Proof,
not performance.
How we run activities, pick winners, and keep it real.
The DareBay Manifesto
The internet is loud. It's full of empty views, farmed likes, and engagement dressed up as achievement. DareBay is the opposite. On DareBay, you don't win because a graph went up — you win because you did the thing, showed the proof, and the community (or the person who put up the prize) said yes, that's it.
What DareBay is
DareBay is a platform where people and brands launch activities — tasks, battles, challenges, contests, creative briefs. Someone — a creator, a brand, a curious person with a budget — sets the activity and puts up the reward. Participants make their own version of the content: a text, an image, a video. Viewers watch, comment, and vote. Winners get paid. That's the whole loop.
No infinite scroll of nothing. No algorithm deciding who matters. An activity has a beginning, a middle, and an end — and at the end, someone gets the reward.
Where DareBay lives. Two equal front doors, one platform: on the web at darebay.com and inside Telegram (app, bot, group). Same contests, same wallet, same loop — open whichever door you like.
What we believe
- Proof over vanity. Likes are cheap. A finished submission is not. Every contest ends in something you can point at.
- Bold creators deserve bold rewards. If you set a challenge, you set the stakes. The reward is yours to decide: money (paid by card, bank transfer, or crypto wallet), an item, Telegram Stars, or a gift. Whatever you want to put on the line.
- Winners get picked, fairly. Three honest ways: community-voted, creator's pick, or a public leaderboard that decides on its own. Pick the one that fits your contest — but commit to it before it starts.
- Commission is small, visible, and predictable. You see it before you publish. No surprise fees.
- Wallets beat promises. Prizes are funded the moment a contest goes live. Winners don't wait and wonder; the money is already there.
What we won't tolerate
- Scams. Fake contests, fake prizes, ghost prize distributions. You commit a prize, you pay it out.
- Fake submissions. Stolen work, AI-washed entries passed off as original craft, sockpuppets rigging votes.
- Illegal, violent, or hateful content. We're not your stage for that. There are better places to get banned.
- Harassment of participants. Lose a contest? Say "good one" and enter the next one. Don't DM people slurs.
Break these and you're out. We don't do three strikes.
Our promise
- Transparent commission. You see the exact fee before you confirm, shown in your own currency (fiat or crypto). The prize is locked the moment a contest goes live. No surprise fees.
- Winners always get paid. We sit in the middle as the guarantor: the prize is locked up front and paid out automatically by the counted results, so neither side can get scammed. We don't hold it hostage and we don't disappear.
- Disputes get a human. If something looks wrong — a rigged vote, a contest that was a setup from the start — we review it. Sometimes we refund. Sometimes we ban. Usually we talk first.
- Your rating is yours. Every account carries two ratings: how you behave as an organizer, and how you behave as a participant. Neither is for sale.
How payouts work
It's simple from the outside: the prize is locked when the contest opens, paid out automatically by validated results when it ends, and anything left over is refunded. No invoices, no chasing, no "we'll send it next week."
Under the hood, money payouts run on a TON smart contract paying out in USDT — that's how we can lock the prize and release it without anyone being able to quietly walk off with it. It's one rail among several: rewards can also be a card or bank payout, an item, Telegram Stars, or a gift. You pick how to fund and how to pay; the lock-and-release guarantee is the same either way.
Join in
- Run a contest. Set a prize, write the activity. The hardest part is deciding what to dare people to do.
- Enter a contest. Submit something real. The worst that happens is you don't win. The best is you do.
- Watch, vote, comment. Most of the internet asks nothing of you. A contest asks you to care for five minutes. Try it.
This is version 1 of the manifesto. It will change as we learn. When it changes, we'll say what changed.