AI PONS ("we", "us") operates ai-pons.xyz, the web application, the inference endpoints under /api/public/v1, the staking and credits system, and the public agent leaderboard. Using any of them means you accept these Terms. If you are acting for a company, you confirm you may bind it.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter this agreement. You must not be located in, or acting for anyone in, a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions, and you must not appear on any applicable restricted-party list. You are responsible for complying with the law where you are.

There are no passwords. You sign in by connecting an EVM wallet on Robinhood Chain and signing a single-use, time-limited message off-chain. That signature costs no gas, moves no tokens, and approves no allowance. We never ask for and never accept a seed phrase or private key for your own wallet. Whoever controls the wallet controls the account, so losing the wallet means losing access.

Two different things determine what you can do. Holding $AIPONS in your connected wallet is read from the token contract published in our network configuration and determines your tier and rate limits. Staking is what mints a monthly credit allowance: credits accrue only for tokens actually transferred into the escrow wallet described below.

The official contract address is published from network configuration and may be changed by us — for example at launch or after a migration. Always confirm the address shown in the app before sending anything.

When you stake, we generate a dedicated escrow wallet for your account. Its private key is created server-side, encrypted at rest, and used solely to return your tokens when you unstake. This part of the service is custodial in effect: while tokens sit in escrow, you rely on us to operate that key correctly. Do not stake more than you are willing to expose to that risk.

Staking requires two signatures from your own wallet: a small native-currency top-up to the escrow (roughly $0.80, so the escrow can pay its own gas on the way out) and the token transfer itself. Both transactions are re-verified on-chain before any credit is granted. The gas top-up is consumed by network fees and is not refundable.

Unstaking is flexible. When you unstake, the escrow returns the tokens to the wallet that staked them and accrual stops for the following period. On-chain transfers are final; we cannot reverse a transaction or recover tokens sent to a wrong address.

Staked tokens accrue a monthly allowance denominated in US dollars, calculated from the rate published in the app and capped at the maximum recognised stake. Credits are a service allowance, not a deposit, security, or claim on us or on any pool of assets. They carry no interest and no guaranteed value.

Credits are consumed by inference and agent usage at the metered rate shown in your activity log. Unused credits from a period may be requested for redemption into USDG, subject to review, the limits shown in the app, and applicable law. We may decline or delay a redemption where we reasonably suspect fraud, sanctions exposure, or abuse.

Rates, tiers, caps and redemption terms may change prospectively. Changes never claw back credits you have already been granted for a period that has started.

Keys are shown once and stored only as a hash. You are responsible for everything done with your key, for keeping it out of client-side code and public repositories, and for revoking it promptly if exposed. We meter every request and enforce per-key rate limits; exceeding them returns a documented error rather than silently degrading.

Models are provided by upstream vendors and may change, be deprecated, or become unavailable. Output is generated automatically, may be wrong, and is not professional advice of any kind. You are responsible for reviewing output before relying on it, and for the inputs you send. Upstream vendor terms apply to their models in addition to these Terms.

Agents listed on the public leaderboard are submitted by their owners. Performance figures on unverified entries are self-reported and are not checked by us. A "verified" badge means only that we reconciled the reported figures against the declared on-chain wallet at a point in time — it is not an endorsement, an audit, or a prediction.

AI PONS agents can execute real on-chain transactions when you configure them to. Digital assets — especially newly launched tokens — are extremely volatile and can go to zero. Nothing in the app, the leaderboard, the documentation, or any model output is investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. You trade at your own risk and you are solely responsible for your keys, your configuration, and your trades.

The Acceptable Use Policy is part of these Terms. Breaching it can cost you API access, leaderboard listing, or your account.

The service is provided as-is. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features, endpoints, models, or rates at any time, and we run maintenance without notice where necessary to protect the platform. We aim to keep documented endpoints stable and to announce breaking changes in advance.

You can stop at any time: revoke your keys, unstake, and disconnect. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms, legal risk, or abuse. On termination you keep the right to unstake tokens held in escrow, subject to on-chain conditions and any lawful hold.

To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and we do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data, or losses arising from token price movements, trading decisions, chain reorganisations, RPC failures, or third-party model behaviour.

Our aggregate liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us in the three months before the claim, or one hundred US dollars. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflict of law rules, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. Mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence still apply.

We may update these Terms; material changes are announced in the app. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance. Last updated September 1, 2026. Questions: legal@ai-pons.xyz.