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Risk Disclosures

Last updated: 2026-06-26

1. Not Investment Advice

Aegis is an automated execution tool. Nothing on this platform constitutes investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, or any other form of advice. You are solely responsible for your trading decisions. Aegis does not evaluate the suitability of any strategy for your financial situation.

2. Non-Custodial Service and API Key Responsibility

Aegis is a non-custodial service. The operator never receives, holds, controls, or has access to your funds at any point. Your funds remain in your own exchange account or on-chain wallet at all times.

To use Aegis with centralized exchanges, you must connect your own API keys. You must create those API keys WITHOUT withdrawal or transfer permissions enabled. Aegis does not technically verify at ingestion time whether withdrawal permission is enabled on your key — this is a requirement on the user, not a system-enforced restriction. Configuring your keys correctly is your responsibility. Aegis only uses your API key for trading operations: reading positions and opening or closing orders.

You are solely responsible for the security, rotation, and revocation of your API keys. If you suspect a key has been compromised, revoke it immediately in your exchange and add a new key in Aegis.

3. User Configuration Responsibility

You are responsible for the configuration of all bot parameters, including pool selection, range boundaries, capital allocation per pool, buffer sizes, leverage, stop-loss levels, and trigger thresholds. You are also responsible for validating bot behavior during the initial observation period before deploying significant capital. Misconfiguration can lead to unintended trades, excessive exposure, or positions executing at unfavorable prices, including edge execution at range boundaries. Losses resulting from misconfiguration — including narrow ranges, incorrect buffer settings, or insufficient capital buffers — are the user’s responsibility. Aegis does not reimburse losses caused by user configuration errors. Aegis executes the strategy you define — it does not validate your configuration against your risk tolerance, portfolio size, or market conditions.

4. Smart Contract and On-Chain Risk

Interacting with decentralized protocols involves risks that cannot be fully mitigated:

  • Smart contract vulnerabilities: bugs or exploits in Uniswap V3, Uniswap V4, PancakeSwap V3, or any other protocol may result in partial or total loss of funds. Aegis does not insure or reimburse losses from smart contract exploits.
  • MEV (Maximal Extractable Value): your transactions may be front-run, sandwiched, or reordered by validators or searchers, resulting in worse execution prices.
  • Oracle manipulation: price oracles used by protocols may be manipulated or experience latency, leading to incorrect liquidations or unexpected hedge triggers.
  • Rugpulls and protocol failures: token or protocol teams may abandon projects, drain liquidity, or change parameters without warning.
  • Transaction irreversibility: all on-chain actions are final. There is no chargeback, dispute process, or recovery mechanism once a transaction is confirmed.
  • Future integrations: planned future integrations including Aave V3 (lending and collateral) and GMX V2 (decentralized perp hedging) will introduce additional protocol-layer risks that will be disclosed in full at the time of integration.

5. Perp Venue Counterparty Risk

Aegis executes hedges on perpetual venues. The active hedge venue during the current beta is:

  • HyperLiquid (on-chain perp DEX): decentralized perpetuals exchange operating on its own L1. Carries smart contract risk, protocol risk, and liquidation risk.

Planned future integrations (not yet active):

  • Binance (CEX): centralized exchange. Integration planned — not active in current beta.
  • BingX (CEX): centralized exchange. Integration planned — not active in current beta.
  • GMX V2 (decentralized perp exchange): on-chain perpetuals protocol. Integration planned — not active in current beta.

When a CEX integration becomes active, the following risks apply:

  • Insolvency or platform failure: exchanges may become insolvent, halt withdrawals, or fail entirely, resulting in total loss of funds held on the platform.
  • Frozen funds: jurisdictional actions, compliance holds, or platform decisions may freeze your assets.
  • KYC/AML requirements: exchanges may impose identity verification, restrict access, or terminate accounts for regulatory compliance reasons.

Risks applicable to all perp venues (including HyperLiquid):

  • Liquidation risk: leveraged positions may be liquidated if margin falls below maintenance requirements. Rapid price movements can trigger cascading liquidations.
  • Aegis does not guarantee venue uptime or order execution at expected prices.

6. Market Risk

  • Volatility: DeFi and crypto markets are highly volatile. Prices can move rapidly in either direction, including to zero.
  • 24/7 operation with no uptime guarantee: while Aegis operates continuously, infrastructure failures, network congestion, or exchange downtime may prevent timely execution. Aegis does not guarantee that every hedge or rebalance will execute at the intended price or time.
  • No performance guarantee: past behavior during backtests or beta operation does not guarantee future results.

7. Tax and Regulatory Responsibility

You are solely responsible for compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations in your jurisdiction. Aegis does not provide tax advice or legal advice. Automated trading strategies may generate taxable events. Regulatory status of DeFi and automated trading tools varies by jurisdiction and may change without notice.

8. Beta Phase Warning

Aegis is currently in beta and is provided free of charge. No fees, commissions, or charges of any kind are applied during this phase. Beta software may contain defects that cause incorrect execution, missed triggers, or other errors. There is no guarantee of performance, uptime, or trading results. During the current beta, the platform enforces a maximum of $1,000 total active exposure per user and a maximum of 3 execution wallets per user, one per bot type. These limits may change in future beta milestones. You accept the risk of using beta software when you use this platform. Trading results are entirely your responsibility — Aegis does not guarantee profits, does not reimburse losses, and does not make any representation about expected performance.