1. You can lose some or all of your capital
Every product on Vadix exposes your capital to the price of digital assets. Managed portfolios hold them, quant strategies trade them, staked positions are denominated in them. A fall in those prices reduces the USDT value of your allocation, and a severe or prolonged fall can reduce it to a fraction of what you put in. There is no capital protection and no deposit-guarantee scheme.
2. Volatility
Digital asset prices routinely move by double-digit percentages in a day and have fallen by more than three quarters from peak to trough in past cycles. Moves happen at any hour, including weekends, and can gap through levels at which risk controls were expected to act, meaning a limit may be executed at a materially worse price than the one at which it was set.
3. No guaranteed returns
Vadix does not offer, promise or imply any fixed, minimum or guaranteed rate of return on any product. Staking rates are set by the network and change. Strategy and portfolio results vary and include negative periods. Any figure shown on this website or in the dashboard, including historical performance, illustrative allocations and reward rates, describes the past or the present and is not a forecast. No employee, representative or member is authorised to promise a return on our behalf.
4. Custody and platform risk
For managed portfolios, quant strategies and staking, your assets are held in Vadix custody. Although the majority are kept in multi-signature cold storage and operational controls are in place, custody by any third party carries risk: operational error, key compromise, insider misconduct, insolvency, or the failure of an exchange venue or validator on which assets are placed. Assets held on the platform are not insured and are not protected by any government scheme. The loss or insolvency of the platform could result in the loss of your assets.
5. Strategy and manager risk
The decisions of our portfolio desk, and the rules coded into our quantitative strategies, will affect the value of your allocation and may prove wrong. Diversification, rebalancing and drawdown limits reduce the size of a bad period; they do not prevent one. A strategy that has worked in past market conditions may stop working in new ones. Losing weeks, months and quarters are a normal feature of these products, not evidence of failure.
6. Leverage in quant strategies
Some quant strategies use leverage, within caps. Leverage magnifies gains and losses and introduces liquidation risk: if a venue's margin requirements are breached, positions may be closed automatically at an unfavourable price. Market-neutral strategies carry basis, funding and execution risk and can lose money even when they are not exposed to market direction. Managed portfolios do not use leverage.
7. Staking-specific risks
Staked assets are exposed to price risk and to slashing, the penalty a network imposes on validators that misbehave or go offline. Unbonding periods mean staked assets cannot be withdrawn immediately, including during a market fall. Reward rates change with network participation and protocol upgrades. Staking that operates through smart contracts carries the risk of bugs or exploits in those contracts. Fixed-term positions cannot be exited early.
8. Stablecoin risk
USDT is designed to track the US dollar, but it is issued by a private company and is not a bank deposit. Its value depends on the issuer's reserves and on market confidence, and it has traded away from its peg in the past. Regulatory action against an issuer, or a loss of confidence, could reduce the value or usability of USDT held on or paid out by the platform.
9. Blockchain and transfer risk
Blockchain transactions are irreversible. USDT sent to the wrong address, on the wrong network, or in the wrong token will in most cases be unrecoverable, and Vadix cannot reverse or refund it. Network congestion, outages, forks and protocol changes can delay or disrupt deposits and withdrawals. You are responsible for checking the address and the network before every transfer.
10. Liquidity and lock-ups
Fixed-term staking positions are locked until maturity. Flexible staking is subject to the network's unbonding period. Managed portfolio and quant withdrawals are settled at processing windows and may be delayed in extreme market conditions, when venues are halted, or while an incident is under review. Do not allocate funds you may need at short notice.
11. Regulatory and legal risk
Digital asset services are regulated differently, or not at all, across jurisdictions, and the rules are changing. Future regulation could restrict or prohibit the platform's activities, the assets it supports, or your ability to use it from your country. You are responsible for ensuring that using Vadix is lawful where you live. Vadix may decline to act for any person or in any jurisdiction.
12. Tax
The tax treatment of digital asset gains, staking rewards and referral rewards depends on your personal circumstances and your country of residence, and may change. Vadix does not provide tax advice and does not withhold tax. You are responsible for determining and meeting your own obligations.
13. Referral programme
Referral rewards depend on the activity of other members and on programme rates and targets that can change with notice. They are not an income you should rely on. Rewards obtained through misrepresentation, duplicate accounts, or handling other members' funds are reversed and may result in account closure. Introducing others does not make you an agent of Vadix and you must not represent otherwise.
14. Fraud and impersonation
Vadix will never ask you for your password, seed phrase, a transfer to a personal wallet, or a fee to release a withdrawal. Deposits go only to the address displayed in your dashboard. Anyone using our name to request otherwise is not acting for us. Report it to security@vadixworld.com.
15. Suitability
These products are not suitable for everyone. They are not appropriate if you cannot afford to lose the capital allocated, if you would need it back at short notice regardless of market conditions, if you are relying on returns to meet living costs, or if you are borrowing in order to allocate. In any of those situations we encourage you not to proceed, and we may decline to act for you.