The deal, stated plainly.

These terms are the contract between you and Hoodly (“Hoodly”, “we”) for the use of hoodly.fun, its dashboard and its API (together, the “Service”).

You accept them by signing in with a wallet or by calling the API with an API key. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Where you act for a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that company.

How we handle data is described separately in the privacy policy, which forms part of this agreement.

You register robots. A robot claims a task, does whatever work it does, and submits a proof payload. We hash that payload, write the hash into a transaction on Robinhood Chain, and give you a receipt that anyone can check against the chain.

The value of that record is narrow and precise, and understanding its limits is the most important part of this agreement.

A Hoodly proof establishes exactly two things: that a specific payload existed no later than the block it was anchored in, and that the payload has not been altered since. That is the whole claim.

It follows that a proof is not a certification, an inspection report, a safety attestation, an audit opinion, a warranty of workmanship, or evidence that any legal or regulatory requirement has been met. If you present a Hoodly receipt to a customer, insurer, auditor or regulator, you are responsible for what you claim it shows, and you must not describe it as more than the two things above.

The accuracy of a proof is entirely a function of the honesty and correctness of the robot that produced it, which is under your control and not ours.

There is no password and no recovery process, because we hold no credential of yours. Control of the private key is control of the account.

• If you lose your key, the account is unreachable. We cannot restore access, transfer ownership or verify you by any other means. This is a consequence of the design, not a policy we can make an exception to.
• If someone else obtains your key, they are you. Anything done with a valid signature is treated as done by you, and you bear the consequences.
• API keys are bearer tokens. They are shown once at creation and stored only as a hash. Keep them secret, give each robot its own, and rotate one immediately if it may have leaked. Every request made with a valid key is attributed to you and charged to you.
• You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your profile details accurate.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter into a contract. The Service is intended for businesses and professional operators, not consumers.

You may not use the Service if you are subject to applicable sanctions, if you are located in a jurisdiction under a comprehensive embargo, or if doing so would breach any law that applies to you. You are responsible for that assessment; we do not give legal advice about it.

There is no holding requirement and no subscription. You pay by burning $HOODLY for anchor quota and by prepaying ETH for gas, as described in the billing section below. Signing in never asks for a token approval and never moves your funds.

Completing a task without enough credit is refused with 402; the task stays claimed so you can top up and retry.

There is no subscription and no invoice. Anchoring draws on two prepaid balances, both funded by transfers from your own wallet:

Each anchor holds one unit of quota plus a gas ceiling, and the difference between that ceiling and the real cost is returned to your balance immediately afterwards. If anchoring never reaches the chain, the entire hold is returned and the task is marked failed. The ledger on your billing page records every movement; it is the authoritative record of what was charged.

When a balance is empty, completing a task is refused and the task stays claimed, so nothing is lost — top up and submit the proof again. We may change the rate at which burns grant quota and the gas margin, with notice in the dashboard, and changes never apply retroactively to quota you already hold.

Amounts you send are gross of any transaction fees charged by the network. You are responsible for any taxes arising from your use of the Service or your dealings in $HOODLY.

$HOODLY is a utility token. Burning it grants anchor quota; that is its function within the Service. Holding it unused does not unlock access.

• It is not an investment, a security, a share, a bond or a fund unit, and it grants no ownership of us, no dividend, no profit share, no voting right and no claim on our assets or revenue.
• We make no promise or projection about its price, its liquidity, its listing anywhere, or its value at any time. It may become worthless.
• Nothing on this site is investment, financial, legal or tax advice, or an offer or solicitation to buy anything.
• We do not operate a market for it, do not control its price, and do not undertake to buy it back.
• Acquiring or holding it is entirely at your own risk. Digital assets are volatile and can lose all value.

You must not:

• Anchor proofs you know to be false, or present a receipt as establishing more than section 3 says it does.
• Use the Service to deceive anyone, including passing off anchored records as independent verification of work.
• Submit content that is unlawful, infringes anyone’s rights, or contains malware.
• Circumvent the rate limits or quotas, including by spreading load across accounts to evade them.
• Probe, scan or attack the Service or its infrastructure, or attempt to access data belonging to another account.
• Resell or white-label the Service, or offer it as your own product, without our written agreement.
• Copy, decompile or create derivative works from the Service or its source code — see section 11.
• Use the Service where a failure or a wrong record could endanger life or cause serious harm, unless you have independent safeguards that do not rely on it. It is not designed or certified for safety-critical use.

Requests are capped per robot, per account and per wallet, and an account may hold a maximum number of robots and fleets. Current figures are published on the limits page, which forms part of these terms. Going over a request limit returns a 429 with a retry delay; nothing is lost and a claimed task stays claimed.

The limits are set generously and exist to stop runaway loops and abuse, not to meter normal use. We may adjust them to protect the Service and will raise them on request where the use is legitimate.

You keep all rights in what you send us: task descriptions, proof payloads, telemetry and everything else. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us only the licence we need to run the Service for you — to store your content, hash it, anchor that hash on-chain, and show it back to you and to anyone you share a receipt with. That licence ends when the content is deleted, except that hashes already written on-chain cannot be withdrawn.

You confirm you have the right to submit what you submit, and that doing so breaches nobody else’s rights. Proof hashes and the receipts built from them are public by design: the verification endpoint is open to everyone, without an account.

The Service, its source code, design, documentation, and the Hoodly name and marks are ours and are protected by copyright and other laws. All rights are reserved; the repository is proprietary and no open-source licence applies to it.

These terms grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service as offered — and nothing more. You get no right to copy, modify, host, sublicense or distribute it, in source or binary form.

The Service is provided as-is and as-available. We give no service level agreement, no uptime guarantee and no guaranteed anchoring latency. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it, and will give reasonable notice of a change that materially reduces functionality you rely on.

Anchoring depends on Robinhood Chain and its infrastructure, which we neither own nor control. Congestion, reorganisations, outages, RPC failures, gas price spikes, block explorer downtime, forks or a discontinuation of the network can delay or prevent anchoring, and can affect whether a payment to us is detected. We are not liable for the acts, omissions or failures of the network or any third-party provider.

Where anchoring fails, the task is marked failed with a reason and your reservation is returned in full. That return is your remedy for a failed anchor.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that stored data will never be lost.

In particular, and without limiting section 3, we do not warrant that any anchored proof is accurate, complete, truthful, or acceptable to any third party, court, auditor or authority.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and statutory rights you have as a consumer, if any apply, are unaffected.

We are liable without limit for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for personal injury and death, and wherever applicable law forbids a limitation.

Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profit, lost revenue, lost business, loss of goodwill, or the cost of substitute services. We are not liable for lost private keys, leaked API keys, transfers sent to a wrong address or on a wrong network, burned tokens, or any loss arising from the blockchain being permanent.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us for the Service in that period, or one hundred euros. Because token burns are not paid to us, they do not count towards that amount.

You will indemnify and hold us harmless against claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable legal costs arising from your use of the Service, from content you submitted, from any representation you made about what a proof establishes, or from your breach of these terms or of applicable law.

You may stop using the Service at any time and ask us to delete your account. Deletion removes your robots, fleets, tasks, telemetry, events and sessions.

We may suspend or terminate access, with notice where practicable and immediately where necessary, if you materially breach these terms, abuse the Service or its limits, or if we are legally required to.

On termination your remaining anchor quota and gas credit lapse without compensation, and access to the dashboard and API ends. Records already anchored on-chain remain publicly verifiable, and we retain payment records for as long as the law requires. Sections 3, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 18 survive termination.

We may update these terms as the product and the law change. The date at the top reflects the current version.

A material change will be announced in the dashboard, and by email where you have given us one, before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the new version; if you do not, stop using the Service and ask us to close your account.

If a dispute arises, contact us at legal@hoodly.fun before starting formal proceedings. Mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence, where they apply, are unaffected.

If a provision is or becomes invalid, the rest stays in force and the invalid provision is replaced by what the parties would reasonably have agreed.

These terms, together with the privacy policy and the limits page, are the entire agreement between us. You may not assign it without our consent; we may assign it as part of a merger or a transfer of the business.