Read this before you use RIVE.

Acceptance

By visiting this site, opening the console, using the API, or holding any future $RIVE token, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted this disclaimer in full, and that you act on your own judgment and at your own risk. If you do not accept it, your only remedy is to stop using RIVE.

Experimental software — may change or break

RIVE is an early-stage experiment. Features, pricing, models, and behavior may change, degrade, or be removed at any time, without notice. The service may be interrupted, discontinued, or wound down entirely. No uptime, availability, or service level is promised to anyone. Do not build anything you cannot afford to have stop working.

Sealed inference — how far the privacy claim goes

RIVE is a thin, metered pipe into sealed inference. Models run on a third-party confidential TEE (trusted-execution-environment) infrastructure provider. RIVE routes and meters traffic — it counts tokens, it does not read or retain your prompts or completions — and it does not operate the underlying TEE hardware.

This means: RIVE cannot see into the sealed environments where your prompts are processed, and it makes no claims beyond that. We describe this as sealed and private, not "verifiable," "provable," or "attested." Confidential-compute is isolation, not magic — the practical protection is that the host (including whoever runs the machine) sees ciphertext and token counts, not your words. You are also trusting the third-party provider's hardware and operation, which are outside RIVE's control. If you require a formally attested or independently proven guarantee, RIVE does not offer one.

No warranty — provided "as is"

RIVE is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind — express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy, or non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator and contributors of RIVE are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages — including lost funds, lost tokens, lost data, or lost profits — arising from or related to your use of the site, the console, the API, or any $RIVE token. Your sole and exclusive remedy is to stop using RIVE.

Model outputs — may be wrong

The language models RIVE routes to can produce output that is inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, biased, or offensive, and may fabricate facts. Output is generated automatically and is not reviewed by a human. Nothing produced through RIVE is professional advice of any kind — it is not financial, investment, legal, medical, tax, or other professional advice. Verify anything important independently, and do not rely on model output for decisions that carry real consequences.

Acceptable use

You must not use RIVE for anything illegal or to produce content that is unlawful where you are, nor to harm others, infringe rights, or evade sanctions and export controls. Because RIVE holds no account profile, enforcement is blunt: abuse of the service can and will be cut off at the network or balance level. You are solely responsible for your prompts, your use of any output, and compliance with all laws and third-party terms that apply to you.

Payments & deposits

RIVE is pay-as-you-go. You top up a balance with crypto on Ethereum — USDC or ETH — sent from your own wallet or exchange. You are responsible for sending to the correct address on the correct network and for the Ethereum gas your transaction costs; RIVE adds no deposit fee of its own.

On-chain transactions are irreversible. Deposits credit your balance after confirmation and, once spent on inference, are consumed and non-refundable. Deposit values are priced at settlement via an oracle; the credited amount may differ from what you expected due to price movement, rounding, or network conditions. Funds sent to a wrong address, on a wrong network, or in an unsupported asset may be permanently lost and cannot be recovered by RIVE.

Crypto & regulatory risk

Digital assets are volatile and carry risk of loss. Blockchains, wallets, bridges, exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and oracles can fail, be exploited, be paused, de-peg, or behave unexpectedly, and such failures are outside RIVE's control. The legal treatment of digital assets and AI services varies by jurisdiction and changes frequently. You are solely responsible for the lawfulness of your use where you live and for any taxes or reporting that result.

The $RIVE token

There is no $RIVE token today. No token has been issued, no contract deployed, and no sale conducted. Any reference to "$RIVE" describes a possible future and is not an offer, solicitation, promise, or commitment to launch one.

If a token ever exists, it would be an experimental digital asset, not a security, share, investment, or financial instrument, and holding it would confer no rights: no equity or ownership, no dividend or revenue share, no governance, no redemption right, and no claim on RIVE, its operator, its revenue, or any asset. It could be volatile and could go to zero. Treat any future token as something to observe or participate in at your own risk — never as an investment. Beware of impersonators: only an address published on an official RIVE channel would be genuine, and no such address exists yet.

No affiliation or endorsement

RIVE is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with the Ethereum Foundation, Circle Internet Group (issuer of USDC), the third-party TEE infrastructure provider, or any model developer whose open-weights model RIVE may route to. All names, marks, and logos belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe what RIVE builds on. Any statement claiming such an affiliation is false.

Your key is your account

Your RIVE account is a sixteen-character hex fingerprint — the code you tap on the pad. There is no email, no password, and no name attached, so there is no account recovery and no password reset. RIVE holds nothing to reset against and cannot restore access.

If you lose your code, your account and its balance are gone, permanently. If someone else obtains your code, they have your account and your balance. Treat the code like a private key: save it somewhere safe, do not share it, and do not store it where others can read it. You are solely responsible for keeping it.

Eligibility & jurisdiction

You are responsible for determining whether accessing this site, using the console or API, or holding any future $RIVE token is lawful where you live, and for complying with all applicable laws. Do not use RIVE if doing so is restricted or prohibited in your jurisdiction, or if you are a prohibited or sanctioned person. Nothing here is an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where that would be unlawful.

Forward-looking statements

Anything on this site, in the docs, or in RIVE communications that describes future plans, roadmaps, models, pricing, features, or a possible token is a forward-looking statement, not a promise. Plans are aspirational and may change or never happen. There is no company owed a roadmap and no commitment to continued development, listing, liquidity, or support. Do not rely on any forward-looking statement.

Changes to these terms

This disclaimer may be updated at any time; the effective date above changes when it is. The current version is always the one at this URL. Continued use of RIVE after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.