TheHood

Terms of use

Terms of use

Effective
2026-08-14
Last updated
2026-08-25
Version
1.4

These terms cover the website at thehood.markets and nothing else. The contracts the site talks to are immutable and governed by no one, including us.

  • We never hold your funds or your keys. There are no accounts, no balances and no deposits. Section 5.
  • The contracts cannot be changed or reversed — not by us, not by a court. Section 4.
  • Three fees exist, all charged by the contracts rather than by this site. Section 6.
  • Nothing here is advice, and nothing on the site is a recommendation. Section 12.
  • We may withhold a wallet from the leaderboards — our own wallets, or one gaming them. It changes visibility only, never your funds, and you may appeal. Section 11.

The sections below are the binding text; this one is for orientation.

These terms govern your use of thehood.markets (“this site”), the website operated by The Hood. Using the site means you accept them. If you do not, stop using it.

They cover the website. They do not govern the smart contracts, because nobody governs the smart contracts — see section 4.

The Hood is a set of smart contracts deployed on Robinhood Chain (chain 4663). This site is one way to read those contracts and to build transactions for your wallet to sign. It is not the only way: the contracts are public, and anyone can interact with them directly from a block explorer, a script or a different frontend.

Consequently, taking this site offline does not stop a token trading, does not free locked liquidity and does not stop a creator earning fees. The site can be removed. The contracts cannot.

The launchpad contracts are immutable: no proxies, no upgrade path, no admin key over your funds. What was deployed is what runs, permanently.

This cuts both ways, and you should understand both. Nobody can change the rules on you after you have bought — and nobody can fix a bug either. There is no upgrade that patches a flaw and no mechanism to recover funds lost to one.

The one administrative control that exists is a pause on new launches. By construction it can never block a claim, a sell or a graduation already owed to someone.

The contracts are audited by Claude Fable 5, and the result is published in full, including what was not fixed. That is on the security page.

This site is non-custodial. It has no accounts, no balances and no deposits. Stated as flatly as it deserves:

  • We do not receive, hold, control or have any ability to move your assets.
  • We do not see your private key or your seed phrase, and we will never ask for either. Any person or page that does is attempting to steal from you, whatever it claims to be.
  • We do not reverse, cancel, freeze or refund a transaction. Nobody can.

Every movement of value is a transaction that you sign in your own wallet and that goes to a contract, not to us.

Three fees exist, all of them enforced by the contracts rather than by this site:

  • Trade fee — 2% (200 basis points) of every buy and every sell on a bonding curve, split three ways: the project’s creator, a share held for the creator to allocate to the people who promoted the project, and the protocol.
  • Launch fee — a flat amount of native ETH charged once, when a project is created.
  • Pool swap fee — retained by the Uniswap V4 pool a project graduates into. Its ETH side is split between the creator and the protocol; its token side is burned in full, so nobody receives it and the supply falls.

The live values are read from the factory contract and shown on the create page before you sign anything. If this page and the chain ever disagree, the chain is correct and this page is stale — tell us at legal@thehood.markets.

Fees are not refundable. Network gas is paid to Robinhood Chain validators, not to us, and we never see it.

By using the site you confirm that:

  • you are at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into these terms;
  • you are not located in, resident of, or acting on behalf of anyone in a jurisdiction where using a launchpad of this kind is prohibited;
  • you are not subject to sanctions administered by the UN, the EU, the UK, the United States or any other applicable authority;
  • you are solely responsible for determining whether your use is lawful where you are, and for any tax arising from it.

Creating a project on The Hood writes your chosen name, symbol, artwork and links to a public blockchain and to IPFS. That is permanent and public, and neither we nor you can delete it afterwards.

You are responsible for what you launch, and you agree that you will not:

  • impersonate a person, project, brand or organisation, or use a name, symbol or artwork you do not have the right to use;
  • present a project as endorsed by, affiliated with or vetted by The Hood, Robinhood Chain, Robinhood Markets, Uniswap or any other party — it is none of these;
  • make claims about returns, price, listings or partnerships that are not true;
  • upload artwork that is illegal, that infringes someone else’s rights, or that depicts the abuse or exploitation of any person.

The token is yours, not ours. Launching one does not create any obligation on us to promote it, support it, list it or keep displaying it.

You agree not to:

  • use the site to launder money, evade sanctions or finance anything illegal;
  • manipulate a market on it — wash trading, spoofing, coordinated pump-and-dump schemes, or launching a project you intend to abandon after selling into it;
  • attack the site or its infrastructure: scraping at a rate that degrades it, abusing /api/quote or /api/upload, or attempting to gain access to systems you are not authorised to use;
  • interfere with anyone else’s use of it, or attempt to deanonymise other users from on-chain data combined with data taken from this site.

Good-faith security research is not prohibited by this section — see the security page for the scope and the safe harbour that applies to it.

We may stop displaying any project on this website at our discretion — for example one that impersonates a brand, carries illegal artwork or is being used to defraud people. That is a change to this website only.

We cannot alter, pause, freeze, reverse or delete any token, curve, pool or transaction. Removing a project from the site does not affect it on chain, does not protect anyone who already holds it, and does not recover anyone’s money. Do not treat a project appearing here as vetting, and do not treat its removal as a remedy.

The site publishes leaderboards — creators, projects, referrers and settlers — computed from public chain events. Appearing on one is not a right, a reward or a promise, and we may withhold any wallet from every leaderboard on the site.

We do that on two grounds and no others:

  • Our own operational wallets — the deployer, the treasury, the keeper and our test wallets. Ranking ourselves on our own boards would be self-dealing, and it is the reason this section exists.
  • A wallet we determine is gaming or defrauding the leaderboards — for example wash trading to inflate a rank, farming referral sign-ups from wallets under the same control, or launching throwaway projects to move a rate.

Exclusion from a leaderboard affects visibility and nothing else. It does not touch your funds, your tokens, your trades, your referral earnings or your ability to use this site or the contracts. You keep every token you hold, every fee you have accrued and every function the contracts expose — we could not take any of those from you even if we wanted to, for the reasons in sections 4 and 5. All that changes is that a ranking on this website stops listing your address.

Each exclusion records which of the two grounds applied, the reason, and the date. Lifting one does not erase it: both the exclusion and its lifting are kept.

You may appeal. Write to legal@thehood.markets from any channel you like, quoting the wallet address, or reach us on X at @thehoodmarkets. We will review it, and we will tell you which of the two grounds we applied and the reason we recorded — you are entitled to know what you are answering. If we got it wrong, we lift the exclusion. We do not commit to a fixed response time, and we say so rather than promise one we have not staffed.

Being a KOL is a standing on this platform, and we can withdraw it from an account. This is separate from the leaderboard rule above and it reaches further, which is why it is a section of its own rather than a clause inside that one: a leaderboard exclusion changes what a page shows, and this changes what a creator is able to do with your address.

We do it on the same two grounds and no others — our own operational wallets, and an account we determine is gaming or defrauding the system.

What withdrawing your standing does: a creator can no longer allocate any part of a promotion window to your address, and you stop counting toward the electorate for a peer promotion vote. Your allocation cap reads zero for as long as it stands.

What it does not do, and cannot: it does not touch fees you have already earned, which sit in the splitter contract and stay claimable by you and only you; it does not touch your tokens, your trades or any position you hold; it does not remove your referral code, your referral name or referral earnings already credited to you; and it does not stop you using this site or calling any function the contracts expose. We could not take those from you if we wanted to, for the reasons in sections 4 and 5 — the contracts have no function that would let us.

It is recorded on chain, with a reason, and the contract refuses one without. Not in a database we control — in a public event anybody can read, naming the address, the decision and the reason we gave. We cannot withdraw a standing quietly, and we cannot revise the reason afterwards: a correction is a second entry, and both remain.

It is reversible, and reversing it returns what you had. Your rank and your lifetime earned figure are untouched while it stands, so restoring an account puts it back at the standing it held rather than at the bottom. That is deliberate: a power that could not be undone cleanly is one that should not be used at all.

You may appeal, on the same terms as a leaderboard exclusion — write to legal@thehood.markets quoting the wallet address. We will tell you the ground and the reason recorded, and if we got it wrong we lift it. We do not commit to a fixed response time rather than promise one we have not staffed.

Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any asset. We are not your broker, adviser or fiduciary. Every figure, chart, label and ranking on the site is descriptive information read from a public blockchain, not a recommendation.

Labels such as “Hot”, “New”, “Climbing” or “Graduated” are mechanical descriptions of on-chain activity. They are not judgements about quality, legitimacy or prospects.

The site is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranty of any kind — no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability or non-infringement.

In particular we do not warrant that the site will be available or uninterrupted; that data read from the chain is current (blocks are produced faster than any page can re-render, and a displayed figure is a snapshot of the block it names); that a quote will be the price you actually receive; that a third-party RPC endpoint, IPFS gateway or wallet will behave; or that the contracts are free of defects.

To the fullest extent the law allows, The Hood and everyone working on it are not liable for any loss of funds, tokens, profits, opportunity or data arising from your use of the site or the contracts — including losses caused by a contract defect, a price movement, a failed or front-run transaction, a chain reorganisation or halt, an RPC or gateway outage, a compromised wallet, a phishing site, or a project launched by someone else.

You use a launchpad on a blockchain at your own risk. Read the risk notice before you buy anything. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

We may change these terms. The date at the top of this page is the date of the current version, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. Material changes will be noted on @thehoodmarkets.

Email legal@thehood.markets, or reach us on X at @thehoodmarkets. Vulnerability reports go to the security page instead — that route is monitored on a commitment, this one is not.

The Hood’s contracts are immutable, audited by Claude Fable 5. Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice.