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Terms of service & privacy policy
Last updated: 20 October 2026 · jump to the privacy policy
Taosis (taosis.com, “the Services”) is operated under the trade name Taosis. Questions about anything on this page: [email protected].
Terms of service
1. Acceptance of terms
By accessing or using the website, its public API, or any related service, you agree to these terms. You must be of legal age and legally able to enter into them where you live. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
2. What the Services are
Taosis is an informational explorer for the Bittensor network. It reads prices, balances, validator and subnet data directly from the public Bittensor chain and presents them, together with aggregated news and a TAO/USD rate from CoinGecko for figures shown in dollars. Everything is provided for information only. Taosis is non-custodial: it never holds, controls or has access to your funds or your private keys. Taosis never asks you to sign anything; any transaction you make happens in your own wallet.
3. Your responsibilities
You are responsible for the security of your wallet, its seed phrase and any device you use. You agree to use the Services lawfully and not to disrupt, overload, abusively scrape, or attempt unauthorised access to them or to the infrastructure behind them.
4. No investment advice, no responsibility for transactions
Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, an offer, or a solicitation. Figures may be delayed or incomplete; a value Taosis cannot verify is shown as “—”, never as a zero. Crypto-assets are volatile and you can lose your entire stake. Taosis does not execute, relay or sign transactions: anything you do on the chain happens in your own wallet or on a third-party platform, under its terms, and is your sole responsibility.
5. API usage
The public API is offered without warranty and is rate-limited. Heavy or automated use must be cached on your side; access may be limited or revoked for abuse. See the API documentation.
6. Disclaimers
The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind. Taosis does not warrant the completeness, timeliness or accuracy of any data, nor uninterrupted availability.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Taosis is not liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of, reliance on, or inability to use the Services or their data, including losses on transactions you signed.
8. Intellectual property
On-chain data is public and not owned by Taosis. The site’s own text, design and code belong to Taosis. Third-party names, logos and trademarks (subnet names, wallet providers, etc.) belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only.
9. Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated; the date at the top of this page changes when they are. Continued use after a change means you accept it.
10. Contact
Privacy policy
The short version: Taosis collects as little as possible, sets no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, and never sells data. Its own page counter stores no IP address; the server’s access logs and Cloudflare, which delivers the site, do see it, as set out below. It holds no email address unless you subscribe to one of its newsletters, Taosis Weekly or Taosis News. Effective date: 20 October 2026.
1. What is collected
Page views — counted in Taosis’s own database: the path (never the query string, and on a wallet page the address is replaced by a placeholder), the referrer host (the domain that linked here, never a full URL) and a random visitor id your browser keeps in its own localStorage. It is not a cookie, is not linked to your identity and follows you nowhere else. Since 9 October 2026 a view also records three broad classes: your country, as Cloudflare reports it in a request header (two letters, never the IP address it comes from), your device type (mobile, tablet or desktop) and your browser family (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Samsung, Opera or other), read from your browser’s user-agent — the user-agent itself is not stored. No IP address is stored with a view. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, this counter records no view at all. A view is sent only once you move the pointer, tap, scroll with the wheel or a finger, or press a key on the page, and never from a browser driven by a program — so robots that open a page and leave are not counted.
Server logs — like any web server, Taosis’s servers log each request: your IP address, the time, the full address requested (for a wallet page that includes the wallet address, and for a search what you searched), the referring page and your browser’s user-agent. The logs are kept for security and troubleshooting and are deleted after 30 days. They are also summarised into daily traffic statistics: how many requests each day came from browsers, from declared crawlers (Googlebot, ClaudeBot…) and from scripts, how many were refused and why, and which sections of the site they read — plus, for abuse prevention, the most active IP addresses of each day with their request counts, the kind of client and the sections they read. These summaries hold no user-agent string and no full address requested; the rows that name an address are kept 30 days, the anonymous daily totals 35.
Cloudflare — the site is served through Cloudflare, which handles every request, your IP address included, to deliver and protect it. Cloudflare adds two scripts to every page. Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookieless script, reports each page view — its address, which on a wallet page includes the wallet address, and its load times — to Cloudflare; it does not read Do Not Track, and a content blocker stops it. Cloudflare’s bot protection runs a detection script (served from /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/) that examines your browser to tell people from bots and sets a security cookie, cf_clearance, valid for up to a year — on an ordinary first visit, without showing you any challenge. From Cloudflare, Taosis reads back only counts — requests, page views, unique visitors and countries per day, and how many requests each of its security rules stopped — never an IP address. On the newsletter’s sign-up form and on its confirmation page, Cloudflare Turnstile — the same kind of check, from challenges.cloudflare.com — runs in your browser to tell a person from a bot. It sends Cloudflare signals about your browser, never your email address, and hands the form a one-time token that Taosis’s server checks with Cloudflare (sending it that token and your IP address) before it stores a sign-up or confirms an address. Most people never see it; it shows a checkbox only when Cloudflare is unsure.
Sponsored units — on a wide screen, the news feed may show a sponsored unit in each side margin, served by A-Ads (a-ads.com), a crypto advertising network, in a sandboxed frame from acceptable.a-ads.com. Your browser loads it from A-Ads, which therefore sees your IP address and the site’s address (taosis.com, never the page you are on); A-Ads says it sets no cookie and builds no profile. Taosis sends A-Ads nothing about you, and the frame cannot read this page or what you do on it. On a phone or a narrower window no unit is loaded at all. The left margin may instead hold a partner link to Kraken, a crypto exchange: it is a plain link on this site (Kraken receives nothing until you click it), and Taosis may earn a reward if you open an account through it.
News images — thumbnails, X media and avatars on news cards are loaded by your browser straight from their publishers’ hosts (for example pbs.twimg.com, avatars.githubusercontent.com or a blog platform), which therefore see your IP address when one comes into view. They are loaded only as you scroll to them and without a referrer, so the host is not told which Taosis page you were on.
Wallet address — when you connect a wallet, the extension shares your public address so the page can open your portfolio; you can also paste any address. Addresses and everything staked to them are public on-chain data; Taosis reads them from the chain to answer the page. Your private keys and seed phrase never reach Taosis, and the site never asks you to sign anything.
Newsletters — only if you subscribe to Taosis Weekly or Taosis News. Taosis then stores your email address (in lower case), whether it is confirmed, when you signed up and first confirmed (to the hour), which form you used (the site footer, the news page or the newsletter page), which newsletters your latest request asked for and, until that request is confirmed or has expired, when confirmation emails were sent to you (no second one within an hour, at most three in 24 hours), for each newsletter you confirmed when you confirmed it and, once you leave it, when and how (to the hour), one-way hashes of the secret tokens in your confirmation and unsubscribe links — never the tokens themselves — and, for each issue, whether and when it was sent to you with Resend’s id for that email, so that nobody receives an issue twice. To limit abuse — a legitimate interest: the form must not be usable to flood an inbox or to use up the day’s emails — each sign-up attempt also records a keyed hash of your IP address (for IPv6, of its /64 block, plus one of its /48 block), and each confirmation email is recorded with the same hashes of the IP address that asked for it and a keyed hash of the inbox it went to (the address without its +tag, and for Gmail without its dots): no inbox can then be flooded through variants of its address, and no single visitor can use up the day’s confirmation emails. These hashes are made with keys that exist only in the server’s memory, never in the database or its backups: a new key every UTC day, also used the next day for the checks that span midnight, and all of them lost at a restart. They are deleted after 48 hours, and the newsletter’s records never hold the IP address itself (the server logs above do). The legal basis of the newsletters is your consent, given for each newsletter: nothing is sent until you confirm from the email you receive (double opt-in; the link is valid for 48 hours), and an address that is not confirmed in time is deleted; that email also has a link that deletes the address at once. Adding a newsletter later works the same way: a new confirmation email names it, and none of it is sent until you confirm. The one exception: if you ask Taosis directly to add another newsletter to an address you have already confirmed, Taosis adds it for you without a second email. Every issue carries a personal unsubscribe link that stops that newsletter, and your mail app’s own unsubscribe button does the same; the page the link opens can also stop every newsletter at once. Leaving a newsletter withdraws your consent to it; leaving your last one (or all of them at once) deletes your address at once. It is deleted the same way when you ask Taosis to remove it, and when Resend reports that emails to it bounce for good, that one was marked as spam, or that Resend no longer delivers to it. What remains holds no address: the record’s status, dates (to the hour), form and how it ended, the newsletters it asked for and had, with when each began and ended, the hashes of its links’ tokens (an old link then answers that the address is gone), and which issues were delivered to it, without Resend’s ids, which could lead back to the address — so that the counts stay right. How long each is kept: your address, for as long as you stay subscribed to at least one newsletter (one never confirmed, until its confirmation link expires); the IP and inbox hashes, 48 hours; Resend’s ids, until you leave the newsletter they belong to; the delivery records (for each issue, whether and when it was sent) and, once you have left, the address-free record above, for as long as Taosis publishes a newsletter: they are what keeps an issue from ever being sent twice, and what the counts are made of. The emails carry no tracking pixel and no click tracking: their links go straight to taosis.com pages, and their one image, the animated Taosis logo, travels inside the email, so opening one loads nothing from anywhere. Your address travels in the body of the sign-up request, never in a web address, so it is not in the server logs; the addresses of the confirmation and unsubscribe pages, and the one-click unsubscribe address your mail app posts to, do carry their token, which the server logs record like any address requested. The emails are sent by Resend(resend.com), an email-delivery service that receives your address and each email in order to deliver it, can report bounces and spam complaints back to Taosis, and keeps its own delivery logs under its own retention. Taosis sends through Resend’s EU region (Amazon Web Services in Ireland); Resend is a US company and may also process the data in the United States, where its main processing takes place. That transfer relies on Resend’s certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and its UK Extension) and on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, both part of the data processing agreement under which Resend works for Taosis.
2. How it is used
To show you the positions you ask for, to count which pages are used, to keep the service secure — and, if you subscribed, to send you the newsletters you chose.
3. What Taosis never does
No sale of any data. No advertising cookies, advertising or social pixels, or location tracking, and Taosis itself does no fingerprinting (Cloudflare’s bot-detection script, described above, examines your browser only to tell people from bots). The only third-party analytics is Cloudflare Web Analytics, described above. The newsletters carry no tracking pixel and no click tracking, and their list is never sold or used for anything else. No access to private keys — ever. Subnet logos are served from our own server rather than hotlinked, so the sites they come from never see your visit.
4. Sharing
Data is shared only with the providers needed to run the service — Hostinger International Ltd hosts the server; Cloudflare, Inc. serves DNS and the CDN and runs Web Analytics and the bot protection; Resend sends Taosis Weekly and Taosis News to their subscribers (section 1) — each processing it for that purpose, and with authorities where the law requires it. News images are fetched by your own browser from their publishers, as described in section 1.
5. Security and what your browser keeps
Everything is served over HTTPS. Taosis never asks you to sign anything. Your browser’s local storage holds only what the site remembers for you: your theme, starred subnets, screener columns, chart layout and price scale, a dismissed announcement, the visitor id, and — if you set them — the wallet address you use as your own and the addresses you saved to watch. The visitor id is sent with each page view (section 1). The addresses you saved to watch stay in your browser: Taosis’s server never receives them as a list, only the address of a page you open. The wallet you set as your own is sent too: to mark your own trades on the price charts, every subnet page and the markets overview ask Taosis’s API for that wallet’s fills on the subnet shown, so its address is in those request URLs — and therefore, with your IP address, in the server logs and in the requests Cloudflare handles (section 1) — on any subnet page you open, not only on your wallet’s own page. Disconnecting the wallet stops it.
6. Your choices and rights
Disconnect your wallet at any time; unsubscribe from a newsletter with the link in any of its issues (or your mail app’s unsubscribe button), and from all of them on the page that link opens — leaving the last one deletes your address at once; clear site data for taosis.com to erase the visitor id, the saved addresses and every local preference; turn on “Do Not Track” to opt out of Taosis’s own page counting (use a content blocker for Cloudflare’s script). Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct or delete any personal data held about you, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive the data you provided yourself — your newsletter address — in a portable format: write to [email protected]. Taosis holds none beyond what this page lists. Where the processing rests on your consent, as the newsletter does, you can withdraw it at any time (unsubscribing does exactly that), without affecting what was done before. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the country where you live or work or where you think your rights were infringed. On-chain data cannot be altered or deleted by anyone; it lives on a public blockchain, not on Taosis.
7. Updates
This policy may be updated; material changes are reflected in the date at the top of this page.