TERMS OF USE — THE SLOP MACHINE
Last updated: 2026-08-08
The Slop Machine ("the Project") is an experimental on-chain art project: a fixed
collection of 5,000 ERC-721 artworks and a companion ERC-20 token, $SLOP,
deployed to the Ethereum mainnet. By connecting a wallet, minting, or otherwise
interacting with the Project's smart contracts or website, you agree to these Terms.
If you do not agree, do not use the Project.
1. Nature of the Project — no investment, no promises
The Project is a work of art and a software experiment. It is not an investment
product, a security, a fund, or a financial instrument, and nothing about it is an
offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security. **$SLOP has no intrinsic value,
no promised utility, and no expectation of profit.** Apart from the fee below, the dev takes
no cut of mint proceeds — each mint gives the minter a fixed 100 $SLOP (the same for every
minter), and the mint's ETH separately buys $SLOP from the pool and burns it. The pool is seeded
flat, so 100 $SLOP is worth approximately the 0.01 ETH mint price for every mint, first to last;
over the run roughly half of the total supply is burned and the paid ETH ends locked as pool
liquidity. A **1% fee, taken in ETH, applies to every $SLOP
swap — including the buys each mint performs — and is routed to the deploying wallet** as the
dev's only revenue (see "Fees" below). Do not mint, hold, or trade with any expectation of
financial return. You may lose the entire value of anything you spend.
1a. Fees
The only fee in the Project is a 1% fee on every $SLOP swap, taken in ETH by the Uniswap
v4 hook and sent to the wallet that deployed the contracts. It applies to all buys and sells,
including the buys each mint performs — so it is charged from the very first mint, not only
after the market opens at mint-out. There is no separate mint fee and no other rake. The fee
rate and its routing are fixed in the deployed contracts and are disclosed here so no one is
surprised by them.
2. Immutable, autonomous contracts
Once deployed, the Project's smart contracts are immutable and autonomous. They
cannot be paused, upgraded, reversed, or refunded by anyone, including the dev.
In particular, by design and permanently in code:
- While the collection is minting, the only address that can buy $SLOP is the mint
contract. **When all 5,000 pieces mint out, external buying opens automatically and
permanently** — triggered in code by the final mint, not by any switch the dev controls.
- All $SLOP liquidity is seeded once and its position is burned; liquidity can
never be added or removed by anyone.
- Each mint gives the minter a fixed 100 $SLOP, identical for every minter regardless of
mint order and worth approximately the mint price throughout; the mint's ETH separately buys
$SLOP from the pool and burns it (roughly half of supply is burned over the run). **Selling $SLOP
back to the pool is always open** — there is no lock or gate on selling at any time, before or
after mint-out.
You are solely responsible for understanding these mechanics before interacting.
3. Eligibility and your responsibility
You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Project is lawful in your
jurisdiction, including securities, tax, and consumer-protection law. Do not use the
Project if it is prohibited where you are, or if you are a sanctioned person or in a
sanctioned jurisdiction. You are responsible for your own taxes. You are
responsible for the security of your wallet, keys, and transactions. Blockchain
transactions are irreversible; a transaction sent to the wrong place or at the wrong
time cannot be undone.
4. No warranty
The Project, its contracts, its website, and all associated content are provided
"as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, express or implied,
including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Smart contracts may contain bugs. The website, IPFS gateways, RPC providers, and the
Ethereum network may fail, stall, or be unavailable. No uptime, liquidity, price, or
resale market is guaranteed for the NFTs or $SLOP.
5. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the dev and any contributors are **not
liable** for any loss or damage of any kind arising from your use of the Project,
including loss of funds, tokens, or NFTs; gas spent; smart-contract or network
failure; price movements; or third-party services (wallets, exchanges, gateways,
RPCs). Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction is to stop using the Project.
6. Intellectual property
Each NFT is a token on Ethereum pointing to an artwork and its caption stored on
IPFS. Owning an NFT gives you ownership of that token and a personal, non-exclusive
license to display the associated artwork for personal, non-commercial purposes. The
dev retains copyright in the underlying artworks and captions except as expressly
granted here. The $SLOP name and token are part of the artwork.
7. No affiliation
The Project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ethereum, Uniswap,
IPFS, Pinata, any wallet provider, or any other third party whose technology it uses.
References to those technologies are descriptive only.
8. Changes
These Terms may be updated; the website version with its "Last updated" date is
controlling. The contracts themselves cannot change — only this document and the
website may. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance.
9. Public data
All on-chain activity — mints, transfers, swaps, burns, and wallet addresses — is
public and permanent by the nature of a public blockchain. See the Privacy Policy.
10. Assumption of risk
By using the Project you acknowledge and accept all risks of interacting with experimental
smart contracts and public blockchains, including but not limited to: bugs or vulnerabilities
in the contracts; failure, congestion, or reorganization of the Ethereum network; failure or
unavailability of wallets, RPC providers, IPFS gateways, or the website; volatility or total
loss of value of the NFTs or $SLOP; the absence of any resale market or liquidity; regulatory
or tax developments; and the irreversibility of blockchain transactions. **You use the Project
entirely at your own risk.**
11. Binding arbitration; waiver of court trial and class actions
Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. By using the Project you
agree that any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, the
Project, $SLOP, the NFTs, or your use of the website or the contracts **shall be resolved
exclusively and finally by binding individual arbitration, rather than in court.** You and the
dev each waive the right to a trial by jury and **waive the right to participate in a class,
collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action.** Any arbitration
or proceeding shall be conducted solely on an individual basis. These Terms and your use of
the Project are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to
conflict-of-law principles.
12. Limitation of liability (cap)
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the dev and any contributors shall not be liable for any
indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages, and **in no event shall the
dev's aggregate liability exceed the lesser of (a) USD $100 or (b) the amount you paid in
connection with the claim.** This is in addition to the limitations in Section 5.