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The Uphold Platform allows unrestricted users in good standing who reside in eligible jurisdictions to stake certain cryptocurrencies held on the Uphold Platform in a third-party proof-of-stake network. When you purchase a cryptocurrency that is eligible for staking (an “Eligible Cryptocurrency”), you may be given the option to participate in the Uphold’s staking program (the “Staking Program”) whereby you may earn rewards (“Staking Rewards”) based on the amount of Eligible Cryptocurrency you choose to stake. A minimum amount of Eligible Cryptocurrency may be required to participate in the Staking Program. Holders of Eligible Cryptocurrencies are not required to participate in the Staking Program, and participants may stop participating at any time, subject to the terms set forth below. Please view our FAQ for Staking for more information.

The Staking Program

If you reside in a country where Uphold makes the Staking Program available other than Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, or Switzerland, and you do not opt in to the Staking Program, you acknowledge and agree that Uphold may stake any Eligible Assets you hold on the platform in its own name and retain for itself any rewards earned. While Eligible Assets are staked on behalf of Uphold, you are not entitled to and will not receive any Staking Rewards, but you will not be subject to any unbounding periods (see below) with respect to your Eligible Assets. 

Special Terms for Users residing Outside of Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, or Switzerland.

Based on the amount of Eligible Cryptocurrency that you choose to stake, you will be eligible to receive Staking Rewards. Staking Rewards are rewards paid in the same Eligible Cryptocurrency that is staked. 

Uphold earns a commission between 3% - 34% depending on the asset being staked. In order to ensure full transparency to our users, the estimated APY rate takes our commission into account.

You have no right to a Staking Reward unless and until the relevant reward is actually received by Uphold. Staking Rewards are delivered to your Uphold account weekly after any preparation period has been completed (see below). All Staking Rewards delivered to you will automatically be re-staked if possible, and will then themselves be eligible to receive Staking Rewards after the applicable preparation period.

Staking and Staking Rewards; Commission; Compounding

Any annualized percentage reward rate (APRR) listed on the Uphold Platform is only an estimate of the potential percentage reward rate that participants may earn over the course of a year based on the then-current rewards offered by the relevant network of Eligible Cryptocurrency, after taking into account Uphold’s commission and the compounding of Staking Rewards earned. This estimate may change over time. The actual Staking Rewards you receive may be more or less than this amount.

APRR

When you opt-in to the Staking Program, there may be a preparation period of up to four days before the amount you stake is eligible to receive Staking Rewards. You will be notified of any preparation period prior to staking your Eligible Cryptocurrency.

Preparation Periods

Depending on the Eligible Cryptocurrency, the network of the Eligible Cryptocurrency may require an “unbounding” period during which staked Eligible Cryptocurrency cannot be transferred, exchanged or withdrawn. This period varies, depending on each network of the Eligible Cryptocurrency, and is typically set at up to 30 days, but may be longer. Uphold will make reasonable efforts by managing liquidity to allow participants in the Staking Program to transfer, exchange or withdraw their staked Eligible Cryptocurrency prior to the completion of the relevant unbounding period, but in periods of high demand, you may be required to wait up to the full unbounding period specified by the relevant network, plus a short administrative period of up to 4 days. During any unbounding period in which your Eligible Cryptocurrency remains unable to be transferred, exchanged or withdrawn, you will not earn Staking Rewards. At the end of any applicable unbounding period, your Uphold account will be credited with the relevant Eligible Cryptocurrency and only then will it be available for transfer, exchange, or withdrawal.

Unbounding Periods

Each asset has a minimum token per transaction amount, and a maximum weekly unstaking limit per the table below:

Maximum/minimum staking limits

The relevant networks of Eligible Cryptocurrencies may charge “slashing fees” based on downtime or if the transaction validator representing the staked assets incorrectly validates a transaction. In the unlikely event that any slashing fees are charged based on the Eligible Cryptocurrency that you choose to stake using the Staking Program, Uphold will promptly reimburse you for any such amount charged.

Slashing Fees

UPHOLD MAKES NO GUARANTEES THAT ANY STAKING REWARDS WILL ACTUALLY BE EARNED, NOR THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE ANY PARTICULAR RETURN OVER TIME, INCLUDING ANY ESTIMATED APRR THAT MAY BE DISCLOSED. UPHOLD DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE STAKING PROGRAM WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS OR FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME. TERMS OF STAKING MAY BE CHANGED BY THE NETWORKS OF THE RELEVANT ELIGIBLE CRYPTOCURRENCIES WITHOUT UPHOLD’S CONSENT, AND SUCH CHANGES MAY BE PASSED ON TO YOU. UPHOLD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND, WITHDRAW, AMEND, OR TERMINATE THE STAKING PROGRAM IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, INCLUDING DESIGNATING AN ASSET AS AN ELIGIBLE CRYPTOCURRENCY.

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The tax treatment of cryptocurrency may be uncertain in various jurisdictions around the world. You are solely responsible for reporting and paying any applicable taxes based on your transactions on the Uphold Platform, including any Staking Rewards that you may earn. 

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In addition to the risks related to investment in cryptocurrency generally (see our Risks Specific To Holding Digital Assets and Important Disclosures), staking poses additional risks. Cryptocurrencies are volatile assets and cryptocurrencies that are staked may lose value over time, including over the period that they are staked and any unbounding period, and so an asset may earn rewards while staked but still lose value. You may not be able to liquidate your investment while assets are staked. You may not be able to unstake an Eligible Cryptocurrency until the end of the applicable unbounding period. The networks of Eligible Cryptocurrencies may change rewards that are offered, preparation periods, or unbounding periods in their sole discretion. Do not stake assets unless you are able to bear the risk of waiting for any applicable unbounding period to end. You acknowledge that Uphold does not provide investment, legal, or tax advice to you in connection with your activity on the Uphold Platform, including your participation in the Staking Program. You should consult with your own investment, legal, and tax advisors prior to making any investment decision, including whether to participate in the Staking Program.

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These terms, in addition to our General Terms and Conditions and User Agreement, (available here ), govern your use of certain staking services on the Uphold Platform. Note that staking services are not currently available in the US, Canada, the UK, the EEA, Japan, Singapore, or in other jurisdictions in which Uphold does not generally make its services available. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in the General Terms and Conditions or the User Agreement.

Uphold’s services are offered to members based on specific terms and conditions. These documents detail exactly what you can expect of us, and what we expect of you when you use the platform. 

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These terms, in addition to our General Terms and Conditions and your applicable User Agreement (available here for residents of the US.; here if you are a resident of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland; or here if you reside anywhere else in the world), govern your use of certain stablecoins on the Uphold Platform. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in the General Terms and Conditions or the applicable User Agreement.

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These terms, in addition to our General Terms and Conditions and your applicable User Agreement (available here for residents of the US.; here if you are a resident of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland; or here if you reside anywhere else in the world), govern your use of VCOIN on the Uphold Platform. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in the General Terms and Conditions or the applicable User Agreement. By obtaining or using VCOIN, you understand and expressly agree to these VCOIN Terms, and you acknowledge that you have reviewed and understand each of the statements made in these Terms. 

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This User Agreement (this “Agreement”) is for our users who are residents of, or who access our Platform from, countries outside of the United States, the European Economic Area (EEA), the European Union (EU), or Switzerland, and governs the access and use of our mobile applications, products, software, websites, APIs and other services (our “Platform”) and, where applicable, other service providers available on or through the Platform. It is a binding contract between you and Uphold Worldwide Ltd., Reg No. 177867, Registered Office: Aristo House, Office A, The Balmoral, #78 Sanford Drive, Nassau, Bahamas. 

By using the Platform, you agree to follow and be bound by this Agreement and the associated General Terms and Conditions, including any policies referenced herein and therein, which are incorporated herein by reference. We may change the terms of this Agreement from time to time and at any time, with or without actual notice to you, though we will post notice of changes on the Platform. You should look at this Agreement regularly and your continued use of the Platform constitutes your acceptance of any revisions to this Agreement. If you do not agree to the modified terms for the Platform, you should discontinue your use of the Platform. In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and the Terms and Conditions, this Agreement shall prevail.

If you are a resident of the United States (US), your agreement is available here. If you are a resident of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), your User Agreement is available here. If you are a resident of the United Kingdom (UK) your User Agreement is available here. Terms and conditions applicable to equities accounts are available here. Use of the Uphold API and Uphold Connect are subject to an additional Developer Agreement.

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These General Terms and Conditions (these “Terms and Conditions”) govern the access and use of our mobile applications, products, software, websites, APIs, and other services (our “Platform”) and, where applicable, other service providers available on or through the Platform. By using the Platform, you agree to follow and be bound by these Terms and Conditions, including any policies referenced herein. We may modify these Terms and Conditions or any additional terms that apply to the Platform to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to the Platform. You should look at these Terms and Conditions regularly and your continued use of the Platform will constitute your acceptance of any revisions to these Terms and Conditions. We will post notice of modified additional terms in the applicable service. If you do not agree to the modified terms for the Platform or any service we offer, you should discontinue your use of the Platform or that service.

Your use of the Platform is governed by additional agreements and terms, including our user agreements (each, a “User Agreement”) and any third-party terms and conditions. If you are a resident of the United States (US), your User Agreement is available here. If you are a resident of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), your User Agreement is available here. If you are a resident of the United Kingdom (UK) your User Agreement is available here. If you reside anywhere else in the world, your User Agreement is available here. Terms and conditions applicable to equities accounts are available here. Use of the Uphold API and Uphold Connect are subject to an additional Developer Agreement. In the event of a conflict between a User Agreement and these Terms and Conditions, the User Agreement shall control.

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We use multi-level systems and procedures to collect and verify information about you in order to help keep ourselves, other users and our partners safe from fraudulent activity and for record-keeping purposes. In addition, to help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, applicable law requires financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

Your daily or weekly add-funds limits, remove-funds limits, transaction limits, and transfer limits are based on the information you provide to us. Users who wish to use the Uphold platform must establish an account with us by, at a minimum:

Providing a government-issued ID – such as a passport or driver’s license (a second form of government-issued ID may be required to surpass certain transaction thresholds), and 

Users who wish to add or remove value using an available fiat transfer must, at minimum:

Add and verify a bank account, credit and/or debit card;

Provide additional details, including their residential address and government-issued document and/or social security number; and

We also may require that you provide or verify additional identifying information or wait some amount of time for a transaction before permitting you to use the Uphold platform at all or at any given level. 

A corporation, partnership, trust, or other legal entity may need to provide other information, such as its principal place of business, local office, employer identification number, certified articles of incorporation, government-issued business license, partnership agreement, or trust agreement.

If you don't provide the information requested or your identity can't be verified, we may not be able to open an account or carry out transactions for you. If we have already opened an account for you, we may have to close it.

You may view applicable volume limits by visiting here.

You can contact us through support to request increased limits. We may require you to submit to enhanced due diligence at your cost and, of course, we cannot guarantee that we can increase your limits.

The following categories of businesses, business practices, and sale items are barred from using our services (“Prohibited Businesses”). Please note that Uphold HQ retains the right to reject any business applicant based on evolving risk tolerances and the requests of our banking partners.

By opening an Uphold HQ Account or Uphold Securities Brokerage Account (your “Account”), you confirm that you will not use the Uphold Platform to transact in connection with the following businesses, activities, practices, or items:

Operating as an unlicensed money transmitter, money service, payment service provider, e-money, or any other financial services business which requires licensure, including but not limited to exchanges of virtual currencies, sales of money orders or traveler's checks, and escrow services

Counterfeit products or any product or service that infringes upon the copyright, trademark, trade secrets of any third party, or stolen goods

Narcotics, controlled substances, prescription and pharmaceutical services, drug paraphernalia, or any substances designed to mimic illegal drugs ( includes legal high or cannabinoids)

Gambling, except where permitted by and with our prior written permission

Casinos, lotteries and gambling (online or in-person)

Initial Coin Offering vehicles, except where permitted by and with our prior written permission

Prostitution (including internet adult content subscription services), adult entertainment, dating escort services

Violent acts towards self or others, or activities or items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others regarding the same

Extortion, blackmail, or efforts to induce unearned payments

Weapons and ammunition, including military manufacturers, dealers and intermediaries

Any business that violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation

Acting in concert with others or through multiple accounts that you control in order to circumvent per account trading limits

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Explosives and polytechnic products, glues, essential oils and chemicals

Direct marketing (mail order or telephone orders, catalog sales, outbound telemarketing, inbound teleservices, audiotext & videotext, outbound telemarketing, travel, including discount travel clubs, or insurance)

Funding any of the items included on this Prohibited Businesses list

You may not use your Account or the Uphold Platform to engage in the following categories of activity (“Prohibited Use”). You confirm that you will not use your Account to do any of the following:

Violate or assist any party in violating any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or any rule of any self-regulatory or similar organization of which you are or are required to be a member (for example, those laws, rules, or regulations governing financial services, controlled substances, or consumer protections)

Partake in a transaction which involves the proceeds of any unlawful activity

Partake in any transaction involving online gambling except where permitted and with our prior written permission

Defraud or attempt to defraud us or our users

Infringe our or any third party's intellectual property

Provide false, inaccurate or misleading information

Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, or detrimentally interfere with, intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or information

Interfere with another individual's or entity's access to or use of any part of the Uphold Platform

Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate or infringe the legal rights of others

Publish, distribute or disseminate any unlawful material or information

Transmit or upload any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or any other malicious programs

Access the Uphold Platform through programmatic means

Act as a payment intermediary or aggregator or otherwise resell the Uphold Platform, unless authorized by us in writing

Transfer any rights granted to you by us to another party

Use another user’s password for any purpose

Compromise Accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Uphold Platform through any means

Use any Account other than the single Account created with your real identity

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This agreement sets forth the terms and conditions for participation in the user referral Promotion (the “Referral Promotion”) administered by Uphold HQ Inc. and Uphold Lithuania UAB (together with its affiliates, “Uphold”). Only Eligible Referrers and Eligible Referrals, as defined below, are eligible to participate in the Referral Promotion.  Employees of Uphold, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, advertising or promotional agencies, members of their immediate families, and persons with whom any of the foregoing are domiciled are not eligible to participate in the Referral Promotion.

Rewards: All Eligible Referrers and Qualified Referral (both defined below) will each receive US$20 worth of bitcoin reward for each Qualified Referral (subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations set forth herein). The maximum payable by Uphold to any individual Eligible Referrer for any Qualified Referral is capped to a total of 20 Qualified Referrals per calendar month. Payment of a reward for a Qualified Referral will be made within forty-five (45) calendar days from the end of the month of the Qualified Referral, paid via the participants’ Uphold wallet. The reward’s value for the fiat currency will be calculated at the moment of the payout, i. e. when the bitcoin is transferred to the client’s Uphold wallet. Please be noted, that the value of the bitcoin is volatile and Uphold will be not responsible for any change in value. For more information on related risks please read Uphold’s General Terms and Conditions.

Disclaimer: The Uphold Referral promotion is eligible only to customers based in the following countries: US (excluding the state of New York), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Belize, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico (a territory of the United States), Paraguay, Suriname, El Salvador and Uruguay. (collectively, the “Referral Countries”).

Join our Referral Program, where all eligible referrers and referees will receive up to US$20 worth of bitcoin reward for a qualified “Wallet” referral.

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