This policy sets out what may be minted and listed on the TCC NFT Marketplace, how the community reporting system works, and what happens after a report. It applies to NFT media, metadata, names, descriptions and collection details.
1. What is not allowed
The reporting categories below are the ones built into the marketplace. Each is a breach of this policy.
Stolen work / not the creator
Copying someone else's artwork, or minting from a work you do not own or are not licensed to use. This includes re-minting an existing collection, tracing, and passing off AI output trained to imitate a specific living artist as that artist's work.
Scam or misleading
Fake or cloned collections, impersonating another creator, project or brand, false claims about utility, edition size, provenance, partnerships or endorsements, wash trading, and listings designed to trick a buyer into signing something other than what is described.
Sexual content
Explicit sexual imagery. Non-consensual intimate imagery is prohibited absolutely, whether or not it is explicit.
Violence or hate
Gore, glorification of violence, harassment or targeted abuse of an individual, and hateful content attacking people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation — including hateful symbols.
Child sexual abuse material
Other unlawful or harmful content
Content that is otherwise unlawful, that facilitates fraud or malware, that discloses another person's private information, or that breaches sanctions.
2. How community reporting works
Any wallet can report a listing from the marketplace interface.
- — Reports are signed by your wallet. This is what makes each wallet count once; reporting the same listing again does not increase the count.
- — Three distinct wallets reporting the same listing hides it from our interface automatically, pending administrator review.
- — The current count and the threshold are shown to you when you report.
- — Reports are not anonymous to administrators. The reporting wallet address and the chosen category are visible in the review queue.
3. Administrator review
Hidden listings enter a review queue. An administrator will either:
- — Restore the listing, if it does not breach this policy. A restored listing also becomes immune to the reports that triggered the hide, so the same reports cannot hide it again.
- — Leave it hidden, if it does breach this policy.
We aim to review hidden listings promptly, but we do not guarantee a review time. Automatic hiding happens before any human has looked at the listing — a hidden listing is not a finding of wrongdoing.
4. Abuse of the reporting system
Reporting in bad faith is itself a breach of this policy. Because reports are signed, administrators can see who filed them and can identify patterns — for example, coordinated reporting of a competitor's listings, or repeatedly reporting content that is then restored.
Consequences escalate from ignoring a wallet's reports, to suspending its ability to report, to banning it from the marketplace interface.
5. Appeals
If your listing was hidden and you believe it complies with this policy, email [email protected] with:
- — the collection address and token id;
- — your wallet address (the one that listed it);
- — why the listing complies, and any evidence of your rights in the work.
Appeals are not available for child sexual abuse material. If your listing was hidden because somebody claimed you infringed their rights, the counter-notice route in the IP Takedown Procedure applies instead.
6. Enforcement against accounts
Depending on severity and repetition we may: hide individual listings; hide all listings from a wallet; block a wallet from the marketplace interface; suspend or terminate any linked TCC account under the Terms of Service; and report the matter to authorities.
Repeat infringement of other people's intellectual property leads to a permanent marketplace ban.
7. Limits of moderation
- — The token stays on the blockchain. Nobody, including us, can delete or edit it.
- — The media stays on IPFS for as long as any node keeps it pinned. We can unpin from our own infrastructure; we cannot unpin from anyone else's.
- — The market program keeps running. A listing hidden from our website can still be traded by interacting with the chain directly.
- — Third-party explorers, marketplaces and caches are outside our control.
This is why the minting rules ask you not to publish anything you may later need erased.
8. Contact
Policy questions: [email protected]. Copyright and trademark claims: IP Takedown Procedure. Security vulnerabilities: Security & Vulnerability Disclosure Policy.