DecentralProp operator terms of service
Not yet reviewed by a lawyer. This document is published in draft so you can read it before you commit money, not because it is finished. No operating company has been formed and no governing law has been set, so parts of it name gaps rather than answers. It will be reissued once counsel has been through it. Questions: info@decentralprop.com
"DecentralProp," "the protocol," "we," "us," and "our" mean the DecentralProp project. It has not been incorporated yet, and where it will be incorporated has not been decided, so there is no company on the other side of these Terms today. That is the first thing an operator should weigh, and it is why this document is published in draft rather than presented for signature. "You," "Operator," and "Firm" mean the person or entity entering these Terms to deploy and run a firm on the protocol.
1. What you're agreeing to
These Terms govern your use of DecentralProp's infrastructure to deploy, brand, and operate a proprietary trading firm ("Firm") on the shared evaluation engine. By paying a deployment fee, connecting a wallet to the operator console, or otherwise deploying a Firm, you accept these Terms. If you don't agree, don't deploy a Firm.
These Terms are separate from, and govern a different relationship than, the Trader Terms of Service — you're a business customer running a Firm, not a trader taking an evaluation.
2. What DecentralProp provides
DecentralProp operates shared on-chain infrastructure — five Solana programs (firm, challenge, dispute, batch, bonding_curve), an autonomous risk engine ("ARE"), and off-chain services (settlement keepers, the integrity engine, storefront hosting) — that let a Firm sell trading evaluations, run those evaluations in a simulated trading environment ("SimCore"), and pay funded traders in the Firm's own token when they qualify.
DecentralProp provides technology and shared infrastructure. It is not your employee, agent, partner, or joint venturer, and this relationship does not create a franchise, employment, or fiduciary relationship of any kind.
3. Your Firm runs on shared, autonomous rules — read this section carefully
This is the part of these Terms most likely to differ from your expectations if you've operated a traditional white-label prop-firm platform, so we state it plainly rather than burying it in a schedule.
What you control: your Firm's brand and storefront — name, logo, colors, theme, custom domain, storefront copy and SEO, docs/FAQ content, and your Firm's linked social handle.
What you do not control, and cannot change: trader accounts and balances, trading execution, payout decisions and timing, the evaluation rulebook, challenge/dispute outcomes, product catalog and pricing (subject to §4), user management, promotions and coupons, feature flags, protocol economics, execution configuration, and tradable symbols. These are locked to the platform operator or run autonomously by the ARE and the on-chain programs — no Firm operator, including you, has the technical ability to alter a trader's result, approve or block a specific payout, or change the odds of passing an evaluation.
The evaluation rulebook is fixed platform-wide. Every Firm's evaluations run the same core risk rules — profit target, maximum drawdown, daily drawdown, and minimum trading-day requirements — regardless of which Firm sold the evaluation. You do not set these. Your Firm's profit-split preset is your only economic parameter, and it is bounded below by a platform floor enforced on-chain. Leverage is platform-set and adjusted by the risk engine; a leverage value supplied when your Firm is provisioned is ignored.
Why it's built this way: DecentralProp's core commercial claim is that a trader's payout is enforced by code, not by an operator's discretion — "the firm can't rug you." That claim is only true because operators cannot touch the payout path. If you're evaluating this platform expecting operator-level control over trading rules or payout approval, this is not that platform.
4. Deploying and pricing your Firm
Deploying a Firm requires paying a one-time launch fee at your chosen tier:
| Tier | Plan | Launch fee |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Starter | $1,000 |
| 1 | Growth | $5,000 |
| 2 | Pro | $10,000 |
| 3 | Scale | $25,000 |
| 4 | Enterprise | $50,000 |
Paid in SOL at the prevailing rate at time of payment. The fee is split atomically on-chain: 9% to a same-tier franchise pool (shared with existing Firms at your tier), 3% to the protocol's , 20% to DecentralProp, 5% to the buy-and-burn mechanism, and the remainder (~63%) becomes your Firm's working treasury, used to fund trader payouts. Deployment fees are non-refundable once your Firm's on-chain accounts are created.
Deploying your Firm and launching its token are two separate, sequential actions — you configure and deploy first, and launch your Firm's token (, see the Token Disclaimer) as a deliberate second step. Evaluations cannot be sold until your token is live.
5. Your revenue and your collateral
Revenue. You earn a fee share on every evaluation your Firm sells (target range: 6–14% of the evaluation fee, of which half is paid immediately and half is held on-chain for 90 days from that sale before it becomes claimable by you) plus any appreciation in your Firm's token. Your Firm's own token allocation is a separate asset on a separate schedule, vesting monthly over 24 months. Exact current bands are set by platform configuration, not by these Terms, and may be adjusted prospectively by DecentralProp.
Collateral. Every Firm posts an used to compensate traders if your Firm's settlement is later proven fraudulent by the protocol's fault-proof mechanism. The bond is self-funded — the protocol automatically earmarks a small percentage of your Firm's own evaluation-fee revenue into the bond until it reaches the required minimum, then stops. You do not wire this separately, but it is drawn from revenue your Firm would otherwise keep. A proven settlement fault results in your bond being slashed. See §7.
6. No custody, no guarantee
DecentralProp and its Firms do not hold trader funds in a custodial account in the traditional sense. Trader evaluation fees and Firm payout obligations move through on-chain smart contracts; your Firm's treasury balance is visible on-chain to anyone. DecentralProp does not guarantee your Firm will be profitable, that any given trader volume will materialize, or that your Firm's token will hold or gain value.
7. Fraud, disputes, and slashing
The protocol includes an on-chain dispute and fault-proof system. If a trader (or an independent "watchtower" operator) proves your Firm's settlement was manipulated or fraudulently reported, the dispute program can slash your operator bond — currently 50% to the party that proved the fault, 50% to the protocol — and the affected trader is made whole from your Firm's treasury and, if necessary, protocol-level backstop pools. You agree not to attempt to manipulate settlement transcripts, trade evidence, or the integrity/risk-scoring systems, and acknowledge that doing so exposes your bond to slashing and may result in immediate suspension of your Firm.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to: misrepresent your Firm as offering real brokerage, custodial, or investment-management services; claim control over trading outcomes, payout approval, or evaluation rules that these Terms confirm you don't have; attempt to circumvent the branding-only restriction in §3 (including through API misuse, social engineering of support, or exploiting a bug); publish storefront or marketing content that misrepresents the protocol's mechanics; or use your Firm to facilitate money laundering, sanctions evasion, or other illegal activity.
9. Suspension and termination
DecentralProp may suspend or terminate your Firm's ability to sell evaluations for violation of these Terms, a security or integrity finding against your Firm, non-payment of required fees, or legal or regulatory requirement. If your Firm's treasury becomes insolvent relative to its outstanding payout obligations, it is subject to the protocol's automated wind-down process, which does not require your consent and prioritizes trader payout obligations over your residual claim. This is a structural feature of the protocol's autonomy, not a discretionary penalty DecentralProp applies case by case.
10. Intellectual property
DecentralProp's software, on-chain programs, and underlying protocol design remain DecentralProp's property (or its licensors'). Deploying a Firm grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the shared infrastructure under your own branding for as long as your Firm remains active in good standing. You retain ownership of your own brand assets, storefront copy, and any custom domain you configure.
11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The platform is provided "as is." To the maximum extent permitted by law, DecentralProp is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, including lost profits, business interruption, or regulatory penalties you incur. Total liability, where liability cannot be excluded, is capped at fees you paid to DecentralProp in the preceding 12 months.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify DecentralProp against claims arising from your Firm's marketing representations, your violation of applicable law, your misuse of the platform, or claims brought by your Firm's traders that don't arise from a defect in DecentralProp's own protocol.
13. Governing law and disputes
No governing law or dispute-resolution forum has been set. Both follow the formation of the operating company, which has not happened. Until this section names a jurisdiction, nothing here should be read as a choice of law, and no operator should assume one.
14. Changes to these Terms
DecentralProp may update these Terms prospectively. Material changes will be announced through the operator console and, where practical, with advance notice before taking effect for existing Firms.
15. Entire agreement
These Terms, together with any published fee schedule and the platform's evaluation rulebook, are the entire agreement between you and DecentralProp regarding your Firm.
16. Who is answerable for what
Section 3 sets out how little of your Firm's operation you control. This section states the consequence, because a set of terms that assigned every compliance duty to you while the platform ran everything would not describe the real arrangement, and would not survive being read closely by anyone who mattered.
Each party answers for what it actually controls.
DecentralProp controls the execution engine, the evaluation rulebook, settlement, the release of payouts, the ability to freeze an account, and the solvency gate that decides which account sizes your Firm may sell.
DecentralProp is therefore answerable for the integrity of fills, the fairness and consistency of the rulebook, the platform's capability to pay a trader who has earned a payout, and the platform's capability to meet sanctions and anti-money-laundering obligations that attach to those functions.
You control your brand, your storefront and domain, your marketing copy, which audience you market to, the legal pages you publish on your storefront, and your profit-split preset.
You are therefore answerable for the accuracy of your marketing claims, which jurisdictions you target and accept customers from, the accuracy and adequacy of the legal pages you publish, and obtaining whatever licensing or registration applies to you where you operate.
Two consequences follow, and both cut against a party.
DecentralProp does not escape responsibility for how evaluations are executed and settled by pointing at you. You are not in a position to affect any of it.
You do not escape responsibility for how your Firm is marketed and to whom by pointing at DecentralProp. We do not see your copy before it ships, we do not review your legal pages, and we do not choose your audience.
Nothing in this section is a legal opinion about your status, and nothing in it is advice about whether you require a licence. OPERATOR_COMPLIANCE_POSTURE.md describes the arrangement in mechanical terms so that your own lawyer can answer those questions. It does not answer them, and neither do we.
Open items for counsel: entity name and jurisdiction (§ preamble), governing law and dispute forum (§13), exact revenue-band disclosure language (§5), whether the operator relationship requires securities analysis given token upside (cross-reference an open decision), and whether the §16 allocation is enforceable as drafted in the chosen governing-law jurisdiction. §16 was added 2026-08-12; §3's statement that operators set leverage was corrected the same day, leverage being platform-set (BOUNDARY-5).