1. The short version
- These Terms cover the Gao DePIN website at depin.gao.global: the public network console, signing in with Gao ID, and binding a node to your Gao ID.
- Gao DePIN is run by several parties. We provide this website. Gao operates the relay control plane. Independent node operators run the nodes.
- There is no token, reward, payment, staking or investment on Gao DePIN. Nothing on this website is a financial product.
- The network is early and changes often. We do not guarantee that it, or this website, will be available.
- If you bind a node, the Node Operator Terms also apply to you.
2. Who we are and what these Terms cover
These Terms are an agreement between you and Toii Labs LLC ("Toii Labs", "we", "us"). They cover the Gao DePIN website at depin.gao.global and its console (the "Website").
These Terms include the Privacy Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy and the Disclaimer & Risk Disclosure. If you bind a node, the Node Operator Terms are part of them too.
If you use the Website for an organization, you confirm that you may accept these Terms for it.
3. Who does what on Gao DePIN
- Toii Labs provides this Website.
- The node registry and the relay control plane. The registry records who owns each node. The control plane admits serving nodes, issues shard leases and publishes the signed network directory. Gao operates both.
- Node operators run nodes on their own computers, servers or cloud accounts, under their own keys. They are independent of us. We do not employ, direct or supervise them.
- Gao ID is a separate identity service. You sign in to this Website with it.
- Applications that send data through the network are responsible for their own users and for how they encrypt their data.
4. Eligibility
You can read the public console without an account.
To sign in or bind a node, you must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract where you live.
You may not use the Website if you are barred from doing so by the laws that apply to you, including sanctions and export laws.
5. Signing in with Gao ID
You sign in by signing a short plain-text message with a wallet you control. The message is a login statement. It moves no funds, asks for no transaction and costs no gas. The Website works with wallets installed in your browser. It never holds your wallet, your keys or your recovery phrase.
Gao ID verifies the signature and issues your session. You are responsible for your wallet and for everything done under your Gao ID. If you think someone else has used your Gao ID here, tell us at security@gao.global.
6. The console and network information
The console shows the network's public state: its signed directory, leases, profiles, usage summaries and probe results. We show that information as we receive it. It can be delayed, incomplete or wrong, and figures in the console are operational measurements, not promises. Do not rely on them for any decision with financial, legal or safety consequences.
7. Binding a node
Binding links a node's identifier (its NodeID) to your Gao ID, so the network knows who owns the node. When you bind a node, you accept the Node Operator Terms. The binding and its ownership history are recorded, as the Privacy Policy explains.
8. No token, rewards or financial product
Gao DePIN has no live token, reward, payment, staking, bonding or validator earning. Pages on this Website that mention validators or contracts say that those features are not available. They describe plans, not offers.
Nothing on the Website is investment, financial, legal or tax advice, and nothing on it creates a right or an expectation to receive any token, reward or payment. If an economic programme is ever introduced, it will be offered under its own terms.
9. Acceptable use
You must follow the Acceptable Use Policy.
10. Availability and changes
Gao DePIN is an early network. Features may be incomplete, limited, paused or withdrawn. Software releases may be published before they are runtime-tested, and say so when they are. We offer no service level, and we may change, suspend or end the Website or any part of it.
11. Services run by others
The Website relies on services we do not run: Cloudflare, which hosts and delivers it; Gao ID; your wallet; node operators; and the applications that use the network. They have their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control them and are not responsible for them.
12. Intellectual property
The Website, its software, text, design, names and marks belong to Toii Labs or its licensors. You may use the Website as intended. These Terms give you no other right to them.
The node software you can download for Gao DePIN is distributed separately, through the Gao developer site. Its license is not part of these Terms.
If you send us feedback, we may use it without any obligation to you.
13. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Website at any time. Stopping a node you operate is in your hands; what happens to its records afterwards is set out in the Privacy Policy.
We may restrict or end your access, or remove a node's binding or admission, if we reasonably believe that you have broken these Terms, that the law requires it, or that it is needed to protect the network or its users. Where it is reasonable and lawful, we will tell you why and give you a way to respond.
Sections 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 19 continue to apply after your use ends.
14. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent the law allows, the Website and the network are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy and uninterrupted availability.
We do not warrant that the Website or the network will be available, secure or free of errors; that information in the console is accurate or current; that any node will deliver, keep or delete data; or that data sent through the network will not be lost.
Some places do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
15. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Website or the network. In particular, we are not liable for the acts, omissions or unavailability of node operators, Gao ID, your wallet, applications or other services the Website depends on.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Website will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or limits the rights that consumer-protection law where you live gives you.
16. Indemnity
To the extent the law allows, you agree to cover us against claims brought by others, and the reasonable costs of dealing with them, including reasonable legal fees, that arise from your breach of these Terms, your unlawful use of the Website, or a node you operate.
17. Changes to these Terms
The date these Terms were last updated is shown at the top of this page, and the date they take effect will be shown there once they are published. We hold no contact details for you, so we announce material changes on this Website before they take effect. Continuing to use the Website after a change takes effect means you accept it.
18. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute relating to these Terms or the Website is brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we each submit to those courts. Where the law of the place you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts, that right is not taken away.
19. General
These Terms, with the documents they include, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Website. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a reorganisation, merger or sale. Nobody else has rights under them.
20. Contact
Toii Labs LLC
Legal: legal@gao.global · Privacy: privacy@gao.global · Security: security@gao.global · Support: support@gao.global