Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you (the “User”) and TaoScale (“TaoScale”, “we”, “us”), publisher of taoscale.com and of every service reachable from it (the “Platform”).

By accessing the Platform, connecting a wallet, or using any feature, you accept these Terms in full. If you do not accept them, you must stop using the Platform immediately.

These Terms are completed by our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of this agreement.

TaoScale is a non-custodial interface for staking TAO and holding dTAO alpha positions on Bittensor subnets. Its core service is the TaoScale Strategy managed fund: you commit a TAO budget and the TaoScale team deploys and manages it across Bittensor subnets on your behalf. The Platform also provides subnet market data and portfolio tracking.

We never take custody of your funds. Active management operates through a Bittensor Staking proxy that you grant and can revoke at any time. That proxy allows TaoScale to stake and reallocate on your behalf; it can never withdraw or transfer your funds. Your assets remain in your wallet, under your keys, at all times.

TaoScale is not a bank, a broker, an investment firm, a portfolio manager in the regulated sense, or a custodian. We do not hold client funds and we provide no guarantee of return.

You must be of legal age in your jurisdiction and legally capable of entering into a contract. You are solely responsible for confirming that using a staking platform is lawful where you live, and for complying with your own tax obligations.

You may not use the Platform if you are subject to sanctions, or if you are located in a jurisdiction where the service would be unlawful.

You are the sole guardian of your private keys and seed phrase. We never ask for them and could not recover them. Losing them means losing access to your funds permanently. This is a property of blockchains, not a defect of the Platform.

The Platform, its source code, architecture, database schemas, algorithms, strategy logic, user interfaces, designs, graphics, texts, logos, trade names and documentation are the exclusive property of TaoScale and are protected by copyright, database rights and trade-secret law.

© 2026 TaoScale. All rights reserved. No open-source licence, and no licence of any kind, is granted over the Platform or its code. Nothing in these Terms transfers any intellectual property right to you.

You are granted a strictly personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Platform, for your own needs, for as long as you comply with these Terms. That is the entire extent of the rights you receive.

“TaoScale”, the TaoScale logo and any associated slogan are our distinctive signs. Any use without our prior written consent is prohibited and may constitute infringement and unfair competition.

The following are expressly prohibited, whether performed directly or through a third party, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or otherwise:

• Resale and redistribution: selling, reselling, renting, leasing, sublicensing, distributing, publishing or otherwise making the Platform or any part of it available to a third party; operating it as a service; or using it to build a competing or substantially similar offering.
• Copying and reproduction: copying, duplicating, cloning, translating, adapting, modifying or creating derivative works from the Platform, its code, its interfaces, its designs, its texts or its database, by any means and on any medium.
• Reverse engineering: decompiling, disassembling, de-obfuscating or otherwise attempting to derive the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats or internal structure of the Platform, save to the strict extent such a restriction cannot lawfully be excluded under mandatory applicable law.
• Scraping and automated extraction: using any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, headless browser, script or other automated means to access, read, index, harvest or extract content or data from the Platform; and any extraction or re-use of a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of our databases.
• Circumventing technical protections: bypassing or attempting to bypass authentication, rate limits, access controls or any other security measure; probing, scanning or testing the vulnerability of our infrastructure without our prior written authorisation.
• Overloading and disruption: any denial-of-service attack, traffic flood, or use that impairs the availability, integrity or performance of the Platform for other Users.
• Unauthorised access: accessing accounts, data, administration areas or systems that are not yours.
• Unlawful use: using the Platform for money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, market manipulation, or any other unlawful activity.
• Removing notices: deleting, hiding or altering any copyright, trade mark, or proprietary notice appearing on the Platform.

Automated access is tolerated only for the indexing robots of general-purpose search engines, and only insofar as they respect our robots.txt. Any other automated access requires our prior written authorisation.

We reserve the right to block any IP address, wallet or User in breach of this section, without notice, and to seek compensation for the harm suffered.

Browsing the Platform and tracking your portfolio are free, and you keep 100% of your staking yield. The managed fund charges a one-time entry fee on the budget you commit and a subscription billed on that budget. Both are displayed on the Pricing page before you commit, and any change takes effect only for the future.

Leaving the fund is free. We sell the positions the fund deployed for you (and only those), and the TAO returns unstaked to your own wallet. We charge nothing to leave, nothing to lower your budget, and nothing when you revoke the staking proxy; only Bittensor network fees apply.

Blockchain transaction fees are set by the Bittensor network, not by us, and are never refundable.

Nothing published on the Platform (including yields, rankings, strategies, curated selections, projections or commentary) constitutes investment advice, a personal recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any asset. Every decision is yours alone.

You expressly acknowledge that:

• the value of TAO and of alpha positions is volatile and may fall to zero;
• staking yields are variable, are never guaranteed, and past performance does not predict future results;
• dTAO positions are exposed to subnet-specific risk, including a subnet being deregistered;
• blockchain operations are irreversible, and a validator may be slashed;
• market data comes from third-party sources (notably Taostats) and from on-chain reads, and may be incomplete, delayed or unavailable.

The Platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, in beta on mainnet. We make no commitment of uninterrupted availability and may suspend access for maintenance, security or force majeure.

We may modify, add or withdraw features at any time. We may also amend these Terms; the version in force is the one published here, and continuing to use the Platform after a change constitutes acceptance. Material changes will be signalled on the Platform.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for investment losses, loss of profit or yield, loss of opportunity, loss of data, loss of private keys or seed phrase, failures of the Bittensor network or of any validator, unavailability or error of third-party data sources, or any indirect or consequential damage.

Our obligations are obligations of means, not of result. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, notably in case of fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence or personal injury.

You may stop using the Platform at any time and revoke the Staking proxy directly on-chain. No authorisation from us is required, by design.

We may suspend or terminate your access, without notice, in the event of a breach of these Terms, of a security or legal risk, or of conduct harmful to other Users. Termination does not affect your ownership of your funds, which never left your wallet.

These Terms are governed by the law of France, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

In the event of a dispute, you agree to contact us first at [email protected] so that we may seek an amicable resolution. Failing agreement, the dispute will be brought before the competent courts of France, subject to the mandatory rules protecting consumers.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions stay in force.

Any question about these Terms: [email protected].