How HODLQuest works

HODLQuest pays you for finishing small tasks. The money is in the contract before you start, and it is sent to you when the quest ends. Projects fund the pool up front and publish the tasks. You pick a quest, do the tasks, and the payout runs itself.

How to start

Open Quests, pick a quest, and read its reward rule. Sign in when you want to join. Email, Google or a wallet all work, and signing in is a signature rather than a payment. Then finish the tasks before the deadline. If the quest's rule selects you, the reward arrives on its own once the quest ends.

What a quest is

A quest is a set of tasks with a deadline and a fixed number of places. Tasks are things like answering a quiz, visiting a link, posting or reposting something, joining a server, or submitting work a human reviews. Some are checked automatically, some by the creator.

Separately from its tasks, a quest can require you to hold a token for its duration. That is a condition on the whole quest rather than a task you tick off, and the section below on who holds your money explains how it works.

Whether finishing guarantees you a reward depends on how the creator set the quest up. Some pay everyone who finishes, up to the number of places. Some pay the first people to finish. Some rank entrants and pay the top scorers, in which case finishing enters you rather than paying you. Every quest states its own rule on its page, before you join.

Where the reward comes from

The creator transfers the entire reward pool into the treasury contract when they create the quest, before it opens. The money is already there, on Polygon, for the whole time the quest is running. A quest cannot open underfunded, and a creator cannot quietly withdraw the pool while people are working on it. After the quest ends there is a waiting period, which exists so every winner is paid first. Once it is over the creator may reclaim whatever is left. The contract will not let them take it any earlier, and it does not hand it back on its own either.

How you get paid

You do not claim anything. After a quest ends, rewards are sent to the wallets of everyone the quest's rule selects. There is no claim button, no second transaction, and no gas for you to pay to collect it. Gas is the small fee the Polygon network itself charges to run a transaction, and it goes to the network rather than to us. If a transfer cannot reach your wallet for some reason, the amount is credited to you in the contract and you can withdraw it yourself at any time.

Who holds your money

We do not. Some quests ask you to hold a coin for their duration, and when they do, the tokens go into a vault that belongs to you: it is deployed at an address only you own, and you can release it back to your wallet whenever you want. The treasury never takes custody of a participant's funds, and that is a design constraint rather than a policy.

The hold counts only while it stays in place, so releasing it ends your entry to that quest, even if you put the tokens back afterwards. The money never stops being yours. Taking it back early is simply what forfeits the reward.

What it costs

We charge a participant nothing. Joining an ordinary quest needs no wallet transaction at all, so there is no gas either, and signing in is a signature, which wallets do not charge for.

Three things do cost gas, and none of them is a fee to us. Moving your own tokens into your own vault on a quest that asks you to hold something, which can be two transactions when the token needs an approval first. Releasing the hold again afterwards. And withdrawing a reward yourself in the rare case an automatic payout could not reach your wallet. In every one of those the money is yours and stays yours.

Creators fund the reward pool up front, and the platform fee comes out of that same pool when payouts are made. The reward a quest advertises is the reward you receive.

Where to read more

The contracts that hold the money, and their addresses on Polygon, are listed on the trust page. If you are a project thinking about running a campaign, start here. If something has gone wrong, the help page says what to do and how to reach a person.