Terms of Service
1. Acceptance of these Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Codevertise marketplace, websites, console, APIs, browser/CLI extensions, smart-contract interfaces, and related services (collectively, the "Service") operated by the operator of codevertise.dev (the "Operator", "we", "us", or "our"). "You" means the person or entity using the Service, and includes any autonomous agent, bot, script, or software you deploy or control.
You accept these Terms, and form a binding contract with the Operator, by any of the following, whichever occurs first:
- signing the Sign-In with Ethereum ("SIWE") message in the console, which references the version of these Terms then in effect — that signature is your electronic signature and durable, cryptographic evidence of your agreement;
- creating, funding, raising, or managing a campaign;
- installing or running the publisher extension or otherwise serving sponsored content; or
- sending any request to our APIs or otherwise accessing the Service, including programmatically via an agent.
If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.
2. Eligibility
You represent and warrant that you:
- are at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
- are acting on your own behalf, or are authorised to bind the entity you represent;
- are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organised under the laws of any country or region subject to comprehensive sanctions, and are not a person with whom dealings are prohibited under the sanctions or export-control laws of the European Union, the United States (including OFAC lists), the United Kingdom, the United Nations, or any other applicable authority (a "Prohibited Person"); and
- will not use the Service to act for, or on behalf of, a Prohibited Person.
We may refuse, restrict, suspend, or terminate access to anyone, at any time, in our sole discretion, including where we believe these eligibility requirements are not met.
3. The Service and our role
Codevertise is a block-auction advertising marketplace. Advertisers fund campaigns that bid for the right to display a short sponsored line on developer-facing surfaces (such as an AI coding-agent status line); publishers who run the extension display that line and earn a share of the spend.
We act solely as a technology provider and neutral intermediary that matches advertisers and publishers and facilitates settlement. We are not a party to the advertising relationship between any advertiser and any publisher, are not a bank, money transmitter, payment institution, e-money issuer, broker, exchange, custodian, or fiduciary, and do not provide financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. We do not control, endorse, or guarantee any advertiser, publisher, creative, landing page, or destination, and we make no promise as to the availability, ranking, number, value, or performance of any impression, click, placement, or campaign.
4. Wallets, accounts and security
Access is authenticated by a blockchain wallet you control. You are solely responsible for your wallet, private keys, seed phrases, signing devices, session tokens, and any "manage key" issued to you for API-created campaigns. We never take custody of, store, or have the ability to recover your private keys. Any action signed or authenticated by your wallet, key, token, or agent is deemed authorised by you. Transactions on a public blockchain are irreversible: if you lose a key, send funds to the wrong address, or your wallet is compromised, we cannot reverse, refund, or recover the funds. Keep your credentials secret and notify us promptly of any suspected compromise, though we may be unable to help.
5. Advertiser terms
- Campaigns and bids. You set your creative, destination URL, and bid per block. The auction is an English ascending auction; a higher funded bid serves ahead of a lower one. Placement, serving, ranking, and impression volume are never guaranteed and may change at any time.
- Funding and escrow. You fund campaigns in USDC over the HTTP 402 / x402 flow. Funds you deposit are held as campaign escrow and are drawn down as impressions and clicks are served and billed at your bid. Amounts already spent on served events are non-refundable.
- Spend and pricing. You authorise us to debit your campaign escrow for each billable event at your then-current bid, net of the publisher share and any applicable platform fee. Pricing, the publisher share, minimum bids, increments, and block size are published via the Service and may change prospectively.
- Refunds / withdrawals. You may cancel a campaign and withdraw unspent escrow, which we will attempt to return to your wallet as an on-chain payout. Refunds are limited to unspent escrow, are subject to network and facilitator availability and gas, and may be withheld where required by law or where we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse, or an Acceptable Use violation.
- Your responsibility for content. You are solely responsible for your creative, destination URL, and everything they link to or promote, and for ensuring they are lawful, accurate, non-deceptive, and properly licensed.
6. Publisher terms
- Display. By running the extension you agree to display the sponsored line as served, in the slot and for the dwell time specified by the Service, and not to alter, obscure, fabricate, or misrepresent impressions or clicks.
- Earnings. You earn the published publisher share of billed spend, accrued to the wallet you designate. Earnings are estimates until settled, may be adjusted to reverse fraud, error, or invalid traffic, and are payable only once you meet the published minimum payout threshold.
- No employment. You are an independent participant, not our employee, agent, partner, or joint venturer. You are solely responsible for your own taxes and for any law applicable to your operation of the extension, including disclosing sponsored content where the law requires.
- Invalid traffic. Generating or facilitating fake, automated, incentivised, or otherwise invalid impressions or clicks is a material breach; we may withhold or claw back affected earnings and terminate your participation.
7. Payments, fees, gas and settlement
Payments settle in USDC on the blockchain network identified in the Service, through third-party wallets and payment facilitators. You are responsible for network ("gas") and facilitator costs. Because settlement is on-chain, all completed payments are final and irreversible; there are no chargebacks, and we do not offer dispute-based reversals. We may deduct a platform fee from spend, as published. We are not responsible for the value, stability, convertibility, or continued existence of USDC or any token, including any depeg, freeze, blacklist, or issuer action affecting it.
8. Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy is part of these Terms. You must not, and must not allow any agent or third party to, use the Service to create, fund, serve, link to, or promote any content or conduct that:
Prohibited content
- is illegal, or facilitates illegal activity, under any law applicable to you, the Operator, an advertiser, or a publisher;
- infringes or misappropriates any intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other right, or impersonates any person or brand;
- is fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, or a scam, including phishing, fake giveaways, "guaranteed returns", pump-and-dump or other market-manipulation schemes, or unregistered securities offerings;
- distributes malware, spyware, drainers, wallet-draining approvals, exploits, or links to any of the foregoing;
- promotes weapons, illegal drugs, human trafficking, child sexual abuse material, terrorism or violent extremism, or the exploitation or endangerment of minors;
- contains hateful, harassing, defamatory, or sexually explicit/adult material, or content that incites violence; or
- is otherwise objectionable, as we may reasonably determine.
Prohibited conduct
- fabricating, inflating, or laundering impressions, clicks, or earnings, or generating invalid traffic;
- circumventing or tampering with auction, escrow, billing, anti-fraud, serve-token, or rate-limiting mechanisms;
- probing, scanning, overloading, or attempting to gain unauthorised access to the Service or its infrastructure, or interfering with its operation;
- scraping or harvesting data except as expressly permitted by a documented API, or evading published rate limits;
- using the Service to launder money, evade sanctions, or finance prohibited activity; or
- reverse engineering, reselling, or sublicensing the Service except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law.
9. Content ownership, licence and warranties
You retain ownership of the creative, marks, and materials you submit ("Your Content"). You grant the Operator a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, cache, reproduce, display, distribute, and transmit Your Content as necessary to operate, promote, and provide the Service, including serving it to publishers and their end users. You represent and warrant that you own or are licensed to use Your Content and the destinations it links to, and that Your Content and its use through the Service do not violate these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or any law or third-party right.
10. Moderation, enforcement and suspension
We may, at our sole discretion and with or without notice, review, reject, pause, remove, reorder, cancel, or refuse to serve any campaign or creative; suspend, restrict, or terminate any account, wallet, or participation; withhold or reverse earnings or refunds; and operate a moderation "kill switch" — including where we believe there is a violation of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, a legal or security risk, fraud or invalid traffic, or a sanctions concern. We are not obligated to monitor content, and we are not liable for acting or failing to act on it. Amounts spent on events already served, and amounts forfeited due to your violation, are non-refundable.
Reporting illegal or infringing content (notice and action). Advertiser creatives and
destinations are third-party content that we host as an intermediary. Anyone may notify us of content
they consider illegal or infringing by emailing
abuse@codevertise.dev (or via POST /v1/reports)
with: (a) the campaign or line
complained of and where it appeared; (b) an explanation of why it is illegal or infringing; (c) for an
intellectual-property claim, identification of the right and a statement that you are the right-holder
or authorised to act, with a good-faith belief the use is unauthorised; and (d) your contact details.
Knowingly false notices may incur liability. We will handle valid notices in a timely, non-arbitrary,
and objective manner and may remove, disable, or restrict the content and notify the advertiser, in
line with the notice-and-action regime of the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065,
Article 16) and applicable intellectual-property law. This mechanism, and our acting on it, support our
status as a hosting intermediary; nothing here imposes a general monitoring obligation on us.
11. Crypto-asset and risk disclosures
You acknowledge and accept the following risks, and agree that the Operator is not responsible for any of them:
- Irreversibility. Blockchain transactions cannot be reversed, cancelled, or refunded once confirmed. Mistakes (wrong address, wrong amount, wrong network) are permanent.
- Volatility and token risk. Crypto-assets, including stablecoins such as USDC, may lose value, lose their peg, be frozen or blacklisted by their issuer, or become illiquid.
- Technology risk. Wallets, smart contracts, facilitators, bridges, RPC providers, and the underlying blockchain may contain bugs, be exploited, be congested, fork, halt, or fail. Funds may be lost as a result.
- Regulatory risk. The legal treatment of crypto-assets and on-chain advertising is uncertain and evolving; changes may adversely affect the Service or your use of it.
- No protection scheme. Funds are not bank deposits and are not covered by any deposit-guarantee, investor-compensation, or similar scheme.
- Not advice. Nothing in the Service is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice, or a recommendation to acquire or dispose of any asset.
12. Disclaimer of warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT ANY CAMPAIGN WILL SERVE OR PERFORM, OR THAT IMPRESSIONS, CLICKS, OR EARNINGS WILL BE ACCURATE OR VALID.
13. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR AND ITS OWNERS, OPERATORS, CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, OR CRYPTO-ASSETS, OR FOR THE LOSS, THEFT, OR INACCESSIBILITY OF KEYS OR FUNDS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
SUBJECT TO THE PARAGRAPH BELOW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE IN ANY 12-MONTH PERIOD WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL PLATFORM FEES YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO US IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (USD $100).
Mandatory-law carve-out. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law applicable to you. In particular, the disclaimers and limitations above do not apply to, and we do not limit, our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for harm caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for harm to a person's natural rights, or for any other liability that the mandatory law applicable to you (including mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence) does not permit us to limit. Where any limitation in this Section is held unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent permitted, and the remainder of these Terms stays in force.
14. Indemnification
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator and its owners, operators, contractors, and suppliers from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) Your Content and the destinations it links to; (b) your use of the Service, including by any agent you deploy; (c) your breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; (d) your violation of any law or third-party right; or (e) your taxes. We may assume the exclusive defence of any matter subject to indemnification, at your expense, and you will cooperate.
15. Third-party services
The Service relies on and links to third parties we do not control, including wallet software, payment facilitators, blockchain networks, RPC and infrastructure providers, and host applications (for example, Farcaster clients). Your use of those services is governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible or liable for them, their availability, or their acts or omissions.
16. Taxes
You are solely responsible for determining, reporting, and paying any taxes, duties, or levies applicable to your use of the Service, your advertising spend, and your earnings, and for any withholding obligations. Amounts payable to or by you are exclusive of taxes unless stated otherwise.
17. Sanctions, AML and compliance
You will comply with all applicable sanctions, anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist-financing, export-control, and advertising laws. We may screen wallet addresses and transactions, decline to serve or settle, freeze or withhold funds, and report to or cooperate with authorities, where we reasonably consider it necessary to comply with the law or manage legal risk.
18. Privacy
Our handling of data is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms. You acknowledge that wallet addresses, transactions, and on-chain activity are public and permanent by the nature of the blockchain and are outside our control.
19. Our intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, text, the "Codevertise" name and logo, and all related intellectual property, is owned by the Operator or its licensors. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service as intended by these Terms. No other rights are granted.
20. Term, suspension and termination
These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, including for the reasons in Section 10 or where required by law. On termination, licences granted to you end; Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 7, 9–19, 21, and 22–25) survive. Unspent escrow may be withdrawn as provided in Section 5 unless withheld as permitted by these Terms.
21. Changes to the Service and these Terms
We may modify or discontinue the Service, or any feature, at any time. We may also change these Terms by posting an updated version with a new version identifier and effective date. Material changes take effect on the stated effective date; your continued use of the Service, or your next signed SIWE sign-in referencing the new version, constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.
22. Autonomous agents and automated use
You may use the Service programmatically, including via autonomous agents. You are fully responsible for any agent, bot, key, or software you deploy or control, and for all activity conducted through it, as if you had performed it yourself. Deploying or operating such an agent against the Service constitutes your acceptance of these Terms and binds you as principal.
23. Force majeure
We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including blockchain congestion, forks or halts, facilitator or infrastructure outages, acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, governmental action, or failures of the internet or utilities.
24. Governing law and dispute resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Operator is established (the "Governing Jurisdiction"), without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Subject to mandatory law, the competent courts of the Governing Jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service. (The specific Governing Jurisdiction and forum will be designated here once the operating entity is finalised.)
Informal resolution first. Before bringing a claim, you agree to contact us and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute for at least 30 days.
Consumers. If you use the Service as a consumer, nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, including your right to bring proceedings in your local courts and to use any alternative dispute-resolution body available to you there. Mandatory rights of collective redress that the law applicable to you grants and does not allow to be waived are unaffected.
25. General
- Entire agreement. These Terms (with the Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede prior agreements.
- Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the provision is enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them, including in connection with a merger, sale, or reorganisation.
- No third-party beneficiaries, except that the Operator's owners, operators, contractors, and suppliers may enforce the disclaimers, limitations, and indemnities in their favour.
- Notices. We may give notice via the Service or the website; you may contact us at the address below.
- Language and headings. The English version controls; headings are for convenience only.
26. Contact
Questions about these Terms: legal@codevertise.dev.