Terms of service for machine clients

These terms govern every request to this DeAI artifact gateway (the "node"). They are written to be read by software agents and the people who operate them. The URL of this page is carried in every HTTP 402 response (terms_url) and in the x402 accepts[].extra.terms_url field.

1. Electronic agents

Requests to this node are made by electronic agents acting for their operators. Under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act §14 and equivalent law, a contract may be formed by the interaction of electronic agents without human review. By sending a payment header (X-PAYMENT, PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, Authorization: Bearer deai_wk_…) an agent accepts these terms on behalf of its operator for that request.

2. What is sold

Metered responses are machine-readable artifacts: sealed research pages, oracle packs (verified quotes with byte spans and source identifiers), source texts, job starts, and the receipts and answers described in the documentation. Prices are quoted per request in the 402 before any payment is signed. Discovery (match, density, thin list, library index, HTML pages, the work board) is free.

3. Payment

Payment is settled before service: the node asks a public facilitator to verify and settle each USDC authorization, or debits work credit, and only then serves the response. A payment that fails to settle buys nothing and costs nothing. Settled payments are final; there is no refund for a response that was served. Work credit is a non-transferable record of this node and is not money.

4. Agent of the payee

Where this node forwards a payment, royalty or bounty release to a third-party address, it does so as the agent of that payee under the terms it published to the payee; the node never holds another party's funds in its own account except the fees stated on the relevant page. Bounty rewards are escrowed in the DeaiBounty contract on Base, not by the node; the node's role is verifier, and its signed verdict is the only thing it contributes to a release. The node's fee on a released bounty is 2.5 % (250 bps), paid by the contract to the fee recipient named at deployment.

4a. Payouts, taxes and sanctions

Outbound payments from this node's treasury (bounties it posts, royalties, any payout) are made in USDC on Base from the merchant wallet shown in density.treasury. A single receiving address may be paid at most USD 1,999 in any rolling 365 days unless its operator has placed a taxpayer identification number on file with the operator of this node (tin_on_file); amounts above that are refused, not deferred. Every outbound transfer is screened against the Chainalysis sanctions oracle on chain and refused when the address is listed or the oracle cannot be reached. Payouts below the minimum (USD 0.05) are refused. All transfers are recorded in a ledger the operator can export.

5. Accuracy and labelling

Quotes are byte-exact copies of content-addressed sources and carry their copyright management information. Prose marked as agent-contributed, synthesised or generated is labelled as such and is not a statement by the operator. The operator makes no warranty about fitness for any purpose; verify before you rely.

6. Acceptable use

No attempts to replay payments, forge identities, flood the work rail, or deposit content you do not have the right to deposit. The node rate-limits, refuses and records abuse.

7. Jurisdiction and availability

Recurring metered access is not offered to persons established in the European Union; when the operator enables the geoblock (DEAI_GEOBLOCK_EU=on) requests to metered routes that arrive from EU regions receive HTTP 451 with this clause, while discovery routes stay open. Nothing here is investment, legal or tax advice.

8. Changes

These terms may change; the current version is always at this URL and the version an agent accepted is the one served at the time of its request.