Read before you bite

Terms & disclaimers

Vampchain is early, unaudited, experimental software. Read this before you send anything of real value through it.

What this actually is

Each vampchain is a single-node sidechain we operate. It is not decentralized, it has no real consensus, and the bridge between the home chain and a vampchain is secured by a single relayer key we control — not a light client, not a multisig, not a fraud-proof system. If our relayer key is compromised or we act maliciously, funds locked in the bridge are at risk. Treat anything you put into a vampchain the way you'd treat play money, not the way you'd treat a real bank balance.

Funding & chain lifecycle

A chain's funding balance is public and drawn down linearly over time to cover our real infrastructure cost. Anyone can top it up. Each chain's annual fee rate is fixed at creation, but we reserve the right to change it later for an already-existing chain — for example if our infrastructure costs shift, or a chain's on-chain state has grown enough to change what it actually costs to run. Any such change is never retroactive: whatever had already accrued under the old rate is settled first, and the new rate only applies to time from that point forward. If a chain's funding runs out, it doesn't shut down immediately — it stays fully open (deposits, minting, top-ups, all of it) for a one-week grace period, giving anyone a real window to fund it back up before anything actually comes down. If nobody does, we take a final snapshot of every real balance the chain had, publish it, and infrastructure is torn down for good — that specific chain does not come back, though a new chain for the same token (new address, new history) can always be created from scratch afterward.

Once a chain is torn down, funds that were bridged in but never bridged back out don't just disappear: for 30 days after the snapshot, you can look up your wallet on the claim page and withdraw whatever it shows, based on that final snapshot. After 30 days, whatever hasn't been claimed is swept to the protocol. This is best-effort infrastructure we run ourselves, not a guarantee — a bug in the snapshot process, a compromised relayer key, or us simply failing to run this correctly could still mean funds are lost. Don't leave meaningful value sitting on a chain that's close to running out of funding — top it up or bridge out while you still easily can.

Vampchain (the business) can shut down, and your chain can be frozen

Vampchain is a memechain protocol run by a small team, not a foundation, not a DAO, and not a regulated custodian. At any point, and for any reason — running out of money, regulatory pressure, deciding to stop operating, or anything else — we may wind the business down entirely. If that happens:

• Any or all vampchains may have their state frozen, including chains that still have funding remaining.
• We will make a best effort to publish a window during which base-chain (L1) tokens locked in the bridge can be withdrawn, and to give advance notice before that window closes. This is a best effort, not a guarantee — it may be shorter than you'd like, or in an extreme case (compromised relayer key, critical bug, legal order) it may not be possible to offer a withdrawal window at all.
• Funds that are sitting inside other protocols, contracts, or dApps deployed on a vampchain's sidechain — not simply held as a balance — are at additional risk on top of the above. If the sidechain is frozen or torn down, funds committed to a third-party contract on that chain may be lost even if the bridge itself offers a withdrawal window, because there's no guarantee that contract can still be exited in time or at all.

This is experimental — funds can be lost forever

Beyond the business-continuity risk above, every vampchain is unaudited software running on a trust model with a single relayer key and a single-node sidechain — see "What this actually is" above. Smart contract bugs, relayer key compromise, node failure, or any other technical fault could result in permanent, total loss of funds bridged into a vampchain, independent of anything the business chooses to do. Treat every token you bridge into a vampchain — and every dollar of value you put at risk by doing so — as money you are fully prepared to lose forever, with no recovery path.

Acceptable use

Don't use vampchains for anything illegal: money laundering, sanctions evasion, fraud, securities violations, or deploying tokens/contracts designed to defraud or deceive other people. We reserve the right to refuse or shut down a chain we believe is being used for this. Creating a chain does not make it "official," registered, or endorsed by us in any way — it's infrastructure, not a listing or an investment product, and nothing here is investment advice.

No warranty, no legal recourse

Provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss of funds, data, or uptime arising from using vampchains — including loss caused by a chain freeze, a shutdown of the business, a bridge or relayer failure, a smart contract bug, or funds lost inside a third-party protocol deployed on a vampchain. By using vampchain you accept that bridged funds are experimental, that you may have no practical legal recourse to recover them if something goes wrong, and that this is a real, not theoretical, risk. This applies for as long as vampchain remains an early-stage, unaudited protocol — at least for now.