Terms of Use

1. Agreement and scope

These Terms are between you and the operator providing the Services under the DEGENBID name ("DEGENBID", "we", "us", or "our"). They govern access to https://degenbid.fun/ and its website interfaces, APIs, leaderboards, chat features, and related software, together the "Services". Protocol smart contracts and third-party infrastructure are distinguished from our website Services where these Terms explain their respective operation.

You may contact us through the official channels in Section 18 with questions about the operator, the Services, or these Terms. Nothing in these Terms limits operator-identification or contact disclosures required by applicable law, or requires you to demonstrate a special interest to obtain information that must legally be disclosed to you.

By affirmatively accepting these Terms, you agree to them and the incorporated Risk Disclosures below. Where applicable law recognizes acceptance through use, using the Services after receiving conspicuous notice of these Terms also constitutes acceptance. If you disagree, do not use the Services. Acceptance of these Terms is separate from authorizing a blockchain transaction or consenting to optional analytics.

If you act for an organization, you confirm authority to bind it. References to "you" include that organization where appropriate. Our Privacy Policy explains data processing; acceptance of these Terms does not replace any separately required privacy consent.

2. Eligibility and lawful access

You must be at least 18 and legally capable of entering this agreement. You must independently determine whether your access, token dealings, and participation are lawful in your location and circumstances. Availability of a feature does not establish permission to use it or regulatory approval of it.

You may not use the Services where prohibited by applicable law, where subject to applicable sanctions that prohibit the relevant dealings, or in violation of an access restriction we communicate. Do not evade access controls, disguise your location to bypass a restriction, or act for a prohibited person. We may restrict locations and require information reasonably necessary for compliance.

We do not represent that the Services or any token are licensed, registered, authorized, or suitable in every jurisdiction. These Terms do not themselves determine the regulatory classification of a token or activity.

3. Nature of the Services; no advice or promised return

DEGENBID provides interfaces to a bid-for-rank protocol. A Team is a token identified by its chain and normalized contract address. Team Support is an accepted bid that contributes to the Team's shared score and the paying wallet's personal score. A wallet may support multiple Teams. Supporting a Team does not establish membership in, ownership of, or an agency relationship with the token project, its creator, or its other supporters.

The Services may expose bids, token data, protocol rewards, referrals, Chat Passes, and cross-chain payment routes. A listing, rank, badge, link, or chat message is not our endorsement, verification of legitimacy, or recommendation. Teams and their associated tokens may be fraudulent, illiquid, abandoned, or worthless.

Content is general information, not individualized investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. You independently evaluate each action and obtain any advice you need. We promise no profit, return of a bid, increase in token value, liquidity, audience, trading volume, or success of a Team. Marketing examples, historical results, estimates, and statements about future development do not guarantee future outcomes. No fiduciary, advisory, partnership, employment, or agency relationship is created merely by using the Services.

4. Wallets, authorizations, and protocol control

You control your wallet and are responsible for its security, keys, recovery phrases, signatures, approvals, delegated permissions, and transaction review. We do not receive your private keys through ordinary wallet connection. Losing access to a wallet may make associated assets, rewards, and Chat Passes inaccessible; we do not promise recovery or reassignment.

Assets paid into protocol contracts are subject to those contracts' logic, permissions, and upgrade mechanisms. Describing a wallet as self-custodial does not mean every protocol reserve is outside administrative control. Certain contracts are upgradeable and use administrative roles, timelocks, pauses, and operator processes. Consult the deployed contracts and current disclosures. We do not promise that contracts, parameters, operators, or third-party dependencies will remain unchanged forever.

The website, RPC services, indexers, and automated operators can fail independently. Where a contract permits it and the required proof is available, you may interact with it directly through other tooling. New reward publication can still depend on protocol operators and verification processes.

5. Bids, rankings, quotes, and fees

A successfully accepted bid purchases participation under the applicable protocol rules. It is not a refundable deposit or a promise to return its nominal value. Except where mandatory law requires otherwise, an accepted bid cannot be withdrawn because you change your mind, another participant overtakes you, a token falls in value, a Team loses, or a reward is smaller than expected.

Rankings are competitive and can change immediately. A quote intended to move a Team into the lead does not reserve that position. Other transactions, settlement order, quote expiry, protocol timing rules, and updated state can affect execution. A timer or pending transaction display is not proof that a bid was accepted or an epoch finalized. Protocol state and finalized events determine acceptance and settlement under the applicable rules; software errors do not override rights imposed by mandatory law.

Dollar-denominated bid scores and displayed USD estimates are not dollar deposits or fixed dollar redemption rights. Amounts payable in tokens are determined in the applicable token units. Spot quotes can differ from subsequent execution, and available liquidity may be insufficient to sell at the displayed price.

You bear disclosed bid costs, gas, approval costs, third-party charges, swap and bridge fees, and slippage applicable to your action. Failed transactions can consume gas. We do not reimburse such costs merely because execution failed or you did not obtain the result you expected, subject to mandatory law. Future fee changes must be disclosed for affected new transactions; this clause does not authorize a retroactive undisclosed charge.

6. Rewards, reserves, and claims

Reward programs have separate eligibility, calculation, funding, and claim rules. A shared Team score does not create a shared wallet balance: economic entitlements remain attributable to individual eligible wallets. Eligibility for one program does not establish eligibility for another.

Bidder and season awards, holder rewards, referral allocations, and Chat Pass awards must not be treated as interchangeable. A reserve accumulating in a Vault, an estimated wallet share, a pending distribution, and an active funded claim are different states. A displayed estimate does not create a fixed payout or override the applicable entitlement calculation.

In the currently documented holder program, 15% of accepted BID bids is reserved as HolderBudget. Eligible holder weights use a seven-day maturation period and holding-time calculation, with excluded system addresses. Weeks close on Monday at 00:00 UTC. Holder distributions use only the net COIN actually received after conversion and the required independent verification. A reserve percentage is not a promise to pay that percentage in dollars, an APY, or a guaranteed amount of COIN. Closing a week is not a guaranteed payment deadline.

Finality checks, transfer indexing, liquidity, slippage limits, conversion, review, RPC availability, gas, and other dependencies can delay publication or collection. Selling BID after earning a holder entitlement does not, by itself, cancel that accrued entitlement. The applicable calculation determines it.

An active claim generally requires the eligible wallet to submit a transaction and pay the relevant network fee. We do not promise automatic payment, a gas subsidy, profitable collection of small amounts, or uninterrupted claim access through our website. Claimability does not guarantee the token's market value or a profitable sale.

We may change or discontinue future programs subject to applicable law, published program rules, and contract permissions. These Terms do not cancel valid accrued entitlements, impose an expiry on them, permit diversion of their allocated backing, or authorize confiscation solely for failure to claim. They do not create an additional operator-funded guarantee, insurance policy, or automatic obligation to replace assets lost through a protocol or third-party failure. Any liability arising from such a failure is subject to Sections 12–14 and mandatory law.

7. Referrals and Chat Passes

Referral Attribution links a new bidder to the owner of the registered referral code used on that bidder's first accepted bid under the applicable rules. It is not Team membership. Qualifying referral allocations reduce the relevant bid's Operating allocation; they do not give the referrer ownership of a bidder's wallet, personal score, or other reward entitlement. No referral income is guaranteed. You are responsible for any disclosure legally required when promoting a referral code.

A Chat Pass is a permanent per-wallet protocol right for one Team's chat after prior Team Support, subject to the applicable purchase rules. It does not add bid score or create an investment return. Permanence describes the acquired wallet entitlement, not a guarantee that hosted chat infrastructure will operate forever. Selling BID does not by itself revoke that entitlement. Access may be restricted for moderation or legal reasons without imposing a new payment to restore the same right.

Chat sessions may use a wallet-authorized local session key. You are responsible for reviewing that authorization and protecting the device and session. Chat content is user-generated, may be inaccurate or malicious, and is not advice from DEGENBID.

8. Cross-chain payments and recovery

Cross-chain routes depend on separate networks, relayers, bridges, exchanges, wallets, and transaction execution. Paying on the source chain is not, by itself, proof of an accepted destination-chain bid. Delays, route changes, failed swaps, quote expiry, or third-party failures can prevent settlement.

A recovery or refund is available only where supported by the applicable transaction state, contract, or third-party provider. An expired committed payment may permit a wallet-submitted BID refund on the destination chain; it does not necessarily reverse the source transaction or return the original asset, its original dollar value, gas, slippage, or bridge costs. The relevant route and contract determine the actual recovery asset and recipient.

We do not guarantee execution time, completion of a third-party refund, or manual recovery. Do not repeat a payment without checking whether the previous payment is pending, accepted, recoverable, or refunded.

9. Submissions, intellectual property, and moderation

You are responsible for token metadata, images, links, messages, and other content you submit. You confirm that you have the necessary rights and that your submissions are lawful and do not mislead, infringe rights, contain malware, or impersonate another person. You retain your ownership and grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, display, format, and process submissions to operate and moderate the Services. This license does not authorize unrelated sale of personal data.

We may remove or restrict unlawful, deceptive, abusive, infringing, or harmful content, and block related website or chat access. We have no general promise to monitor or validate every submission. Removal from the website cannot erase public blockchain transactions or independently hosted copies. Moderation does not by itself transfer a wallet's valid accrued reward rights to us.

Our original brand, website content, and other proprietary materials remain ours or our licensors'. Open-source components remain subject to their own licenses. You receive only the rights needed for lawful use of the Services; you receive no license to impersonate DEGENBID or imply our endorsement.

10. Prohibited conduct

Do not use the Services for fraud, sanctions evasion, unlawful financial activity, infringement, harassment, phishing, or distribution of malicious code. Do not interfere with security, evade access restrictions, exhaust infrastructure, spam submissions, or access private systems without authorization. Public API use remains subject to its documented limits. Protocol permission to submit a transaction is not permission to attack our hosted infrastructure.

For responsible security disclosures, contact us through an official channel in Section 18 to arrange an appropriate private reporting channel. Do not post private keys, personal documents, or undisclosed exploit details in public messages. No bounty, authorization to exploit, or immunity is created by this clause.

11. Changes, suspension, and discontinuation

We may modify, restrict, suspend, or discontinue website features, listings, APIs, chat hosting, support, and future programs for security, legal, abuse, operational, or commercial reasons. Emergency action may occur without prior notice. We do not promise perpetual hosting, maintenance, compatibility, or support. These powers remain subject to mandatory law and do not retrospectively cancel valid accrued entitlements or alter a protocol entitlement merely through a website edit.

Changes to these Terms apply prospectively. We will identify the effective date and give notice of material changes through the Services or another legally sufficient channel. Where renewed affirmative acceptance is required, we will obtain it. Disagreement with new Terms may require you to stop using affected website features; it does not alone confiscate existing assets or entitlements.

12. Assumption of risk and disclaimer of warranties

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TOKENS CAN LOSE THEIR ENTIRE VALUE AND THAT YOU CAN LOSE ALL AMOUNTS YOU COMMIT. PARTICIPATE ONLY WITH AMOUNTS YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE.

Risks include wallet compromise, malicious approvals, transaction errors, incorrect addresses or networks, contract bugs, upgrades, privileged-role compromise, liquidity shortages, market manipulation, front-running, transaction reordering, chain outages or reorganizations, unreliable price data, indexer errors, conversion failures, bridge or relayer failures, regulatory changes, and failure of hosting or other third-party systems. Audits, reviews, timelocks, and automated safety checks reduce particular risks but do not eliminate them.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICES AND THEIR CONTENT ARE PROVIDED AS AVAILABLE AND WITH ALL FAULTS. WE DISCLAIM EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND COMPATIBILITY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, THAT ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT ANY TRANSACTION WILL SUCCEED, OR THAT ANY TOKEN, REWARD, RANKING, OR DISPLAYED VALUE WILL PRODUCE A BENEFIT.

No informal support reply, community message, example, or promotional statement creates an additional warranty unless expressly agreed by an authorized operator representative in writing, subject to applicable law. This provision does not excuse legally actionable misrepresentation.

13. Exclusion and limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, DEGENBID AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, OPPORTUNITIES, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR DATA; OR LOSSES FROM MARKET PRICE MOVEMENTS, MISSED RANKINGS, OR EXPECTED FUTURE REWARDS, ARISING FROM USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANOTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH LOSS WAS POSSIBLE.

TO THE SAME EXTENT, WE EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR LOSSES CAUSED BY YOUR TRANSACTION INSTRUCTIONS, KEY OR DEVICE COMPROMISE, AND THE ACTS OR FAILURES OF INDEPENDENT THIRD-PARTY NETWORKS, WALLETS, TOKENS, RPC PROVIDERS, INDEXERS, RELAYERS, BRIDGES, EXCHANGES, HOSTS, OR OTHER PROVIDERS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL.

WHERE LIABILITY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BUT MAY LAWFULLY BE LIMITED, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES AND THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO USD 100 ACROSS ALL RELATED CLAIMS AND INCIDENTS. THIS IS A LIABILITY CAP, NOT A TOKEN REDEMPTION PRICE OR A LIMIT ON A VALID PROTOCOL CLAIM AMOUNT.

These exclusions and this cap apply only to the extent enforceable for the particular claim and user. They do not exclude fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence where non-excludable, or any other responsibility or consumer right that applicable law prohibits us from excluding or limiting. They do not reduce the token amount of a valid accrued protocol entitlement. They do not guarantee that technical recovery of an asset will be possible.

Each exclusion is intended to operate independently. Invalidity of one does not automatically make the others enforceable or invalid. The applicable mandatory law controls.

14. Third-party claims and indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify DEGENBID against reasonable third-party claims, damages, and defense costs caused by your unlawful conduct, infringement in your submissions, fraudulent representations, or material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not cover losses caused by our own unlawful conduct or impose costs that mandatory consumer law forbids.

We will give reasonably prompt notice of a claim and permit your participation in its defense. We may control the defense where reasonably necessary, but will not agree to a settlement imposing a non-monetary obligation or admission on you without your consent. Recoverable costs must be reasonable and connected to the covered claim.

15. Taxes, compliance, and third-party terms

You are responsible for determining and meeting your tax, reporting, and other legal obligations. No dashboard or API response is a tax filing, valuation certificate, or legal determination. We do not promise to calculate or pay your taxes. The operator remains responsible for obligations that law imposes on it.

Third-party services have independent terms and privacy policies. Review them before using those services. Links and integrations do not make third-party providers our agents or establish our control over their conduct.

16. Events beyond reasonable control

Subject to mandatory law, we are not responsible for delay or inability to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including network or infrastructure outages, failures of independent providers, war, sanctions, government action, natural disasters, or interruptions of power or communications. This provision does not excuse failures attributable to our own legally non-excludable conduct, transfer reserved user entitlements to us, or guarantee later performance.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms do not select a particular country's law or an exclusive court. The law applicable to this agreement and the courts with jurisdiction are determined by the applicable conflict-of-laws and jurisdiction rules. Mandatory consumer protections and rights to bring proceedings in a competent court remain unaffected.

You may first contact us through an official channel in Section 18 to seek an informal resolution. Doing so is not a prerequisite to legal proceedings, does not suspend legal deadlines, and does not prevent urgent relief or a complaint to a competent authority. These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration, waive collective remedies where available, or shorten statutory claim periods.

18. General provisions and contact

These Terms and the expressly incorporated Risk Disclosures constitute the agreement concerning the Services, subject to mandatory law and applicable published protocol rules. A website disclaimer does not authorize retrospective rewriting of accrued protocol entitlements. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue only to the extent allowed by applicable law. Failure to enforce a provision is not an automatic waiver.

You may not assign this agreement without our written consent except where applicable law permits. We may assign it in a lawful restructuring or business transfer only subject to applicable law, without removing mandatory protections or accrued entitlements. Clauses intended by their nature to survive cessation of website use remain applicable to that extent.

The English version is the intended reference version, subject to mandatory local language and consumer requirements. Notices will be provided through legally sufficient electronic or other channels.

For questions, support, complaints, or requests concerning the operator, contact DEGENBID on X (@degenbidfun) or through the official DEGENBID Telegram channel. These are public contact channels, not a promise that every message is private or that a direct message feature is always available. Request an appropriate private channel before providing sensitive information. We will never ask for a seed phrase or private key.

Use any legally required service method for formal legal notices. These public contact options do not replace mandatory operator disclosures, an address for service where required, or an applicable statutory complaint process.

Incorporated Risk Disclosures

Bid risk disclosure

An accepted bid purchases participation and is ordinarily non-refundable. You can be overtaken immediately and can receive no reward. A bid does not guarantee visibility, profit, repayment, or token value. Quotes and timers can change; acceptance depends on successful protocol execution. Review the amount, asset, chain, fees, and current rules before authorizing payment. Mandatory legal rights and contract-supported recovery remain applicable.

Rewards risk disclosure

Rewards depend on the relevant program's eligibility, funding, calculation, conversion, verification, and claim requirements. A reserve or estimate is not an active claim or a guaranteed dollar amount. Distribution and claim processing can be delayed, and received tokens can lose all market value. Future programs may change; valid accrued entitlements are not canceled by this disclosure. You may need to submit a claim and pay gas yourself.

Cross-chain risk disclosure

A source-chain payment does not prove an accepted destination-chain bid. Routes can fail or be delayed. Recovery depends on the route and contract state and may return a different asset on a different chain, without reimbursing original fees or dollar value. Check a pending payment before paying again.