Risk, plainly

The rule that runs through everything #

The figures on the ecosystem's sites are read live from the chain, and none of them is a promise. A price, a reward, a rate: each shows what is true at the moment it was read. What follows is what each part can and cannot guarantee.

Your wallet: there is no recovery, by anyone #

A wallet is made from a recovery phrase. Lose it and the funds are gone. Not delayed, not recoverable by support, not restorable by us. Nobody holds a copy, which is the point and also the whole risk.

Write it down, keep it somewhere a fire or a dead drive cannot reach, and never type it anywhere except your own wallet's restore step. No site, chat or support person ever needs it. Chapter V, Wallets covers backup in full.

The bridges: custodial, backed one for one #

The bridges are custodial. The RATR sent in is held, and every wRATR that exists is backed by RATR held, one for one. That is a commitment about backing, not a promise about price.

Transfers have limits and can take time. If a transfer reports a failure, stop. It may already have gone through. Check your history and the explorer, then send the transaction id and ask before sending again. Chapter VI, Bridges explains why.

Staking pools: rewards are funded, not generated #

Every reward paid was deposited first. There is no mint, no yield engine and no tail: each week's pot streams until that week ends, and rewards run only while a pot is streaming.

Your stake is yours throughout. No pause, no key and no function can stop you withdrawing it or claiming what you have already earned. The contract code cannot be changed by anyone, including us. The funder can pause new stakes and decides each week's pot, but can never touch your stake or your earned rewards. Chapter VIII, Yggdrasil Roots shows what a pause does and does not stop.

In Amber Hollow, your xALPH comes back to you immediately. Turning xALPH back into ALPH is PowFi's process, not ours: it takes 30 days, or the xALPH can be sold instead.

Trading: prices move, and a lock is a lock #

You swap at what the pool gives you at that moment, not what the screen showed a second ago. A large order against a shallow pool moves the price a long way; the price-impact line shows how far before you sign, and splitting an order reduces it.

Providing liquidity means holding a changing mix of two assets, and you can withdraw less value than you put in, even while earning fees. A lock position cannot be withdrawn early. The weekly stream of new wRATR tapers every epoch, and it is not a yield. Chapter VII, Nóatún covers each of these.

Masternodes: your collateral never leaves your address #

The collateral stays in your own address. Spending it ends the node. Rewards depend on the network, not on us. Nodes that go offline can be penalised by the chain and stop earning until they are fixed. Payment comes in turn, not on a schedule.

On the hosted path, hosting top-ups are non-refundable, and charges continue until you release the node. Chapter IV, Masternodes covers both paths.

Mining: rewards vary with the network #

What you earn depends on difficulty, your share of the network's hashrate, and luck. Past results predict nothing. Chapter III, Mining covers how to start.

No warranty on outcomes #

No refunds, no guarantees, no insurance on what any position, trade, node or pool returns. Nothing here is financial advice. Decide with money you can afford to lose.

What there is instead: contracts that cannot be changed, numbers that can be checked on chain rather than taken on trust, and a person who answers.