Legal

Terms of Service.

The agreement between you and VRCommissions when you use the Platform.

Last updated: May 3, 2026

VRCommissions (the "Platform", "we", "us", or "our") operates an online marketplace that connects people who want virtual-reality creative work commissioned ("Buyers") with the creators who provide it ("Sellers"). By accessing or using the Platform you ("you", "User") agree to these Terms of Service (these "Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

1. Who we are

The Platform is operated by VRCommissions DBA/OA VRCommissions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. References to "VRCommissions" mean that operating entity. You can reach us at the contact details in section 23.

2. Acceptance and eligibility

These Terms form a binding contract between you and VRCommissions. To use the Platform you must:

be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your province, territory, state, or country of residence, whichever is greater;
have the legal capacity to enter into binding contracts;
not be currently suspended or banned from the Platform;
not be located in, or ordinarily resident in, the Province of Quebec (see paragraph below);
not be located in, or ordinarily resident in, a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the Government of Canada or Global Affairs Canada;
not be located in, or ordinarily resident in, any other jurisdiction in which (a) your use of the Platform or your participation in USDC, BTC, or other crypto-asset transactions through the Platform would be unlawful, or (b) the Platform would be required to hold a licence or registration it does not hold, including, without limitation, registration as a money-services business, money transmitter, payments processor, securities dealer, or crypto-asset trading platform;
provide accurate, current, and complete information when registering and keep it up to date.

By creating an account you represent and warrant that you meet each of the criteria above. You are solely responsible for confirming that your use of the Platform, and any transaction you conduct through it, is lawful in the jurisdiction(s) in which you reside or are located. The Platform performs no jurisdictional gatekeeping beyond the eligibility representations you make at registration. If your circumstances change so that you no longer meet these criteria, you must stop using the Platform and close your account in accordance with section 18.

Quebec residents. The Platform is not offered to residents of the Province of Quebec. The Platform is provided in English only and is not registered as a money-services business under the Quebec Money-Services Businesses Act; in addition, Quebec's Consumer Protection Act, Charter of the French Language, and Law 25 impose obligations the Platform is not currently equipped to meet. Quebec residents may revisit eligibility if and when the Platform announces availability in Quebec.

If you accept these Terms on behalf of an organization, you warrant that you have authority to bind that organization and "you" includes both you and the organization.

3. Definitions

Listing: a service offering created by a Seller, describing the work, price, and turnaround.
Order: a specific Buyer–Seller engagement created from a Listing or a custom request, moving through the statuses Requested, AwaitingPayment, Accepted, InProgress, Delivered, Completed, or Cancelled.
Commission: the underlying contract for creative work between a Buyer and a Seller, formed when an Order moves to Accepted.
Escrow Contract: the non-custodial smart contract on the Base blockchain that holds USDC for an Order from deposit until release or refund.
USDC: the USD-denominated stablecoin used for payments on the Platform.
Platform Fee: the fees described in section 8.
Arbiter: the role authorized by the Escrow Contract to sign release or refund transactions in accordance with these Terms. The Arbiter cannot withdraw funds for the Platform's benefit.

4. Nature of the marketplace

VRCommissions is a venue. The Commission is a contract between the Buyer and the Seller, and we are not a party to it. We do not perform the work, supervise the work, or guarantee any outcome. Sellers are independent contractors, not our employees, agents, partners, or joint venturers. Nothing on the Platform creates an employment, agency, partnership, or franchise relationship between you and us, or between Buyers and Sellers.

What we provide is the marketplace itself: hosting, listings, messaging, file exchange, the Escrow Contract integration, dispute review, and related software services.

The Platform is not a money transmitter. VRCommissions is not a money-services business, money transmitter, payment processor, dealer in crypto assets, custodian, broker, exchange, or financial institution, and does not act as one. Funds paid by a Buyer in respect of an Order are deposited directly into the Escrow Contract on a public blockchain, and the Escrow Contract releases those funds directly to the Seller's wallet (or refunds them to the Buyer's wallet) without passing through any wallet, account, or balance held by the Platform on behalf of either User. The Platform does not receive, hold, transmit, exchange, convert, or remit User funds in transit between Users at any point. Each User is solely responsible for the legality, tax treatment, and regulatory consequences of their own transactions.

5. Accounts and security

You may register with an email and password or via a supported third-party identity provider (currently Discord). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access. We may require additional verification (including identity or wallet verification) at any time, and may suspend your account if verification is not completed.

One personal account per natural person. Operating multiple accounts to evade suspensions, manipulate reviews, or circumvent fees is prohibited.

6. Buyer obligations

Provide an accurate, lawful brief and any reference materials you have rights to share.
Fund the Escrow Contract through the Platform's payment flow. Off-Platform payment for an on-Platform engagement is prohibited (see section 13).
Communicate respectfully and promptly. Review deliveries within the auto-approval window or open a dispute if the delivery does not match what was agreed.
Do not initiate payment-network chargebacks for transactions already protected by escrow; use the Platform's dispute process.

7. Seller obligations

Create accurate Listings. Do not advertise services or capabilities you cannot deliver.
Provide a valid wallet address on a supported chain to receive payouts. You bear sole responsibility for control of that wallet.
Deliver work that materially matches the Order's agreed scope, format, and deadline.
Where revisions are part of the Listing, complete reasonable revisions in good faith.
Charge, collect, and remit any taxes applicable to your services as required by law (see section 9).

8. Payments, escrow, and fees

Payments for Orders are made in USDC on the Base network. The transaction occurs entirely between the Buyer's wallet, the Escrow Contract, and the Seller's wallet. The Platform does not receive, hold, transmit, exchange, convert, or remit any funds in transit between Users. Where a Buyer chooses to fund an Order with BTC, the conversion to USDC is performed by an independent third-party swap provider under a separate contract directly between the Buyer and that provider; the Platform is not a party to that swap, does not earn fees on the conversion, and does not handle the BTC.

The Platform Fee is 12% of the agreed Order price in total: a 5% buyer fee added on top of the agreed price at deposit, and a 7% seller fee deducted at release. Both components are disclosed before the Buyer signs the deposit transaction. The Platform Fee is consideration for the software, hosting, listing, messaging, dispute-review, and Arbiter-signing services we provide; it is not a fee for the transmission, exchange, or custody of money, and the Platform does not charge a fee for moving User funds.

The Escrow Contract is non-custodial. The Platform cannot move funds out of the Escrow Contract for its own benefit; the Arbiter's signing authority is enforced by the contract itself and is limited to release to the Seller or refund to the Buyer. On-chain transactions are final and cannot be reversed by us.

Network gas fees on Base are the responsibility of the party initiating the transaction in question and may vary with network conditions.

9. Taxes

Each User is solely responsible for determining, collecting, reporting, and remitting any taxes that arise from their use of the Platform, including without limitation income tax, GST/HST, provincial sales taxes, and any taxes applicable in their own jurisdiction. The Platform is not a tax collector and does not register, collect, or remit tax on any User's behalf.

Canadian sellers and the GST/HST small-supplier threshold. A Canadian seller is required to register for GST/HST and to charge it on their taxable supplies once their worldwide taxable revenues exceed CAD $30,000 in any single calendar quarter or in four consecutive calendar quarters (the small-supplier threshold under the Excise Tax Act). A seller below that threshold is not required to register and should not charge GST/HST. A registered seller must, on request from a buyer, disclose the GST/HST registration number associated with the supply.

How the Platform supports a registered seller. A seller who is registered for GST/HST may enter their registration number and the rate they charge in their account settings. When that information is on file, the rate is applied to the agreed price of each new Order, the resulting tax amount is added to the buyer's escrow deposit on top of the agreed price and the buyer fee, and the seller's number is displayed to the buyer on the Order page. On release, the tax flows directly to the seller along with the agreed price; the seller is responsible for remitting it to the Canada Revenue Agency. The Platform does not collect or remit this tax, does not act as a "deemed supplier" in respect of the underlying supply, and will not issue tax invoices on behalf of the seller. If the seller has no registration number on file, no tax is added to the Order.

10. Cancellations, refunds, and disputes

Before a deposit is made (statuses Requested or AwaitingPayment), cancellation has no payment consequences because no funds have moved.
After deposit but before delivery (statuses Accepted or InProgress), cancellation by either party causes the Escrow Contract to refund the Buyer's full deposit, including the buyer fee.
After delivery is accepted, or after the auto-approval window expires, funds release to the Seller and a refund requires a successful dispute.

A User may open a dispute on any active Order through the Order page. We will review the conversation, files exchanged, and Listing scope, and the Arbiter will sign a release or refund accordingly. Our determination is final for purposes of how the Arbiter signs the on-chain transaction; it does not, by itself, extinguish any legal rights you may have at law against the other User.

11. Intellectual property in commissioned work

The default position on every Order is that the Seller grants the Buyer a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the deliverable for the Buyer's own personal, non-commercial purposes, for example, using a commissioned avatar in social VR, in personal streams, or in non-monetised content. The Seller retains copyright in the deliverable.

Commercial rights are at the Seller's discretion. A Seller may, in the Listing or in the Order's requirements, expressly grant the Buyer broader rights, including a full assignment of copyright, a commercial-use licence, resale rights, or rights to use the deliverable in a monetised product, service, or game. Where the Listing or Order says nothing about commercial use, the licence is personal and non-commercial only. Where the Listing or Order grants commercial rights, those rights take effect on full release of the Order's funds.

Whatever the scope of the Buyer's licence or assignment, it remains subject to (a) the Seller's retained right to display the deliverable as a portfolio sample, (b) any third-party assets incorporated into the deliverable under their own licences, and (c) the Platform's licence under section 12.

12. Licence to the Platform

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, and transmit content you upload (Listings, deliverables, messages, files, profile content) solely to the extent necessary to operate, secure, and improve the Platform, to comply with law, and to evidence what was exchanged in case of dispute. This licence ends when the content is removed, except for archival copies retained for legal, security, or dispute-evidence purposes.

13. Prohibited content and conduct

You will not, and will not permit any third party to:

upload, request, or deliver content that infringes another person's intellectual-property, privacy, or publicity rights;
upload, request, or deliver content that is illegal in Canada, including child sexual abuse material, content promoting terrorism, or content prohibited by the Criminal Code;
harass, threaten, dox, or impersonate other Users;
misrepresent your age, residency, or identity, including to evade the eligibility rules in section 2 or to access the Platform from a jurisdiction in which it is not offered or in which your use would be unlawful;
solicit or accept payment for an on-Platform engagement off-Platform, share contact details for that purpose, or otherwise circumvent the Platform Fee;
scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to access the Platform without express permission, or interfere with normal operation;
attempt to reverse-engineer the Escrow Contract integration, exploit smart-contract vulnerabilities, or manipulate dispute outcomes;
use the Platform in a manner that violates anti-spam (CASL), anti-money-laundering (PCMLTFA), sanctions, export-control, or competition law in Canada or in the jurisdiction in which you are located.

Mature (NSFW) content. Sexually explicit, suggestive, or otherwise mature content is permitted on the Platform, subject to the prohibitions above (no child sexual abuse material, no non-consensual intimate imagery, no content depicting real identifiable persons without their consent, and no other content that is unlawful in Canada). Sellers offering mature content must mark each affected Listing as mature using the per-Listing mature-content toggle. The Platform requires every viewer of mature content to first attest that they are at least 18 years old. Anonymous and unattested viewers are not shown mature Listings in browse results, search results, or on Listing detail pages. Sellers may not bypass this gate by, for example, embedding mature content inside Listings that are not marked mature, or by delivering mature content to a Buyer who has not requested it.

14. Reviews and ratings

Reviews must be honest, based on a real Order, and free of personal attacks, threats, or content that violates section 13. We may remove reviews that breach these Terms and may take action against accounts that manipulate the review system (review-trading, fake orders, retaliatory reviews tied to disputes).

15. Communications and anti-circumvention

Order-related communication must take place through Platform channels so that, in the event of a dispute, the record can be reviewed. Sharing contact details with the intent of moving an Order off-Platform, or paying off-Platform for work introduced through the Platform, is a material breach. We may charge a recovery fee equal to the Platform Fee that would have applied, suspend the offending account, and take any other remedy available in law.

16. Crypto-asset risks and disclosures

You acknowledge and accept the following:

USDC is a stablecoin nominally pegged to the United States dollar, but the peg is not guaranteed and historical de-pegging events have occurred;
blockchain transactions are generally irreversible; sending funds to an incorrect address or signing an incorrect transaction may result in permanent loss;
smart-contract code carries inherent risk including bugs, exploits, and governance changes by upstream protocols;
you are responsible for the security of any wallet you use, including private keys and seed phrases, where applicable;
the Platform does not provide investment, tax, or legal advice in respect of crypto assets.

The Platform is not a money-services business, money transmitter, payment processor, dealer in crypto assets, custodian, broker, exchange, or financial institution, and does not act as one. The Platform does not control User funds. Funds in respect of any Order move directly from the Buyer's wallet to the Escrow Contract on the Base public blockchain, and from the Escrow Contract directly to the Seller's wallet on release (or back to the Buyer's wallet on refund). At no point does any User wallet, balance, or account sit under the Platform's control. The Platform holds no withdrawal key. The Arbiter can sign exactly two on-chain instructions to the Escrow Contract: release to seller or refund to buyer, and the contract enforces those limits independently of any Platform code or representation. The Platform cannot move User funds to itself, cannot reroute funds to a third party, and cannot reverse a confirmed on-chain transaction. On-chain transactions occur peer-to-peer between User wallets and the Escrow Contract; the Platform's role is limited to providing software, dispute review, and Arbiter signing, and that is the entire scope of the Platform's involvement with money flows.

17. Privacy

Personal information is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the Platform you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in that policy.

18. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these Terms, for legal compliance reasons, or where continued service would expose us or other Users to material risk. Where reasonably practicable, we will give you notice and an opportunity to cure. You may close your account at any time once all open Orders are resolved and any outstanding obligations are settled. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 8 last paragraph, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22) survive.

19. Disclaimers

Except as expressly stated and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uptime, accuracy of Listings, identity of Users, suitability of Sellers, or that disputes will be resolved to your satisfaction.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit or exclude any non-excludable warranty, condition, or right under the Consumer Protection Act, 2002 (Ontario) or other applicable consumer-protection legislation in jurisdictions in which the Platform is offered.

20. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Platform, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or otherwise, is limited to one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100) in the aggregate.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, or lost data, even if advised of the possibility. Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, or wilful misconduct.

21. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless VRCommissions, its officers, directors, employees, and contractors from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) your content, (b) your use of the Platform, (c) your breach of these Terms, (d) your breach of any third party's rights, or (e) any Commission you enter into.

22. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in that Province, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

The parties will attempt to resolve disputes informally before commencing any proceeding. Where informal resolution fails, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario sitting in the City of Toronto, except that nothing prevents either party from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual-property or confidentiality interests.

23. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Updates take effect immediately on posting to the Platform with no advance-notice period; the "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of the Platform after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to stop using the Platform and close your account in accordance with section 18.

24. General

Severability. If a court finds a provision unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any Order-specific terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Platform.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of our assets.
Language. These Terms and the Platform are provided in English only. The Platform is not offered to Quebec residents and no French-language version is available; see section 2.
Headings. Section headings are for reference only and do not affect interpretation.

25. Contact

Notices to VRCommissions must be sent to mail@vrcommissions.com For general support, see our Contact page.