Terms of Service
Last updated: September 16, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern access to litprotocol.com and the hosted products, APIs, SDK services, dashboards, and applications provided by Lit Association ("Lit," "we," "us"), including Lit’s crypto infrastructure, confidential compute services, and Agent Keychain (together, the "Services"). Independently operated deployments and third-party applications are not Services provided by Lit merely because they use Lit software.
By accepting these Terms through a signup, purchase, or other acceptance process that presents them to you, you agree to them. If you act for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organization. Do not use the Services if you do not agree. You must be at least 18 and legally capable of entering a contract.
These Terms include warranty disclaimers, limitations of liability, and an agreement to individual arbitration rather than a jury trial or class action, subject to the exceptions and opt-out right in Section 14. Mandatory legal rights remain unaffected.
Our Privacy Policy explains personal-data processing. It is a notice, not a blanket consent to processing that requires a separate legal basis. A signed agreement or order form controls over conflicting provisions of these Terms for the services it covers. An applicable data processing agreement controls for its subject matter. Open-source licenses control the software rights they grant. Section 2 governs hosted API and SDK access unless you separately agree otherwise with Lit.
Contact: support@litprotocol.com.
1. Accounts and authority
Provide accurate account and billing information and maintain authority to use every account, credential, dataset, model, and system you connect. Protect your devices, identity providers, private keys, passkeys, agent configurations, recovery materials, and billing credentials. Configure appropriate permissions, expiration, monitoring, and backups. Notify us promptly of suspected compromise without sending us secret values or private keys.
You are responsible for your applications, users, agents, and instructions submitted using your authorized credentials, including automated instructions. A request satisfying the configured technical authorization rules is not proof that it reflects your current business intent. Subject to obligations imposed by law, Lit may act on technically valid instructions without separately investigating their purpose or obtaining human confirmation.
You must independently determine whether the Services and your configuration meet your legal, regulatory, security, and operational requirements. Your obligations do not excuse Lit from responsibilities that applicable law does not permit us to exclude.
2. Permission to use the Services
Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, Lit grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access the hosted Services for your own use and to build and operate applications for your users within your plan and documentation. You are responsible for those applications, their notices and permissions, and your relationship with their users. You may not resell hosted access as a standalone service unless Lit agrees in writing.
APIs, SDKs, examples, and source code may have their own licenses. These Terms do not restrict rights granted by an applicable open-source license, and using open-source software does not entitle you to Lit hosting, support, credits, availability, or a particular release. Protect API credentials, observe documented limits, and use supported interfaces. Documentation and product descriptions explain functionality; they do not create a service-level agreement or a warranty of fitness for your particular use.
3. Crypto systems and on-chain permissions
Lit provides software for programmable signing and related operations. With Chain Secured configurations, on-chain permissions determine which identified code may use a wallet. A new code version has a different identity; updating permissions can authorize or revoke versions without changing the wallet address. Protocol/runtime release approval and your account’s wallet permissions are separate processes.
You are responsible for reviewing and authorizing code, contracts, permissions, transaction conditions, recipients, amounts, and updates. Lit does not undertake to approve the commercial merits or legality of your transactions. A cryptographic signature or on-chain approval does not establish that code is free of defects or that a transaction is safe, intended, final, or legally effective.
Blockchain transactions can be irreversible. Reorganizations, forks, contract defects, network congestion, fees, compromised credentials, dependency failures, or governance changes can cause loss, delay, or loss of access. Lit does not control third-party blockchains, guarantee transaction inclusion or settlement, or promise to reverse transactions or restore assets. Do not assume that every wallet, key, credential, or deployment supports export or recovery; use only the recovery and export features actually available for your configuration, and test them before relying on them.
Lit does not provide investment, trading, tax, legal, or fiduciary advice. Providing these Services does not by itself appoint Lit as your broker, investment adviser, agent, or asset custodian. Any legal classification is determined by applicable law and the actual service, not solely by this description. You remain responsible for licenses, approvals, taxes, and obligations arising from your assets and activities.
4. Confidential execution and AI
Confidential hardware, software measurements, attestation, and on-chain approvals provide specific technical protections subject to their implementation and trust assumptions. They do not guarantee that hardware or software is invulnerable, that approved code is correct, or that a model’s output is accurate. Protection depends on the client, hardware, runtime, configuration, verification process, dependencies, and systems receiving data.
For container workloads, you are responsible for the software and models you select, their provenance and licenses, input rights, pinned versions, network permissions, secrets, logs, outputs, and update approvals. Where Lit agrees to perform particular deployment tasks, those tasks are governed by the applicable order or written scope. A destination allowlist controls connections; it does not determine whether the content sent to an allowed destination is appropriate. External model providers, tools, and accounts receive the information your application sends them and are outside the confidential boundary unless expressly included in the agreed deployment.
AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, harmful, or unsuitable and may resemble other outputs. Review them before use, particularly before executing transactions or making decisions affecting people. You are responsible for human oversight and any required notices, permissions, impact assessments, and safeguards. Do not use the Services as a safety-critical control where failure could cause death, injury, or serious environmental harm, or submit specially regulated data requiring a separate compliance arrangement, without an applicable written agreement with Lit.
No certification, compliance status, dedicated capacity, data residency, uptime, or support commitment is implied by the use of confidential hardware. Any such commitment must be expressly stated in the applicable written agreement.
5. Agent Keychain and connected services
Keychain stores encrypted credentials and authorization records and uses Lit for credential operations. You select the agents, credential access, permitted operations, and expiration. Connecting an agent through MCP, the CLI, or the SDK does not eliminate the need to protect its host and identity or review its actions.
Some operations deliver a credential to an approved agent or local process. That environment, its tools, logs, and any model or service to which it sends information can then expose or retain it. Supported connected-service actions can instead use a credential inside Lit and return a result; the destination service still receives the credential or request information needed for the operation. Neither method guarantees the conduct of a third-party provider or agent.
Keychain’s signed access records are distinct from Chain Secured wallet permissions. Storage availability and the freshness of those records remain part of its security model: replay of an earlier valid record may restore access within that record’s validity period. Revocation cannot retrieve information already disclosed or necessarily stop an operation already authorized. If access may be compromised, revoke or rotate the underlying provider credential as well as changing Keychain permissions.
Keep recovery materials and original provider credentials where the product requires them. Lit does not promise recovery of lost identity keys, decryption without valid authorization, or export of every connected-service credential. Cancelling a subscription is not a substitute for revoking an agent or rotating a provider credential.
6. Your content and third parties
You retain your rights in the code, credentials, data, models, prompts, outputs, and other materials you submit or generate through the Services ("Customer Content"), subject to third-party rights. You grant Lit and its service providers only the rights needed to host, transmit, process, and otherwise handle Customer Content to provide, secure, and support the Services as instructed by you, and to comply with law. This does not grant Lit ownership of Customer Content or a right to sell it. Requests to train or fine-tune your model authorize that requested processing, not unrelated use of your content.
You represent that you have the rights and lawful basis needed for this processing, including notices and consents for information about other people. If applicable law requires a data processing agreement for Lit to process personal data on your behalf, arrange that agreement before submitting the affected data. These Terms and the Privacy Policy do not replace it.
Third-party software, identity providers, cloud infrastructure, payment providers, blockchains, models, data sources, and connected services have separate terms, charges, limitations, and risks. You are responsible for those you select or authorize and for reviewing the relevant terms. Lit remains responsible for its own obligations under applicable law and any express agreement; a third-party integration does not create additional warranties from Lit.
If you voluntarily provide product feedback, you grant Lit a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it to improve and commercialize products without compensation or attribution. Feedback does not include your secrets or other Customer Content merely because you use the Services or request support.
7. Fees, renewals, and cancellation
Prices, billing intervals, included capacity, and any usage charges are those disclosed at checkout or in an accepted order. Taxes may apply. You authorize charges only for the purchases, renewals, and usage you have agreed to. You are responsible for separate charges from your selected providers and blockchains; their fees are not included unless expressly stated.
If you choose a recurring subscription, it renews at the disclosed interval until you cancel. The recurring price and cancellation terms must be presented before you purchase, and any consent required by law must be obtained. You can cancel a Keychain subscription through the billing portal in your account. If you cannot access cancellation, contact support@litprotocol.com before renewal; we will not require you to regain account access merely to stop future subscription charges after we reasonably verify your request.
Cancellation ordinarily takes effect at the end of the current paid period. Except where law, checkout terms, or a written agreement require otherwise, fees already paid are non-refundable and unused portions are not prorated. Mandatory withdrawal, refund, and cancellation rights prevail. For Keychain, ordinary subscription cancellation returns the account to the free plan at period end; it does not by itself delete stored credentials or revoke agent permissions. Exceeding the free storage allowance can restrict new storage and updates as described in the product. Account deletion, security suspension, and termination are separate matters.
We may change prospective prices or plan limits with advance notice and any renewed consent required by law. A paid subscription price change will take effect no earlier than the next renewal following at least 30 days’ notice, unless a longer period is required. We will not convert free access into paid charges without your agreement. Any automatic recharge or usage-based billing feature requires its separately disclosed authorization. Nonpayment, fraud, or material misuse may result in suspension, subject to applicable law. A free or trial plan does not promise indefinite free hosting or unlimited resources.
8. Prohibited use
You may not use the Services to violate law or third-party rights; steal credentials or assets; deploy malware; impersonate others; access systems without authorization; evade sanctions, export controls, access restrictions, or payment obligations; overload or disrupt the Services; or abuse trial, sponsorship, or billing mechanisms. This includes directing an agent to perform prohibited activity.
You represent that your use and the persons you act for are permitted under applicable sanctions and export-control laws. You must obtain required permissions and may not use the Services where doing so is prohibited. Published code and permissionless networks do not remove these obligations.
Report suspected vulnerabilities to support@litprotocol.com. Do not access other users’ data or disrupt production systems during testing. Nothing here prohibits conduct protected by applicable law or authorized under a separate security-testing agreement.
9. Service changes, suspension, and termination
We may maintain, update, limit, or discontinue hosted features, and may suspend or terminate access for breach, nonpayment, security threats, legal obligations, abuse, or discontinuation of a service. Where practicable, we will give reasonable notice and an opportunity to address a remediable breach; immediate action may be necessary for security, legal, or operational reasons. Contractual suspension rights do not imply a technical ability to rewrite a smart contract, override your signing permissions, reverse a blockchain transaction, or erase data held by independent parties.
You may stop using the Services and cancel paid subscriptions as described above. Keep independent backups and use supported export or migration options before closing an account. We do not guarantee continued access after termination or recovery of content or keys that the system cannot export or reconstruct. Retention and deletion of personal data are subject to the Privacy Policy, applicable law, and any data processing agreement.
Accrued payment obligations and provisions concerning ownership, permitted retention, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, and disputes survive termination to the extent applicable. Termination does not remove rights or remedies already accrued.
10. Intellectual property
Except for Customer Content, third-party materials, and rights granted under open-source licenses, Lit and its licensors retain rights in the Services, documentation, designs, trademarks, and related intellectual property. No license is granted except as expressly stated. You may not imply Lit’s endorsement of your application or use our branding in a misleading way. Legitimate references to Lit and rights permitted by law remain available.
For business customers, Lit may identify your organization as a customer using its public name and logo, subject to your supplied brand guidelines and any confidentiality agreement. You may opt out by emailing support@litprotocol.com. This permission does not include identifying individual users, disclosing Customer Content, or implying endorsement.
11. Warranty disclaimer
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES AND LIT-PROVIDED MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." LIT AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN A SIGNED AGREEMENT.
WE DO NOT WARRANT UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION, THAT EVERY DEFECT WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICES WILL PREVENT EVERY ATTACK, UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE, ASSET LOSS, OR LOSS OF ACCESS. ATTESTATION AND CODE APPROVAL DO NOT WARRANT APPLICATION BEHAVIOR, MODEL ACCURACY, THIRD-PARTY PERFORMANCE, OR THE ABSENCE OF VULNERABILITIES. INFORMATION OR SUPPORT DOES NOT CREATE AN ADDITIONAL WARRANTY UNLESS EXPRESSLY AGREED IN WRITING.
This section does not exclude warranties, remedies, security obligations, or other rights that applicable law does not permit us to exclude.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LIT, ITS AFFILIATES, AND THEIR LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THEIR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES AND THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF US $100 OR THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO LIT FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. MULTIPLE CLAIMS DO NOT INCREASE THIS CAP. THE CAP APPLIES TO CLAIMS CONCERNING CREDENTIALS, DIGITAL ASSETS, CUSTOMER CONTENT, DATA LOSS, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, AND SECURITY INCIDENTS TO THE EXTENT LAWFULLY LIMITABLE. ASSET VALUES AND AMOUNTS PAID TO THIRD PARTIES ARE NOT FEES PAID TO LIT.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence where it cannot lawfully be limited, death or personal injury where such limitation is prohibited, or any other non-excludable liability or mandatory consumer remedy. These limitations apply only to the extent lawful in your jurisdiction and are part of the agreed allocation of risk reflected in the pricing.
13. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify Lit, its affiliates, and their officers, employees, and agents against third-party claims and resulting damages, settlements, and reasonable costs, including legal fees, arising from your Customer Content, your applications or agents, your infringement of third-party rights, or your breach of these Terms or applicable law. This obligation does not cover the portion of a claim caused by Lit’s own breach, negligence, or unlawful conduct, or impose an obligation prohibited by consumer law.
Lit will give reasonably prompt notice; delay reduces your obligation only to the extent it materially prejudices the defense. You may control the defense with reasonably acceptable counsel. Lit may participate at its own expense or take over if you fail to defend. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault for Lit, imposes an obligation on Lit, or fails to release Lit without our prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld.
14. Governing law and disputes
Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, either party may request resolution by written notice describing the dispute and requested relief. Send notices to support@litprotocol.com, with "Legal dispute" in the subject. We will try to resolve it within 30 days. This process does not prevent urgent relief, small-claims proceedings, or timely filing to preserve a legal deadline.
Governing law. Delaware law governs these Terms, excluding conflict-of-laws rules, and the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement where applicable. Mandatory protections of the law of your residence remain available where they cannot be displaced by agreement.
Individual arbitration. Except for the exceptions below, you and Lit agree to resolve disputes arising from these Terms or the Services through binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator may award the same individual remedies available in court and will issue a reasoned written decision. Courts decide disputes about formation or enforceability of this arbitration agreement and its class-action waiver. Other matters are decided under the applicable arbitration rules.
Consumer safeguards. Where you qualify as a consumer, the JAMS Consumer Minimum Standards apply and control over any conflict. Required consumer fee limits apply; Lit pays the remaining arbitration costs required by those standards. The location or use of remote proceedings must not prevent your participation. Otherwise, arbitration will take place in Kent County, Delaware, in English, unless the parties agree differently.
Exceptions. Either party may bring an eligible individual claim in small-claims court or seek temporary court relief to preserve rights pending arbitration. Claims and remedies that cannot lawfully be arbitrated, including non-waivable public injunctive relief where applicable, may be pursued in court. Nothing prevents reporting to or cooperating with a regulator.
Class-action and jury waiver. To the extent permitted by law, you and Lit waive a jury trial and agree to proceed individually, not as a class, collective, or representative action, for claims subject to arbitration. This does not waive a remedy that cannot legally be waived. If the waiver is unenforceable for a particular claim or remedy, that part proceeds in court and is severed; the remainder of the arbitration agreement remains effective to the extent lawful.
Opt out. You may opt out of this Section’s arbitration agreement and class-action waiver by emailing support@litprotocol.com within 30 days after you first accept this version of the Terms. Include your name, account identifier if any, and a clear statement that you opt out. No reason is required, and opting out does not affect access to the Services. The rest of the Terms remain applicable.
For disputes properly brought in court, the parties consent to the state courts in Kent County, Delaware, and the federal courts for the District of Delaware, except small-claims proceedings and where mandatory law permits or requires another forum. Amendments to dispute provisions do not apply retroactively to a dispute already notified to either party.
15. Changes and general provisions
We may update these Terms. Material changes for existing account holders will be notified through an available account notice, email, or other reasonable channel at least 30 days before they take effect, except changes required sooner by law or to address urgent security issues. We will obtain fresh agreement where required. Publication alone does not create consent where the law requires affirmative acceptance. The applicable notice will state the effective date and your options to stop using or cancel the affected Services. A new version does not retroactively change accrued claims.
Neither party is liable for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control, to the extent permitted by law; this does not excuse accrued payment obligations or mandatory statutory duties. You may not assign this agreement without Lit’s consent, except as allowed by law. Lit may assign it to an affiliate or as part of a merger, reorganization, or transfer of the relevant business, without reducing mandatory rights.
These Terms and expressly incorporated agreements form the agreement for their subject matter. No waiver is effective merely through delay. Invalid provisions are narrowed or severed to the minimum necessary, subject to Section 14. No partnership, employment, fiduciary, or agency relationship is created. The persons expressly protected by Sections 11–13 may enforce those protections; otherwise no third-party beneficiary is intended. Notices may be electronic, subject to applicable law. Contact support@litprotocol.com for legal notices and questions.