"Dubstrata provides quantitative data feeds, mathematical models, and causal knowledge graph indexing for analytical and research purposes only. Dubstrata is not a licensed Financial Services Provider (FSP) under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (Act 37 of 2002). No data point, conviction index, or signal constitutes personalized financial, investment, legal, or tax advice."
1. Pure Information & Analytics SaaS Invariant
Dubstrata operates exclusively as a quantitative software-as-a-service (SaaS) and alternative data provider. Dubstrata does not provide discretionary investment management, broker-dealer execution services, market-making, or custody of client fiat or digital assets.
- All proprietary scores (CSI, ICI, Clean HHI, FinVIC, Kelly sizing) are objective mathematical expressions of empirical data.
- Data feeds are delivered universally across markets without reference to any client's balance sheet, risk tolerance, or tax position.
- Clients warrant that they are sophisticated institutional entities possessing independent quantitative capabilities.
2. Public Ingestion & Financial Markets Act (FMA) Compliance
Under Section 78 and Section 80 of the Financial Markets Act (Act 19 of 2012), Dubstrata enforces strict compliance invariants across all ingestion pipelines:
Scrapes only publicly published news wires, sovereign filings (SEC EDGAR), and public prediction market orderbooks. Documents carry RFC 3161 timestamps to prove zero MNPI usage.
Identifies and filters market abuse in prediction markets through Sybil cluster merging, Clean HHI whale filtering, and sub-$200k sweep spoofing alerts.
3. Web3 Micropayments & x402 Settlement
API usage and FastMCP endpoint queries are billed via the non-custodial x402 HTTP Payment Protocol in USD Coin (USDC) on Solana or Base EVM:
- Non-Custodial Settlement: Payments settle immediately on-chain to Dubstrata's merchant treasury wallet. Dubstrata holds zero client balances in custody.
- Sanctions Screening: Gateway screens transaction originating wallet addresses against OFAC, UN, and FIC sanctions lists.
- Zero-Waste Guarantee: Failed queue jobs or non-200 HTTP responses before extraction are not billed.
4. Juristic Limitation of Liability & Consumer Protection Act Exemption
Under Section 5(2)(b) of the Consumer Protection Act (Act 68 of 2008), the CPA does not apply to juristic clients whose asset value or annual turnover equals or exceeds R2,000,000.
Dubstrata expressly disclaims all liability for trading losses, market signal variance, or third-party orderbook API downtime (e.g. Polymarket CLOB outages). Total aggregate liability under any subscription agreement is limited to the fees paid by the client in the preceding 30 days.
5. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg).