Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of RandScan (randscan.org): the website, the JSON API at randscan.org/api, the WebSocket feed, and the accounts and API keys offered through it. RandScan is run by the Rand Protocol team (“we”). By using any of it you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

The Privacy Policy explains what the service collects and is part of these terms.

RandScan is a block explorer. It reads the public ledger of the Rand Protocol network from a full node, indexes it, and presents it. It is a window onto the chain, not part of it.

• It is not a wallet. It holds no funds, no spending keys and no custody of anything, and it cannot create, sign or broadcast transactions on your behalf.
• It is not the bridge. The Bridge page describes bridge activity recorded on the Rand chain. The bridge itself is run by its guardians under their own terms; deposits, approvals and settlement happen on the source chains, and should be verified there.
• It is not advice. Nothing on RandScan is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any asset.

We try to show the chain faithfully, and the explorer’s code is open for anyone to check. Still, what you see is a copy made by software, and it can be wrong or late:

• the indexer can lag behind the chain, or stop while the node it reads is restarted;
• a block the explorer showed can be replaced if the chain reorganises;
• when the network moves to a new chain, the explorer’s history is reset to the new genesis, and the previous chain’s data is no longer served;
• a shielded chain hides amounts and parties by design, so the explorer necessarily shows only what the ledger makes public, and labels such as token names come from the explorer’s own lists, not from the chain;
• node and prover locations, versions and status are observations, not guarantees.

Decisions that depend on the state of the chain should be checked against a node you run or trust. We make no promise that any figure on RandScan is correct or current.

The History page opens shielded notes with a key you paste. The opening runs in your browser and the key is not sent to us, as the Privacy Policy describes. You remain responsible for the keys you handle: paste them only on a device and browser you trust, prefer a viewing key to a spend key wherever one will do, and understand that we cannot recover a key or undo what someone who obtained it can see. Results of the opener are a best-effort reading of the chain and carry the same caveats as every other figure here.

You do not need an account to use RandScan. An account issues API keys with a higher request quota. If you create one:

• you must give an email address you control, and keep your password secret;
• an API key is a credential. Keep it out of client-side code and public repositories, and revoke it from your dashboard if it leaks. Everything done with your key counts as done by you;
• you may hold up to 10 active keys, and one account per person or system is the norm;
• you may not share, sell or pool keys to exceed the quota, or create accounts by automated means.

We may suspend or delete an account, or revoke its keys, if it breaches these terms, is used abusively, or has been inactive for a long time. You may stop using the service and ask us to delete your account at any time.

Public read endpoints are free. Anonymous traffic is limited per IP address and keyed traffic per key; the current figures are published in the API documentation and may change. The service answers over the limit with HTTP 429 and a Retry-After header, and clients are expected to honour it.

You agree not to:

• evade rate limits, for instance by rotating addresses or keys, or by many accounts;
• probe, scan, overload or otherwise interfere with the service, its servers or the node behind it;
• use the service to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to harass or de-anonymise people;
• present RandScan’s data as your own without attribution, or imply that we endorse a product that uses it.

Reading the public data in bulk is fine within the quotas. If you need more, run your own node and indexer; the software is free.

The explorer’s source code is released under the MIT licence, and you may use it on those terms. Chain data shown on RandScan is public and belongs to no one; take it, with a mention of where it came from. The RandScan name and mark and the Rand Protocol name and mark identify this service and the network, and may not be used to suggest that something is ours when it is not.

RandScan links to other sites and chains, and the map pages load base-map tiles from Esri’s ArcGIS Online. Those services have their own terms. We do not control them and are not responsible for what they do or show.

RandScan is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including of accuracy, availability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. It is run by a small team on a best-effort basis; it may be unavailable, may change, and may be withdrawn, with or without notice.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, RandScan or anything shown on it. That includes loss of funds, lost profits, loss of data, and any indirect or consequential loss, however caused, and even if we were told it was possible. In particular, we are not liable for decisions taken on the basis of explorer data, for transactions on any chain, or for the acts of third parties. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us for the service, which is nothing.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions. Nothing here takes away rights you have under law that cannot be waived.

We may change these terms. The current text is always at randscan.org/terms with its effective date. If a change is material we will say so on the explorer before it takes effect. Using the service after a change means you accept the new terms. This version took effect on 1 October 2026.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not acting on a breach is not a waiver. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about RandScan. Questions go to the Rand Protocol team through github.com/randprotocol/randscan.org.