Disclaimer

Hey there. I intend to do my best to maintain this game, keep it fun for everyone, and keep it running as best I can. My stake pool earnings help me build things like this, pay for the LLMs that write the code and the costs of hosting. In a perfect world, this will go on forever. But of course I am human, I'm only one person, and circumstances change, so there's always a chance this doesn't work out and it has to shut down one day, or that an LLM writes bad code and causes a bug. I'm not a formally trained developer, just a guy with some LLM subscriptions. So just to be safe, these disclaimers have to exist, and they have to read a bit dramatic/scary just to cover all of the possible edge cases the LLMs could imagine.

OUROS (also referred to as "the game") is a hobby game on Cardano. It is experimental software. By connecting a wallet, signing a transaction, or otherwise using ouros.club, you accept this page in full.

This is not legal, financial, or tax advice. It is the operators telling you, plainly, what you are getting into.

Who is responsible

You are. The developers and operators of OUROS are not responsible for any loss you incur by playing: ADA, NFTs, deposits, fees, snacks, game progress, time, or anything else.

That includes losses caused by bugs, downtime, operator error, a compromised server, a bad transaction you signed, a wallet you sent a creature to, a marketplace trade, a tombstone, or the chain itself.

If you do not accept that, do not play.

Software written by LLMs

The game, the site, the docs, and the on-chain policy were written with large language models. There is no human-audited guarantee that the code is correct, complete, or safe.

Expect bugs. Some will be obvious. Some will not. A bug can strand a deposit, mint the wrong thing, show the wrong owner, tombstone a creature that should have lived, or fail to tombstone one that should have died. Reporting a bug does not create a duty to fix it, refund you, or restore a creature.

Transactions you sign

The server builds unsigned transactions. Your wallet signs them. Signing is the act that spends your ADA and moves your assets. Read the prompt. If you do not understand it, decline.

A built transaction can be wrong. The server can be buggy. The server can be compromised. The operators cannot unsay a signature. Cardano will not reverse it.

Typical transaction prompts are mint, lay, hatch, kill/destroy, evolve, and habitat sponsorship. There may be others. Anything your wallet asks you to sign is your decision.

What can actually go missing

Most of the time the only ADA that leaves your wallet and does not come straight back is the network fee - usually well under one ADA.

Minting and laying also lock a protocol deposit (min-ADA under the CIP-68 pair), on the order of a few ADA. That deposit is meant to return if you kill or destroy the token. It is not a promise. A bug, a failed script, a ledger change, or a lost reference NFT can leave it sitting on-chain with no working refund path.

Habitat sponsorship is a plain ADA payment. It is not a deposit. It is not refunded if you change your mind, if the habitat expires, or if the game stops.

Snacks, XP, levels, and den state live in the OUROS database. They can be lost to a bug, a restore, or the service shutting down. They have no financial value.

The NFT itself can be sent to a wallet you do not control. Cardano has no undo. If it is not yet tradeable, sending it to a stranger can kill the creature in the game after a full epoch of quarantine. The token may still sit in that wallet as a tombstone. Destroying a tombstone burns it and is meant to return the remaining deposit; that, too, is a signed transaction with the same risks as any other.

The server can change metadata

Every creature is CIP-68. The reference NFT is at an address the server controls, so they can rewrite the on-chain image and extra fields without your signature. That is how levelling and tombstones work. It also means a compromised operator key, or a malicious operator, could change what wallets display.

They cannot spend the user token from your wallet without a transaction you sign. They cannot take ADA out of your wallet without a transaction you sign. They can still ruin the record of a creature.

This is not an investment

Creatures are toys. Snacks are a score. There is no yield, no promised return, and no secondary-market price the operators will defend.

Do not buy, raise, or trade a creature expecting profit. Marketplace prices, if any, are other people's business and can go to zero. Royalties, if collected, are not a reason to treat this as a security, a commodity offering, or a fund.

Nothing here is an offer to sell securities. Nothing here is financial, investment, or tax advice. You are responsible for any tax that applies to NFTs or ADA you move.

Keys, wallets, and third parties

The operators do not hold your private keys. CIP-30 wallets sign in your browser or on your device. If you leak a seed, approve a malicious dApp, or use a compromised extension, that is outside the game.

Hardware wallets, hot wallets you link to the same account, marketplaces, stake pools, Cardano itself, Ogmios, indexers, CDNs, and image caches are not the game. Their failures are not the operators' failures. A stale GIF on a marketplace is not a refund.

Linking a wallet to an account is permanent for that stake key. Do not link a wallet you do not intend to keep bound.

Treat every link as a public statement that the same person controls those wallets. The operators do not promise to keep the association private. A den, a habitat, a transfer between linked addresses, or a bug can make the set visible. If two wallets must stay unrelated, do not link them.

Availability

The site, the API, the images, and the den can go down, stay down, or go away. There is no SLA. There is no duty to keep the game running, to migrate it, or to hand you an export.

If the server shuts down, the user tokens remain in your wallet as Cardano native assets. The pictures and the game rules may not.

No warranty

OUROS is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the developers and operators are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of ADA, tokens, data, or profits, arising from your use of the game - even if they were told it might happen, and even if a limited remedy fails.

Some places do not allow these limits. If you are in one of them, the operators' liability is limited to the smallest amount that place still permits - which may be zero, and is in any case not more than the network fees you paid to OUROS transactions in the thirty days before the claim.

You

You must be old enough to use a cryptocurrency wallet where you live, and allowed to use it. You will not use the game to break the law, to launder value, or to harass anyone.

If any part of this page is unenforceable, the rest still stands. Playing after this page exists is acceptance. If it changes, the copy on this site at the time you next play is the one that applies.

If that sounds like a lot for a digital creature that eats your transaction history: good. Sign only what you mean to sign.