Risk Disclosure

Participating in the AURO presale and using the Auro Finance Services involves significant risk. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accept the risks described below. This disclosure is not exhaustive, and other risks may apply. You should consult qualified legal, financial, and tax professionals before participating.

1. Variable Reward Risk

AURO staking rewards are variable and paid monthly in USDC or USD1. Rewards depend on protocol performance, market conditions, reward eligibility, and other factors. Rewards may be reduced, suspended, or zero in weak periods. No yield is guaranteed.

2. Price and Market Risk

The $0.10 presale basis is not a price floor, market guarantee, or promise of future value. After TGE, AURO trades at market-discovered prices on Solana liquidity venues and may decrease in value significantly, including to zero. Past performance of any related protocol or asset does not predict future results.

3. Smart Contract Risk

The Auro protocol is implemented as smart contracts on the Solana blockchain. Despite independent security reviews prior to mainnet, smart contracts may contain bugs, vulnerabilities, exploits, or unforeseen interactions that could result in partial or total loss of staked or claimed AURO and any associated rewards.

4. Regulatory Risk

The legal and regulatory status of crypto assets, token presales, staking, and yield-generating protocols varies by jurisdiction and continues to evolve. Future regulatory action by any government or regulator could restrict, impair, or prohibit the use, transfer, custody, or value of AURO, and could affect Auro's ability to operate the Services.

5. Operational and Infrastructure Risk

The Services depend on third-party infrastructure including the Solana blockchain, wallet providers, oracles, custodians, and hosting providers. Outages, congestion, consensus failures, or attacks against any of these systems may impair access to the Services, delay transactions, or cause loss of funds.

6. Liquidity Risk

After TGE, AURO is expected to trade on decentralized exchange liquidity. Markets may be illiquid, volatile, or temporarily unavailable. You may be unable to sell AURO at a desired price, or at all, when you wish to do so.

7. Custody and Key Risk

You are solely responsible for the security of your wallet, private keys, and seed phrases. Lost or stolen keys result in lost access to AURO and any associated rewards. Auro does not hold custody of user assets and cannot recover lost keys or reverse on-chain transactions.

8. Counterparty Risk

Sameer Group LLC is a strategic equity investor in Auro Finance's operating entity and an infrastructure partner. Sameer Group is not a guarantor of rewards, yield, AURO token value, or protocol performance. Holding AURO does not represent ownership of Sameer Group assets, AUM, or any specific revenue stream.

9. Tax Risk

Participating in the presale, holding AURO, staking, and receiving rewards may create tax obligations. Tax treatment of crypto assets varies by jurisdiction and is subject to change. You are responsible for determining and meeting any tax liabilities.

10. No Investment Advice

Nothing on the Services or in this disclosure constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. You should consult qualified professionals before deciding to participate.

11. Forward-Looking Statements

Statements about future protocol features, target yields, partnerships, listings, roadmap items, or token performance are forward-looking and subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Actual outcomes may differ materially from those expressed or implied.

12. Contact

For questions about this Risk Disclosure, contact us via the official Auro Finance channels listed at aurofi.org.