Terms of use

Version 1.0 · Canonical domain: xity.city · These Terms are the contractual basis on which the platform is made available. The constitutional framework of Xity is in preparation; where these Terms refer to constitutional instruments, they describe the framework under formation.

Part I — Preliminary

1. Citation

These Terms may be cited as the Xity Platform Terms of Use, Version 1.0. The current version is always the one published at the canonical domain.

2. Definitions

In these Terms, unless the context requires otherwise:

• “Platform” means, collectively, the XityChain blockchain and its core node, the XityCoin currency system, the XityConnect identity system, the SpaceNFT asset system, the public website at the canonical domain, all associated application programming interfaces, developer tools, frontends, and documentation;
• “Chain” or “XityChain” means the distributed ledger operated as part of the Platform, including all blocks, transactions, and state records committed to it;
• “Operator” means the founding authority that operates and maintains the Platform on behalf of Xity pending the constitution of formal government institutions;
• “Wallet” means a cryptographic keypair and its associated on-chain account, identified by an address beginning with the prefix xity1;
• “Private Key” means the secret component of a Wallet keypair, which enables signing of transactions;
• “XityCoin” means the reserve-backed digital currency issued on the Chain;
• “SPACE” means a non-fungible digital asset recorded on the Chain under the SpaceNFT system;
• “Identity” means a record on the Chain, registered through XityConnect, that associates a public key with an identity identifier;
• “Claim” means a verifiable property about an Identity, evaluated by the Platform and returned as a yes or no answer with a cryptographic proof;
• “You” means any person who accesses, uses, or interacts with the Platform.

3. Application

These Terms apply to: (a) use of the public website; (b) creation and use of a Wallet or Identity; (c) holding, sending, or receiving XityCoin; (d) creating, holding, or transferring SPACE assets; (e) use of any application programming interface, SDK, or developer tool; and (f) any other interaction with the Platform. Specific services may carry additional terms; where additional terms conflict with these Terms, the additional terms govern for that specific service.

4. Acceptance

By accessing or using the Platform, or by creating a Wallet or Identity, you confirm that: (a) you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and the Privacy Policy; (b) you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement; and (c) you are not prohibited from using the Platform under any applicable law or sanction. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Platform.

Part II — Nature and Status of the Platform

5. The digital nation

Xity is a digital nation built on the Chain. The Platform is the technical infrastructure of Xity. The constitutional instruments of Xity, including the statute book, are in preparation under the enacted Constitution. Nothing on the Platform constitutes a claim that Xity is a recognised state under international law, and nothing in these Terms shall be construed as such a claim.

6. Development status

The Platform is in active development. Features described on the website or in documentation may be under construction, and capabilities labelled as “live”, “in development”, or “planned” reflect their actual state at the time of publication. The Operator does not guarantee that any planned capability will be completed, or completed within any timeframe.

7. No investment solicitation

Nothing on the Platform constitutes an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, commodity, or financial instrument. XityCoin is a utility for the Platform and is not offered as an investment. If the law of your jurisdiction treats digital assets as regulated financial products, you are responsible for determining whether your use of the Platform is lawful there, and you must not use the Platform if it is not.

Part III — Access, Eligibility, and Wallets

8. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years of age, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher, to create a Wallet or Identity. You may read the public website at any age. You must not use the Platform if you are: (a) located in, or a resident of, a jurisdiction that prohibits access to the Platform; (b) identified on any applicable sanctions list; or (c) acting on behalf of any person described in (a) or (b).

9. Wallet creation and key custody

Wallets are created by generating an Ed25519 keypair on your device. The Private Key is encrypted with a personal identification number of your choosing and stored only on that device. The Private Key is never transmitted to, held by, recoverable by, or known to the Operator or any other party.

10. Your responsibility for Private Keys

You are solely responsible for the security, confidentiality, and safekeeping of your Private Key and your device. The Operator cannot and will not: (a) recover a lost Private Key; (b) restore access to a Wallet whose Private Key has been lost, where no recovery method has been registered; (c) reverse, modify, or cancel any transaction signed with your Private Key; or (d) compensate you for any loss arising from compromise, loss, or destruction of your Private Key. If you lose your Private Key and have not configured a recovery method, access to the Wallet and all assets held in it is permanently lost.

11. Recovery

The Platform provides a recovery mechanism with a mandatory twenty-four hour waiting period between initiation and completion. This delay is a deliberate security feature against social-engineering attacks and cannot be waived. You acknowledge that recovery is a privilege mechanism, not a guarantee, and that the Operator may suspend the recovery mechanism entirely if it is being abused.

Part IV — Acceptable Use

12. Permitted use

You may use the Platform to:

• Create and manage a Wallet and Identity;
• Hold, send, and receive XityCoin in accordance with these Terms;
• Create, hold, and transfer SPACE assets;
• Verify Claims about your own Identity;
• Use the public explorer, open data endpoints, and documentation;
• Build applications on the public application programming interfaces, subject to Part IV and any developer terms.

13. Prohibited conduct

You must not, and must not attempt to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, sanction, or court order;
• Engage in money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, theft, extortion, or any other unlawful activity;
• Use the Platform on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any sanctioned person or entity;
• Interfere with, disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to any part of the Platform, including the Chain, nodes, APIs, or infrastructure;
• Introduce malware, viruses, or any harmful code to the Platform;
• Scrape, harvest, or mine data from the Platform in a manner that degrades service for others;
• Circumvent rate limits, access controls, or authentication mechanisms;
• Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent information in connection with Identity registration or verification;
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• Create multiple Identities for the purpose of evading controls, sanctions, or enforcement;
• Exploit any vulnerability in the Platform without responsible disclosure to the Operator;
• Use the Platform to infringe any intellectual property right, privacy right, or other right of any person;
• Assist, permit, or encourage any other person to do any of the foregoing.

14. Enforcement and controls

The Chain supports technical enforcement measures including address blacklists and whitelists, wallet freezing and unfreezing, and circuit breakers that can pause minting, transfers, or redemption. These measures may be applied where required by law, where necessary to protect the integrity of the Platform, or where the Operator has reasonable grounds to believe a violation of these Terms has occurred. Every application of a control is recorded on the Chain and is auditable. The existence of enforcement capability does not create an obligation to apply it in any particular case.

Part V — Digital Assets

15. XityCoin

XityCoin is a digital currency designed to maintain a one-to-one ratio with the anchor reserve. Minting occurs only against deposit of the anchor asset into the treasury; burning occurs only against withdrawal. The Operator does not publish the composition of the reserve and no independent attestation has been performed.

16. Asset risks

Without limiting any other disclaimer in these Terms, you acknowledge and accept the following risks, which are inherent to digital assets and to this Platform:

• Operational risk. The Chain currently operates with a single validator. An outage or fault may halt transactions for a period;
• Custodial risk. The reserve backing XityCoin is held in custody. No custody arrangement eliminates all risk of loss;
• Regulatory risk. The legal treatment of digital currencies varies by jurisdiction and may change;
• Software risk. The Platform is software and may contain defects. The Operator does not warrant that the software is free of errors or vulnerabilities;
• Irreversibility risk. Transactions committed to the Chain are final and cannot be reversed by the Operator;
• Recognition risk. Xity is not a recognised state. The practical utility of XityCoin and other Platform assets in any given jurisdiction depends on local law and is not guaranteed;
• Key risk. Loss of your Private Key results in permanent loss of access to your assets, as set out in Section 10.

17. SPACE assets

SPACE assets are non-fungible records on the Chain. Ownership of a SPACE record does not confer ownership of any underlying physical or intellectual property unless separately and expressly transferred. SPACE assets carry a creator-configured royalty that escalates with each transfer and a platform fee on secondary sales. By transferring a SPACE you accept the applicable royalty and fee structure recorded in the asset.

18. No guarantee of value or liquidity

The Operator does not guarantee the value, marketability, convertibility, or liquidity of XityCoin, SPACE assets, or any other digital asset. Nothing in these Terms creates a debt owed by the Operator to any holder.

Part VI — Identity and Verification

19. Selective disclosure

The Identity system is built on selective disclosure. When a relying party verifies a Claim about you, the system returns a yes or no answer with a cryptographic proof. The underlying evidence, including identity documents and verification records, is not shared with the relying party and is not returned over any public interface.

20. Accuracy of information

You are responsible for the accuracy and lawfulness of all information you submit in connection with Identity registration or verification. Submitting false or misleading information is a violation of these Terms and may result in suspension or termination under Part IX.

21. No warranty of verification

Verification reflects the state of the Chain at the time of evaluation. The Operator does not warrant that any Claim will evaluate as true, or that verification outcomes are fit for any particular purpose of yours or of any relying party.

Part VII — Intellectual Property

22. Platform materials

The name Xity, the National Mark, the design of the website, and all documentation, code, and content produced by the Operator and not recorded on the Chain are the property of the Operator or its licensors. The National Mark may not be used to imply endorsement, authority, or affiliation without written permission.

23. Open content

Unless otherwise stated, public informational content on the website, including descriptions of the Platform and its systems, may be copied, shared, and adapted with attribution to the canonical domain.

24. Your content

You retain all rights in content you create or submit to the Platform. By submitting content, you grant the Operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, process, and transmit that content as necessary to operate the Platform, including recording it on the Chain where that is the intended function of the service you are using. Once recorded on the Chain, content is immutable and this licence cannot be revoked as to that record.

Part VIII — Fees and Taxes

25. Fees

The Operator may introduce fees for specific services in the future. Any fee schedule will be published before it takes effect. Fees already attached to a mechanism, such as the SPACE platform fee, are disclosed in the relevant documentation and are not changeable retroactively for assets already created.

26. Taxes

You are solely responsible for determining and paying any taxes arising from your use of the Platform, including taxes on gains, income, or transactions. The Operator does not withhold, report, or remit taxes on your behalf except where compelled by law.

Part IX — Suspension and Termination

27. Suspension

The Operator may suspend your access to some or all of the Platform, including by freezing a Wallet, where: (a) required by law or sanction; (b) the Operator has reasonable grounds to believe a violation of these Terms has occurred; (c) necessary to protect the security or integrity of the Platform; or (d) necessary to protect the rights or property of the Operator or others. Suspension of access does not affect the record of assets on the Chain, which is immutable.

28. Termination

You may stop using the Platform at any time. The Operator may terminate these Terms and your access to services it controls where the grounds in Section 27 persist or are serious. Because the Chain is an immutable ledger, the Operator cannot delete records already committed to it; termination affects access to services, not the historical record.

29. Survival

Sections 10, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, and Parts X through XIV survive any suspension or termination of these Terms.

Part X — Disclaimers

30. No warranties

The Platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, uninterrupted operation, or error-free service. No advice or information obtained from the Operator or through the Platform creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

31. Website content

The website is a public convenience. The authoritative source of truth for chain state is the Chain itself. Content describing planned or in-formation capabilities is not a representation that those capabilities exist.

Part XI — Limitation of Liability

32. Exclusion of consequential loss

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill, or opportunity, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Platform.

33. Cap on liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of the Operator for all claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Platform shall not exceed the amount, if any, you paid to the Operator for the specific service giving rise to the claim in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or one thousand units of the currency in which the payment was made, whichever is greater. Where no payment was made, the Operator’s aggregate liability shall not exceed an amount reasonably sufficient to cover direct, documented out-of-pocket losses, determined by the competent forum.

Nothing in this Section limits or excludes: (a) liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (b) liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence; (c) liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence; (d) any regulatory, statutory, or criminal obligation of the Operator; (e) mandatory restitution obligations under applicable law; or (f) any liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded under the mandatory rules of the jurisdiction applicable to you, including consumer protection law.

34. Assumption of risk

You acknowledge that the risks in Section 16 are real, have been disclosed to you, and are assumed by you to the extent permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms shifts to you any risk that the Operator is legally required to bear, and nothing in this Section limits Sections 33 or 40.

35. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Operator, its officers, agents, and contributors from and against any claim, demand, action, loss, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your violation of these Terms; (b) your violation of any law or third-party right; or (c) content you submit to the Platform. This indemnity does not apply to claims arising from the Operator’s own breach of these Terms, negligence, or misconduct, and does not apply to the extent prohibited by mandatory consumer protection law.

Part XII — Dispute Resolution

36. Good-faith resolution

Before commencing any proceeding, the parties shall attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute arising under these Terms through direct negotiation, initiated by written notice to the contact address published on the website. The parties shall negotiate for a period of thirty days from receipt of the notice.

37. Forum

Any dispute not resolved by negotiation shall be brought exclusively in the courts of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The parties consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Nothing in this Section prevents either party from seeking urgent interim or injunctive relief from a court of competent jurisdiction where the dispute requires it.

Where mandatory consumer protection law of the jurisdiction of your habitual residence grants you the right to bring proceedings in that jurisdiction, and that right cannot be waived, you retain that right notwithstanding this Section.

38. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Where mandatory consumer protection law of the jurisdiction of your habitual residence applies to you and cannot be excluded, that law applies to the extent of the inconsistency. The constitutional framework of Xity, when enacted, will address the status of these Terms within the legal order of Xity; until that time, these Terms are a contract governed by the law stated in this Section.

Part XIII — Constitutional Interface

39. Relationship to the constitutional framework

The constitutional framework of Xity is in preparation. When constitutional instruments are enacted, they will address the fundamental liberties of persons on the Platform, the structure and limits of government authority, and the status of these Terms within the legal order of Xity. Until that time, these Terms operate as the contractual basis of platform use, and the protections they contain, including the recording requirement for enforcement actions in Section 14 and the recovery procedure in Section 11, are binding on the Operator as a matter of contract.

40. Fundamental commitments

Independently of the constitutional framework, the Operator commits to the following, which no amendment to these Terms shall remove: (a) every application of a wallet freeze, blacklist, or circuit breaker will be recorded on the Chain and be auditable; (b) the recovery mechanism, where available, will include the twenty-four hour delay and will not be shortened; (c) the private key of any user will never be requested, transmitted, or stored by the Operator; and (d) the public record of the Chain will not be rewritten.

These commitments are subject to lawful compulsion: where a court order, regulatory directive, or other valid legal process compels the Operator to take an action that would otherwise breach a commitment, the Operator will comply with the process and record the fact of the compelled action on the Chain to the extent legally permitted. Nothing in this Section limits any legal obligation of the Operator under applicable law.

Part XIV — Miscellaneous

41. Amendment

The Operator may amend these Terms at any time by publishing the amended version at the canonical domain. Amendments take effect on publication. Continued use of the Platform after publication constitutes acceptance of the amendment. Amendments do not apply retroactively to transactions already committed to the Chain.

42. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, or, if modification is not possible, severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force.

43. No waiver

No failure or delay by the Operator in exercising any right under these Terms operates as a waiver of that right. A waiver on one occasion does not waive it on any other occasion.

44. Force majeure

The Operator is not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemic, failure of telecommunications or power infrastructure, Internet failure, government action, or the acts of third-party service providers.

45. Assignment

You may not assign these Terms without the Operator’s prior written consent. The Operator may assign these Terms in connection with any reorganisation or transfer of the Platform’s operation.

46. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any service-specific terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Operator concerning the Platform and supersede all prior understandings. Nothing in these Terms creates any third-party beneficiary rights.

47. Notices

The Operator may give notice through publication on the website or by electronic communication to an address associated with your Identity. You may give notice to the contact address published on the website.

48. Interpretation

Headings are for convenience only. The words “including” and “in particular” are not words of limitation. References to a statute include any amendment or re-enactment of it.

Questions about these Terms may be directed to the contact address published on the website. These Terms were last reviewed on publication of Version 1.0.