• Partial or total loss of virtual assets;
  • Collapse in liquidity with respect to virtual assets; changes in compatibility of a virtual asset with the Protocol, changes in the smart contracts;
  • Regulatory uncertainty and government action against virtual assets;
  • Extreme volatility;
  • Possibility of market misconduct by participants including for example market manipulation, trading on the basis of non-public information, and front running;
  • Delays in or complete failure of virtual asset transactions being confirmed;
  • Counterparty risk;
  • Faults, defects, hacks, exploits, errors or unforeseen circumstances occurring in respect of the platform or the technologies that the platform depends on;
  • Loss of private keys; and
  • Attacks on the platform or the technologies that the platform depends on including for example distributed denial of service, sybil attacks, phishing, social engineering, hacking, smurfing, malware, double spending, majority-mining, consensus-based or other mining attacks, misinformation campaigns, forks, and spoofing.