1. Agreement
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of HyperLeague’s tournament products and related interfaces operated as part of the Protocol (the website, apps gallery, challenge flows, trade terminal, settlement UI, proving ground, vault election surfaces, and associated read caches).
By connecting a wallet, joining a challenge, creating a challenge, buying a proving-ground pass, interacting with vault surfaces, or otherwise using the tournament product, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the product.
2. Nature of the product
HyperLeague tournaments are skill-based competitions on Hyperliquid HyperEVM. Players pay a real USDC entry fee held by immutable smart contracts, receive virtual margin, and trade synthetic leveraged positions priced off HyperCore mark prices. At settlement, top-K participants by terminal equity split the real pot under an immutable prize curve.
Positions are synthetic. You are not opening a HyperCore perp account through the tournament join path. PnL is a price-ratio computation against on-chain marks, subject to protocol loss-cap rules (a position never loses more than its assigned margin).
The Protocol is experimental software. On-chain state is the source of truth for value-moving outcomes. Off-chain indexes, leaderboards, and UI caches are convenience mirrors and may lag or fail.
3. Eligibility
You must be able to lawfully use cryptographic wallets and interact with public blockchain networks in your location. You are solely responsible for compliance with local law.
You represent that you are not using the product to evade sanctions, money-laundering controls, or other applicable restrictions. The Operator may geo-restrict or refuse interface access without changing immutable on-chain bytecode.
You must not use the product if you are a person barred from crypto-asset or skill-contest participation under rules that apply to you.
4. Wallet and self-custody
You interact through your own wallet. Value-moving writes (join, create, trade, claim, vault actions) are submitted by you. The Operator does not custody tournament entry fees on your behalf outside the published smart contracts.
You are responsible for key security, approvals, phishing, and transaction review. Irreversible chain transactions are final once confirmed.
5. Fees and rake
Tournament economics are hardcoded in the deployed contracts. The protocol rake is 10% of pot, split 80/20 protocol/creator (creator 2%, treasury 8%, winners 90% net pot). There is no per-challenge creator fee knob.
Entry fees, virtual margin, settle windows, and prize curves are set at challenge creation and enforced on-chain. UI copy that summarizes fees always defers to the live contract parameters for that challenge.
Network gas and any third-party wallet or RPC costs are yours.
6. Challenge lifecycle
A challenge may refund participants if it fails to meet minimum participation before start, under the contract’s refund path. Once a viable challenge has started with minimum participants met, it cannot be admin-paused or admin-cancelled.
Settlement follows the contract’s finalize / settle / claim windows, including undeliverable-asset handling (positions on unpriceable assets settle at PnL 0 / margin returned) and the force-cancel backstop described in the whitepaper.
Leaderboards displayed off-chain are not authoritative until mirrored from on-chain settlement. On-chain getLeaderboard / Settled events control prize claims.
7. Companion surfaces
Proving Ground is a no-prize (or separately disclosed) subscription-style league companion. Pass terms, duration, and funding rules are those of the deployed proving-ground contract and its UI disclosures.
Vault and vault-election surfaces are opt-in and separate from tournament entry. Vault deposits are not loss-capped like tournament margin. Read each vault’s on-chain parameters before depositing.
Tower and other gamified companions, when enabled, are governed by their own on-chain and UI disclosures in addition to these Terms.
8. Prohibited conduct
You must not attempt to exploit contract bugs for unfair extraction, attack the interface or indexing infrastructure, impersonate the Protocol, or use the product for unlawful activity.
You must not present off-chain caches as on-chain truth when they diverge. You must not interfere with other users’ wallets or sessions.
Bug disclosure through responsible channels is encouraged. Public zero-day exploitation against the Protocol or users is prohibited.
9. Risks
You can lose your entire entry fee. Synthetic leverage amplifies mark moves. Oracles, marks, RPC outages, client bugs, and settlement timing can affect outcomes.
Smart contracts are immutable and may contain undiscovered bugs. Audits, if any, do not guarantee safety. Testnet and mainnet deployments may differ.
Nothing on the site is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Past results do not predict future performance.
10. Intellectual property
The HyperLeague name, marks, UI, and documentation are protected by applicable IP law. You receive a limited license to use the public interface as offered.
On-chain contract bytecode and events are public by design. That publicity does not grant a license to misuse marks or to misrepresent affiliation.
11. Disclaimers
THE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
The Operator does not warrant uninterrupted access, error-free indexing, or that any particular challenge will fill, finalize on a preferred schedule, or produce a prize for you.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator and contributors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the product.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of (a) the USDC entry fees you paid into HyperLeague tournament contracts in the thirty days before the claim or (b) one hundred US dollars (or local equivalent), except where applicable law requires otherwise.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations. In those places, limits apply only to the maximum extent allowed.
13. Interface access
The Operator may modify, suspend, or discontinue website and API access. Immutable on-chain contracts continue to enforce their own rules regardless of interface availability.
You may stop using the product at any time. Outstanding on-chain positions and claims remain subject to the contracts.
14. Changes
These Terms may be updated. The “Last updated” date will change. Material product changes that require new immutable deployments are described in Protocol documentation; interface Terms may be revised independently.
Continued use of the interface after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms for future activity.
15. Contact
For product questions, use the public channels linked in the site footer (X, Discord, Telegram, GitHub). No formal legal-notice email is published in this provisional draft.