Terms of Use

1. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you live, and able to enter a binding agreement. Keep your sign-in account secure and provide accurate information. You are responsible for activity performed through your account.

2. Independent marketplace

Sanctuary Bazaar provides community listings, reputation tools, and optional trade coordination. The Bazaar does not create, own, sell, warrant, or control game items listed by members. A listing is not a guarantee that an item exists, can be transferred, or may lawfully be traded.

You may list or complete only transactions allowed by the applicable publisher’s terms and local law. If a publisher prohibits a transaction, it is prohibited on Sanctuary Bazaar.

3. Ducats and fixed supply

Ducats are closed-loop platform credits with a fixed maximum system supply of 1,000,000,000 DCT. They are not money, cryptocurrency, blockchain tokens, an investment, or a bank deposit; they earn no interest and cannot be redeemed for cash. All grants move existing Ducats from disclosed Treasury, reward, or market-bankroll accounts rather than creating new Ducats.

The Ducat Standard treats 1.00 DCT as the consistent internal accounting and quote unit. This is not a representation, guarantee, or redemption promise that one Ducat equals one U.S. dollar. Paid Ducat packs and new memberships are paused during the free launch; standardized-contract marks may fluctuate against DCT.

The ledger supports four decimal places, so its smallest accounting unit is 0.0001 DCT. Ordinary prices and wallet balances are normally displayed to two decimal places; funding, fees, and weighted distributions may be displayed to four. Display rounding does not change the underlying ledger amount.

Legitimately purchased and membership-granted Ducats roll over and do not expire while the service remains available. One-time sales may pause when the Commerce Treasury reaches the published 15% reserve floor. The Bazaar may reverse Ducats credited through fraud, duplicate processing, payment reversal, refund, dispute, or technical error. Peer transfers and simulated markets are subject to disclosed limits and fees. Fees are recirculated among Treasury, rewards, the subscriber Market Share pool, and eligible liquidity providers; paid-entry raffles are not enabled.

4. Rewards, referrals, standardized perpetuals, and liquidity

The daily wheel is a free promotional account reward. No purchase is required and purchases do not improve the published odds. Eligibility requires an account at least 24 hours old and a completed trader profile. A verified administrative Founder account may bypass purchase and account-age onboarding gates, but remains subject to reward frequency, balance, transfer, liquidity-lock, and market-risk limits. The first 50 non-founder trader accounts receive 500 Ducats once, in account creation order. Each non-founder trader may receive 10 Ducats on the first authenticated visit of each UTC day. The daily wheel usually awards 5 Ducats at its published odds. These grants move Ducats from existing reserves and may be withheld or reversed for duplicate identity, automation, collusion, or abuse. Purchase-based referral rewards are paused while checkout is unavailable.

Standardized Perpetuals is a closed-loop constant-product automated-market-maker simulation limited to audited Diablo II contract definitions. The initial catalog contains the 33 runes, seven Perfect Gems, Stone of Jordan, and Harlequin Crest. Harlequin Crest’s base-defense roll is ignored because its relevant modifiers are fixed or deterministically scale with character level. Runewords, charms, and any item with meaningful rolled affixes are excluded unless a future published contract defines a genuinely comparable unit. It is not a securities, commodities, cryptocurrency, wagering, or real-money derivatives exchange. Positions do not create ownership of game items or real assets. Marks respond to simulated order flow, and outcomes are subject to disclosed fees, liquidity, leverage, loss, bankroll, funding-reserve, and profit limits.

Index-linked listings capture the server’s current AMM mark and the applicable contract definition when published. Variable-stat listings remain trader-priced and do not influence the standardized index. Protocol-owned market liquidity and separately disclosed community liquidity support each pair. New opening orders are limited by a 100,000 DCT market open-interest cap, a 25,000 DCT account exposure cap per pair, a 2% maximum estimated order impact, and 5% hourly and 15% daily circuit breakers. Risk-reducing exits remain available while a breaker is active. These controls reduce instability but do not guarantee a price or prevent losses.

Funding is calculated on an eight-hour-equivalent schedule. A positive funding rate means crowded longs pay shorts; a negative rate means crowded shorts pay longs. Because members may close positions at different times, an internal funding reserve holds collected funding and can limit a receiving position’s credit to the amount currently available. Funding rates and projected credits can change before settlement.

Eligible members may supply Ducats to a selected simulated market pool and receive internal pool shares. When community liquidity is active, up to 50% of the opening fee is routed to the provider reserve. Pool value can rise from allocated fees and trader losses or fall when trader profits are settled. Liquidity is locked for the disclosed period, returns are not guaranteed, and pool shares cannot be transferred or redeemed for cash, game items, or anything outside Sanctuary Bazaar.

5. Memberships, Market Share rewards, and billing

New memberships and Ducat purchases are coming soon and cannot be started during the free launch. Existing memberships, if any, continue under their agreed billing terms until cancelled. Memberships renew monthly at the price shown during checkout until cancelled. You authorize the disclosed recurring charge. You can manage payment methods or cancel through Stripe’s billing portal. Cancellation stops future renewals and normally takes effect at the end of the paid billing period.

Monthly Ducat grants are issued only after Stripe confirms successful payment. A failed, disputed, or reversed payment can pause membership benefits and future grants.

Active paid memberships may qualify for a weekly Market Share entitlement funded with 15% of standardized perpetual opening fees and 10% of eligible liquidation fees after collateral and insurance obligations. Entitlements are weighted by the active plan at the UTC snapshot: Wayfarer 1×, Merchant 2×, and Guildmaster 3×. The pool size, number of qualifying members, and total weight can change. Market Share rewards are internal Ducats only; they do not represent profit, revenue ownership, interest, dividends, or a guaranteed return, and they cannot be redeemed for cash.

6. Marketplace, forum conduct, and identity

Do not post fraudulent or misleading listings or forum content, impersonate another person, manipulate reputation or AMM markets, coordinate wash transfers, evade payment controls, farm referrals, use automated reward claims, distribute malware, harass members, trade stolen property or accounts, or use the Bazaar for unlawful activity. Ducat trading boards are limited to the supported Diablo II and Path of Exile sections. Other-game rooms are for discussion and group finding only and may not be used to sell game items for Ducats. Public handle changes are limited to once every 90 days and preserved in name history. Never request another member’s password, payment-card data, authentication code, or account recovery information.

7. Mediation

Mediation is an optional coordination and recordkeeping service, not legal arbitration, insured escrow, or a guarantee of performance. Members remain responsible for verifying the other party, the in-game identity, the item, and the publisher’s rules before completing a trade.

8. Enforcement and service changes

The Bazaar may remove content or suspend accounts reasonably believed to involve fraud, abuse, legal risk, payment disputes, security threats, publisher-rule violations, coordinated market manipulation, or exploitation of reward systems. Material pricing or policy changes will be disclosed before they take effect where required.

9. Disclaimers

The service is provided on an “as available” basis to the extent permitted by law. No result, uninterrupted availability, item authenticity, account safety, market outcome, Ducat gain, or successful trade is guaranteed. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or remedies that cannot legally be excluded.