Hackers or other malicious groups or organisations may attempt to interfere with $ADDY and/or Adamant in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, malware attacks, denial of service attacks, consensus-based attacks, Sybil attacks, smurfing and spoofing. Furthermore, there is a risk that a third party or a member of the Company, the Distributor or their respective affiliates may intentionally or unintentionally introduce weaknesses into the core infrastructure of $ADDY and/or Adamant, which could negatively affect $ADDY and/or Adamant. Further, the future of cryptography and security innovations are highly unpredictable and advances in cryptography, or technical advances (including without limitation development of quantum computing), could present unknown risks to $ADDY and/or Adamant by rendering ineffective the cryptographic consensus mechanism that underpins that blockchain protocol.