settle your transactions. Those amounts are paid to the applicable blockchain network and/or miners, are not Platform Fees, and do not go to ARKAiD.

Blockchain Dust Minimums (Edge Case): Because the Bitcoin network requires transaction outputs to meet a minimum size (currently 546 satoshis, commonly referred to as the "dust limit") in order to be valid and relayed, there may be occasional instances where a Platform Fee output or creator royalty output would otherwise fall below this threshold. In such edge cases, the transaction may automatically include a top-up so the relevant output satisfies the 546-satoshi dust minimum and the transaction can be successfully constructed and broadcast. Any such top-up is solely a blockchain output-construction requirement. It is not a separate Platform Fee, not a hidden ARKAiD charge, and not consideration paid for additional services.

The Platform depends on third-party services and infrastructure, including wallets, browser extensions, blockchain nodes, indexers, explorers, APIs, hosting providers, and other software or services not controlled by us. We do not control, endorse, or guarantee any third-party service and are not responsible for its availability, performance, security, legality, accuracy, or failure. Your use of third-party services is at your own risk and may be subject to separate terms and privacy policies.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE," AND "WITH ALL FAULTS." MIDCURVE CO. EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, OR THAT THE PLATFORM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM, ANY LISTING, ANY CONTENT, OR ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE PLATFORM WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, COMPLETE, OR FREE OF MALWARE, HACKING, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MIDCURVE CO. AND ITS FOUNDERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, SERVICE PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR ENHANCED DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, DATA, GOODWILL, DIGITAL ASSETS, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, INABILITY TO USE, OR RELIANCE ON THE PLATFORM, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, OR CLAIM ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO WALLET COMPROMISES, PHISHING, USER ERROR, UNAUTHORIZED TRANSACTIONS, COUNTERPARTY MISCONDUCT, FRAUDULENT OR INFRINGING LISTINGS, METADATA OR INSCRIPTION ISSUES, THIRD-PARTY SERVICE FAILURES, NETWORK CONDITIONS, FORKS, NODE OR INDEXER FAILURES, SMART CONTRACT OR SOFTWARE EXPLOITS, OR THE FINALITY OR FAILURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM OR THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID DIRECTLY TO US FOR USE OF THE PLATFORM DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100.00). If applicable law does not permit certain limitations in this Section, those limitations will apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Midcurve Corp and its founders, directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, representatives, licensors, service providers, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, investigations, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, arising out of or relating to: (a) your access to or use of the Platform; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions program, or third-party right; (d) any content, listing, asset, transaction, or activity associated with your wallet or conduct on the Platform; or (e) any dispute between you and another user, buyer, seller, rights-holder, or third party.

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL.

Before initiating arbitration, you and Midcurve Corp agree to attempt informal resolution of any dispute by providing written notice of the dispute to the other party. Notices to Midcurve Corp must be sent to legal@arkaid.io and must describe the nature of the claim and the relief sought. If a dispute is not resolved within thirty (30) days after notice, then, except as expressly provided below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Platform, or your relationship with Midcurve Corp shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable rules, including the Consumer Arbitration Rules where applicable.

This arbitration agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and applicable federal arbitration law. The arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to resolve all disputes regarding the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this arbitration agreement, except that a court of competent jurisdiction may determine issues relating to class-action waiver enforceability or claims expressly excluded from arbitration by law. The arbitration shall be conducted on an individual basis only. YOU AND MIDCURVE CO. EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, AND EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Nothing in this Section prevents either party from: (i) bringing an eligible individual claim in small claims court; or (ii) seeking temporary, preliminary, or injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction as necessary to protect intellectual property, confidential information, platform security, or to prevent immediate and irreparable harm. To the extent any claim is found not subject to arbitration, or if arbitration is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and each party irrevocably submits to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. Except to the extent preempted by federal law, these Terms and any non-arbitrable dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

You must comply with all applicable economic sanctions, export control laws, anti-money laundering laws, and other applicable legal requirements. Without limiting the foregoing, you represent and warrant that you are not identified on any U.S. or other applicable sanctions list, are not owned or controlled by a sanctioned person, and are not located in, organized in, or ordinarily resident in any comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk, or Luhansk regions of Ukraine. We may take any action we consider appropriate to comply with applicable law or protect the Platform, including refusing access or blocking activity.

We shall not be liable for any failure, suspension, delay, error, or interruption in performance resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, governmental actions, sanctions, embargoes, failures of telecommunications or internet providers, power outages, blockchain network disruptions, software supply-chain events, or failures of third-party infrastructure or services.

We may modify these Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. Revised Terms will become effective when posted, unless otherwise stated. Your continued access to or use of the Platform after revised Terms become effective constitutes your acceptance of those revised Terms. If you do not agree to any revised Terms, you must stop using the Platform. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these Terms, please contact us at: Email: legal@arkaid.io
Address: Midcurve Corp, 8 The Green, Suite 25921, Dover, DE 19901