Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-05-25 Last updated: 2026-07-17

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding contract between you ("you," "Customer," or "Subscriber") and Decentral Media Inc., a Delaware C-corporation with its principal office in New York, NY ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), the publisher of Crypto Briefing and the operator of the Vera prediction-markets data API ("Vera" or the "Service").

By creating an account, generating an API key, calling any Vera endpoint, or otherwise accessing the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to that entity. If you do not agree, do not access the Service.

1. The Service

Vera is an event-driven prediction-markets data API providing structured interpretations of news events as they relate to prediction-market outcomes. The Service returns machine-readable records describing how the Company's editorial and AI systems read a given event in the context of one or more prediction-market contracts. Vera is delivered as a hosted API; we do not ship on-premise software.

Vera is published under the Crypto Briefing brand and shares editorial and compliance infrastructure with Crypto Briefing and Gloria.

CryptoBriefing and Gloria provide analysis and reporting on crypto, macro, and prediction markets. Our prediction market coverage focuses on interpreting how real-world events may relate to market pricing. It is not intended as investment advice or a recommendation to trade.

The scope, schema, and behavior of individual endpoints are documented at the Vera developer documentation site. The documentation, as published from time to time, is incorporated into these Terms by reference for the limited purpose of describing the technical surface area of the Service.

2. Eligibility and Account Registration

The Service is intended for use by businesses and professional individuals, including algorithmic traders, quantitative developers, market analysts, journalists, and researchers. You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding contract in your jurisdiction.

To use Vera you must:

Register an account with a valid business email address.
Provide accurate and complete billing information through our payment processor.
Verify your email address.
Accept these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Refund Policy.

We may decline to open, suspend, or close any account at our discretion where we reasonably believe the registration is fraudulent, duplicative, or in violation of these Terms or applicable law.

3. API Keys

When your account is provisioned, the Service issues one or more API keys. API keys are credentials and must be treated as such:

Keys are issued to and associated with a single account. They are not transferable.
You are responsible for safeguarding your keys and for all usage attributable to them, including usage by your employees, contractors, agents, and downstream systems.
You must rotate any key you believe has been exposed and notify us promptly at vera@cryptobriefing.com if you suspect compromise.
You may not embed live production keys in client-side code, public repositories, or any artifact distributed to end users.

We may rotate or revoke keys under the conditions described in Section 11.

4. Acceptable Use

You may use Vera only for your own internal business purposes and only as expressly permitted by these Terms. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not, and may not permit any third party to:

Resell raw API output, in whole or in substantial part, whether as a standalone data product, as a feed, or as a derivative dataset that materially substitutes for a Vera subscription.
Redistribute Vera output to any third party without our prior written consent, except as incidental enrichment of a product whose primary value is not the Vera output itself.
Scrape, mirror, or cache the Service beyond the rate limits and caching headers we publish, or otherwise circumvent technical controls.
Open or operate multiple accounts for the purpose of exceeding the rate limits, evading throttling, splitting usage to stay under a quota, or otherwise defeating commercial controls. Where multiple accounts share a controlling party, billing entity, payment instrument, or production system, we may aggregate them for enforcement purposes.
Market or describe Vera output to downstream users as "trading signals," "buy/sell recommendations," "alpha," "investment advice," or any equivalent characterization, whether the output is attributed to Vera, white-labeled, or paraphrased. See Section 13 (Disclaimer of Investment Advice) and Section 14 (Downstream Marketing Restrictions).
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the underlying models, prompts, training data, or weights used to generate Vera output.
Use the Service to develop a product that competes with the Service.
Use the Service in violation of applicable law, including U.S. export controls and economic sanctions, or from a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions.
Submit input data to the Service that you do not have the right to submit, including personal data of third parties not necessary for the request.
Attempt to disrupt, overload, or impair the Service or any other customer's use of it.
Use Vera output, in whole or in part, to train, fine-tune, or develop any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, or as a benchmark, evaluation, or validation dataset, whether for your own use or for a third party, without our prior written consent.
Remove, obscure, alter, or interfere with any watermark, identifier, signature, or other marking embedded in or associated with Vera output, or take any action designed to defeat the attribution measures described below.

Attribution and watermarking. You acknowledge that Vera output and API responses may contain unique, per-customer identifiers, watermarks, cryptographic signatures, and/or seeded records ("honeytokens") that allow us to identify the source of any Vera output found outside the scope of your license. Vera output bearing your identifiers, watermarks, or honeytokens that appears outside the permitted scope is deemed evidence of a breach of this Section, without limiting our other remedies. Violation of this Section is a material breach and a ground for immediate termination under Section 11.

5. Plans, Credits, and Rate Limits

The Service is metered in credits. We offer the Service under several plans, which may include a free plan, one-time prepaid credit packs, a recurring subscription plan, and custom enterprise arrangements. The plans offered, their prices, their included credit allowances and features, the rate limits, and the endpoints that consume credits are those published on the Vera pricing page and documentation from time to time, and may change prospectively as described in Section 6.

Credits. One credit is consumed for each successful (HTTP 2xx) response on a billable data endpoint, as designated in the documentation. Requests that fail authentication, are rate-limited, return an error, or address a non-billable endpoint do not consume credits. Credits are drawn first from your plan's included allowance and then, if exhausted, from any prepaid credit balance on your account. When your available credits are exhausted, further billable requests are refused until your allowance resets or you add credits. Prepaid credits do not expire, have no cash value, are non-transferable, and are non-refundable except as expressly provided in the Refund Policy or required by law. Unused prepaid credits are forfeited on termination of your account for cause under Section 11.

Rate limits. Independently of credits, the Service enforces protective rate limits, published in the documentation, to protect infrastructure. These are not a commercial meter: requests refused for exceeding them return HTTP 429 and do not consume credits. You are responsible for implementing backoff in your client. We may adjust these limits as needed to preserve Service stability.

6. Pricing, Billing, and Payment

Prices. All prices are those published on the Vera pricing page at the time of purchase, in US dollars and exclusive of taxes (see Section 8).

Subscription billing. Recurring subscriptions are billed in advance through Stripe on the cadence stated at checkout. Unless a promotional trial is expressly offered at sign-up, the first charge is processed immediately upon subscribing, and each subsequent charge on the recurring anniversary of the first charge.

One-time purchases. Prepaid credit packs are one-time charges processed through Stripe at the time of purchase; credits are delivered on successful payment.

Payment method. You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge the payment method on file for all amounts due, including subscription fees, one-time purchases, and any applicable taxes.

Failed payments. If a subscription charge fails, Stripe will retry the charge over a period of up to fourteen calendar days, during which the account remains active. If all retries fail, the subscription is cancelled and its paid entitlements (including WebSocket access and the periodic credit allowance) end; the account reverts to the free plan and any prepaid credit balance remains available. See Section 11.

No proration on cancellation. You may cancel a subscription at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and the current period is not refunded or prorated. Paid entitlements continue through the end of that period, after which the account reverts to the free plan, retaining any prepaid credits. One-time purchases are final. Limited exceptions for service failure and billing error are set out in the Refund Policy.

Price and allowance changes. We may change published prices, plans, allowances, credit costs, and limits at any time on a prospective basis. Changes do not affect completed purchases. We will give active subscribers at least thirty days' notice by email before a price increase takes effect for their account. Customers who subscribed under a prior published plan retain that plan's price and terms while they remain continuously subscribed, as separately communicated.

7. Refunds

Refunds are governed by the Vera Refund Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Except as expressly set out in that policy, all fees are non-refundable.

8. Taxes

The published price is exclusive of taxes. Sales tax, VAT, GST, and any other transaction taxes applicable in your jurisdiction will be calculated and collected at checkout by Stripe Tax where required. You are responsible for any taxes imposed on your use of the Service that are not collected at checkout, including any reverse-charge VAT obligations in your country of establishment. You are not responsible for taxes imposed on the Company's net income.

If you are exempt from a tax and have provided valid documentation through Stripe, the exemption will be applied to future invoices; we do not retroactively credit pre-exemption invoices.

9. Customer Data and Confidentiality

"Customer Data" means data you submit to the Service in API requests, and account metadata you provide on registration. You retain all rights in Customer Data. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display Customer Data solely to provide, secure, and improve the Service, and to comply with law.

We will not use Customer Data to train general-purpose models that are made available to third parties outside the Service. We may use aggregated, de-identified usage telemetry to operate, monitor, and improve the Service.

Each party will protect the other's Confidential Information with the same degree of care it uses to protect its own confidential information of like importance, and at least with reasonable care.

The processing of personal data is further described in the Privacy Policy.

10. Termination by You

You may cancel your subscription at any time through your customer dashboard or by emailing vera@cryptobriefing.com. Cancellation takes effect immediately for billing purposes, and access continues through the end of the period already paid for, subject to Section 6.

You may close your account entirely by emailing vera@cryptobriefing.com. Account closure is irreversible: API keys are revoked, usage history is queued for deletion under our retention policy, and any prepaid credit balance and grandfathered pricing are forfeit.

11. Termination, Suspension, and API Key Revocation by Us

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, revoke any or all API keys associated with your account, or both, if:

Payment failure. A charge fails and all three Stripe retries over fourteen days have been exhausted.
Acceptable Use violation. We reasonably determine that you have violated Section 4, including the downstream marketing restrictions in Section 14.
Legal or security risk. Continued provision of the Service to you would, in our reasonable judgment, expose the Company to legal liability, regulatory action, or a material security risk.
Dormancy. Your account has had zero successful API calls for one hundred eighty consecutive days following the end of a paid period. We will email the account owner at least fourteen days before revocation on dormancy grounds.
Insolvency. You become insolvent, file or have filed against you a bankruptcy petition not dismissed within sixty days, or make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors.

For material breaches that are capable of cure, we will give you written notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure, except where immediate suspension is required to protect the Service, other customers, or the Company. For non-curable breaches, including breaches of Section 4 or Section 14, we may terminate immediately.

Upon termination: (a) your right to access the Service ceases immediately; (b) all API keys are revoked; (c) any unpaid fees become immediately due; (d) any prepaid credit balance and grandfathered pricing continuity under Section 6 are forfeit; and (e) the provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 21 — will survive.

12. Service Modifications and Deprecation

The Service is a living product. We may modify endpoints, response schemas, rate limits, model behavior, or the underlying infrastructure at any time. We will use reasonable efforts to do so in a way that does not break well-behaved clients.

For changes that are backward-incompatible at the schema or endpoint level, we operate the following deprecation policy:

Notice. Deprecations are announced in the Vera changelog and emailed to the account owner at least ninety days before the breaking change takes effect.
Versioning. Breaking changes are introduced behind a new API version. The prior version continues to operate during the notice window.
Emergency changes. We reserve the right to make changes on shorter notice where required for security, legal compliance, or to address a material defect. We will provide as much notice as is reasonably possible.

We may discontinue the Service entirely on at least one hundred eighty days' prior written notice to active subscribers. If we do so, we will refund any portion of pre-paid fees attributable to the period after the discontinuation date.

13. Disclaimer of Investment Advice

This section is material. Please read it.

All content provided, including event records, market data, and AI-assisted interpretations, is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, trading advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset, contract, or position.

Prediction markets and financial markets involve significant risk, including the risk of loss. No representation is made regarding the suitability or profitability of any market or outcome.

The Service is intended for general informational use. It is not designed to be used as a direct input into automated trading or decision-making systems.

The Company is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, commodity trading advisor, futures commission merchant, or any other type of regulated financial intermediary in any jurisdiction, and no fiduciary, advisory, or agency relationship arises between the Company and you by virtue of your access to the Service.

Vera output is the product of editorial judgment, automated extraction, and probabilistic language models. It may contain errors, omissions, latency, stale data, or interpretations with which a reasonable person could disagree. You must apply your own independent judgment and, where appropriate, consult qualified professionals before acting on anything you derive from the Service.

You acknowledge that you understand the foregoing and that you accept the Service on that basis.

14. Downstream Marketing Restrictions

In addition to the prohibition in Section 4, you specifically agree that, in any product, service, communication, marketing, or user interface that incorporates Vera output (whether attributed, white-labeled, paraphrased, summarized, or further transformed), you will not describe, label, or market that output — or your product to the extent it is powered by that output — as any of:

"trading signals" or "signals"
"buy / sell / hold recommendations"
"investment advice" or "financial advice"
"alpha" in a sense that implies advisable trading action
"predictions" framed as recommended positions
"guaranteed," "high-probability," "edge," or similar terms in a sense that promises trading profit

You may describe the output as informational analysis, interpretation, structured event data, or in similar neutral terms, and you may publish your own opinions about it, provided those opinions are clearly your own and not attributed to the Company.

Violation of this Section is a material breach and a ground for immediate termination under Section 11.

15. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, suits, proceedings, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:

Your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, including any breach of Section 4 (Acceptable Use), Section 13 (Disclaimer), or Section 14 (Downstream Marketing Restrictions);
Your products, services, content, communications, or systems that incorporate, reference, or are powered by Vera output, including any claim by your end users that they suffered loss — financial, reputational, or otherwise — in connection with such products, services, content, communications, or systems;
Your violation of applicable law, including securities, commodities, gaming, and consumer-protection law;
Your infringement or misappropriation of any third party's intellectual property or other rights through your use of the Service;
Customer Data you submit, including any claim that such data infringes the rights of, or has caused harm to, a third party.

We will give you prompt notice of any claim, reasonable cooperation at your expense, and sole control of the defense and settlement, provided that you may not settle any claim in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.

16. Disclaimers

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT VERA OUTPUT IS CORRECT, SUITABLE FOR ANY TRADING OR INVESTMENT PURPOSE, OR FREE OF THE TYPES OF ERROR DESCRIBED IN SECTION 13.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, TRADING LOSSES, MARKET LOSSES, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, OR DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

THE COMPANY'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY YOU TO THE COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

THE PARTIES AGREE THAT THESE LIMITATIONS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN AND THAT, ABSENT THEM, THE PRICING AND COMMERCIAL TERMS OF THE SERVICE WOULD BE MATERIALLY DIFFERENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions the foregoing exclusions and limitations apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Governing Law

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

19. Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver

Informal resolution. Before initiating any formal proceeding, the parties will attempt to resolve any dispute in good faith for at least thirty days following written notice of the dispute, sent to legal@cryptobriefing.com (for notices to us) or to the account owner's email on file (for notices to you).

Binding arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved through informal resolution will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator in New York, New York, in the English language. Judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. YOU AND THE COMPANY EACH AGREE THAT DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one party's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this waiver is held unenforceable as to any claim, that claim will be severed from arbitration and brought in court, while all other claims will proceed in arbitration.

Carve-outs. Notwithstanding the above, either party may (i) bring an individual action in small-claims court in lieu of arbitration, where eligible, or (ii) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to prevent actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual property rights, confidentiality obligations, or Section 4 or Section 14.

20. Notices

Notices to you will be sent to the email address associated with your account and are effective when sent. You are responsible for keeping that address current. Notices to us must be sent to legal@cryptobriefing.com with a copy to Decentral Media Inc., at our principal office in New York, NY, and are effective when received.

21. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.

Order of precedence. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and any other document referenced in them, these Terms control unless the other document expressly states that it controls on a specific topic.

Modification. We may modify these Terms from time to time. Material modifications will be notified to the account owner by email at least thirty days before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept the modifications, your sole remedy is to cancel your subscription before they take effect.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if it cannot be so modified, severed; the remaining provisions will continue in full force.

No waiver. Failure by either party to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or the right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

Independent contractors. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates an agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship.

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment obligations) to the extent caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, internet outages, third-party infrastructure failures, and governmental action.

Contact. Questions about these Terms should be directed to legal@cryptobriefing.com.

Decentral Media Inc. New York, NY

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