Terms of Use

1. What these terms cover

"The site" means animica.org. "Hosted services" means the public JSON-RPC endpoint (rpc.animica.org), the block explorer (explorer.animica.org), the mining pool (pool.animica.org) and academy.animica.org. Services that require an account, such as animica.dev, console.animica.org and pay.animica.dev, present their own terms at sign-up; where those conflict with this page, the service-specific terms apply to that service.

The Animica protocol is not a service we provide. It is software that anyone can run. Nothing in these terms gives us control over the network, the ledger, or transactions that other participants include in blocks.

2. Site content is provided "as is"

We try hard to keep the documentation, guides, parameters and live figures on this site accurate and dated, and we correct errors when they are reported. Even so, the content is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Protocol rules change through height-gated forks; the repository and the live chain are authoritative over any description on this site.

3. No financial, legal or tax advice

Nothing on this site is investment advice, a recommendation, a solicitation or an offer to buy or sell any asset. Where we mention that ANM trades on NonKYC (ANM/USDT), we do so as a statement of fact about where a market exists, not as an endorsement of that venue or of buying ANM. Market figures shown on the site are fetched from third parties and may be delayed or wrong. You are responsible for your own decisions and for complying with the laws that apply to you, including tax and securities law in your jurisdiction.

4. Crypto-asset risk disclosure

ANM is a proof-of-work crypto-asset on a young network. Its price can move sharply and may go to zero. The network has no finality gadget: a transaction that appears in a block can, in principle, be reorganised out until it is buried deeply enough (the protocol enforces a 100-block reorg bound since block 75,000, and you should wait for an appropriate number of confirmations for the value at stake). Software bugs, consensus faults, key loss, phishing and exchange failures can all result in total loss. Transactions are irreversible; funds sent to a wrong or mistyped address cannot be recovered by anyone. Mining revenue depends on hashrate, difficulty (Θ) and price, all of which change continuously, and the emission schedule is fixed in code rather than guaranteed by us. Useful-work rewards described in the protocol documentation are not enforced on mainnet today.

5. Software licences

The Animica software is open source. The repository at github.com/animicaorg/all is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (its root LICENSE file), and docs/legal/LICENSING.md additionally offers most packages under the MIT licence at your option. The code for this website is MIT-licensed and the documentation under docs/ is CC BY-SA 4.0 unless a file says otherwise. Your use of the software is governed by those licences, not by these terms, and they include their own disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability. Third-party components keep their original licences.

The prose content of this site (articles, guides, page copy) may be quoted with attribution and a link. Wholesale reproduction of the site as a competing resource is not permitted.

6. Trademarks

"Animica", the Animica logo and wordmark are trademarks and are not licensed under the open-source licences above. You may refer to the project by name to describe compatibility ("wallet X for Animica") or in commentary. You may not use the marks in a product name, company name, domain or social handle, alter the logo, or suggest endorsement or partnership without written permission. Full rules are in docs/legal/TRADEMARKS.md.

7. Hosted services: acceptable use

The public RPC, explorer, pool and wallet are provided free of charge for the benefit of the network. We may rate-limit, block or suspend access to protect them, and we may change or discontinue any of them at any time. You agree not to attempt to overload or circumvent rate limits, probe or attack the services except under the safe-harbour terms of our security policy, scrape in a way that degrades service for others, or use the services for anything unlawful. For anything that needs guaranteed availability, run your own node; the node guide explains how.

Our wallet software is non-custodial. We never hold your keys, cannot recover them, and cannot reverse or block transactions you sign. The pool pays according to its published scheme (PPS on port 3333; solo with a 95/5 split on port 3334); statistics and payout history are shown on pool.animica.org so you can verify them.

8. Third-party services

The site links to and depends on services we do not control, including GitHub (source code and issues), PyPI (package distribution), NonKYC (the ANM/USDT market), Google (web fonts), Adcash (advertising, site-wide), A-Ads (a banner on the home page) and X. Each has its own terms and privacy practices. We are not responsible for their availability, content or conduct, and a link is not an endorsement. Our Privacy Policy explains what data those services receive when you use this site.

9. Advertising

An advertisement is not a recommendation by us, and advertisers do not influence the site's editorial content. The home-page A-Ads banner is labelled "Sponsored" and can be dismissed. Ads delivered by Adcash Auto-Tag are chosen and rendered by Adcash, which may present them as banners, in-page notifications, full-screen interstitials or pop-under windows; we do not control which format appears, and we do not review individual creatives before they are shown. Report a problem ad to us and we will raise it with the network.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Animica project, its maintainers and contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of funds, profits, data or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the site, the hosted services or the software, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us for the service concerned, which for the site and the hosted services listed above is nothing.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify the project and its maintainers against claims arising from your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of the site or hosted services.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top will change, and material changes will be noted in the site's release notes or announcements. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

13. Severability and no waiver

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@animica.org. Trademark permissions: the same address. Security: security@animica.org.

Sources

LICENSE · docs/legal/LICENSING.md · docs/legal/TRADEMARKS.md · docs/legal/SECURITY_POLICY.md · consensus/finality.py (100-block reorg bound) · docs/ANIMICA_2026_STATE.md