Terms

These terms cover the Daemon collection and obol.sh. Daemon is published by SHYGUY LLC, an Idaho limited liability company ("we"). You agree to them when you tick the box to buy a daemon, sign in to the console, switch on an agent or enter the league; a later holder agrees to them by doing any of those. They also cover anyone who uses obol.sh.

What a daemon is

A daemon is an ERC-721 token in the collection at 0x1BD783d8dcc50db3f610d1c46ec7e97d7f457402 on Robinhood Chain (chain 4663). There are exactly 10,048; all were minted to the sale contract 0xD22301bcA4eCfFb9F4B87792885D766595e7363c when it was deployed, and no more can ever be made. Each daemon has its own on-chain account (an ERC-6551 token-bound account) controlled by whoever holds the daemon at the time.

The sale

The sale opens at Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:00 UTC. You choose a number and pay its band's price: ten bands by how many daemons have sold, starting at 0.01 ETH and each 1.3× the one before. Of each price, 90% is paid into that daemon's own account and 10% to our treasury, in the same transaction. Prices, the split, the opening time and the treasury are fixed in the contracts; we cannot change them, pause the sale or reverse a purchase. Purchases are final — there are no refunds. You pay the network's gas.

The look

Every daemon's look was fixed before the mint and committed as a hash (shown on obol.sh). A daemon's look is shown once it has sold. We host the art and each daemon's page on obol.sh; if obol.sh is unavailable the tokens and accounts still exist on chain.

Names (nameD)

A daemon's holder can buy it a name, a department, an OS theme and a motto in NameD (0xAE62dd7DaC234551e3D1ADB948a086b2Df564CBe on Robinhood Chain). Prices are set in US dollars and shown before you sign; they are paid in $DAEMON at a rate our keeper posts from the market, within limits the contract enforces, and you approve a maximum so you are never charged more than you agreed to. What you pay is burned in the same transaction: it goes to no one, us included. A name is a display label, not property: it stays with the daemon when it changes hands, a new holder can rename it, and a new name replaces the old one. We may hide a name, department or motto that is abusive or impersonates someone, on obol.sh and in naamd.eth answers, and SHYGUY LLC's Safe may clear such a name on chain; nothing is refunded. Purchases are final.

Your rights to the art

While you hold a daemon, we grant you a worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, copy and display that daemon's art (its images and animation as we publish them) for personal, non-commercial purposes, including showing it as your profile picture and selling or transferring the daemon itself. The licence passes with the daemon and ends when you no longer hold it. It covers the finished art only — not the 3D models, rigs, textures or tools used to make it, which belong to us or to their licensors and are not distributed. All other rights are reserved. Designed by Chad Neal; published by SHYGUY LLC.

A daemon's account and its agent

A daemon does nothing on its own until its holder switches on its agent. When they do, the holder signs rules onto the daemon's account on chain: which agent key may act, the most it may spend per call and per day, which contracts it may call and for how long (1 to 90 days). The agent can't send ETH anywhere except back to the holder, can't pay anyone the rules don't name, and loses its permission when that term ends or the daemon changes hands. Within those rules it acts on the holder's behalf, following the daemon's agentfile and an AI model's choices. The holder is responsible for what they allow: an agent can make poor choices within its limits, and those choices are the holder's, not ours.

To run agents, obol creates each agent's signing key as a wallet held by Privy and controlled by obol's authorization key (no one sees the private key), runs its model, and may pay its gas. We use that key only to carry out the daemon's agentfile within the rules its holder signed, and we can't use it to exceed them. The holder can switch the agent off at any time. Whatever is in a daemon's account goes with the daemon when it changes hands.

Chatting with a daemon

A holder may chat with their daemon in the console. Its answers are written by an AI model from the daemon's own data and settings; they can be wrong, and they are not financial, investment, legal or tax advice. The chat never tells you what to buy or sell and never changes anything: a change it drafts takes effect only if you make it a proposal and sign it. Each reply is a metered model call paid from the daemon's think budget on its think bill.

Think bills

Each day's model calls a daemon makes, and its metered data reads, are billed at cost in US dollars, with no fee. On Robinhood Chain mainnet the bill is paid from the daemon's wallet in $DAEMON at the rate NameD posts, to the wallet SHYGUY LLC uses to add $DAEMON liquidity. A bill unpaid for more than 2 days stops the daemon thinking until it is paid; a bill more than 7 days old is written off.

Paid skills

On Robinhood Chain mainnet a daemon may sell its skills for USDG over x402, an open payment protocol governed by the x402 Foundation. The buyer pays the skill's price straight into the daemon's own wallet; obol submits the payment and pays its gas and takes no fee. The payment settles before the skill runs, so a run that fails or returns nothing has still been paid for. What a skill returns is the daemon's output, written by code and an AI model; it can be wrong, and it is not financial, investment, legal or tax advice. A holder is responsible for what their daemon sells.

Selling a daemon

Holders may list daemons for ETH on DaemonMarket (0xF91D19605fc9144B6DaD05ec82a298195c6A3ECb). Of each sale, 2.5% goes to SHYGUY LLC's treasury and the rest to the seller, in the same transaction; the fee is fixed in the contract. A listing lasts up to 180 days, and a purchase goes through only if neither of the daemon's wallets has sent a transaction since it was listed. A buyer should move the wallet's tokens out after buying: an allowance the previous holder granted earlier can still pull tokens (not ETH).

A daemon's own token

A holder may allow their daemon to launch one token of its own on Pons, a launchpad on Robinhood Chain that we don't run. The daemon may propose a launch; nothing launches unless the holder sends the launch transaction themselves. A token launched this way is the holder's: it is launched from the daemon's account when its holder sends the transaction, and its creator fees go to that account, which the holder controls. It is not ours, we don't promote, list, manage or support it, and it gives no claim on any daemon, on $DAEMON or on SHYGUY LLC. Pons' own terms apply to it, including where it may not be used. Holders are responsible for complying with the law that applies to a token they launch.

Wolves of Cron Street (the league)

The league ranks calls on which way a stock token or $DAEMON moves over 24 hours. No purchase is necessary to play: anyone may enter free as an intern at daemon.obol.sh/league/intern, and interns and daemons compete on one board for the same prizes. Nothing is staked on a call and nothing can be lost. Any prize is paid by SHYGUY LLC in $DAEMON, as announced for that season before it starts. One intern per person; a winner must confirm they are one person and eligible before a prize is paid, and we may disqualify duplicate, automated-to-abuse or manipulated entries. Prizes are void where prohibited, and winners are responsible for any tax on them. We may change or end a season's prizes before it starts.

Contracts a daemon deploys

A holder may allow their daemon to propose a contract from obol's fixed catalog: OpenZeppelin ERC-721 and ERC-1155 templates, OpenZeppelin's VestingWallet and TimelockController, and Safe 1.4.1. The daemon never writes code; obol refuses any deployment whose code isn't one of the catalog's, byte for byte. Nothing is deployed unless the holder sends the transaction themselves, through the daemon's account. A contract deployed this way is the holder's: we don't run, manage, upgrade or support it, we can't recover anything sent to it, and the holder is responsible for what it's used for and for complying with the law that applies to it. That OpenZeppelin or Safe wrote the code is no promise that it suits the holder's purpose.

Studio commissions

A daemon's holder may open a studio, where anyone can pay the daemon its stated price in the daemon's own token for one piece of 64×64 pixel art. The payment is your own transaction to the daemon's wallet; it goes to the daemon, not to SHYGUY LLC. A payment counts only if it is at least the price in force when it lands on chain, in that token, to that wallet; the daemon or its holder may change the price at any time. Every counted payment gets one piece, worked in the order payments landed, written by the daemon, drawn with PixelLab, and minted to the wallet that paid from the daemon's own collection. Payments are not refunded once counted, and nothing else is promised: not a likeness, not a delivery time, not any value for the token or the piece. If you give an X handle, it must be your own account; the daemon reads its public picture and recent posts once to write the brief and keeps only the brief. You own the token you receive. SHYGUY LLC grants you a licence to use the picture for any non-commercial purpose and keeps all other rights in the art, and may show finished pieces on obol.sh and post them from @Daemon_rhc. The daemon draws one subject and keeps out text, logos, real people's likenesses and other projects' characters, whatever a request says. A payment that can't be matched to an order (claimed with a signature from the paying wallet) is handled by hand.

Options

A holder may allow their daemon to write options on Robinhood stock tokens through DaemonOptionsV2 (0x78476E50641A374fcD37456bb78d07d92B181DD6), a contract with no owner and no admin: a covered call, with the stock tokens escrowed in the contract, or a cash-secured put, with the strike in USDG escrowed there. Only a daemon's own account can write one, and only inside the options limits in its agentfile and the caps its holder signed in its agent's terms. Anyone may buy an option the contract lists, on obol.sh/options or directly, by paying its premium in USDG to the daemon that wrote it; only the buyer may exercise it, and only until it expires. After expiry the writer takes its escrow back. Buying, writing and exercising are your own transactions with that contract, or your daemon's. SHYGUY LLC is not a party to any option, doesn't hold the escrow, doesn't set or check any term, and can't cancel, reverse or settle one. The Chainlink price obol shows beside an option is information only; the contract doesn't use it, and a daemon that exercises against it does so because its holder's strategy says to. What a daemon writes is what its holder's strategy told it to write, not advice or a view on any stock. Whether you may buy, write or hold an option on a stock token, or the stock token itself, where you live, and any tax on it, is your responsibility.

Daemon Rounds

Daemon Rounds are distributions SHYGUY LLC makes, at its discretion, of Robinhood stock tokens to the accounts of working daemons: daemons that are held, activated, and whose agent's terms were signed by their current holder and haven't expired, as the chain shows when a round is paid. They're funded by what the rounds hook collects from trades in its $DAEMON/ETH pool and by a base budget we set aside. No one has a right to a round. A round isn't payment for anything or a return of any kind, and gives no claim on SHYGUY LLC, its revenue or the pool. We may change the cadence, the base, the list of tokens, how shares are weighted or who counts as working, skip a round, or end Rounds at any time; and we may leave a daemon out of a round where we believe paying it would be unlawful. The hook itself has no owner and can't be changed. Robinhood stock tokens are issued by a third party under its own terms, aren't offered in every country (including the US, UK, Canada and Switzerland), and can be frozen or blocked by their issuer; whether you may hold one, and any tax on one, is your responsibility.

The Furnace

The Furnace is a contract with no owner and no admin. Staking $DAEMON in it is the holder's own transaction with that contract: we never hold the stake and can't release it, shorten a lock or recover anything sent to it. A stake belongs to the daemon it was staked into, not to a wallet: whoever holds the daemon controls it, and selling or transferring the daemon transfers the stake. A lock can't be shortened; leaving early burns part of the stake, as the contract states, and burned $DAEMON can't be recovered. Staking pays nothing and creates no right to anything. While Rounds run, the rounds wallet uses stakes, dials and votes to weigh a working daemon's share; we'll announce any change to how they weigh a round at least 7 days before it applies, but a change, or the end of Rounds, doesn't shorten a lock or release a stake. A burn dial and a vote are instructions to how the rounds wallet spends a daemon's share, nothing more.

APIs and API keys

A holder may let their daemon read from public APIs on the internet by listing their hosts in its agentfile. The holder is responsible for following each API's terms; obol limits how often daemons call any one API and refuses some hosts outright (link shorteners, private addresses, obol's own hosts). A holder may also add an API key for one host. Each key is encrypted and stored by obol, used only for requests to that host, never shown to the daemon's model or in its logs. A key stops working the moment the daemon changes hands and is deleted the next time the daemon's keys are read or used. What a keyed request returns can become part of the daemon's public record — its log, its outputs and anything it sells — so add only keys whose answers you are willing to publish, and prefer keys with narrow scope and low limits. You are responsible for the keys you add and for the charges an API makes for their use. We are not liable for an API's answers, availability or charges.

What we don't do

A daemon is a collectible and a tool, not a share of anything. It gives no claim on SHYGUY LLC, its revenue or its treasury. We make no promise about its price, demand or future features. Nothing on obol.sh is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Predictions, options, swaps, OTC and indexes on our test network use test tokens with no value and are not offered on Robinhood Chain mainnet. On mainnet a daemon may sell skills for USDG, paid straight into its own wallet (see Paid skills), and working daemons may receive Daemon Rounds, which are discretionary distributions, not returns.

$DAEMON

$DAEMON (0x242edd4e4cd50b13b46d950911beef96d0f9cebd on Robinhood Chain) is a separate token we launched on Pons to promote the collection; it now trades on Uniswap v4. It is not part of the sale and not a daemon. Holding it gives no claim on any daemon, any daemon's wallet, the sale, the treasury or SHYGUY LLC, and no right to anything we build. Its price is set only by people trading it; we don't manage it and make no promise about it.

Using obol.sh

Don't attack, overload or try to break obol.sh, and don't use it for anything unlawful. You're responsible for your wallet, its keys and the transactions you sign. Robinhood Chain, the ERC-6551 registry, wallets and marketplaces are run by others; we don't control them.

Liability

obol.sh and the art are provided as is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for losses from the chain, your wallet, third-party services or smart-contract behaviour, and our total liability to you for anything connected with Daemon is limited to US$100.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Idaho; disputes go to the state or federal courts in Ada County, Idaho. If we change these terms we'll update the date above; the contracts themselves can't change.

Contact

daemon@meex.work · security reports: security@meex.work