Axiom Trade terms of service, in plain language
Short answer
The Axiom Trade Terms, effective February 26, 2026, are issued by Axiom Innovations Inc., governed by California law with mandatory arbitration, and cap Axiom's liability at $100. They state that Axiom does not store copies of your keys or custody your tokens, bar sanctioned persons and jurisdictions, forbid VPN circumvention, and place legal compliance on you. No licence is claimed. A summary, not legal advice.
The Axiom Trade terms of service are the contract you accept the moment you sign up at axiom.trade. They are issued by Axiom Innovations Inc., took effect on February 26, 2026, and rest on three ideas: Axiom is software, not a custodian; disputes go to arbitration under California law; and Axiom's liability is capped at $100. This page turns that into plain language so you know what you are agreeing to before you fund a wallet.
Two caveats. We read the Terms in a browser on September 17, 2026, and could not re-fetch them on October 2, 2026 because axiom.trade sits behind a bot wall, so the live document at axiom.trade/terms is the only authoritative text. And this is an editorial summary, not legal advice.
What do you agree to when you use Axiom?
You agree that California law governs the relationship, that disputes go to mandatory arbitration, that you are responsible for complying with the law where you live, and that you will not use a VPN to get around Axiom's restrictions. Those four points were clear in our reading.
You also confirm that you are not a sanctioned person and are not in a sanctioned jurisdiction. The Terms restrict by sanctions status rather than by naming Western countries; the current version does not name the United States or the United Kingdom as prohibited, a point covered on our Axiom Trade restricted countries page.
The Privacy Policy was re-dated the same day as the Terms. It routes data-rights requests to support@axiom.trading and notes that identity verification may apply. The date matters: February 26, 2026 is also the day ZachXBT published allegations that an Axiom employee had used internal tools to look up users' wallets, covered in the Axiom Trade reviews.
What does Axiom disclaim?
Custody, key recovery and responsibility for your legal position. The sentence from the Terms that does the most work is this one: "Axiom does not store copies of Keys and does not custody your tokens". Most of the risk on the platform follows from it.
In practice, Axiom cannot restore a wallet if you lose the seed phrase, cannot reverse a transfer to the wrong address, and cannot claw back funds drained through a stolen browser session or a malicious extension. The wallet is created at signup and secured by Turnkey, and the docs recommend exporting the seed phrase into Phantom, Rabby or Solflare; see the Axiom wallet page and the Axiom wallet security checklist.
Axiom also claims no licence. The Terms do not present Axiom as a regulated broker, exchange or money transmitter, and we found no registration claim on axiom.trade or docs.axiom.trade. So no deposit insurance, compensation scheme or regulator's complaints desk stands behind your balance.
Is Axiom Trade a broker or an exchange?
No. Axiom is non-custodial trading software with no licence claimed, not a broker and not an exchange in the regulated sense. Follow a trade and the model is clear: you hold the keys, Axiom's interface builds the transaction, and the trade executes in a DEX pool on Solana or another chain. Axiom charges a 1% base fee on top, reduced by SOL cashback.
The "exchange" label sticks because the official X handle is @AxiomExchange and because DefiLlama files the protocol as "Axiom Pro". Neither changes what the Terms describe. Perpetuals are the same: positions sit on Hyperliquid, with Axiom taking a 0.01% fee per transaction.
Good to know. Non-custodial does not mean nothing can go wrong. A leaked seed phrase or a hijacked logged-in session can still drain a wallet, and automated orders such as limit orders and migration snipes rely on Turnkey policy-based signing from your session. The Terms shift the consequences of all of that to you.
Is Axiom Trade legal to use where you live?
That depends on your country and, in the US, your state, and the Terms do not answer it for you. What they do is bar sanctioned persons and jurisdictions, forbid VPN circumvention and place legal compliance on the user.
So "is Axiom Trade legal" splits in two. Does Axiom let you in? If you are not sanctioned and not in a sanctioned jurisdiction, the Terms do not exclude you by name. Is using it lawful for you? That is a question about your local rules on crypto services, and Axiom claims no licence that would settle it. A third-party claim of an explicit US, UK and Russia ban could not be confirmed against the live Terms. Signup asks for no identity documents, as our Axiom Trade KYC page explains, but the compliance clauses apply whether or not anyone checks your ID.
What does the $100 liability cap mean in practice?
It means that, under the Terms, the most you can recover from Axiom for a claim is $100, regardless of what you lost. If a bug, an outage or a staff error cost you ten thousand dollars, the contract you accepted limits Axiom's exposure to a hundred.
Three practical readings follow. First, treat the cap as the real number when deciding how much to hold in an Axiom wallet versus one whose keys only you control; the move Axiom wallet to Phantom guide shows how to move keys out. Second, do not count on refunds. After the August 28, 2025 incident, when a pump.fun API change blocked selling for about 3.5 hours, hundreds of users filed refund tickets, as Protos reported; whether any were paid is not reported, and nothing in the Terms obliges Axiom to pay them. Third, whether a cap like this is enforceable against a consumer in your jurisdiction is a legal question we cannot answer; a lawyer can.
Watch out. Losses from phishing domains, fake mobile apps and session-stealing browser extensions are the losses Axiom users report most often, and the Terms place account security on you. Log in only at axiom.trade.
What does mandatory arbitration under California law mean?
It means a dispute with Axiom goes to a private arbitrator rather than a court, and California law decides what the contract means. Arbitration is binding, usually confidential, and typically rules out joining a class action, though the exact scope, any opt-out window and any exceptions are details you must read in the live text, since our notes record the clause's existence rather than its wording.
Why California? The Terms name it as the governing law; Y Combinator lists the company in Austin, Texas, and the HQ city is inconsistent across sources. Company background is on the Axiom Trade founder page.
What should you do before you accept the Terms?
Read the live document, check its date, and decide how much you are comfortable holding under a $100 cap and a no-custody model. Five minutes covers it.
- Open axiom.trade/terms yourself. Type the address; do not follow a link from a message or an ad. Look-alike domains such as auth-axiom.trade have been used for phishing.
- Check the effective date. We read the version dated February 26, 2026. A later date means the text has changed since this summary.
- Find the clauses that matter to you. Use your browser's find function for "arbitration", "liability", "custody", "Keys", "sanction", "VPN" and your country's name, and read each full paragraph.
- Read the Privacy Policy too. It carries the same date and sets out the data-rights process by email, with identity verification possible.
- Size your exposure to the cap. Keep on the platform only what you can lose with $100 of recourse, and back up the seed phrase first; the Terms say Axiom holds no copy.
- Know the only support route. Questions about eligibility or lost funds go through a Discord ticket, described on our Axiom Pro support page. Staff never message first.
Sources: Axiom Terms (effective February 26, 2026, read in a browser on September 17, 2026; unreachable to automated fetchers on October 2, 2026), Axiom Privacy Policy, Axiom Contact page, the Turnkey case study on Axiom, Y Combinator: Axiom, Protos on the August 2025 pump.fun incident. Checked September 17 and October 2, 2026.
Last checked against Axiom's documentation and the live app.
Questions people ask
Is Axiom Trade legal?
It depends on where you live, and the Terms place that question on you. The current Axiom Terms bar sanctioned persons and sanctioned jurisdictions and forbid using a VPN to get around restrictions, but they do not name the United States or the United Kingdom as prohibited. Axiom claims no licence in any country. Check your local rules on crypto services before you use it; see our Axiom Trade VPN page for what the Terms do and do not say.
Is Axiom Trade a broker?
No, not in the licensed sense. Axiom describes itself as a non-custodial on-chain trading terminal: a web interface that routes your trades into DEX pools and charges a fee on top. Its Terms state that it does not custody your tokens or store copies of your keys, and no broker, exchange or other licence is claimed. That means none of the protections that come with a regulated broker apply.
What is the Axiom Trade liability cap?
The Terms cap Axiom's liability at $100. In plain terms, if something goes wrong and you have a claim against Axiom, the Terms say the most you can recover is $100, whatever the size of your loss. Whether a cap like that holds up in your jurisdiction is a question for a lawyer, not for a guide site, but you should assume it applies when deciding how much to keep on the platform.
Does Axiom Trade require arbitration?
Yes. The Terms are governed by California law and contain a mandatory arbitration clause, which means disputes with Axiom go to a private arbitrator rather than a court. The exact scope, any opt-out window and any class-action waiver are details you need to read in the live document at axiom.trade/terms, because we could not re-fetch the text on October 2, 2026.
Where can I read the Axiom Trade terms of service?
At axiom.trade/terms, reached by typing the domain yourself. The version we read in a browser on September 17, 2026 was effective February 26, 2026. The page sits behind a bot wall, so automated tools and archive sites may not show it; open it in a normal browser. The Privacy Policy, re-dated the same day, is at axiom.trade/privacy.
Can I ask Axiom to delete my data?
The Privacy Policy, re-dated February 26, 2026, lets you make data-rights requests by email to support@axiom.trading, and notes that identity verification may apply. No self-serve account deletion flow is documented. Your on-chain wallet cannot be deleted, so export the seed phrase and move funds first; Axiom cannot recover keys.