What ballast is not

Ballast is disclosure. It shows you what a project holds. It creates no claim, right, or promise for anyone who holds the project token. This page is deliberately blunt.

It is not a claim on anything

Holding a project token gives you no right to the treasury assets. There is no share, no ownership stake, and no entitlement of any kind.

It is not a redemption right

There is no mechanism to exchange your tokens for treasury assets. You cannot redeem, claim, or convert them, and no such feature exists or is planned.

It is not a price floor

A token can — and will — trade below its backing. Backing is a measurement of what a treasury holds, not a boundary on what the market will pay.

It is not a promise of return

Projects fail. Assets fall. Treasuries shrink. Nothing about ballast reduces the risk that you lose everything you put in.

It is not our endorsement

We report the number. We do not vouch for any project, team, or outcome. A linked X account or website proves control of that account at a point in time — it is not approval.

Depositing ballast earns you nothing

If you deposit assets to a project you do not own, it is permanent. You cannot withdraw it, and you receive no tokens, points, airdrop, referral cut, or benefit of any kind in return. This is intentional: any such reward would turn a deposit into something it must never be.

The assets are issued by Robinhood, and subject to their controls

Ballast assets are tokenized equities and funds issued by Robinhood. They are not neutral tokens. The issuer can block an address, and can pause all transfers of a token — for corporate actions or for any reason of its own.

While a token is paused, or while a treasury address is blocked, deposits and withdrawals of that asset will not go through. That includes a creator trying to withdraw their own ballast, and a depositor trying to reclaim an expired deposit. This can temporarily prevent assets from moving.

It is temporary, not a loss: transfers resume when the issuer lifts the control, and every pending action can be retried then. But the control exists, it applies to the assets themselves, and it sits with Robinhood — not with BALLAST, and not with the project.

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