How Bountyhood works

You write a title, description, deliverables and deadline, then deposit the reward in ETH. The deposit goes straight into the escrow contract — it locks the moment the bounty is published and cannot be withdrawn while the bounty is open.

• Minimum reward: 0.001 ETH (anti-spam floor).
• The platform fee rate is frozen into your bounty at creation. Even if the global fee changes later, your bounty pays out at the rate you agreed to.
• You can cancel and get a full refund at any time — as long as nobody has submitted work yet. Once there is a submission, the escrow is committed until approval, expiry or dispute.

Anyone with a wallet (except the bounty's creator) can hunt. Complete the task, then submit a summary and proof links before the deadline. Each submission is anchored on-chain by a hash of its content, so nobody can quietly rewrite what was delivered.

• One active submission per wallet per bounty.
• Submissions close at the deadline.
• Submitting gives you standing to open a dispute later if the creator goes silent (see §5).

The creator reviews submissions and approves the winner. Approval is a single on-chain transaction: the escrow instantly pays the hunter reward − platform fee and the bounty is marked Paid. There is no withdrawal step and no waiting period.

If the deadline passes without an approval, the creator can reclaim the escrow — but only after the 72-hour dispute window closes. The window exists so a creator can't silently take the money back while a hunter's valid work sits unreviewed.

During the dispute window, any hunter who submitted work can open a dispute. That freezes the escrow and hands the decision to the platform arbiter, who can only do one of two things:

• Pay a hunter — must be someone who actually submitted; the normal fee applies; or
• Refund the creator — the full reward returns, no fee.

The arbiter cannot send funds anywhere else — the contract simply has no function for it.

• Evidence thread. While a dispute is open, the bounty page carries a public thread where the creator, the submitting hunters and moderators present their case — links, timelines, what was delivered. It freezes the moment the arbiter rules, so the record the ruling was based on stays intact.
• Resolution target. The arbiter aims to rule within 72 hours of a dispute opening. Escrowed funds stay locked in the contract the whole time — waiting never puts the money at risk.
• Losing has a cost. When the arbiter rules for the hunter, the bounty's creator gets a permanent "disputes lost" mark on their public profile — withholding payment for delivered work follows you (see §8).

The rate is capped at 10% by the contract itself and locked per bounty at creation — the platform earns only when work gets done.

Your wallet is your account — there's no email, no password, no sign-up form. The first time you do something that writes data (create a bounty, submit work, edit your profile, report), your wallet asks you to sign a short message.

• Free and gasless. It's a signature, not a transaction — nothing leaves your wallet and no gas is spent.
• It proves you control the address, so nobody can act as you or edit your profile. The session lasts 30 days.
• Separate from the on-chain transactions that move money (escrowing a reward, paying out) — those still happen on-chain as usual.

Every wallet has a public profile. You can personalize it with a display name, avatar, bio and X handle — editing needs the one-time signature above, so a profile always belongs to the real wallet owner.

• Display names are unique (case-insensitive) and platform names like "admin" are reserved — no impersonating the team or other users.
• Your name and avatar then appear everywhere your address does — bounty cards, the leaderboard, submissions, the activity feed. Your full wallet address stays one click away, on your profile.
• Haven't set one up? You still show up, as a generated identicon and short address — no profile required to use Bountyhood.

Reputation is earned, not claimed: bounties won, total earned, submissions, bounties posted and paid out are all computed from real on-platform activity. The leaderboard ranks top hunters by earnings and top creators by rewards funded, and the activity feed shows everything happening in real time.

It cuts both ways: creators who lose a dispute — an arbiter ruling that they withheld payment for delivered work — carry a visible "disputes lost" warning on their profile. Check it before hunting a bounty from an unfamiliar creator.

When you're connected, the bell in the header keeps you on top of the moments that matter: a bounty you submitted to entering its dispute window unpaid, a dispute opening on one of your bounties, a payout landing, or escrow becoming reclaimable.

Every bounty page has a report button. Moderators review reports and can hide bounties that break the content policy. Hiding is UI-only: a hidden bounty disappears from listings, but its escrow still follows the contract's rules, so funds always settle for the people involved.

Network

Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663)

Escrow contract

0x4e65ACdf92d7C9E56DC3032d751A3022CeAa1FbC

Official token

0xcec3e3fcbbe7bcfaf262f3bc8d163e50c9b0f61c

The escrow contract is verified on Blockscout — you can read every rule described above directly in the source code. Trust the code, not us.