Trust

Where your money is

ZEAM never holds your money. A payment goes from the wallet that pays to the seller. Where a product takes a deposit, a contract holds it, not ZEAM, and what is not spent goes back to the wallet that funded it.

Money reaches ZEAM three ways only: as its fee on a sale, as the price where ZEAM itself is the seller, and as a gas charge you were quoted before you signed for it.

What moves it

Money leaves a wallet only when that wallet signs. What it signs fixes the amount and where it goes. ZEAM’s services send what was signed, as it was signed. They cannot change the amount or where it goes.

The price is stated before anything is signed. For a call priced by use, that is the most it can cost.

The fee

ZEAM’s fee is a fixed share written into the contract that pays the seller. That contract has no owner. No one can change the share, ZEAM included. Where ZEAM is the seller, the whole payment goes to ZEAM.

What anyone can check

Every payment settles on Base, a public blockchain. Anyone can read it, with or without us.

The software you install from ZEAM is published under open licenses, and its source can be read. The services ZEAM runs are not published.

The limits

With a pass, ZEAM’s pass service holds that pass’s key in memory once its link is in use. With that key it can pay only that pass’s seller, up to what was loaded, or ask for the balance to go back to the wallet that funded it.
A payment for a call that was served is final.
ZEAM’s services can decline to send a transaction. They cannot keep a deposit from going back: the contract that holds it pays it back to the wallet that funded it, without us.

What we keep

No accounts and no sign-up. A wallet address, or the address of a pass a wallet funded, is the only lasting identifier the paid services use.
We keep server logs. They hold IP addresses. They stay on our servers.
No cookies, no third-party analytics or ad trackers, and no profiles.
We do not sell or share our logs. Cloudflare carries the traffic as our network provider.

Who we are

ZEAM Labs, LLC, Delaware file number 10206382; the filed documents are at https://github.com/zeam-labs/ZEAM-Labs-Corporate-Docs. Contact: [email protected]. A person reads it.

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Where your money is

Your money never passes through ZEAM: buyers pay a split contract nobody owns, through an escrow when they pay over x402 or by an MPP session, and that pays your wallet. The session escrow, and the payee contract a session pays your split through, were deployed by us. They have no owner or administrator and cannot be changed, by us or anyone, and they have not been audited or reviewed by anyone outside their authors.

Earnings go to your split contract: no owner, ZEAM included; no one can change it. It pays 90.01% to your wallet and 9.99% to ZEAM.

Who holds which key

Your plugin makes and keeps its own keys. The engine runs in your process with your keys. ZEAM holds none of your money or keys and makes no admission decisions.

ZEAM’s relay sends what your plugin signed, to where it signed it. It sends only for a split with no owner.

What we keep

The credit service keeps one file for each gate credit purchase: the payment and the credit note issued for it. The relay keeps one state file of addresses, channel ids, transaction hashes and counts. The privacy policy says what they and their logs hold.

Write to [email protected] to ask what we hold about a wallet, a pass or a channel, or to ask us to correct or delete it.