— Article I — Nature of the protocol
$THEORY is an experimental, unaudited Uniswap v4 hook contract deployed to a public, permissionless blockchain. The protocol is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. Smart contracts cannot be undeployed, paused, or upgraded by the publishers of this site. The code that exists on-chain is the protocol; this site is a description of it.
— Article II — No investment advice
Nothing on this site, in the contracts, or in any communication associated with the project constitutes investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, tax advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, stake, or otherwise interact with $THEORY or any other digital asset. Information herein is for educational and depictive purposes only. You are solely responsible for your decisions.
— Article III — Risk of total loss
- Smart-contract risk. Bugs, edge cases, or undiscovered vulnerabilities may cause total loss of staked or held tokens. The contracts are not formally audited at the time of writing.
- Hook risk. v4 hooks are a young primitive. Pool reverts, mis-routed taxes, or malformed deltas can produce unexpected outcomes.
- Volatility. Memecoins are highly volatile. The price of $THEORY can go to zero. The peak emission rate is largest at launch and decays linearly to zero over fourteen days, by design.
- Impermanent loss. Orchard and Cathedral pools require LP NFTs. LPs are exposed to impermanent loss, which can exceed any farming yield earned.
- Concentrated band drift. Cathedral positions whose band drifts outside ±25% of spot incur a drift penalty (0.5× ETH yield) until restaked.
- Lockup risk. Once staked, positions cannot be unstaked until the lock expires. 72-hour locks are not recoverable in 24 hours.
- MEV. Trades can be sandwiched, frontrun, or backrun. Slippage tolerances are your responsibility.
- Network risk. Ethereum re-orgs, mempool censorship, or RPC failures can cause failed transactions and lost gas.
— Article IV — No team allocation
The launch is fair: 0% team allocation, 0% pre-mine,
0% advisor allotment. The 1,000,000 $THEORY supply minted at deploy is
paired against ETH in liquidity bands and the LP NFTs are burned to 0xdEaD.
The 50,000 $THEORY emission budget (5% of supply) is held by the farm contract and
released over the 14-day decay window. This does not, however, guarantee any
particular price action or outcome.
— Article V — Founder bonus
The first 100 LP-pool stakers in the first hour after launch receive a permanent +25%
weight bonus. Slot eligibility is keyed on tx.origin. Smart-contract sybil
strategies that attempt to fork the bonus across multiple programs are disallowed by
construction; this is not a guarantee that all sybil strategies are prevented.
— Article VI — Jurisdiction & eligibility
Some jurisdictions restrict or prohibit residents from interacting with permissionless DeFi protocols, decentralised exchanges, or memecoins. By interacting with the $THEORY contracts you represent that doing so is lawful in your jurisdiction and that you are not a citizen, resident, or located in a jurisdiction (including but not limited to those subject to comprehensive sanctions) where such interaction is prohibited.
— Article VII — No fiduciary duty · no operator
Theory is a permissionless protocol. There is no operator, no custodian, no recoverable private key controlling user funds, and no party owes any fiduciary duty to any user. Anyone publishing this site is acting as a publisher of public information, not as a counterparty to any trade or stake. The publishers cannot reverse transactions, recover lost private keys, restore stuck stakes, or refund losses of any kind.
— Article VIII — Memetic content
Engraved plates, allegorical sigils, and editorial language used throughout this site are memetic devices. They do not represent specific persons, securities, or claims of value. The brain logomark, the “cultivation” framing, the jester easter-egg, the mock 18th-century epigraphs — all are aesthetic. They are not forecasts, projections, or guarantees of any sort.
— Article IX — No tax, accounting, or legal advice
Staking yield, emission claims, LP fees, and the founder bonus may have tax consequences in your jurisdiction. Lockup expiry, position downgrades, and surge payouts are taxable events in many jurisdictions. Consult a qualified tax, legal, or accounting professional before participating.
— Article X — Forward-looking statements
Statements describing future protocol behaviour — pool APYs, surge frequency, decay curves, post-day-14 dynamics — are forward-looking and based on assumptions that may not hold. Actual outcomes will depend on real on-chain conditions, trading activity, hook integrity, and forces outside the publishers' control.
— Article XI — Acceptance
By interacting with any $THEORY contract — buying, selling, staking, claiming, unstaking, poking the brain, or providing liquidity — you accept this caveat in full, acknowledge that you understand the risks above, and waive any claim of reliance on the publishers, contributors, designers, or any party associated with the project.
"Read before you stake. Stake before you complain."