The DareBay manifesto: what we pay for and what we never promise

The internet is loud, and most of it pays for noise: empty views, bought likes, activity passed off as achievement. DareBay is the opposite. Here you win because you did the thing and showed the result, not because a graph crept upwards, and because the community (or whoever put up the prize) said: yes, that is it.

What DareBay is ​

DareBay is a platform where people and brands launch all sorts of activities: challenges, battles, contests and creative tasks. Someone (a creator, a brand or simply a person with a budget) thinks up a task and puts up a reward. Participants make their own version of the content: text, image, video. Viewers watch, comment, vote. The winners get the reward. That is the whole cycle.

No endless feed about nothing. No algorithm deciding who matters. An activity has a beginning, a middle and an end, and at the end someone gets paid.

DareBay works the same in two places: on the web at darebay.com and inside Telegram (the app, the bot, the group). Two equal doors into one and the same product. Come in whichever way suits you, the cycle is the same.

What we believe ​

• Proof beats metrics. Likes are cheap. Finished work is not. Every contest ends with something you can point at.
• Bold creators deserve serious rewards. You set the task and the price. A contest can define money (by card, bank transfer or wallet), an item, Telegram Stars or a gift. The method is fixed in the contest, while fulfilment through payout details and statuses is done by the team.
• Winners are chosen by a rule fixed in advance. Four ways: a community vote, the buyer's own call, a seeded draw among eligible submissions, or an independent count of the views. How winners are chosen. Pick the one that fits your contest and lock it in before the start.
• Fees are separated by operation. Contest creation and top-ups currently carry 0%, the store carries 8%, and withdrawal to your wallet carries 10% of the requested amount, from a 10 USDT minimum. The amount you receive, fee already deducted, is shown before confirmation.
• A locked budget beats a promise. A wallet-backed prize is locked the moment a contest goes live and it sits with the platform for the whole run. The buyer cannot change their mind about it, which is the only kind of reassurance worth printing.

What we will not tolerate ​

• Cheating. Fake contests, fake prizes, "we forgot to hand the prize out". You put up a prize, you pay it out.
• Fake work. Stolen content, AI slop passed off as your own, inflated votes and views.
• Illegal, violent or hateful content. We are not a stage for that. There are places that will ban you far faster.
• Harassing participants. You lost, say "nice one" and enter the next contest. No need to send bile in DMs.

Break the rules and you are out. No warnings.

Our promise ​

1. Transparent operation terms. The exact fee and resulting amount are shown before confirmation; contest creation, store purchases and withdrawals are distinct.
2. The winner's obligation stays recorded. The budget is assigned to the contest, the result is confirmed, and a credit or payout obligation receives a status. Fulfilment is done by the team.
3. Disputes are read by a human. A stuffed vote, a set-up contest: we look into every report ourselves and answer it. We will not promise in advance what the answer will be, because a promise to reverse any result on request is worth nothing to the person who was actually wronged.
4. Your rating belongs to you. Every account carries two ratings: as an organizer and as a participant. Neither is for sale.

How payouts work ​

The core is simple: the budget is recorded when a contest goes live. After checks, the platform calculates the result and stores a credit or payout obligation. In a wallet-backed contest the unspent remainder returns to the organizer, because the platform was holding it; where no pool was deposited there is nothing to return. Moving money is a separate stage that follows payout details and statuses, can be handled by the team, and carries no settlement deadline from us.

First you choose what you are putting up: money or an item. A contest can define a card, bank transfer, USDT on TON, Telegram Stars, a gift or an item. This is a reward menu, not a list of automatic withdrawal rails for one balance. The product shows the available method, payout details and status.

The withdrawal wizard offers USDT to an external wallet on TON and Telegram Stars. A card, bank transfer, gift or item can be the reward method of a particular contest and is fulfilled separately.

Join in ​

• Launch a contest. Put up a prize, write the terms. The hardest part is thinking up what to dare someone to do.
• Take part. Send in something real. Worst case, you do not win. Best case, you do.
• Watch, vote, comment. Most of the internet asks nothing of you. A contest asks for five minutes on something you actually care about. Give it a try.

This is version 1 of the manifesto. It will change as we learn. When it changes, we will say exactly what changed.