Name: Mentor Trail
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 169 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

Dele spent years answering newbie Solidity questions in Discord. Mentor Trail lets each person he helped mint a short thank you attestation, and his profile now shows a living tree of 60 builders, 12 of whom shipped mainnet apps.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$169

$42 deposit to reserve

Thank you attestation flow, lineage tree visualizer, mentor profile, share cards.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: community gate token

Customfrom $1,200

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Mentorship graphs exist in hackathon form; mentee-attested multi-generation lineage is the less common angle.

Closest things out there

MentorGraph/p2pmentor (Arkiv, Sub0 hackathon winner) stores mentoring sessions as graph edges, Intuition TrustGraph links mentor trust to skills, and POMP mints mentorship NFTs.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Makes the invisible work of teaching others visible and portable.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Gitcoin · upcoming

Gitcoin Grants rounds

quarterly-ish rounds; next round dates unknown

Official page ↗

Fits as an open-source public good; existing OSS projects generally required.

Their rule on existing code: Existing open-source projects OK (generally required)

grant · Optimism Collective · rolling

Optimism Grants Council

per season

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK for Superchain growth.

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Mentor Trail app: mentees sign specific thank yous, a curator holds fakes for the mentor to decide, and every mentor grows a lineage tree two generations deep, with a paywall and receipts built in.

Base price · $169

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboarding and mentor acceptanceHome

Shown once, then one signature to be listed. Nobody gets a tree without saying yes.

Next action and Friday streakHome

Waiting, held or growing, with one clear next step and the thank back streak.

Thank you inbox with curator checkInbox

Each note is read for shared history, a specific story, wallet age and bursts before anything is minted.

Held thanks and mentor confirmInbox

Farms and odd bursts wait for the mentor to confirm or reject. Rejected notes are never minted.

Second generation arrivalsInbox

When a mentee helps someone, their thank you lands one branch above you.

Lineage tree with visibilityTree

Public with notes, names only or only me, with shipped ticks from outcome tags.

The branch above and year in leavesTree

Second generation identities and the growth chart. Gated behind Mentor Pro.

Friday thank back composerThank

Pick who helped you, attach shared history, write a sentence only you two know, curator checks it, sign.

Onchain receiptsReceipts

Every leaf, thank you and payment with what is onchain and what never is.

Plans, impact report and share cardMe

Pricing from the owner paywall, a gated impact report for sponsors, and the tree share card.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, USDC payments, payouts, payment methods, and live editing of tiers, prices and gates.

Rules that change outcomesRules

Proof required, burst limit, wallet age, chain, visibility, community gate, gas, digest and outcome tags.

Curator log and held queueCurator

What the curator got wrong, how it adapted, what is held right now and the running cost.

Priced roadmapRoadmap

v2 and v3 builds with scope and a request button.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loops and cohortsGrowth

Community thank you nights, thank back chains, Friday digest stats and cohort retention.

Mentor to mentor referralsGrowth

Codes that give both mentors a free month once the new mentor gets a first leaf.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Nobody pays to be thanked. Mentors pay for Pro to see the branch above and an impact report; communities pay monthly to gate thank yous, sponsor gas and show sponsors their impact.

MentorFreeYour tree, unlimited thank yous, receipts, Friday thank back, share cards

Mentor Pro$6 a monthThe branch above (second generation), your year in leaves, impact report for sponsors

Community$79 a monthPaid by a community: pass gated thank yous, sponsored gas, Pro for every member, sponsor dashboard

Gas per thank you is well under one cent on Base or Optimism and can be sponsored by the owner or a community.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Surprise notification: every thank you reaches a mentor who did not know they were thanked
Thank back chain: mentors who get a leaf thank their own mentors the same week
Friday digest that asks who unblocked you
Community thank you nights that onboard dozens of mentors at once
Tree share card and mentor to mentor referral codes

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full mentor app

Mentor acceptance and profile
Thank you composer with shared history and story
Curator check with hold and mentor confirm
Lineage tree, receipts, share cards
Friday thank back and paywall

Included

Community hub and sponsor reports

Community pages with every member's tree
Sponsor and grant impact reports
Discord and Telegram bot for thank yous
Bulk pass gating for DAOs and bootcamps

Add-on from $400

Lineage network and open schema

Open MentorThanks schema with docs
Cross community lineage up to five generations
Solana attestation mode
Mentor matching from shared history

Add-on from $900

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

A living tree of everyone you helped, in their own signed words, two generations deep.

Problem: The people who teach newcomers in Discords, study groups and office hours shape careers, and almost none of it shows up anywhere. A self written bio is not proof.

Solution: Only the mentee can write a leaf: one specific sentence with shared history, attested onchain as a hash. A curator holds fakes for the mentor to decide, and the tree follows lineage to the people your mentees helped next.

Why now: Attestations on Base cost a fraction of a cent, embedded wallets remove seed phrases for beginners, and small models can read every note for specificity and bursts for almost nothing.

Market: Mentors in developer communities, bootcamps, DAOs and study groups, plus the communities and grant programs that need to show sponsors real impact.

The ask: Pilot communities: two developer Discords and one bootcamp, plus public goods grant funding for the open schema.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Dele, 34, on a Yaba rooftop. Four thank yous are waiting until he accepts.
Inbox: accept, let the curator read Tolu's note, and watch it mint as a leaf.
Inbox: a farm of 20 new wallets is held. Dele rejects all, nothing is minted.
Tree: Amaka thanked Tolu. The branch above grows, and Pro shows who she is.
Thank: Dele thanks Ngozi. The curator asks for something only they would know, then he signs.
Receipts: what is onchain and what never is.
Owner Rules: change the burst limit and wallet age, and the same notes land differently.
Owner Revenue and Roadmap: change the Pro price live, then request the v2 community hub.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,000: your own proof types and curator rules, Discord or Telegram integrations, community branding, extra languages, or a sponsor reporting format. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,200

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

The people who teach newcomers in Discords, study groups and office hours do work that shapes careers, and almost none of it shows up anywhere. Mentees want a way to say thank you that lasts, and mentors want proof of impact that is not a self-written bio.

What exists and what is new

Mentorship records onchain already exist: MentorGraph (p2pmentor on Arkiv, a Sub0 hackathon winner) stores mentoring sessions as graph edges, Intuition's TrustGraph links mentor trust to skills, and POMP mints mentorship NFTs. What is less common here is that only the mentee can create the record, that each thank you needs shared history and a specific story, and that the tree follows lineage across generations (who your mentees went on to help). Research verdict: rare, medium novelty; the attestation primitive itself is standard.

The data it runs on

Mentee signed thank you attestations (from, to, generation, timestamp, hash of the note), an optional shared history link (a Discord thread, PR review or call), the mentor's acceptance, and optional outcome tags such as shipped to mainnet. Note text and links are stored offchain; only hashes and the edge go onchain.

1.The mission

Make the invisible work of teaching others visible and portable, so the people who lift others up can show it in their own words.

2.Why people can't resist it

Signed by the person you helped No self-written claims. Every leaf is a mentee's own words, which makes it the most credible line on a profile.

The branch above When your mentee helps someone, you see the second generation grow. Most mentors have never seen that before.

Friday thank back A weekly prompt to name who unblocked you. It takes a minute and keeps the tree honest and alive.

3.How it works for real

Wallets: Privy embedded wallets for mentors and mentees, with social login so beginners need no seed phrase. Optional Basename or ENS on the profile.

Attestations: An EAS schema on Base or Optimism (MentorThanks: from, to, generation, noteHash, evidenceHash). On Solana, the Solana Attestation Service or a compressed NFT record. The mentor's one-time acceptance is its own attestation.

Curator agent: A small model (for example a Haiku class or Gemini Flash class model via OpenRouter) checks each draft for specificity, shared history and burst patterns. It never rejects alone: anything unsure goes to the mentor to confirm.

Sybil checks: Wallet age, rate limits per mentor, duplicate wording detection, and an optional community gate (a membership token or pass) before a thank you can be sent.

Indexer and tree: An indexer (EAS GraphQL or a Ponder service) builds the lineage graph; the profile renders it as an SVG tree with share cards.

Notifications: Email or Telegram for new thank yous, held batches and the Friday digest.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per thank you: one EAS attestation on Base or Optimism usually costs well under one cent in gas, and can be sponsored by a paymaster. The curator check is a few hundred tokens on a small model, roughly $0.0005 or less. Example month for a community of 2,000 members sending 1,500 thank yous: under $10 gas, about $1 in model calls, $25 hosting and indexing, so roughly $35 to $40 a month.

Personal Free

A mentor profile, unlimited thank yous received, a public tree and share cards.

Community $29 a month

For a Discord, bootcamp or DAO: gated sending, a community leaderboard of mentors, sponsored gas and the Friday digest under your name.

Program $149 a month

For accelerators and grant programs: export lineage reports, tag outcomes such as shipped or hired, and an API to show trees on your own site.

5.Growth loop

Every thank you notifies a mentor who did not know they were being thanked, and most then thank their own mentors. Share cards with the tree travel on X and LinkedIn. Communities adopt it to show impact to sponsors and grant programs.

6.Risks and guardrails

Fake gratitude: Friends or sock puppets can farm thank yous. Shared history, wallet age, burst detection and mentor confirmation reduce it; the tree should never be treated as a hiring score on its own.

Privacy of mentees: A public tree reveals who learned from whom. Mentees choose public, names only or private, and can hide their leaf later. Note text is never written onchain.

Popularity bias: Loud mentors may collect more leaves than quiet ones. Show stories, not just counts, and avoid ranking people by size alone.

Permanence: Onchain records are hard to remove. Keep only hashes onchain so the offchain note can be deleted, and support revocation of an attestation.

Curator mistakes: The agent can hold a real thank you. It may only hold, never reject, and the mentor decides.

7.Build order

Mentor acceptance and profile page
Thank you composer with shared history link and specific story
EAS schema and attestation on Base with sponsored gas
Curator check with hold and mentor confirm
Indexer and lineage tree renderer with two generations
Share card and Friday thank back digest

8.Where this is going

Now
One mentor, his mentees' thank yous, and a tree that finally shows the work.
Next
Communities and bootcamps run it, and second and third generations become visible.
Later
Grant programs and employers read lineage as one honest signal of who builds builders, alongside other evidence.
The world it builds
Teaching others becomes a visible, portable part of anyone's story, so more people choose to do it.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Mentor Trail

Mentors do years of invisible work that never shows on a resume. Own Mentor Trail and you run the place where that work becomes a living, verifiable lineage, from your wallet and brand. The mentors, the communities and the record of who lifted whom are yours.

What’s stopping you?

“Will people feel weird asking for thanks?”

Make the mentee start it, not the mentor. Your job is a gentle prompt and a beautiful card, not an ask for praise.

“Who pays for this?”

Mentors rarely pay; programs do. Bootcamps and ecosystems need proof of impact for their funders, and this is that proof.

“I can't code.”

You do not need to. Mentor Trail arrives working, deployed from your own wallet with a written guide for every step. You will click, paste and fill in names. If you ever want a change you cannot make, the custom option or a freelancer can handle it, but the first launch needs no code.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The contract is deployed from your wallet on Base, the code sits in your own git repo, and the name and brand are yours. DEPLOYR does not hold your keys or take a cut of what Mentor Trail earns. If you stop paying anyone tomorrow, the app keeps running on your wallet.

“What if nobody uses Mentor Trail?”

That is the most likely early outcome, and it is fixable. The paths below start with you as the first user, then ten real mentors, community leads and teachers you can name today. If ten people you message do not care after you have shown it to them, you have learned something useful in a week instead of a year.

The million-dollar ladder

Free mentor profiles, paid community plans for bootcamps, DAOs and ecosystems that want to show their mentorship impact. This ladder is a target, not a promise.

$100

$3,160

$39,800

$85,500

First 10 users

5 communities on a pilot

$20 each

Proof it works

40 communities

$79 each

Real business

200 bootcamps and ecosystems