Claim Your Bounty Page

For organizations named on Polytab’s project shelf.

Many organizations are listed on Polytab as possible recipients of small-dollar community grants (“micro-votes”). Until your page is verified, contributions on it are disabled — nothing is collected, nothing is held, and nothing transits Polytab. Verification unlocks the page: contributions then flow directly on-chain into your organization’s own wallet.

What verification means

We confirm two things — both are required:

Registry match (required): a government or recognized registry listing (IRS EIN, Canada Revenue Agency BN, UK Charity Commission number, state nonprofit registry, or equivalent) tying your legal name to your country and mission.
Domain control (required): either a DNS TXT record (polytab-verify=<project id>) on your official domain, or an email from that same domain to the registry-listed officer.

We do not accept DMs, phone calls, social posts, personal email, or “messages from the CEO’s friend” as verification. Verification is free; review typically takes 2–14 days. Never share a seed phrase or private key — we never need them and never ask.

How to claim (step-by-step)

Find the project ID on your organization’s bounty page (e.g., #10001).

Open the claim form. On your bounty card or page, click “Is This Your Org? Claim This Page” — it opens a pre-filled GitHub issue using org-claim.yml. No GitHub? Email [email protected] with the same information instead.

Fill it in: organization legal name, project ID(s), official website, registry name + number, registry lookup URL, first and last name of a registry-listed officer, official email at your domain, and your payout wallet — a 0x address on Base, chain ID 8453.

Verify. Add a DNS TXT record polytab-verify=<project id> to your domain (e.g. polytab-verify=10001) and mention it in the issue, or reply from an email at your org’s domain to the officer-listed person. Without one of these we verify against the registry listing, which takes longer.

We record the wallet and unlock your page. On verification, your organization’s support button turns on and every support settles directly on-chain into your Base wallet — no funds are ever held, pooled, or forwarded by Polytab. A public receipt (transaction hash / support proof) is posted to the repo so donors can audit any sweep.

Lower-tech route: email [email protected] with: org name, project ID(s), website, registry name + ID + lookup URL, requester’s name, official email, and your payout wallet (0x, Base 8453). Same verification, same unlock.

Where do the contributions come from? How are they held?

They aren’t held by Polytab, ever. Contributions to unverified bounty pages are simply disabled in the product. Once your page is verified:

The support button routes the donor’s payment directly to your 0x wallet on Base (chain ID 8453) via EIP-681 QR / EIP-681 link.
Polytab never sees, holds, sweeps, or takes a cut. We are a verification & audit rail, nothing more.
The on-chain ledger is the receipt — everyone can verify every support reached you.

Nothing is parked on your behalf. There is no pooled wallet to approve a sweep from, no funds sitting idle waiting for you, no interim accounting. Contributions appear on your page (and on Base) the moment a donor sends. If you don’t find your claimed page displaying a live support button, email support — contributions on an unlocked page are immediate.

What if the organization doesn’t have a wallet?

You can still receive contributions: (1) any EVM wallet on Base (MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, Brave Wallet, hardware wallets) accepts them at no cost to set up, or (2) donors can pay to your organization’s official public support page (registry-listed) and you attest the support via the proof flow — visibility without crypto. If neither works, contributions to your page stay locked. Either way, Polytab never becomes a custodian.

Safety & anti-fraud

We verify the organization, not donors. Donor wallets are never harvested, shared, or monetized.
We never accept claims via DMs, social posts, phone calls, or personal email. Only official-domain channels and the public registry.
Impersonating an organization to capture contributions is fraud; we report it and we hold the page locked.
Sweeps and contributions are public: transaction hashes on Base and receipts in the Polytab GitHub repo. Nobody — including Polytab — can silently take or re-route contributed funds.

Questions?

Email [email protected]. Donors: see the FAQ & How-Tos.