Plain answers.

Deposit USDT on the Polygon network to your personal deposit address. Your balance is credited after the transaction is confirmed on-chain — typically about a minute. A minimum balance of 100 USDT is required before you can post your first bounty.

Request a withdrawal to any Polygon address and it's sent as USDT. Smaller withdrawals are processed automatically; large ones get an additional human check before sending — a deliberate safety measure, not a delay tactic.

The Gazette is custodial: deposits are held by the platform, and an internal ledger tracks every balance. Escrowed rewards are locked the moment a bounty is posted, so a published listing can never fail to pay.

Keys are held in hardened key-management infrastructure, the majority of funds sit in cold storage, and every movement of value is recorded in an append-only ledger that's continuously reconciled.

One fee: 3.5% of the reward, charged on top, paid by the poster. The hunter receives the full advertised amount. The complete breakdown — including every refund case — is on the fees page.

Because real money changes hands here. Identity verification is required before transacting — it keeps stolen funds and bad actors off the board, and it's part of operating a custodial platform responsibly. Verification is handled by a specialist provider; The Gazette doesn't see your documents.

Availability at launch depends on regulatory requirements that are still being finalised with counsel. The waitlist email will tell you if your region is supported when we open.

If it was an honest miss — your task brushed against a rule you didn't know about — you get a full refund of the reward and the fee, plus a note on what to change. Listings that are clearly malicious or repeat violations are refunded their reward, but forfeit the fee to a segregated reimbursement pool and earn a strike against the account.

A claim has a time limit. If the hunter doesn't submit proof before it lapses, the bounty returns to the board automatically and someone else can answer the call. Your funds never move until proof is submitted and accepted.

The poster can dispute within the review window, which locks the escrow and brings in a human arbiter. The arbiter reviews the task, the proof, and both sides, then releases the escrow to whoever the evidence supports. Silence never decides a dispute — but silence does release payment: if the poster simply doesn't respond, the reward auto-releases to the hunter when the window closes.

When the deadline passes unclaimed, everything comes back: the full reward and the full fee return to your balance. Nothing happened, so nothing is kept.

Most lawful, safe tasks — yes. But every listing is screened before publication, and some categories are refused outright: anything risking harm to people or animals, anything involving minors, targeting individuals, illegal goods, fraud, unauthorized hacking, hate. The principles are on the trust page; the full policy ships in the Terms of Service at launch.