Open Orbit — Terms of Use

Version 3.1 · Effective October 14, 2026
Operator: Aries Labs LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("Aries Labs", "we", "us").

Part 1 — The Site and the Market

1. These Terms, your acceptance, and versions

1.1 These Terms govern openorbit.ing and everything served from it (the "Site"), including the Market described in Section 8, the Aries Orbitals public round described in Section 6, and the Aries Honorary round described in Part 2. The Privacy Policy is part of these Terms.

1.2 You accept these Terms when you tick the acceptance control the Site shows before it will prepare a transaction for you, and in any case by using the Site. The Site records the version you accepted, the wallet address you connected, and the time; that record is the proof of your acceptance and the Privacy Policy describes how it is kept.

1.3 Each version of these Terms carries a version number, an effective date and a content hash that the Site displays. When we publish a new version, it applies to your use from its effective date; the Site will ask you to accept it before preparing a new transaction. A listing you placed under an earlier version keeps that version's venue fee and listing mechanics for as long as that listing exists. Changes to Section 15 (Dispute resolution) have the rejection right described in 15.11.

1.4 If you do not agree with these Terms, do not use the Site. You can read the Bitcoin blockchain and the public pieces without us; nothing here restricts that.

2. Who we are, what the Site is, and what it is not

2.1 What the Site is. Open Orbit is a curated launchpad and an interface for onchain art on Bitcoin. The Site shows collections we have selected by hand, lets you read their pieces from the blockchain, prepared the transactions of the Aries Orbitals public round while it was open, and — through the Market — lets holders publish self-custodial offers to sell pieces and lets anyone fill them.

2.2 What the Site is not. Aries Labs is not a wallet, exchange, broker, dealer, custodian, escrow agent, payment processor, money services business, investment adviser, fiduciary or creditor. The Site never holds your keys, your funds or your pieces. It never signs anything. It prepares unsigned transactions that your own third-party wallet signs or refuses, and it may relay a transaction you have already signed to a third-party broadcast service, unchanged. Once a transaction is broadcast, neither the Site nor Aries Labs can cancel, reverse, speed up, slow down or recover it.

2.3 We are not a party to any trade. A sale on the Market is a transaction between the seller and the buyer, settled by the Bitcoin network. Aries Labs is not a party to it, does not guarantee any part of it, and does not act as agent for either side. The only thing Aries Labs receives in a Market transaction is the venue fee described in 8.7.

2.4 Words we use. A piece is a non-fungible digital collectible recorded on Bitcoin under the Alkanes protocol (an "alkane") — an Orbital when it belongs to a collection shown on the Site. A protostone is the message inside a Bitcoin transaction that moves an alkane. A wallet is third-party software you choose and control. A reader is a service that interprets the Bitcoin blockchain for alkanes; mainnet currently has one reader for alkanes state, and the Site also reads ordinary Bitcoin data from one or more block explorers. The Snapshot is Bitcoin block 969,566, as defined in Part 2.

2.5 Aries Labs did not create Bitcoin, Alkanes or SUBFROST. We build on them. Nothing on the Site is endorsed by, or speaks for, the maintainers of any protocol or service we use.

3. Who may use the Site

3.1 You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. The Site is not for minors and we delete anything we learn was provided by one.

3.2 You represent, now and every time you use the Site, that neither you, nor any person or entity you act for, nor any person who owns or controls you, is (a) located, organized or resident in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk regions, or any other country or region subject to comprehensive United States sanctions; (b) named on any sanctions list maintained by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union or the United Kingdom; or (c) using the Site on behalf of anyone who is. You will not transact through the Site with any such person.

3.3 You will not use a VPN, proxy, relay or any other means of misrepresenting your location to evade a restriction we apply. We may restrict or block access by location, network address or device at our discretion and without notice.

3.4 You represent that no sats or pieces you send through a transaction the Site prepared are the proceeds of crime, and that your use of the Site is lawful where you are. We may refuse to prepare any transaction for any reason. Because we never hold funds or pieces, refusal is the only measure we can take; we cannot freeze, seize or return anything.

3.5 If you use the Site for an entity, you represent that you are authorized to bind it.

4. Your wallet, your keys, your transactions

4.1 Your wallet is yours. You are solely responsible for its security, its seed phrase, its software, the device it runs on, and every signature it produces. Aries Labs cannot recover a lost key, a mis-sent transaction or a piece destroyed or misdirected by your wallet.

4.2 The Site's transaction builder is provided as software, as is. Before signing, you are responsible for checking what your wallet shows you. Your wallet's description of a transaction may be incomplete; the transaction is what the signature covers, not what the screen says.

4.3 A transaction exists when the Bitcoin network records it, not when you press a button. The Site's "pending", "listed", "filled", "cancelled" or "minted" labels are its reading of the chain through the readers it depends on; they can lag, disagree or be wrong, and they are never the transaction itself.

4.4 The protostone law. An Orbital is moved only under a protostone, by software that understands Alkanes. A plain send, a sweep, a consolidation or a fee-bump that consumes the output a piece sits on without a protostone either destroys the piece or carries it to an output you did not choose — which of the two depends on the protocol rules in force when the transaction confirms, and neither can be undone. Use only Alkanes-aware software with any address that holds a piece. The Site cannot stop a wallet from doing this and is not responsible when one does.

5. Risks you accept

By using the Site you acknowledge and accept all of the following. They are not exhaustive.

5.1 Experimental technology. Bitcoin, the Alkanes protocol, the readers, the gateways, the wallets and the Site are experimental software. Any of them can fail, change or be abandoned. A defect anywhere in that stack can cause total, irreversible loss.

5.2 Irreversibility. Nothing on Bitcoin can be undone. A payment to the wrong address, a listing filled at a price you no longer want, a fee you did not intend to pay, a piece destroyed or misdirected by a plain send — none of these can be recovered by anyone.

5.3 Network fees, congestion and stalls. Every transaction pays a network fee that you set when you sign. A fee that is too low when the network is busy can leave a transaction unconfirmed for hours, days or indefinitely. Some transactions the Site prepares cannot have their fee raised after signing. Network fees are never refundable by anyone.

5.4 Reorganizations and forks. The Bitcoin network can reorganize recent blocks; a transaction that was confirmed can become unconfirmed and a competing one can take its place. If the network or the Alkanes protocol forks, Aries Labs will decide in its sole discretion which chain and which protocol rules the Site follows, may recognize only one copy of any piece, and has no duty to support, display or value the other.

5.5 Readers and indexers. The Site does not run its own mainnet reader for alkanes. It depends on third-party readers and explorers, which can be unavailable, slow, inconsistent with each other or wrong. When they disagree, the Site makes no change and shows you nothing new. When they are silent, the Site pauses. The Site's board, counters, ownership displays and "alone on its output" badges are readings, not guarantees.

5.6 Pieces are what the chain says they are. A piece exists only as the Bitcoin blockchain's record of it, interpreted by the Alkanes protocol. The Site does not warrant a piece's authenticity, provenance, rarity, metadata, rendering, transferability, or that any wallet, explorer or marketplace will display or accept it. A "verified", "curated" or "featured" label is a statement that we selected a collection for the Site, not a warranty about any piece.

5.7 Other assets on an output. A Bitcoin output can carry more than one asset — several alkanes, runes, inscriptions, or ordinary sats above the postage. When an output moves, everything on it moves with it or, without a protostone, is destroyed or carried wherever the protocol rules in force send it. Before you sign anything that spends an output, you are responsible for knowing what is on it.

5.8 Value. Pieces are digital collectibles. They may have no market, no buyer and no value. Nothing on the Site is a representation about value, price, floor, rarity ranking or future demand, and nothing on the Site is investment, legal, tax or financial advice. You are not relying on Aries Labs for any of it.

5.9 Regulatory risk. Laws and their enforcement around digital assets change. A change may restrict what the Site can offer or what you can do, at any time, without compensation.

5.10 Third parties and attacks. Wallets, readers, gateways, explorers, hosting and broadcast services are third parties with their own terms. You have no contract with them through us. Phishing, spoofed sites, malicious wallet software, social engineering, stale-offer exploits, front-running and attacks on the network or the protocol are real and are your risk to manage.

5.11 Cryptography. Advances in cryptanalysis, including quantum computing, could in the future compromise the signatures that secure Bitcoin and every asset on it.

6. Aries Orbitals — the public round (closed)

6.1 The Aries Orbitals public round offered 3,000 pieces, minted by donation to the treasury address shown on the Site (the "Receiving Address"), and minted out at block 969,566, the Snapshot. The round is closed and the Site no longer prepares mint transactions or accepts donations through its interface. The treasury address remains public; anything sent to it after the round is a gift to Aries Labs with no entitlement attached.

6.2 Every donation of the public round was a payment for a digital collectible, final and non-refundable, including where the collection contract refused the mint after payment (for example because the address already held the maximum or the round had minted out). A refused mint after payment is a donation. This rule continues to govern every transaction of the round.

6.3 Pieces are digital collectibles, not securities, commodities, currencies, investment contracts or financial instruments of any kind. They carry no revenue share, dividend, redemption, governance or voting right, and no promise of future value, liquidity or utility. Any holder benefit Aries Labs may choose to offer in future is a gift, at our discretion, revocable, and not a term of any sale.

6.4 The leaderboard, the Snapshot and the counting rule in 6.5 and Part 2 A3–A5 are the record of the round. They were computed from public blockchain data by a published method and are final.

6.5 Standings are computed from the Receiving Address's public transaction history alone — anyone with a public block explorer can recompute them. Each transaction paying the Receiving Address is attributed to the first non-Receiving-Address output of that transaction. Donate from the wallet you minted with. Ranking is by cumulative sats sent to the Receiving Address from any address that holds at least one Aries Orbitals piece at the time standings are computed. Ranks and addresses are shown; amounts are not displayed. Refused mints still count as donations.

7. Holder License

7.1 Ownership. You own your piece as personal property — you may hold, sell, and transfer it. Aries Labs owns the copyright in the art and everything in Section 11.1. This License is what lets you use the art.

7.2 Grant. For as long as the Bitcoin blockchain shows a piece at an output you control (the "Term"), Aries Labs grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, display, distribute, adapt, and make derivative works of the art of that piece, for personal and commercial purposes, and to sublicense those rights to service providers helping you do so. There is no revenue cap.

7.3 Limits. The License covers the whole composition of your piece, not extracted traits or the generator. It grants no right in the marks in Section 11.1, in the names "Aries Orbitals", "Aries Honorary", "Aries Labs", or "Open Orbit", in the collection's trade dress, or in any other piece. You may not use the art to promote hate, violence, illegal activity, or to suggest that Aries Labs endorses you or your products. You may not mint the art, or any substantially similar image, as a new token that could be mistaken for a piece.

7.4 Derivatives. You own derivative works you create during the Term. Aries Labs keeps the copyright in the underlying art. We may create works similar to yours, and you covenant not to sue us for that.

7.5 Transfer. The License ends automatically when the piece leaves your control. Works you published during the Term may remain published, and inventory you made may be sold off, but no new works or inventory after the Term. The next holder receives the same License.

7.6 License-back. You grant Aries Labs a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to display and use the art of your piece to present and promote the collection as a whole.

7.7 Versions. The current version at the URL published on the Site controls. Changes apply prospectively and will not narrow the rights of pieces already minted.

7.8 No warranty. The art is licensed "as is"; Terms Sections 12–13 apply.

7.9 No transfer of other rights. Owning a piece gives you the license described above and nothing else: no copyright in the artwork, no trademark right in any name or mark on the Site or in a collection, and no right to imply that Aries Labs, Open Orbit, SUBFROST or any artist endorses you or anything you make.

7.10 The art is a computation. A piece's image is drawn by its collection contract from data on the blockchain each time it is viewed. How it looks depends on the viewer's software. Aries Labs does not warrant that any viewer renders it identically.

8. The Market

8.1 Scope. The Market lists pieces from collections shown on the Site and nothing else. Aries Labs decides which collections the Market supports, may add or remove one at any time, and may hide any listing. The Market has no bids, offers-to-buy or auctions; it has sell listings that anyone may fill.

8.2 What a listing is. When you list a piece, your wallet signs a partial Bitcoin transaction in which your piece's output is the input and your payment is the first output, signed so that anyone may complete the rest. That signed document is a bearer offer. The Site publishes it so buyers can read and fill it; once published, anyone who obtains it — through the Site or otherwise — can complete and broadcast it at your listed price, and the Site cannot prevent that. A listing has no expiry. A listing is live until your cancel confirms; a fill that wins pays you the listed price.

8.3 Listing conditions. To list, the piece must sit alone on a confirmed output (at least one confirmation) holding exactly one piece, with no other asset on it, and the output's sats must not exceed the listed price. The Site refuses to list anything else, and refuses to list a piece again while any signed offer for it exists and no cancel has confirmed.

8.4 Cancelling. A cancel is a Bitcoin transaction that spends the listed output back to you under a protostone, which makes every signed offer for that output invalid. It costs a network fee, it is not instant, and until it confirms your listing can still be filled. A cancel broadcast while a fill is pending will usually lose: the network keeps the transaction that pays more total fee, and a fill nearly always does. The Site's cancel pays its network fee from another coin of yours; when the Site cannot check your coins, it may instead offer a cancel that pays the fee from the piece's own sats, which can be done once for a piece. If a cancel fails to confirm, the listing stays live until the output moves. Removing a listing from the Site's board is not a cancel.

8.5 Filling. When you fill a listing, your wallet signs a transaction that pays the seller the listed price, moves the piece to a fresh output of yours under a protostone, pays the venue fee, and returns your change. The entire listed output moves to you, including anything else on it. Your "filled" status is not final until the transaction confirms; another fill or a cancel can win the race. The piece arrives on 546 sats of postage at your address; any remainder below the dust limit is paid to the miner rather than created as an unspendable output.

8.6 Readers and the board. The Market decides whether a listing is open, pending or closed by reading the chain through its readers, block by block. It marks a listing pending when it sees a spend in the mempool and closed when a spend confirms and its readers agree. A closed listing never reopens, but a closed listing whose output still reads unspent may still be fillable until you cancel, and the Site says so beside it. The Market makes no change when its readers disagree or fail. The board can lag the chain by a block or more.

8.7 Venue fee. Each fill pays Aries Labs a venue fee of one hundredth of the listed price, never less than 330 sats, to the fee address the Site shows, as an output of the fill transaction. The fee address is never the Aries Orbitals treasury. There is no fee to list or to cancel. Including the venue fee output is a condition of using the Site and its published offers; preparing, altering or completing a fill of an offer obtained from the Site without that output is a breach of these Terms, whether or not the network accepts the transaction.

8.8 No royalties at this version. The Market pays no creator royalty. If a later version adds one, it applies only to listings placed under that version.

8.9 Limits and availability. The Site rate-limits listing and fill preparation per network address, may be unavailable, and may refuse to prepare any transaction. A listing you cannot see on the Site may still exist and be fillable.

8.10 No guarantee of a sale or a fill. Aries Labs does not guarantee that any listing will be filled, that any fill will confirm, that any piece delivered is what the listing described, or that the seller had the right to sell it. Buyers verify pieces before they sign. Sellers may list only pieces they own and are entitled to sell.

8.11 Stolen or disputed pieces. We may hide a listing, a piece or a collection that we believe is stolen, infringing, disputed or unlawful, with or without notice, and may report it. Hiding is a visibility decision; it is not a determination of ownership and does not stop an offer that is already published from being filled.

8.12 Market conduct. You will not fill your own listing or list to yourself through another address, create trades that do not change beneficial ownership, make misleading listings, manipulate prices or volume, front-run other users through information taken from the Site, or use the Site's data or offers to operate another venue.

8.13 Taxes. You are responsible for every tax on your listings, fills, donations, awards and holdings, and for any reporting. Aries Labs does not withhold, report or advise.

9. Artist submissions and curation

9.1 You may submit a collection for the Site. Every submission is read by a person; every listed collection is selected by hand. Submitting gives you no right to be listed, featured, kept or ranked.

9.2 By submitting, you represent that you own or are licensed to use everything in the submission and the collection, that nothing in it infringes anyone's rights or any law, that the collection is not a security, a fundraising instrument, a yield or staking product or a promise of returns, and that you will not market it as one.

9.3 You grant Aries Labs a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, render, reproduce, link to and describe your submission and the collection's onchain content for the purpose of operating, curating and promoting the Site, for as long as the collection is shown and as long afterwards as needed for records. You keep everything else.

9.4 We may decline, delay, delist, hide, re-describe or stop supporting any collection at any time, for any reason or none, without notice and without liability. Listing is not an endorsement, a valuation or a warranty.

10. Prohibited conduct

You will not: (a) use the Site unlawfully or for anything in Section 3; (b) scrape, crawl, harvest, mirror or bulk-collect the Site, its board, its offers or its users' addresses, or use bots, extensions or automated agents against it, or evade its rate limits — this is a material breach; (c) probe, disrupt, overload or circumvent any security, access or limiting measure; (d) circumvent, remove or alter the venue fee; (e) impersonate anyone, misrepresent an affiliation, or imply endorsement; (f) upload or list anything infringing, counterfeit, stolen, unlawful, defamatory, hateful, sexual, exploitative of minors, or designed to harm; (g) reverse engineer the Site except where the law forbids us from prohibiting it; (h) use the Site to launder money, finance terrorism or evade sanctions; (i) do anything in 8.12; (j) help anyone else do any of the above.

11. Intellectual property and takedowns

11.1 The Site, its design, its text, its code, its name, the Open Orbit mark, the Aries Labs name and marks, and the Aries Orbitals and Aries Honorary names belong to Aries Labs or its licensors. Onchain artwork belongs to whoever owns it under the Holder License and the collection's own terms. You may not use our marks without written permission.

11.2 Anything you send us as feedback is ours to use without obligation.

11.3 Takedown notices. If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent — Aries Labs LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, legal@arieslabs.org, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801 — containing: your signature; identification of the work; identification of the material and where it is on the Site; your contact details; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized. We will remove or disable the material on the Site, notify the submitter, and accept a counter-notice in the form the law provides, after which we may restore the material in ten to fourteen business days unless we receive notice that you have filed an action. Knowingly false notices and counter-notices carry liability under 17 U.S.C. §512(f). Repeat infringers are barred. We can remove content from the Site; we cannot remove anything from the Bitcoin blockchain.

12. Disclaimers

12.1 THE SITE, THE MARKET, THE TRANSACTION BUILDER, THE BOARD, EVERY READING, LABEL, COUNTER AND DISPLAY, AND EVERY PIECE SHOWN ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, ARIES LABS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

12.2 Without limiting 12.1, Aries Labs does not warrant that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that any reading of the chain is accurate or current; that any transaction the Site prepares will be accepted by your wallet, relayed, mined or confirmed; that any listing will be filled or any cancel will win; that any piece is authentic, rare, renderable, transferable or valuable; that any third-party service will work; or that any defect will be corrected.

12.3 Aries Labs is not responsible for losses caused by your error, a malformed or mis-described transaction, a mistyped or wrong address, a wallet that destroys or misdirects a piece, a lost key, phishing, malware, a compromised device, a network stall, a reorganization, a fork, a reader's error, a third party's failure, or anything in Section 5.

12.4 Inability to see, list or trade a piece on the Site is never, by itself, a claim against Aries Labs. Your piece is on the blockchain regardless of what the Site shows.

12.5 Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions; in those, they apply to the fullest extent permitted.

13. Limitation of liability

13.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, ARIES LABS, ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, LICENSORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, VALUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OPPORTUNITY OR DIGITAL ASSETS, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

13.2 Cap. THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF ARIES LABS AND THE PERSONS IN 13.1, TAKEN TOGETHER, FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) 100,000 SATS AND (B) THE AMOUNTS ARIES LABS ACTUALLY RECEIVED FROM YOU IN THE TRANSACTION GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. Amounts paid to a seller, a miner, a network or any third party are not amounts received by Aries Labs.

13.3 What the cap does not touch. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. This Section 13.3 prevails over every other provision of these Terms, including the disclaimers, the release in 14.3 and the refund rules.

13.4 The limitations in this Section are a basis of the bargain between you and Aries Labs, apply whether or not a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and each is severable from the others. An arbitrator or court must apply them.

14. Indemnification and release

14.1 You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Aries Labs and the persons in 13.1 from every claim, demand, loss, liability, cost and expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: your use of the Site; your transactions, listings, fills, cancels, donations and pieces; your submissions; your breach of these Terms or of any law; your violation of anyone's rights; any dispute between you and another user or a third party; and any tax relating to you.

14.2 We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter you must indemnify, at your expense; you will cooperate and will not settle any such matter without our written consent.

14.3 Release. Disputes between users — sellers, buyers, artists, holders — are between them. To the fullest extent the law allows, you release Aries Labs and the persons in 13.1 from every claim, known and unknown, arising out of any such dispute, and you waive any statute or rule that would limit a release of unknown claims. This release is subject to 13.3.

15. Dispute resolution — please read this; it affects your rights

15.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting any arbitration or suit, you and Aries Labs will try to resolve the dispute informally for sixty (60) days. You start the period by sending a written notice to legal@arieslabs.org stating your name, your wallet address, the facts, the relief you want and the amount, if any, you claim. We start it by writing to the address in your acceptance record or any contact you have given us. Either side may ask for a telephone or video conference during the period. Limitation periods are tolled while it runs. A demand filed before the period ends is premature and will be dismissed or stayed.

15.2 Binding arbitration. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to the Site, these Terms, any transaction, any piece or the relationship between you and Aries Labs — including its existence, validity, scope or enforceability, and including disputes arising before this version — that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, as modified by this Section. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section.

15.3 Seat and procedure. The seat of arbitration is Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hearings, if any, are held by video or telephone unless the arbitrator finds that an in-person hearing is necessary, in which case it takes place in the seat, or in the county where you live if you are a consumer in the United States. One arbitrator decides, applying these Terms, including Section 13, and the law in Section 16. The arbitrator may award individual relief only, including injunctive relief to the extent needed to resolve your individual claim, and must issue a reasoned written decision.

15.4 Costs. Each side bears its own attorneys' fees unless the law or the Rules provide otherwise. For a claim under 1,000,000 sats in value, Aries Labs will pay any AAA filing fee above the cost of filing in the court that would otherwise have jurisdiction, and will not seek its own arbitration fees from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.

15.5 No class actions, no jury. YOU AND ARIES LABS EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR ARBITRATION. Claims may be consolidated only with the written consent of every party. If this 15.5 is found unenforceable for a dispute, then Section 15.2 does not apply to that dispute, which will proceed in the courts of Section 16; the rest of this Section continues to apply to every other dispute. This 15.5 is not severable from 15.2.

15.6 Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies; either side may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access to or abuse of the Site; and a request for public injunctive relief under a law that does not allow it to be arbitrated will be decided by a court after the arbitration of all other claims, and the court will give no deference to the arbitrator on it.

15.7 Mass filings. If twenty-five (25) or more arbitration demands raising similar issues are filed against Aries Labs within sixty (60) days by the same or coordinated counsel, they will be resolved in batches: the administrator will batch demands in groups of no more than fifty (50), counsel for the claimants and for Aries Labs each selecting twenty-five (25) per batch; a single arbitrator decides each batch; batches proceed one at a time; no filing fee is due on a demand until its batch begins, and limitation periods are tolled for unbatched demands. After the first batch resolves, the parties will mediate the remainder for ninety (90) days, with Aries Labs paying the mediator. If, after that, more than one hundred (100) demands remain, either side may elect within forty-five (45) days to have the remaining demands heard in the courts of Section 16 instead.

15.8 Opt-out. You may reject this Section 15 by sending written notice to the address in 15.1 within thirty (30) days after you first accept these Terms, stating your name, your wallet address and that you opt out of arbitration. If you do, Section 16 governs every dispute. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

15.9 One year. Any claim arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent the law allows.

15.10 Confidentiality. Arbitration is confidential except as needed to enforce an award or as the law requires.

15.11 Changes to this Section. If we change this Section 15 after you accept these Terms, you may reject the change by written notice to the address in 15.1 within thirty (30) days of its effective date; if you do, the version of this Section you accepted continues to apply between you and Aries Labs. A change does not apply to a dispute for which notice under 15.1 was already given.

16. Governing law and courts

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Site, are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules; the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. Subject to Section 15, the state and federal courts sitting in Laramie County, Wyoming have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction and waive any objection to venue there.

17. Suspension, termination and enforcement

17.1 We may suspend or end your access to the Site, hide anything, decline any transaction, and remove or restrict any content, at any time, for any reason or none, with or without notice, and without liability. Your pieces are on the blockchain and remain yours; nothing we do on the Site touches them. Any published offer you signed remains a bearer offer regardless of your access.

17.2 We have no duty to monitor the Site or police anyone's conduct, and we make no promise to act on any report. You waive any claim arising from our decisions to act or not act under this Section or Sections 8.11 and 9.4, subject to 13.3. A visibility decision is never a determination of ownership, title or authenticity.

17.3 Sections 1.3, 4, 5, 6.2–6.5, 7, 8.2, 8.4, 8.7, 8.13, 9.3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and Part 2 survive any termination.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms by publishing a new version with a new number, effective date and hash. The new version applies from its effective date to your use after it, subject to 1.3 (listings keep their version) and 15.11 (arbitration changes may be rejected). If you do not agree with a change, stop using the Site.

19. General

19.1 Force majeure. Aries Labs is not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including failures or attacks on the Bitcoin network, the Alkanes protocol, any reader, gateway, explorer, wallet, hosting, DNS or broadcast service; consensus failures and chain reorganizations; denial-of-service and other attacks; power, internet and telecommunication failures; acts of government, law or regulation; sanctions; war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemic, fire, flood or other natural events; and labor disputes.

19.2 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any right under them. Aries Labs may assign them to an affiliate or a successor to its business without notice.

19.3 Severability and reform. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and reformed to the minimum extent needed to reflect its intent, and the rest of these Terms remain in force — except as 15.5 provides for the class-action waiver.

19.4 Entire agreement; no waiver. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and any page they incorporate are the entire agreement between you and Aries Labs about the Site and replace every earlier agreement on the subject; Version 2's Part 2 continues as carried forward here. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

19.5 Notices. Notices to you may be given by posting on the Site or by any contact you have given us, and are effective when posted or sent. Notices to us go to the address in 15.1.

19.6 No third-party beneficiaries. Except the persons in 13.1, who may enforce Sections 12–14, no one else has rights under these Terms.

19.7 Interpretation. Headings are for convenience. "Including" means "including without limitation". These Terms will not be construed against the drafter. The English text controls over any translation the Site shows.

19.8 Export. You will comply with all export-control and sanctions laws that apply to your use of the Site.

19.9 Contact. Aries Labs LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801 — legal@arieslabs.org.

Part 2 — Aries Honorary Rules

A1. What it is. Aries Honorary is a separate 333-piece collection with its own contract, created by Aries Labs. It follows shortly after the Aries Orbitals public round mints out. No date is promised.

A2. Free — no payment to Aries Labs is required to receive an Aries Honorary piece. Conditions: A3–A13.

A3. Who receives it. (a) The 300 addresses ranked highest on the Aries Orbitals leaderboard at the Snapshot, under the counting rule in Section 6.5; and (b) 33 addresses of builders chosen by Aries Labs at its sole discretion from its builder registry. Track (b) has no entry mechanism, no ranking, and no purchase; it is a gift.

A4. Snapshot. The Snapshot is the Bitcoin block in which the transaction creating Aries Orbitals piece #3000 confirms. Standings at that block are final for track (a). Transactions in later blocks do not count.

A5. No chance. Ranking is deterministic from public chain data. Ties are broken by the block, then the transaction position, at which the tied address first reached its final cumulative total — earlier wins. No element of the award is random.

A6. Eligibility and the record

A6.1 Aries Honorary is a separate collection of 333 pieces: one for each of the 300 addresses ranked highest on the leaderboard at the Snapshot under A3–A5, and one for each of 33 builder addresses chosen by Aries Labs. Each eligible address may receive exactly one piece. A person who controls several eligible addresses may receive one piece per eligible address.

A6.2 The 300 leaderboard addresses are public by the nature of the leaderboard. The 33 builder addresses are not published; the Site publishes only a cryptographic commitment to the full set of 333 and the count. Checking an address on the Site tells you whether it is eligible and nothing else.

A6.3 No payment to Aries Labs is required to receive an Aries Honorary piece. Eligibility is not transferable, cannot be sold, and attaches to the address, not the person.

A7. Designing and claiming

A7.1 Each eligible address designs its own piece on the Site during a design window, choosing from the trait catalogue the Site offers and choosing the text, script and placement of the mandatory text trait. Design windows open in a published order; no date is promised for any of them.

A7.2 Designing and reserving text is an offchain step: nothing is signed, nothing is created onchain and nothing is owed. The catalogue then freezes, the renderer is compiled into the collection contract with everything that was designed, the contract is audited and deployed, and claiming opens in the same order the windows did.

A7.3 Claiming. You claim your piece from the wallet that controls the eligible address: the Site prepares a claim transaction, your wallet signs it, and the piece is delivered to a fresh output of that address under a protostone. Only the eligible address can receive its piece. Sections 4, 5 and 8.5–8.6 apply to a claim as they apply to any transaction.

A7.4 Aries Labs may close a design window, extend one, or refuse or delay a claim it believes is fraudulent, unlawful or in breach of A8, and may decline to deliver to an address that becomes subject to Section 3.2.

A8. Text on a piece

A8.1 Every Honorary piece carries text chosen by its designer, in one of the scripts the Site offers, drawn permanently onchain by the collection contract. Text is public, permanent and visible to everyone forever. Choose it accordingly.

A8.2 Text must be unique across the 333 pieces; the first confirmed reservation wins. Text may not be any name, mark or term on the reserved list the Site shows (including BRAGI, ARIES, ARIES LABS, OPEN ORBIT, SUBFROST, ALKANES and the collection tickers), may not impersonate a person or a project, and may not be unlawful, defamatory, hateful, sexual, threatening, or infringing. Length and character limits are those the Site shows for each script.

A8.3 Aries Labs reviews reservations by hand before the catalogue freezes and is the only moderator. We may refuse any text for any reason, and refusal is not a judgment about you. Once the contract is deployed, nobody — including Aries Labs — can change or remove text from a piece.

A8.4 Sections 7, 9.2 (as to your text and design) and 11 apply to Honorary pieces.

A9. Awards are gifts

An Honorary piece is a gift. It is not consideration for anything, carries none of the rights excluded in 6.3, and may be withheld, delayed or cancelled before delivery at our discretion, including if the round cannot be completed for any reason in Section 5 or 19.1.

A10. Delivery. Each award is one Aries Honorary piece delivered to the eligible address. If the contract or the network cannot deliver to an address, or an address is refused under Section 3, the award for that address is forfeited and is not reassigned unless we choose to reassign it.

A11. What an award is not. An award is a digital collectible under Section 6.3. It has no cash value, is not redeemable, is not a rebate, refund, dividend, return, or reward on any payment, and is not a security or an investment. It confers no governance or other right.

A12. Eligibility. Section 3 applies. Void where prohibited. Recipients are responsible for all taxes on an award; Aries Labs provides no tax reporting to recipients and cannot identify them.

A13. Our determination is final on standings, eligibility, delivery, and any dispute about these Rules, subject to Section 15.