House rules

How Degen Market works

Degen Market is a public, paid discovery board for blockchain builders and hackathon teams. Any product can be listed: a protocol, a wallet, a dev tool, a game, a bot, or something with no chain at all. Ranking is by money spent, in US dollars, and nothing else. There are no votes, judges, prizes or accounts.

Listing a project

Paste a website URL or an X profile / @handle. Equivalent links (with or without www, https, trailing slashes or tracking parameters) are treated as the same project. If it’s already listed, we take you to its page.
We fetch public page details. Correct the name, tagline and description, choose a category, and optionally mark it as a hackathon project.
The entry price is $1 more than the current all-time leader of your category. Empty categories start at $1. You can pay more.
Pay through the hosted crypto checkout. Once payment is confirmed the listing publishes automatically.

Listings are permanent. The details you confirm before paying can’t be edited, and contributions never change them. Version one has no moderation, reporting or removal workflow.

Contributing

Anyone can add $1 or more to any listed project, at any time, without needing to reach first place. Spending accumulates: a project at $7 needs $4 more to reach $11. Each payment counts toward the overall board, the project’s category board and, for hackathon projects, the Hackathon showcase.

Ranking

All-time boards rank by total confirmed spending.
Today boards count confirmed spending since 00:00 UTC. At midnight UTC the day closes and moves to the daily archive.
Ties go to the project that reached that amount first. To pass a project you need a strictly higher total.
Payments are whole US dollars. Crypto is converted to USD by the checkout provider.

Price quotes

The entry price is calculated on the server when you open checkout. Once your payment is confirmed, your project is listed, always. If someone takes first place while you’re paying, you don’t lose your listing: your project goes to whatever position your amount earns, and you can add to it later to climb. If two people pay for the same new destination at once, the first confirmed payment publishes the listing and the other is added to its total.

Payments & privacy