Terms of Service

How to read the legal terms

The detailed terms above are the binding document. The summary below is provided as a reading aid and is not itself the agreement. Where the summary and the formal terms differ, the formal terms control. We have tried to make the formal language as clear as possible; we have also tried to make this summary genuinely useful, not just a marketing-friendly restatement.

What you are agreeing to

By using Axiom you agree that you understand the nature of on-chain trading, that you accept responsibility for the trades you make, that you will use the platform lawfully under the rules that apply where you live, and that you will not use it to facilitate activity that is illegal under those rules — including, specifically, money laundering, financing of sanctioned parties, and market manipulation across the venues we route to.

What we agree to

We agree to provide the platform as described in the documentation; to maintain the non-custodial guarantees that define the product; to disclose material changes to fees, terms, or how the platform works with reasonable notice; to support the platform with reasonable diligence; and to communicate honestly when something goes wrong. We do not guarantee uptime, fill prices, or returns; we do guarantee the custody model and the basic mechanics of how the platform works.

Eligibility

You must be of legal age to enter into a binding contract in your jurisdiction. You must not be a resident of a jurisdiction that is the subject of comprehensive sanctions, and you must not be a person otherwise prohibited from using the platform under applicable law. The eligibility requirements apply continuously; if your status changes, your eligibility changes.

Acceptable use

You may use the platform to trade for your own account and, where applicable, for accounts you legally manage. You may not use it to facilitate market manipulation, to deliberately exploit other users, to scrape the interface at a scale that constitutes denial of service, or to circumvent published rate limits. You may not use it to interact with sanctioned addresses; the platform applies sanctions screening at the routing layer and may decline to route trades that would violate it.

API and automation

Programmatic access through the public API is permitted within the published rate limits and scopes. You are responsible for the security of your API keys and for the behavior of any automated system that uses them. We may suspend keys that produce abusive traffic, security risk, or sustained excess load; suspended keys can be rotated through the normal flow.

Fees and changes to fees

Current fees are published on the fees page and apply to trades placed at the time the fee is in effect. We may change fees; material changes are announced at least 30 days in advance through in-app notice and through the email address you have on file, if any. You may stop using the platform at any time before a fee change takes effect.

Termination

You may stop using the platform at any time by withdrawing your funds and discontinuing use; no formal closure is required. We may suspend or terminate access for users who breach the acceptable-use rules, who present a material security or legal risk to the platform, or where required by law; we will provide notice and an opportunity to remedy where feasible.

Limitation of liability

Within the limits permitted by applicable law, our liability for your use of the platform is limited as described in the formal terms. The plain-language version is: we are responsible for delivering the platform as described; we are not responsible for the volatility of the markets, the behavior of upstream protocols, or the consequences of your own trading decisions.

Disputes

The formal terms describe the governing law and the venue for any dispute. We aim to resolve issues directly through the support channel before any formal dispute arises; the great majority of issues are resolved that way.

Force majeure and dependencies

The platform depends on third-party infrastructure including Solana validators, RPC providers, oracle networks, MPC infrastructure, and venue order books. Outages or failures at any of these can prevent trades from being placed, modified, or canceled. The formal terms describe the limited liability allocation for such events; the practical reality is that we do not control these systems and we will be transparent about which dependency caused any outage that affects you.

Indemnification

The terms include a customary indemnity from you to us for losses arising from your breach of the terms or your unlawful use of the platform. The provision is reciprocal in part — we indemnify you for losses arising from our infringement of third-party intellectual property in the platform itself. The provision is not a way of shifting trading losses; trading losses are yours by definition.

Modification of the platform

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any feature with reasonable notice. "Reasonable" varies by feature: a fee schedule change requires at least 30 days; a UI improvement requires none; the discontinuation of a feature requires enough notice for active users to adjust. We do not modify the custody model without explicit per-user opt-in.

Assignment

You may not assign your rights under the terms without our consent. We may assign our rights in connection with a corporate transaction (merger, acquisition, restructuring), in which case we will notify users and the assignee will be bound by the same terms.

Survival

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and similar — survive termination of your use of the platform. The custody guarantees do not require ongoing terms acceptance to remain effective; your wallet is yours regardless of whether the agreement between us is in force.

Entire agreement

The terms, the privacy policy, the risk disclaimer, and any policy expressly referenced in them constitute the entire agreement between you and Axiom regarding your use of the platform. Prior communications — chat conversations, support tickets, blog posts, public statements — are informative but do not amend the formal terms.

Severability

If any provision of the terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect to the maximum extent permitted. We will not use an unenforceable provision as a pretext to evade obligations that should clearly apply.

Notices

Notices to you are delivered through in-product banner, through email if we have your email, and through prominent posts on the blog for material policy changes. Notices to us are delivered through the contact form; formal legal notices should additionally be sent to the address printed in the footer.

Governing law and forum

The formal terms specify the governing law and the venue for dispute resolution. We aim to resolve disputes through direct discussion before any formal proceeding; the great majority of issues are resolved that way and we will not insist on formality where it does not serve either of us.