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Terms of Service

Last updated: May 4, 2026

These Terms govern your access to and use of Chiron’s Cave (“the Cave”), a private crypto research community operated under the pseudonym “Chiron” (@chironchain). By becoming a member, you agree to these Terms in full.

1. Acceptance

By clicking “Become a member” and completing checkout through Unlock Protocol, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and the linked Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not complete checkout and do not use the Cave.

2. Eligibility

  • You are at least 18 years old.
  • You are not a person or entity on any sanctions list maintained by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or any other jurisdiction whose sanctions apply to you.
  • You are not a resident of, or accessing the Cave from, a jurisdiction in which membership in a private crypto research community would violate applicable local law. Determining the legality of your participation is your responsibility.

3. What membership is

Membership grants you access for ninety (90) days to a private Telegram research community where the operator and other members share commentary, research, and discussion about cryptocurrency markets and trading.

To gain access to the Cave, after completing onchain payment you must start a chat with @ChironsCaveBot on Telegram and complete the wallet-verification step. Failure to complete verification does not entitle you to a refund; your membership remains valid onchain for the full term and you may complete verification at any time during that term.

Membership is content access only. The Cave is explicitly not:

  • a signal service or trade-copy service;
  • an investment advisor, broker-dealer, fund, or any other regulated financial intermediary;
  • a fiduciary, advisor, or counterparty of any member; or
  • a guarantor of any return, outcome, or trading result.

No member-operator or member-member relationship in the Cave creates a fiduciary, advisory, or agency relationship of any kind.

4. Payment, term, and no refunds

The current membership price is 1,500 USDC for a ninety (90) day term, paid onchain on Base via Unlock Protocol. The operator may change pricing for future memberships at any time without notice; existing memberships are unaffected by such changes.

All sales are final. No refunds will be issued for any reason, including but not limited to: dissatisfaction with content, change of personal circumstances, inability to access Telegram, removal for breach of these Terms, discontinuation of the Cave, regulatory changes affecting your jurisdiction, or any tax, legal, or financial outcome of your membership.

Renewal is voluntary. To continue access beyond your current term, you must complete a new onchain purchase.

5. Referral program

Members may earn a referrer fee on new memberships purchased through their referral link, settled in USDC and paid onchain via Unlock Protocol’s native referrer mechanism. The current referrer fee is 15% of the membership price. The fee applies to the original purchase and to every subsequent ninety (90) day renewal of that membership for as long as the original referrer attribution remains intact onchain. The operator may change the configured rate on the membership lock at any time; the rate in effect at the moment of each transaction (purchase or renewal) applies to that transaction.

Members are solely responsible for any tax owed on referral income. Self-referral and related manipulation are prohibited; see Section 6.

6. Self-referral and exploitation

Self-referral — purchasing your own membership in a way that causes the referrer fee to flow to a wallet you control — is prohibited by whatever means attempted. This includes front-end URL manipulation, direct interaction with the Unlock Protocol lock contract on Base via Basescan or any custom client, use of intermediate wallets you control, and any other mechanism.

Onchain payments are public. The operator monitors lock activity for self-referral and coordinated wash-purchase patterns. Detected abuse results in immediate removal from the Cave, voidance of membership without refund, and forfeiture of any referrer fees. The operator may also pursue recovery of improperly paid referrer fees by any lawful means.

Coordinated wash purchases between two or more cooperating wallets to manufacture referrer fees are prohibited on the same terms and carry the same consequences for every cooperating member.

7. Right to refuse service

We reserve the right to refuse service or terminate membership at our sole discretion, with or without cause, and without refund. This applies to suspected fraud, OFAC or other sanctions matches, breach of these Terms, or any other reason we deem appropriate.

8. Conduct rules

The following four rules apply to all members at all times, in all Cave channels and in any direct communication arising from Cave membership. Breach of any of these rules may result in immediate termination without refund:

  • No doxxing. You will not attempt to identify, publish, or share any real-world identity, residence, place of work, family, or other personal information of the operator or any other member.
  • No harassment. You will not threaten, demean, stalk, sexually harass, or otherwise abuse the operator or any other member.
  • No redistribution. You will not copy, quote, screenshot, summarize, paraphrase, post, sell, or otherwise share Cave content outside the Cave. Cave content includes messages, research notes, charts, and any other material posted inside the community.
  • No scams or coordinated market manipulation. You will not solicit funds, run rug-pulls, promote coordinated pump-and-dump schemes, or engage in any conduct designed to mislead other members for financial gain.

In addition to these four core rules, the operator may post operational and etiquette rules inside the Cave (for example, channel-specific posting rules, formatting expectations, and spoiler/marking conventions). Those operational rules are incorporated into these Terms by reference. The four core rules above always control in the event of any conflict.

9. Intellectual property

All content posted in the Cave by the operator, including research, commentary, charts, frameworks, and written notes, is the operator’s intellectual property. By becoming a member, you receive a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and view this content for the duration of your membership only.

You retain ownership of content you post. By posting in the Cave you grant the operator and other members a non-exclusive license to display your post within the Cave for the duration of the Cave’s operation.

10. No financial advice

Nothing posted in the Cave, on chironchain.com, or by the operator on any external platform (including X, Farcaster, Telegram, or any other social network) is investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, accounting advice, or a recommendation, solicitation, or offer to buy or sell any security, token, or other asset.

The operator is not your advisor and owes you no fiduciary duty. You are solely responsible for your own investment decisions. Before acting on anything you read in the Cave you should consult licensed legal, tax, and financial advisors qualified in your jurisdiction.

11. Risk disclosure

Cryptocurrency markets are highly volatile and risky. By becoming a member, you acknowledge that you understand and accept all of the following risks:

  • Market risk. The price of cryptocurrencies and tokens can fall to zero. You may lose the entire value of any position you take, including positions discussed in the Cave.
  • Smart contract risk. Membership is established via the Unlock Protocol contract on Base. Bugs, exploits, or governance failures in Unlock, USDC, Base, your wallet, or any other smart contract you interact with can result in total loss of funds.
  • Platform risk. The Cave operates on Telegram. If Telegram becomes unavailable, restricts the bot, bans the group, or is blocked in your jurisdiction, you may lose access to the Cave for some or all of your remaining term. The operator owes no refund for platform-level interruptions.
  • Self-custody risk. You are solely responsible for the security of your wallet, seed phrase, and private keys. Loss of your keys means loss of access to your membership and any funds in the wallet.
  • Regulatory risk. Cryptocurrency regulation is evolving. Future regulatory action in your jurisdiction or any jurisdiction the Cave operates from may restrict, prohibit, or tax membership and trading activity.
  • Tax risk. You are solely responsible for determining the tax treatment of your membership purchase, any trades you make, and any other crypto activity. The operator provides no tax advice or reporting.
  • No guarantee. Past performance of any trade, token, framework, or strategy discussed in the Cave is not indicative of future results. The operator makes no representation that any commentary will be accurate, complete, or profitable.

Do your own research. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

12. Termination

The operator may suspend or terminate your membership at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, sanctions matches, or operational decisions. Termination by the operator does not entitle you to any refund.

You may stop using the Cave at any time. Voluntary departure does not entitle you to a refund. The membership NFT is soulbound — the underlying Unlock Protocol lock disables onchain transfers. Membership cannot be transferred, sold, or assigned, on or off platform; any attempted off-platform transfer is invalid and may result in termination.

The operator may discontinue the Cave entirely at any time. Discontinuation does not entitle any member to a refund.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Cave and the chironchain.com website are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability. The operator does not warrant that the Cave will be available at all times, that content will be accurate, or that any third-party service (including Telegram, Unlock, or Base) will function without interruption.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or trading losses, arising out of or in connection with your membership, even if the operator has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

The operator’s total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or your membership is capped at the amount you actually paid for your current membership term.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the operator from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your use of the Cave, (c) any content you post, or (d) your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party.

15. Governing law, arbitration, and class waiver

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or your membership, including the formation, interpretation, breach, or termination thereof, will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures (or its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures where applicable). The arbitration will be seated in New York, New York, and conducted in English before a single arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. You and the operator each agree that any dispute will be brought in your individual capacity only, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding.

16. Modifications

The operator may modify these Terms at any time. The current version is always posted at chironchain.com/terms with a “Last updated” date. Material changes take effect upon posting. Your continued use of the Cave after a change constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms.

17. Severability, entire agreement, and miscellaneous

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the operator regarding the Cave and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding. The operator’s failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of its right to do so later. You may not assign these Terms; the operator may.