Governance & Regulatory Compliance · Comprehensive Disclosures

Legal Notice, Terms & Regulatory Disclaimers

Review these regulatory notices, CFTC Rule 4.41 disclosures, intellectual property attributions, non-custodial declarations, and non-affiliation disclaimers.

NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE: QuanterraOS is an independent software research and statistical measurement platform operated by Quantara Global LLC. Nothing on this website, in our API responses, terminal workspaces, or research publications constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, or trading advice.

1. Regulatory Status & Non-Registration Disclosure

Quantara Global LLC and QuanterraOS are not registered as broker-dealers, investment advisers, or transfer agents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FINRA, or any state securities regulatory authority. Furthermore, Quantara Global LLC is not registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), Commodity Pool Operator (CPO), Introducing Broker (IB), or Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) or the National Futures Association (NFA).

QuanterraOS does not provide personalized investment recommendations, does not assess the suitability of any financial instrument for any user, and does not solicit orders for prediction market contracts, derivatives, digital assets, or securities.

2. CFTC Rule 4.41 — Hypothetical & Simulated Performance Disclaimer

HYPOTHETICAL OR SIMULATED PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, SIMULATED RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, SINCE THE TRADES HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN EXECUTED, THE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER- OR OVER-COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.

3. Third-Party Trademarks & Non-Affiliation Policy (Rule B10)

"Kalshi" is a registered trademark of Kalshi Inc. "CME", "CME Group", and "CF Benchmarks" are registered trademarks of CME Group Index Services LLC and CF Benchmarks Ltd. "Coinbase" is a registered trademark of Coinbase Global, Inc. "Kraken" is a registered trademark of Payward, Inc. "Bitstamp" is a registered trademark of Bitstamp Ltd. "Gemini" is a registered trademark of Gemini Trust Company, LLC. "Polymarket" is a registered trademark of Blockratize, Inc.

QuanterraOS is an independent measurement system created and operated by Quantara Global LLC. QuanterraOS is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or partnered with Kalshi, CME Group, CF Benchmarks, Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Gemini, Polymarket, or any other market operator or index provider. Any reference to these entities or their trademarks is solely for nominative fair-use identification of market data sources, contract specifications, and settlement benchmarks.

4. Benchmark & Settlement Index Designation (docs/settlement.md)

Kalshi's KXBTC15M contract series settles against the official CME CF Bitcoin Real-Time Index (BRTI). QuanterraOS computes an independent spot composite ("Quanterra BTC Composite") across Tier 1 US-accessible spot exchanges (Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Gemini) as an empirical approximation of spot conditions. QuanterraOS does not represent its composite index as the official BRTI or CME benchmark.

5. Zero Live Capital Deployed & Non-Custodial Architecture (Rule B5)

QuanterraOS does not hold custody of, accept deposits for, transfer, or manage fiat currency, digital assets, prediction market contracts, or collateral on behalf of users. In accordance with internal safety Rule B5, zero live capital is deployed ($0.00 exposure) and live order execution paths are permanently disabled. QuanterraOS does not provide trade execution or order transmission services.

6. Market Data Integrity & Latency Disclaimers

All market prices, order book snapshots, trade logs, and composite index metrics are captured via public exchange APIs and websockets. Network transit latency, queue buffering, exchange API throttling, and unexpected exchange downtime can introduce variance in price timestamps. All metrics and reports are provided strictly "as is" and "as available" without warranty of continuous uptime or sub-millisecond precision.

7. Terms of Service & Permitted Use

Access to QuanterraOS, its dashboard terminals, and API endpoints is granted solely for research, analytical, and informational purposes. Users may not attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, disrupt the integrity of the data pipeline, or circumvent rate limits. This service is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles.

8. Privacy Policy & Data Security

Quantara Global LLC collects only essential telemetry required for session authentication (via Clerk), API rate limiting, and server diagnostic security. We do not sell, rent, or monetize personal user data or trading logs to third parties. All communication is encrypted via TLS 1.3.