Terms of Service

1. About these terms

gavunwud.com (the “site”) is run by members of the Gavun Wud community (“we”, “us”). These terms, together with the risks described below, govern your use of the site. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

2. What this site is

The site provides information about $WUD, the Gavun Wud games, NFT collections and the wider Polkadot community, along with tools that read public blockchain data. It also offers an optional interface for interacting with public blockchains, including swapping on Hydration, moving $WUD between Hydration and Polkadot Asset Hub, transferring tokens and burning $WUD.

That interface is non-custodial. The site does not hold, control or have access to your assets. It prepares transactions that your own wallet asks you to review and sign, and those transactions are carried out by the blockchains themselves, not by us. We charge no fees for using the site. Network and pool fees are paid to the networks involved.

3. No financial advice

Nothing on the site is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset. Prices, charts, statistics and other data are provided for information only, may be delayed or inaccurate, and come partly from third parties. $WUD is a community memecoin with no promise of value, returns or future development. Do your own research and never commit more than you can afford to lose.

4. Wallets, signatures and staying safe

You connect using a third-party wallet such as Nova Wallet, SubWallet, Talisman, Polkadot.js or MetaMask. A Ledger hardware wallet can be used through any of these. You alone are responsible for your wallet, your devices and your recovery phrase. Because we never hold your keys or funds, we cannot recover lost access, reverse transactions, or restore assets sent to a wrong address.

What connecting does. Connecting shares your public address with the site, the same way you might share an account number so someone can look up a balance. It does not give the site any access to your funds. Nothing can leave your wallet unless you approve it yourself in your wallet's own window.

The two kinds of requests this site can make.

• Message signatures. Used to prove you own an address, for example to sign in to a game or to check your holdings. Your wallet shows the text you are signing. A message signature is free, is not a transaction, and cannot move funds.
• Transactions. Used only when you choose an action on the site, such as a swap, a transfer, a burn, buying an item or saving changes to your cabin. Your wallet shows what the transaction does and the network fee before you approve it. Each transaction is approved one at a time. The site never asks for open-ended permission to spend your tokens.

What we will never ask for. Your recovery phrase (also called a seed phrase or secret phrase), your private keys, your wallet password, or a file exported from your wallet. We will never contact you first to ask you to connect, sign or “verify” a wallet, and team members will never message you privately about it. Anyone who does is attempting to steal from you.

Don’t trust, verify. Any website, including this one, could in theory be changed by someone who breaks in. That is why your wallet, not the website, is the final check: it always shows you exactly what you are about to sign. Judge every request by what your wallet shows, never by what a website says.

How to stay safe on any website.

• Check the address bar. The only official address is gavunwud.com. Lookalike addresses with a missing or extra letter are scams.
• Read every request in your wallet before approving it. If it would send funds you did not mean to send, or you do not understand it, reject it. Rejecting is always free and safe.
• Never type your recovery phrase into a website, a form or a chat, and never share it with anyone. It belongs only in your wallet app, or written down offline. If anyone, anywhere, asks for it, they are trying to steal from you.
• Consider keeping a separate wallet with a small balance for websites and games, and storing savings in a wallet that never connects anywhere, or on a hardware wallet such as a Ledger, which shows each transaction on its own screen.
• Connecting to any website, including this one, carries some risk. Software can have bugs, and any service on the internet can be attacked. Only connect if you are comfortable, and remember you can always use $WUD directly on Hydration instead.

Our Crypto Safety guide explains all of this step by step for anyone new to crypto. If something on this site ever asks for something it should not, or looks different from usual, stop and tell us through the contact page, Discord or Telegram.

5. Swaps, transfers and cross-chain

• Swaps go through the public WUD/DOT pool on Hydration. Quotes are estimates. The amount you receive depends on the pool at the moment your transaction is processed, within the slippage limit you set. If the price moves beyond that limit, the swap does not go through.
• Transfers send $WUD to the address you enter, on the same chain. Always check the address. Transfers to the wrong address, or to an exchange that does not support $WUD, are usually unrecoverable.
• Cross-chain moves use Polkadot’s XCM messaging between Hydration and Asset Hub, and require DOT for fees. Delivery normally takes under a minute but depends on the networks involved.
• Network rules apply that we do not control. For example, Hydration requires an account to hold at least 20,000 $WUD and removes smaller balances, and an Asset Hub account needs some DOT to receive $WUD. The site tries to warn you about these rules, but they are set by the networks and may change.

You can always use Hydration’s own app, or any other wallet or interface, instead of this site.

6. Burning $WUD

Burning sends $WUD to an address that no one controls. Burned $WUD can never be recovered. Burns are voluntary and do not entitle you to anything in return, except where a specific community event or collection says otherwise.

7. NFTs and game items

NFTs shown on the site, including OG Burn, Year One, Grid Miner and WUD Universe items and Mystery Boxes, are digital collectibles. Any in-game perks or features tied to them are provided for fun, may change or end, and are not a promise of value. Listings and sales happen on third-party marketplaces under their own terms. Snapshot data on the site may be out of date.

8. Risks

Using crypto assets involves serious risks, including:

• Liquidity. Pool liquidity can be low, so large trades may move the price significantly.
• Technical risk. Blockchains, runtimes, cross-chain messaging, wallets and this site can contain bugs or be attacked.
• Irreversibility. Mistakes, such as a wrong address or amount, generally cannot be undone.
• Scams. Fake sites, impersonators and malicious links are common. Only trust gavunwud.com and app.hydration.net.
• Regulation. Laws on crypto assets differ by country and may change in ways that affect your ability to use them.

9. Eligibility and local laws

You must be old enough to form a binding agreement where you live. You are responsible for making sure that using the site and holding or trading crypto assets is lawful for you, and for any taxes that apply. Do not use the site if you are located in, or a resident of, a country or region subject to comprehensive sanctions, or if you are on a sanctions list.

10. Third-party services

The site relies on and links to services we do not operate, including Hydration, Polkadot Asset Hub, Unique Network, Chaotic, CoinGecko, blockchain explorers and wallet providers. Their terms and privacy policies apply to your use of them, and we are not responsible for their availability, accuracy or conduct.

11. Acceptable use

Do not use the site to break the law, to defraud or harm others, to interfere with the site or the networks it connects to, or to impersonate the project or its community members.

12. Content and parody

Gavun Wud is a parody character. The project is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Gavin Wood, Parity Technologies or the Web3 Foundation. Artwork, logos and text on the site belong to their respective creators. Partner names and logos belong to their owners and are shown to identify collaborations.

13. Privacy

Accounts are optional and only needed for WUD RPG. If you sign in with Discord, Telegram or Google, or play through the Gavun bot in Discord or Telegram, we store that service's user ID, your display name and avatar, and your game save. We do not request or store your email address, and we never sell or share this data. You can disconnect sign-in methods in Connected accounts, and you can ask us to delete your account in our Discord or Telegram. When you connect a wallet, your public address is used in your browser to read balances from public blockchains. Your browser stores your wallet preference and some cached public data locally. Loading data means your browser contacts public blockchain nodes and third-party APIs, which can see your IP address under their own policies. Anything you do on-chain is public by nature. If you send a bug report or a message, we store what you write, any name or contact details you choose to give, and basic device details (such as browser, screen size, language, time zone and which wallet extensions are installed) to help us fix problems. Only the team can see these details. Letters between cabins in WUD Universe are stored encrypted, and only the sender and the person who gets them can open them on the site. The team does not read them. If the person who gets a letter reports it, that one letter is shared with the team so we can act on it. When both people delete a letter, its text is erased.

Read the full Privacy Policy.

14. No warranty and liability

The site is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including accuracy, availability or fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the community members who run the site are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site, the networks it connects to, or any crypto assets, including lost profits, lost funds or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

15. Changes and contact

We may update these terms, and the date at the top will change when we do. Continuing to use the site after an update means you accept the new terms. Questions can be raised with the community on X, Telegram or Discord. The team will never contact you first to ask for funds or your recovery phrase.