Monthly draw rules

This draw is run and funded by Atheron Network Inc., a company incorporated in British Columbia, Canada. In these rules that company is "the promoter" and "we".

The draw is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Discord, Telegram or X.

Questions about the draw: support@aton-network.org

There is one draw a month. Each opens at 12:00 a.m. on the 1st of the month and closes at 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the month, Pacific time as kept in Vancouver. An entry received after the close is not counted, and the promoter's server clock is the official clock.

The first draw runs from October 1 to October 31, 2026.

The October 2026 draw: entries open Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. and close Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m., Pacific time.

Each draw is made after it closes, and its winner is announced once they are confirmed, as clauses 8 and 10 describe.

You may enter if, when you enter and when the winner is drawn and confirmed:

• you hold a members account with a member profile;
• your account is verified to Core or Bedrock, so that your name, your country, your province or state where the rules need it, and your date of birth are proved;
• you have linked your X account to it, and you follow @ATON_Network on X;
• you have linked your Discord account and are a member of our own Discord server, or linked your Telegram account and are a member of our own Telegram channel or group (other servers and groups do not count);
• you have reached the age of majority where you live;
• you live in a place where the draw is open, as clause 4 lists, and you do not live in Quebec, whose residents are not eligible;
• you have never won an earlier Atheron monthly community draw. Past winners can never enter again, from any account, including a winner who forfeited the prize; and
• you are not an employee, officer or director of the promoter, or a member of their household.

One entry per member each month. The draw is void wherever it is prohibited or restricted by law.

Open to residents of:

• Australia
• Austria
• Bolivia
• Canada, except Quebec
• Chile
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Germany
• Guernsey
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Japan
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Peru
• Slovakia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• United Kingdom
• United States

A place is listed only where a free-entry draw of this kind may be run without a permit, filing or local representative, and where our promotion is not paused. Everywhere else, the draw is void.

Not open in:

• Quebec. Its residents are not eligible for any draw.
• These countries, where we sell but the draw may not be run, as described above:
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  Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, DR Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

• The countries we do not sell to at all, under sanctions or because the country prohibits this kind of product, as where we sell sets out:
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  Afghanistan (sanctions), Algeria (prohibited locally), Bangladesh (prohibited locally), Belarus (sanctions), China (prohibited locally), Cuba (sanctions), Egypt (prohibited locally), Iran (sanctions), Iraq (prohibited locally), Morocco (prohibited locally), Myanmar (sanctions), Nepal (prohibited locally), North Korea (sanctions), Qatar (prohibited locally), Russia (sanctions), Sudan (sanctions), Syria (sanctions), Tunisia (prohibited locally), Venezuela (sanctions).

• Anywhere else the draw is prohibited or restricted by law.

Sign in to your members account, open Community, then Monthly draw, meet each requirement on the checklist, confirm that you follow @ATON_Network on X, and press Enter. If you are not signed in, you sign in or sign up first and come straight back to the draw.

One entry per person per draw. Entries are matched to the person your verification proved, so an entry from a second account of yours is refused.

No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or to win, and buying anything does not improve your chance. Opening a members account, verifying your identity, following us on X and joining our Discord or Telegram are all free.

One prize each month: six months of Aurora, starting when Aurora goes live, with an approximate retail value of CA$1,242.

The prize is not transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash. If it cannot be given as described, the promoter may give a prize of equal or greater value instead. It is given at no charge, and nobody earns commission on it.

It is added to the winner's members account as an order at no charge when the winner is confirmed, and its months start when it is activated.

When each draw is made we publish a commitment: the SHA-256 hash of a secret random seed. The draw also uses the drand public randomness beacon: the first round it produces at least five minutes after entries close, fixed and published when the draw is made.

An entry's code is a keyed hash (HMAC-SHA-256) of the draw's id and the entrant's member id, made with a secret key kept for that draw alone. So the published list names nobody, nobody outside can match a code to a person, and each entrant sees their own code in their members account.

When entries close we publish the SHA-256 hash of the list of entry codes. Once the beacon produces the round, we publish its randomness, the seed and the list. Each entry is scored as the SHA-256 hash of the seed, a colon, the round's randomness, a colon and its code, and entries are ranked from the lowest score. The first-ranked eligible entrant is the potential winner.

Nobody, the promoter included, can know the scores while entries can be made. If the beacon cannot be reached the draw waits for it, and it is never made without it. Anybody can check the list, the randomness and the seed, and repeat the draw, on the draw page. The list stays published for six months after the draw.

The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

The potential winner is told in their members account and by email. They have 7 days from that message to claim the prize: to add and confirm an email address there if their account has none, and, if they live in Canada, to correctly answer, without help, a mathematical skill-testing question.

Before the winner is announced, our staff check that the potential winner follows @ATON_Network on X and is a member of our own Telegram or our own Discord, as our bots read it.

A potential winner who does not claim the prize in those 7 days is recorded as not having claimed it. A potential winner who does not claim in time, answers incorrectly, fails either check, or is found not to be eligible is disqualified, and the next-ranked eligible entrant becomes the potential winner, in the order the draw published, with the same seed and beacon round. They are told the same way and have the same 7 days. The published list says only whether each entry won or was passed over.

The winner must keep following @ATON_Network on X and stay a member of our own Telegram or our own Discord to keep the prize. This is checked when the winner is announced, and again when the prize is activated, when Aurora goes live.

A winner who is not following us on X, or is a member of neither our Telegram nor our Discord, at either check forfeits the prize, and a forfeited prize is not awarded to anybody else. A winner who forfeits the prize is still a past winner and can never enter again.

The winner is shown on the draw page and on our social accounts by their X handle only, and only with their consent. Without it, the winner is shown as "a member from" their country.

Entrants' information is used only to run the draw, as the privacy notice describes. The published list contains entry codes, never names or member ids, and is taken down six months after the draw.

The promoter may cancel, suspend or change the draw if fraud, a technical failure or anything else beyond its reasonable control affects it, subject to the law. The promoter's decisions on everything about the draw are final. Any tax on the prize is the winner's.

Each month's draw has official rules of its own, written into the draw when it is made and published on the draw page. They are the rules that month's draw is run by, and this month's are edition 2026-10-01.

These rules are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada.