Crédits virtuels, pas de l’argent

xAI Terms of Service

Consumer Terms (effective as published at x.ai/legal/terms-of-service) grant a non-transferable licence to use the Service and forbid sharing account credentials or making an account available to anyone else. Rights under the Terms may not be assigned by the user. Extra Usage Credits sit on the purchasing account. Élan therefore:

• Never asks for xAI passwords, API keys, or session cookies.
• Never spends, freezes, or transfers credits on anyone’s behalf.
• Never lets an operator, a bot, or another person launch a run with the donor’s credits.
• Treats a pledge as a promise that the donor will launch the run themselves, on their own grok.com / xAI session.
• Does not pool strangers’ credits into a spendable balance, and does not resell, rent, or loan the Service.

Acceptable Use Policy: do not take unauthorized actions on behalf of others; do not lease or resell the Service. Grok Bot / MCP on Élan is read-only for facts. A pledge or a run happens only in the signed-in UI of the account holder.

What a credit is

A credit (“cr”) is a unit of xAI Build / Bot compute. It has no dollar price on Élan, is not redeemable for cash, and is not an investment in a project or in Élan. A pledge on Élan is a promise recorded in a public book. Élan does not freeze, transfer, or return credits. The intended settlement — freeze on the donor’s xAI account, burn when that donor launches a run of that project, release of the unused balance at expiry — is a Billing primitive that xAI does not yet expose.

What this is not

• Not a bank, stored-value wallet, or money-services business (no acceptance or transmission of currency; credits never leave the donor’s xAI ledger).
• Not a security, investment contract, or profit-sharing interest under SEC v. Howey: no investment of money, no common enterprise for financial return, no expectation of profits from the efforts of others.
• Not crowdfunding of actual funds (not Regulation Crowdfunding, not a securities offering).
• Not a charitable solicitation of dollars; pledges are not tax-deductible donations.
• Not a tip, like, or personal gift to an author or operator. The operator tends the project and does not receive the pledge.
• Not account sharing, credential lending, or a transfer of the xAI licence.

Le donateur lance le run

Consumption is not “the project spends a pool.” Consumption is the donor opening the project on grok.com (or Grok Build / Grok Bot) while signed in as themselves. Élan’s « Lancer le run » button is an outbound link. It does not execute compute. If the operator changes, they still cannot spend a donor’s credits.

Livre cible (xAI)

Target book, not a claim that Élan has frozen anything:

• 13.09 Compte A → Bot revue de PR · +20 promis · échéance 13.10
• 13.09 Bot revue de PR · −0 · aucun run encore
• (vide) xAI → Compte A · reliquat rendu à échéance

Feature asked of xAI: POST /spend-authorizations from the donor account, to a project_id (Build/Bot workspace, not a human), amount, expires_at, allowed_use = this project only, consume only when that donor launches the run. States: frozen → consumed | released at expiry.

Use

You must be 18 or older to pledge. Do not use Élan to evade sanctions, launder value, or solicit real-world payments. Project copy must not promise financial returns. Grok and Grok Bot may read the public register; they cannot move credits and cannot launch a run on someone else’s account.

Tax

This page is not tax advice. Using your own prepaid xAI compute is consumption of a service you already paid for, not a transfer of money to another person. Whether any other fact pattern is taxable is a question for a qualified U.S. tax advisor. Élan does not issue donation receipts and does not treat pledges as charitable contributions.