Docs & FAQ

Reference for how the Guild works, the bot commands, and what everything costs. New here? Start with the guide.

New to the Guild? The getting-started guide walks you from installing a wallet to claiming your first task.

XP & tiers. Guild XP comes from completed tasks. Five tiers, Member to Elder, are defined by XP thresholds; the tier shown on your badge is its own on-chain field, which only the operator sets. A tier carries no permissions and no vote weight. The table and the XP values are on the getting-started guide; check your own on /check-badge.

Working Groups

Working groups organize WHO does WHAT: each one is a topic you can join to follow its tasks. Joining is a notification preference and nothing more — a group has no lead, no budget, no treasury and no vote, and joining one does not gate any task.

Browse the groups to see the current set and join from the dashboard — no Telegram needed.

How Task Funding Works

For Task Creators

Create the task on the dashboard — free, no on-chain transaction (you sign in with your wallet), not yet claimable
Click Fund: your Radix Wallet signs a deposit of the reward plus 5% insurance
XRD locked in the Scrypto vault — no admin custody
Review the submission and approve with your own signed transaction

For Workers

Browse funded tasks at /tasks (a badge is needed to claim)
Claim from the task page — a bond of 10% of the reward, at least 76.45 XRD today (an owner setting), held until the task settles: credited back in full on approval, on the review-window release or if the poster cancels, split like the reward if a dispute is raised, and forfeited if the claim runs an hour past its deadline and anyone ends it
Submit your work; the poster reviews it
Withdraw your reward from escrow — one signed transaction, 100% of the reward, no platform fee

No applications and no claim gates: any badge holder can claim. Eligibility in the brief is not enforced. Every step above is wallet-signed and runs on the dashboard. The Telegram bot links here; its code holds a guarded signer module, and no signing key is configured in production, so it signs nothing today.

The live escrow: one component on Radix mainnet (guild-marketplace-escrow), funding in XRD today; multi-token deposits (xUSDC, xUSDT) are designed but no second token is whitelisted on-chain yet. The pre-June component is retired — no task runs on it. Address on the verification card below.

Dashboard vs Telegram

Mint badge

Dashboard

Post, fund, claim, submit, approve tasks

Dashboard

View profile & trust

Dashboard

Join working groups

Dashboard

Browse tasks

Both

Create proposals, polls, temperature checks

Vote on proposals

Report a problem

Wallet-signed actions — minting, posting, funding, claiming, submitting, approving, your profile — live on the dashboard. Telegram is for setup help, support and the optional community votes (proposals, polls, temperature checks).

Bot Commands

Getting Started

/startWhat Radix Guild is + setup

/register <address>Link your Radix wallet

/mintYour free on-chain Guild badge

/badgeYour badge and its on-chain fields

/walletWallet address + badge info

/trustThe bot's participation tally (Bronze/Silver/Gold)

Tasks

/tasksOpens the task board. Posting, funding, claiming and submitting are wallet-signed, so they happen on the web app

Community votes (optional, off-ledger, free)

/proposalsOpen proposals

/tempsActive temperature checks

/vote <id>Vote on a proposal (buttons)

/results <id>Vote results

/newStart a proposal (guided)

/poll <q> | opt1 | opt2Multi-choice poll

/temp <question>24h temperature check, non-binding

/historyRecent proposals + outcomes

/statsProposal and voter counts

/cv2On-chain consultations (CV2) — read-only, parked

Support

/supportHelp links + contact

/faqFrequently asked questions

/readmeProject overview + links

/sourceSource status

FAQ

Is it free?

Mostly. Badge minting is free (network transaction fee only). Off-chain voting in Telegram is free; on-chain CV2 voting is switched off while CV2 is parked. Posting a task costs nothing and needs no on-chain transaction (you sign in with your wallet) — funding it costs the reward plus 5% insurance (approving credits the insurance back to you, and you collect it with one more signed transaction), and claiming one locks a bond of 10% of the reward, at least 76.45 XRD today (an owner setting). See 'What are the fees?' below.

What is my badge?

An on-chain NFT on the Radix ledger. It records your username and tier at mint — your handle in the guild for voting and tasks. It is not an identity check: anyone can mint one for the network fee, and one person can hold several. The NFT also carries an XP field. Only the operator can write it, with an admin badge — it was written six times in April 2026, never since — and a task payout never reaches it, so the on-chain XP value is not your score. The XP you see in the app is your account's record; the tier you see is the badge's own tier field, set at mint. The NFT itself is transferable. Your XP and trust record belong to your account in the Guild's records, not to the badge, so moving the badge does not move them.

How do I earn XP?

By completing tasks. Each task pays XP by reward tier — 10, 25, 50 or 100 — credited when the task settles. That is the only source of the XP shown on the dashboard. The Telegram bot keeps its own points for votes and polls; they are not added to your Guild XP. Your badge NFT also carries an XP field on-chain, but only the operator can write it, so it is not your score. XP cannot be bought.

What is Consultation v2?

Our own deployment of the Radix Foundation's consultation_v2 blueprint. The Foundation wrote the blueprint but never deployed it; bigdev forked it and deployed this component in April 2026 — the Foundation does not run it and does not endorse it. CV2 records formal, non-binding temperature checks on the Radix ledger, weighted by XRD holdings. It is PARKED as of 2026-07-31 — we are not developing it further. The component stays on mainnet and its checks can still be read through the Telegram bot (/cv2). Casting a vote is off, and no vote has ever been cast through it.

Who runs this?

bigdev built Radix Guild and runs it today, and holds its admin badge — anyone can check that on the ledger. The aim is a Guild its members steer: ideas and issues are raised in the open and turned into funded Guild tasks, and the Guild is handed to the Radix DAO once the DAO is formed. The source is public at github.com/radixguild/guild, under Apache-2.0. The money path — escrow, task funds and badges — already runs on Radix mainnet, where anyone can verify it. See Costs & Transparency below.

How do bounties work?

Anyone with a connected wallet can post a task from the dashboard — no badge is needed to post, and a badge is needed to claim. Posting is free and does nothing on-chain — the task must be funded in a second, signed transaction (reward + 5% insurance) before anyone can claim it. Workers then claim against a bond of 10% of the reward, at least 76.45 XRD today (an owner setting), submit their work, and the poster's approval assigns the reward to the worker inside the escrow — the worker collects it with their own signed withdrawal. Live today with XRD; multi-token (xUSDC/xUSDT) is designed but not yet registered on-chain.

What are the fees?

Zero today. The deployed escrow charges no platform fee — workers receive 100% of the reward, and unused insurance is refunded to the poster. Verify it on-ledger: the component config has no platform-fee parameter. Workers pay no percentage of the reward, ever. The one worker-side cost is the claim bond: 10% of the reward, at least 76.45 XRD today (an owner setting) — locked when you claim and held in the escrow until the task settles — credited back to you in full when the work is approved or released after the review window, split the way the reward is if a dispute is raised, and collected with the same withdrawal as the reward — an expired claim forfeits it, with a small bounty to whoever calls the public expire and the remainder in a vault only the operator can drain. The decided plan before anything changes: a poster-side royalty charged when a task is funded — a flat XRD amount per funded post, not a percentage of the reward — starting at 0, movable only by the operator's royalty-admin badge, and bounded only by the network's per-call royalty maximum (about 166 XRD). Worker-side methods are locked free on-chain. There is no percentage fee, and the contract enforces no percentage bound. Any change goes through a published RFC first.

Is there a Guild token?

No. There is no Guild token, no sale, no airdrop and nothing to buy — and no plan for one. Three things carry value here and none of them is a tradeable Guild asset: the membership badge is an NFT that anyone can mint for the network fee and it is not sold by us; XP and trust are account records and cannot be bought or transferred, and the badge tier is a field on the NFT; and rewards are paid in XRD, the Radix network's own token, which we do not issue. The marketplace earns from the flat royalty on funded tasks described above, or it does not earn. If that ever changes it will be a decision announced in advance, not something you discover in a chart.

Can I create bounties from the dashboard?

Yes. Connect your wallet, open Tasks, and click Create Task. You pick a deliverable type and fill in title, description, reward, deadline, and acceptance criteria. Posting costs nothing and needs no on-chain transaction (you sign in with your wallet) — and the task is not claimable until you fund it in a separate, signed transaction (reward + 5% insurance). Posting is dashboard-only — the Telegram bot's /bounty just links here, because posting and funding are wallet-signed.

Do higher badge tiers give more voting weight?

No. Votes in the Telegram bot are one per Telegram account, and a higher tier adds no weight; CV2's on-chain weighting is XRD-based, not tier-based. It could not safely be tier-based either: the badge is an unlimited public mint, so counting tiers differently would just count how many badges someone chose to mint. A tier carries no permissions.

How is the guild funded?

Today, bigdev self-funds — the platform fee is 0% and fee revenue to date is $0. The plan: a poster-side royalty on funded tasks (see 'What are the fees?') and on-chain component royalties. There is no token, and none is planned. See Costs & Transparency section below.

What are working groups?

Lightweight channels that route tasks by the problem they address, so you see work you care about instead of the whole board. Join or leave one in the dashboard on the Groups page. You can set a notification level, but nothing sends notifications yet. That is the whole feature: a group has no lead, no budget, no vote and no permissions — it decides nothing, it routes. Groups are created by the operator; you can propose a new one, and a group with no new task for a long stretch is archived automatically. Unrelated to the Radix DAO's proposed Working Group framework, which is a different thing with the same name — those are DAO-chartered bodies with elected stewards and treasury budgets.

How does task funding work?

Posting a task and funding it are two separate steps. Posting costs nothing and needs no on-chain transaction — you sign in with your wallet, it creates the listing, and the task is not claimable. Funding is a second, signed transaction: click Fund on the task and your Radix Wallet shows a manifest that locks the reward plus 5% insurance into the escrow component's vault. No admin wallet can withdraw the reward or the insurance (the one exception is forfeited claim bonds — see 'What are the fees?'). When the poster approves, the contract assigns the reward to the worker, who collects it with their own signed withdrawal; if the poster never acts, anyone can trigger the escrow's review-window release once the window lapses, which credits that same reward, and the worker collects it the same way. If the task page has not caught up with your deposit, click 'Resync from chain' on it.

Where do I do things — dashboard or Telegram?

Both, but they do different things. The dashboard is for wallet-signed actions: minting a badge, posting and funding tasks, claiming, submitting, approving, and your profile with trust record. Telegram is for setup help, badge checks, support and the optional community votes: proposals, polls and temperature checks. Working groups are dashboard-only — you join them on the Groups page. See the Dashboard vs Telegram guide above.

What is the trust score?

Two different things share the name. In Telegram, /trust shows a participation score computed from the bot's own records — account age, votes cast, proposals created, tasks completed, groups joined, feedback filed — with tiers Bronze (0+), Silver (50+), Gold (200+). On the dashboard, a separate record is derived from the escrow ledger: New, Established (5 paid tasks, no disputes), or Top Rated (15 paid, 95% on-time). Neither gates a claim: any badge holder can claim. Both are earned by participating; a badge is the minimum to take part.

Can I fund tasks from the dashboard?

Yes. On any unfunded task page, click the 'Fund' button. Your Radix Wallet opens with the TX manifest pre-built. One click to deposit XRD into the on-chain escrow vault. The task reconciles with the chain when you next act on it, or click 'Resync from chain' on the task page to confirm your deposit immediately.

Resources

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Costs & Transparency

What it has cost so far (estimates, 7 Sep 2026)

One person, April to September 2026. Two kinds of cost: money actually paid, and things consumed that nobody invoiced for. Both are shown, separately, so neither hides the other.

Founder time

95 working days with commits since 3 Apr 2026, across the escrow blueprint, dashboard and bot. Unpaid — not drawn, and not owed by anyone.

~600–900 h

AI tooling (Claude subscription + credits)

A$350/mo for the heavy months, A$170/mo otherwise, plus A$70 of extra credits, since April. Shared with bigdev's other projects — roughly a third of measured usage is Guild work, so call ~$400 of it the Guild's.

~A$1,600 paid (≈ $1,050)

AI compute consumed, at API list price

What the tokens would have cost pay-as-you-go: $17.5k measured for 8 Jul–6 Sep 2026 across all projects, ~30% Guild; April–early July unmeasured (usage logs rotate). The subscription line above is what was actually paid.

~$10k (not cash)

Domain (radixguild.com, 3 yr)

Hostinger, paid Apr 2026

$40

VPS hosting

Hostinger VPS, ~$7/mo since April

~$35

CI (GitHub Actions)

About $1/day of private-repo runners; GitHub's spending limit is set at $100/mo

~$40

On-chain

Radix network fees for publishing the escrow packages, the test task waves and their settlements. Roughly 41,000 XRD of working capital sits in guild-controlled wallets (about $22 at 7 Sep 2026 prices); test rewards recycle inside that fleet and are not spent.

under $1 in fees

TLS, database, Gateway API, Telegram

Caddy, PostgreSQL (dashboard) + SQLite (bot), the public Radix Gateway, Telegram bot API

Free

Cash paid to date~$1,200

About $550 of that is attributable to the Guild once the shared subscription is apportioned; the rest is the same subscription doing other work. Figures are in US dollars; the subscription is billed in Australian dollars. The labour and the API-equivalent compute above are on top, and are the real cost.

Platform fee revenue to date$0

What it costs to keep running (per month)

VPS (Hostinger)

Dashboard, bot, database, watchers and backups all share one box

~$7

Domain

$40 over three years

~$1

CI (GitHub Actions)

Runs on every pull request; capped at $100/mo by GitHub's spending limit

~$25–30

AI tooling (Claude subscription)

A$170/mo today, shared with other projects; the Guild's share follows its share of measured usage. Was A$350/mo during the heavy build months.

~$110 (Guild share ~$40)

Gateway API, TLS, database, Telegram

Public Radix Gateway, Caddy, on-box PostgreSQL + SQLite, Telegram bot API

Keeper, drift and reconciler watchers

Read-only cron jobs — they alert, hold no keys, and pay no network fees

Founder time

Active days per month over July–August 2026; unpaid

~20 days

Cash per month~$150 all-in · ~$75 Guild

The hard costs that the fee roadmap below has to clear are the ~$75/mo Guild line. Nothing above is paid by anyone but bigdev.

Revenue Model (Planned)

Task marketplace fee: 0% today — the live escrow charges no platform fee. Planned: a poster-side royalty when a task is funded — a flat XRD amount per funded post, not a percentage of the reward — starting at 0 and moved only by the operator’s royalty-admin badge, under the network’s per-call royalty maximum (about 166 XRD). Never charged on the worker’s legs: claim, submit and withdraw are locked free on-chain. Workers pay 0%, forever.

Component royalties: the Badge Manager blueprint supports per-method royalties (0.1–1 XRD). Verify the live setting on the component before relying on this.

Hosted instances: other communities running their own instance is an idea, not a scheduled product.

There is no percentage fee and the contract enforces no percentage bound — the flat royalty is the whole mechanism. Any fee change is published as an RFC before the dial moves; the dial itself is held by the operator, not by a vote.

The Deal

Who pays? bigdev self-funds. There is no Guild treasury, and no date for one.

Who controls? bigdev holds the admin badge, and who holds it is on the ledger for anyone to check. The aim is to hand it to the Radix DAO once the DAO is formed; no date is set.

What can the owner badge change? Ten owner-only calls change twelve settings, each call one signed transaction with no delay and no vote: the claim bond’s percentage, floor and cap, the review window, both submit deadlines, the minimum insurance, the arbiter-fee cap, the dispute window and default ruling, and the expiry grace and bounty. So the bond figures on this site are today’s settings, not guarantees. Most are pinned into a task at the step that uses them, so a change reaches only steps taken after it; the expiry grace and bounty also reach claims already in flight. The owner can also add, remove, freeze and unfreeze reward tokens (this only decides which tokens new tasks can be funded in) and withdraw forfeited claim bonds. What it cannot do: there is no pause method, so funded tasks keep running (freezing a token only stops new ones), and no owner method touches a task’s reward, insurance or live claim bond or sends a payout anywhere but the account pinned when the task was posted or claimed. The arbiter badge, held in the same wallet, is separate: on a disputed task its ruling decides the split between poster and worker, and it can pay no one else beyond any arbiter fee set at funding (0 on every task this app funds). The full list, with how to check it, is on /trust and in the auditor’s guide.

What if bigdev disappears? Badges and escrow vaults live on the Radix ledger — no server required to keep them, and every party collects from the escrow with their own wallet. The source is public, so anyone can read and redeploy the escrow blueprint. Worker manifests are on /agents#manifests; anything else means building the transaction yourself, or asking anyone to deliver it to your account.

On-Chain Verification

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Badge NFTresource_rdx1n22rq94...

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CV2 Governancecomponent_rdx1cqj99h...

Source Codegithub.com/radixguild/guild