Terms of Service

The short version

Kaspa Forge is a set of non-custodial tools. We never hold your coins and cannot move them — funds live in on-chain covenants that only you (and, in a dispute, an arbiter bound to fixed payout paths) can spend. There are no accounts. The services are provided as-is, in open beta. We are not a party to any deal you make and give no warranty on the goods or services traded. You are responsible for the lawfulness of your own use. Read the escrow, arbitration and marketplace sections below before you transact.

1. General

Kaspa Forge is operated by the Kaspa Forge team (part of OfficeForge). These terms apply to all three services: Kaspa Safe (a non-custodial time-locked vault with inheritance), Kaspa Escrow (covenant-based escrow for peer-to-peer deals, also branded Kaspa Гарант) and the Marketplace (a storefront whose deals run on Kaspa Escrow). There is no sign-up and no account: your keys are generated and used only on your device, and access to a vault or deal is by the key file you hold. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, do not use the services. The privacy of each service is described separately — see the Kaspa Safe privacy policy and the Escrow & Marketplace privacy policy.

2. Non-custodial nature & no warranty

We never take custody of your funds. Coins sit in a Kaspa on-chain covenant (a smart-contract-like script). The private keys that authorize spending exist only in your browser or app, inside your encrypted master key file, and are never transmitted to us. We cannot freeze, seize, redirect or recover your funds, and we cannot reverse an on-chain transaction. Because there are no accounts and no password reset, losing your master key file means losing access — back it up (Export key file from your Desk). See the recovery pages for vaults and deals.

The services are provided "as is" and "as available", in open beta, without warranties of any kind — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, or freedom from bugs. In the Marketplace and in Escrow we are not a party to the deal between buyer and seller: we do not verify, endorse or guarantee the goods, services, identity, solvency or conduct of any user, and we give no warranty as to the quality, legality, safety or delivery of anything traded. The deal is strictly between the two parties.

3. Escrow terms & fees

A deal is created by one party and joined by the other. Funds are locked into the deal's covenant address; from there they can only reach the buyer, the seller, or the visible service fee — there is no other destination the covenant will sign toward.

Deal size (beta limits). A deal must be between 50 KAS and 10,000 KAS. Amounts outside this range are rejected at creation.

Fees. Fees are taken from the deal amount only when funds actually move, and are shown before you confirm:

• Release, mutual settlement, or timer-triggered auto-release: 0.5% of the amount, minimum 1.2 KAS. Auto-release (the window passing with no dispute) is a normal completion path and carries the same fee as an explicit release — it is not free.
• Arbitration (a dispute resolved on-chain by the arbiter): 2% of the amount, minimum 5 KAS.
• Emergency timeout (the arbiter misses the deadline in a dispute): free — no service fee is charged; see §4.

Ordinary Kaspa network transaction fees always apply and are separate from our service fee.

Dispute window & auto-release. Every deal has a dispute window that starts when the deal is funded. During this window the buyer may release to the seller, both sides may mutually settle, or either side may open a dispute. If the window passes with no dispute, the funds auto-release to the seller — this is the normal completion path, and it means the buyer must act (release or dispute) within the window. Auto-release carries the same 0.5% service fee (minimum 1.2 KAS) as an explicit release. The window is chosen by the deal creator from fixed presets — 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 168, 336 or 720 hours — or left at the default for the deal type: 168 hours (7 days) for goods, 24 hours for OTC, 120 hours (5 days) for services. Longer windows suit shipped physical items; shorter windows suit instant OTC trades.

Unjoined invites. A deal invite that is never joined expires after 72 hours.

4. Arbitration Policy

If a party opens a dispute within the window, the deal moves to a disputed state and resolution runs in stages:

1. AI mediator. Once both sides have submitted their claim ("what I'm asking for and why"), an AI mediator reviews the deal terms, the revealed chat (see §6) and the claims, and proposes a non-binding outcome.
2. Verdict window (24 hours). After the AI verdict is issued, each side has 24 hours to accept it or reject it. A side may reject and demand a human arbiter immediately, without waiting out the window.
3. Human arbiter (escalation). If a side rejects the AI verdict, if the 24-hour window passes without acceptance, or if the AI model is unavailable, the case is escalated to a human arbiter who reviews the same evidence and issues the on-chain ruling.

The arbiter's powers are strictly limited by the covenant to exactly three outcomes:

• Award 100% to the buyer (refund), or
• Award 100% to the seller (release), or
• Split the amount between the buyer and the seller — where each side's share must be at least 1 KAS (a smaller split is not possible; the arbiter must then choose a 100% outcome).

The arbiter can never send funds to any third party. This is enforced by the covenant itself, not by policy: the only spend paths are to the buyer, the seller and the fixed service fee. No path exists for a payout to any other address — so even a compromised or coerced arbiter cannot steal or misdirect the money.

If the arbiter never rules. To protect against a stalled or unavailable arbiter, each deal also has an arbiter deadline. If it passes with no ruling, a keyless timeout path releases the funds to the pre-agreed side for that deal type — with no fee — so money is never trapped by an absent arbiter.

Conflict of interest. The arbiter judges only within the buyer/seller/fee triangle above and has no financial stake in the outcome beyond the fixed arbitration fee, which is the same regardless of who wins. The arbiter cannot introduce a new beneficiary. Opening a dispute in bad faith, or fabricating evidence, may be treated as abuse.

By opening a dispute (which you confirm by signing) you accept this Arbitration Policy, including the reveal of your chat described in §6.

5. Marketplace Rules

The Marketplace lets sellers post listings that buyers can turn into an escrow deal. Every marketplace transaction runs on the same Kaspa Escrow covenant and is subject to §3 and §4.

Listing lifetime. A published listing stays live for 30 days. You can renew it from your Desk before or after it expires; expired listings drop off the storefront until renewed.

Moderation. Every listing (its text and any photos) is reviewed by AI moderation before it is published. Clear violations are rejected; borderline cases are held for a human moderator. Moderation judges the meaning of a listing in any language, including obfuscated spellings.

Prohibited listings. You may not offer, sell or facilitate:

• weapons, ammunition, explosives, their parts or blueprints;
• drugs, drug paraphernalia, prescription medicines or doping;
• pornography, sexual or escort services, items sold as sexual/fetish goods, and anything sexualizing minors (child sexual abuse material is absolutely forbidden and reported);
• spam and scams — ads for an outside business instead of a concrete item, referral/pyramid/MLM schemes, "guaranteed profit" investments, fake giveaways, phishing, mass-posted duplicates;
• stolen goods, counterfeits, forged documents, or dumps of personal data;
• hacking, account takeover, malware, DDoS or surveillance-for-hire;
• extortion, threats or violence-for-hire;
• money laundering — cash-out schemes, mixing, or the sale of bank cards or accounts;
• goods or services whose sale is barred by applicable sanctions or export controls (see §8).

Services that support any prohibited category — delivery, production, brokering or advice on obtaining it — are prohibited too. Listings too empty or meaningless to be a real offer are also rejected.

Reporting a listing. To report a listing you believe breaks these rules, email kaspa@officeforge.co with the listing details. We remove listings that are illegal or that breach these rules, and may block a seller's future listings. Because listings become on-chain escrow deals once accepted, we cannot undo a deal that is already underway — only the covenant and, if disputed, the arbiter can move those funds.

6. Chat disclosure in a dispute

Your deal chat is end-to-end encrypted: outside a dispute, no one — including us — can read it. When you open a dispute, resolution needs evidence, so opening it (which you confirm by signing) is your consent to reveal your side of the chat: your chat key (never a key that can move funds) is used to decrypt your thread so the AI mediator and, on escalation, the human arbiter can read it. The revealed transcript is stored for the arbiter only and is erased when the deal closes. Full detail is in the Escrow & Marketplace privacy policy.

7. Limitation of liability

Because the services are non-custodial, we do not hold your funds and have no ability to move, refund or recover them — they are controlled by the covenant and your keys. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Kaspa Forge team and OfficeForge are not liable for any loss arising from: your loss or leak of a key file; on-chain transactions once broadcast; the acts, defaults or misrepresentations of the other party to a deal; the goods or services traded; the outcome of a dispute or arbitration; downtime, bugs or data loss in this open-beta software; or the Kaspa network itself. The services are provided as-is and as-available. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law. You use Kaspa Forge at your own risk and are responsible for evaluating each deal and counterparty yourself.

8. Eligibility, jurisdiction & sanctions

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of Kaspa Forge — and anything you buy, sell or trade through it — is lawful in your own jurisdiction, including any tax, licensing, import/export or reporting obligations. The services are not directed to, and must not be used by, persons or entities subject to applicable sanctions or embargoes, or located in a comprehensively sanctioned territory, or where use of the services would be illegal. If any part of the services is not lawful where you are, do not use it.

9. Age

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher) to use Kaspa Forge. The services are not intended for anyone under 18.

10. Changes

We may update these terms as the services evolve. Changes are published on this page with a new version date at the top. Your continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms, reports of a listing, or requests about a deal or vault: kaspa@officeforge.co.