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# Risk Notice

Altitude, Mountain Miner, the Everest Vault, and any future Altitude ecosystem products are DeFi products. They involve meaningful risk.

Users should understand the following before buying tokens, staking, depositing, farming, or interacting with any Altitude ecosystem contract:

* Token prices can rise or fall.
* USDC Rewards are not guaranteed.
* ROI rates are not guaranteed profit.
* Smart contracts can contain bugs or vulnerabilities.
* External protocols, DEXes, reward platforms, bridges, and liquidity venues can fail or change.
* Treasury support contract balance injections are not guaranteed forever.
* Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Mountain Miner is designed as a DeFi miner / ROI-style product. A displayed daily rate does not mean risk-free yield. Claims depend on contract rules, available USDC balance, user behaviour, and the wider ecosystem.

Users should always do their own research and only use funds they can afford to lose.


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