Name: Skill Mint
Brand: DEPLOYR
Price: 129 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Picture this

Who it is for

A Solidity teacher drops a 500 piece collection, but each mint requires passing a short onchain challenge. The collection becomes a living roster of people who verifiably learned something.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$129

$32 deposit to reserve

Collection contract, challenge builder (quiz or onchain task), mint page, holder roster.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: challenge type

Customfrom $800

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

Proof-of-skill minting exists in demos and quiz badges; the novelty is packaging it as an ownable creator launchpad.

Closest things out there

Hackathon projects like MazeKing and Vitalik's Secret (ETHGlobal), ZK Panagram, and Remix Challenges already gate NFT mints on a ZK proof of solving a puzzle or quiz. None found packaged as a general creator launchpad with royalties.

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

Turns skill into a collectible credential.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Sui Foundation · rolling

Sui Foundation Grants

rolling

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK.

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

buildathon · Base · upcoming

Base Batches

unknown for next cohort

Official page ↗

Eligibility unknown; prior editions accepted existing early teams.

Their rule on existing code: unknown; prior editions accepted early-stage teams including existing projects

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Skill Mint app: learners earn keys only by passing real challenges, failing privately, fixing a live bug on a Base fork and minting against an attestation, with a paywall and creator studio built in.

Base price · $129

The user app, complete

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

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: keys can't be bought, misses stay private, pick a goal.

This week's lock and next actionHome

Status of the current lock with one clear primary button.

Lock catalogue with filtersLocks

Open, holders only and saved locks, each with its gate, supply and royalty.

Roster: earned by vs held byLocks

Every collection separates who earned a key from who holds it now.

Holder gated weekly locksLocks

Week 2 opens only to holders of the week 1 key.

Per wallet quiz variants and cooldownsAttempt

Questions drawn from the wallet, private misses with a cooldown.

Onchain fix task graded on a forkAttempt

Pick the line to move, the exploit runs on a Base fork, pass or fail is code.

AI tutor for missesAttempt

Plain language explanation of a miss. Gated behind Pro.

Attested mint with USDC checkoutAttempt

EAS attestation then ERC-721 mint, mint fee paid through the shared checkout, receipt and share card.

Key ring, verify link and tracksKey ring

Earned keys, receipts with onchain or offchain labels, employer verify link and tracks gated behind Pro.

Creator studioStudio

Build a lock: questions, gate, supply, soulbound or royalty, private cohort; sends to review.

Plans, privacy and remindersMe

Upgrade sheet, fresh wallet minting, reminder channels, permissions and vision.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

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

Revenue, payouts and paywall editorRevenue

Plan and mint fee revenue, incoming USDC payments, payment methods, live tier editor.

Review queue and wallet clustersReview

Approve or decline creator locks against your rules, review sybil clusters, never auto ban.

Rules that change outcomesRules

Cooldown, pass mark, variants, required fix task, gas sponsorship, mint fee, royalty cap, log retention, approval.

Grader agent log and roadmapAgent

Run a Sunday, see leaks blocked or passing depending on your rules, running costs; roadmap requests.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

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

Share card loop and invitesGrowth

Roster cards bring new creators into review; invite links counted as referrals.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Learners take every public lock free. The owner earns from Pro and Creator subscriptions in USDC and an optional small fee per earned key.

LearnerFreeEvery public lock, minting earned keys, key ring and receipts

Pro$6 per monthAI tutor for misses, employer verify link, tracks

Creator$49 per monthFix tasks in your locks, private cohorts, weekly mistake digest and roster export

Mint fee per earned key set by the owner (free, 1 or 2 USDC), plus up to 10% resale royalty for creators on tradable keys.

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

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Earned key share cards that bring friends to the same lock
Weekly roster card posts that bring new creators into the review queue
Invite links counted as referrals
Holder gated weekly locks that bring learners back every Sunday

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The earned key launchpad

Locks with per wallet variants and cooldowns
Onchain fix tasks graded on a Base fork
Attested mint, key ring, roster and share cards
Creator studio and review queue

Included

More task types and tracks

Frontend and data challenges with their own graders
Tracks that chain keys into a verifiable syllabus
Cohort dashboards for bootcamps

Add-on from $500

Hiring and custom locks

Hiring teams filter by earned keys
Companies request custom locks for their stack
White label on your own domain

Add-on from $1,200

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

A launchpad for collectibles you can only earn: pass a real challenge, mint the key.

Problem: Course certificates and attendance NFTs say someone showed up, not that they can do the thing, and static quizzes leak within hours.

Solution: Per wallet question variants, an onchain fix task graded deterministically on a fork, private misses with cooldowns, and a key that mints only against a pass attestation.

Why now: Embedded wallets and sponsored gas on Base make minting free for learners with no crypto, and EAS gives a portable record anyone can verify.

Market: Coding teachers, bootcamps, developer communities and grant programs that want a credential that means something.

The ask: Pilot with three teachers and one bootcamp, then open the creator studio.

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

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: Tomás on his break in Medellín sees this week's Reentrancy lock.
Locks: open the lock, read the gate and the earned by vs held by roster.
Attempt: miss the quiz, see the private cooldown and the Pro tutor lock, skip ahead.
Attempt: pass, fix line 8, the exploit reverts, mint through the USDC checkout.
Key ring: key on the ring, receipts marked onchain or offchain.
Owner Review: approve the bootcamp lock, the rule breaker cannot be approved.
Owner Rules then Agent: turn off variants, run a Sunday, watch the leak pass the quiz but fail the fix.
Owner Revenue: change Pro's price and preview it in the user app.

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

Make it entirely yours

New task types and graders, your own brand, hiring integrations and white label setups are scoped and priced together.

Custom from $800

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Course certificates and attendance NFTs say someone showed up, not that they can do the thing. Teachers, bootcamps and communities want a credential that is earned by passing a real challenge, and learners want proof they can show an employer without anyone taking their word for it.

What exists and what is new

Proof of skill minting already exists as experiments: hackathon projects such as MazeKing and Vitalik's Secret (ETHGlobal), ZK Panagram and Remix Challenges gate an NFT mint on solving a puzzle or quiz. What we did not find is this packaged as a general, ownable creator launchpad with a challenge builder, per wallet question variants, an onchain task grader, royalties and a holder roster. The novelty is the packaging and the anti copy design, not the core idea.

The data it runs on

The creator's challenge definition (question bank, onchain task and its exploit test), per wallet attempt logs kept offchain for 30 days, pass attestations on Base (wallet, collection, version, date), the collection contract and its mint events, and resale events for royalties.

1.The mission

Make a collectible mean something again: you can hold it only because you proved you can do what it says.

2.Why people can't resist it

You can't buy it with answers Questions vary per wallet and the real gate is a working fix tested against an exploit, so a leaked answer key gets nobody a key.

Failing is part of the story Misses stay private and come with a cooldown and a hint. Only the pass is public, so people try again instead of hiding.

A key ring that grows weekly Each key unlocks the next week's lock. Learners come back on Sunday for a new challenge and a longer streak on their profile.

3.How it works for real

Wallets: Privy embedded wallets with email or social login, so a learner with no crypto can attempt and mint on Base. Gas for the mint can be sponsored by the creator with a paymaster.

Challenge builder: Creators write a question bank and, optionally, a Solidity task with an exploit test. Variants are drawn deterministically from the wallet address, so the same wallet always sees the same set.

Grader: A sandboxed worker compiles the submitted contract and runs the creator's exploit test on a local Base fork (Foundry anvil). Pass or fail is deterministic code, not an AI opinion.

AI helper: A small model (Claude Haiku 4.5 class) writes question variants for the creator to approve and explains a miss in plain language. A larger model (Claude Sonnet class) runs only weekly to summarise the most common mistakes for the creator's digest.

Attestations: On a pass, the app writes an EAS attestation on Base with wallet, collection, gate version and date. No answers or attempt counts are stored onchain.

Collection contract: An ERC-721 that mints only when a valid attestation exists from the collection's verifier. The verifier address can be swapped by the creator, so the gate can be tightened without redeploying. ERC-2981 royalties, or a soulbound mode.

Roster and notifications: An indexer (Ponder or a hosted subgraph) builds the public roster that separates who earned a key from who currently holds it. Email and push for cooldown ends and the weekly drop.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per learner pass: about $0.005 to $0.02 in Base gas for the attestation plus the mint, under $0.002 of Haiku tokens for a miss explanation (around 1,000 tokens at about $1 per million input and $5 per million output), and fork test compute measured in seconds. Example month: 3,500 attempts and 300 passes costs roughly $6 in gas, $5 in model calls and $20 to $40 of hosting and grader compute, so about $35 to $50 total before any mint fees. Gas and model prices change; check current rates before launch.

Free mint, paid course $0 to mint

The creator keeps minting free and sponsors gas, and sells the course or cohort that prepares people for the challenge.

Mint fee 0.0005 ETH per key

A small fee per earned key covers gas and grading, with a resale royalty of up to 10% on tradable collections.

Team and bootcamp plan $49 per month

Private collections for a cohort or company, custom tasks, exportable rosters and weekly mistake digests.

5.Growth loop

Every earned key is a share card that says the learner passed a real challenge, often after failing once. Learners post it, friends try the challenge, and the creator's next weekly lock is only open to holders, so the roster grows and returns on the same rhythm. Creators recruit other creators because a roster is something you can point an employer to.

6.Risks and guardrails

Answer leaks and sybils: Static quizzes leak within hours. Mitigate with per wallet variants, a code task with a real exploit test, cooldowns, and flagging clusters of wallets funded from one address. Do not auto ban; a fast honest learner looks similar to a cheater.

Grader security: Running untrusted Solidity requires an isolated sandbox with no network, strict time and memory limits, and a pinned compiler. A bug here could be abused to pass or to attack the worker.

Credential inflation: If tradable keys are bought later, holding is not proof. The roster must show minter versus holder, and creators can choose soulbound mode.

Privacy: Attempts and misses stay offchain and are deleted after 30 days. Learners can mint to a fresh wallet if they prefer not to link the key to their main one.

Legal and claims: A key is a record of passing one challenge, not an accredited qualification. Creators must not market it as a licence or a job guarantee, and paid keys are not an investment.

7.Build order

Quiz builder with per wallet variants and cooldowns, plus a mint page with Privy login on Base
EAS schema and verifier contract, ERC-721 that mints only against a valid attestation
Sandboxed Foundry grader for one Solidity task type with a creator supplied exploit test
Public roster showing minted by versus held by, and a share card per key
Sybil flags for creators: funding clusters and answer timing, review only
Weekly lock: holders of key N unlock challenge N plus one, with a Sunday digest
Royalties or soulbound toggle, then a second task type such as a frontend or data challenge

8.Where this is going

Now
One teacher, one collection, a roster of people who fixed a real bug to mint.
Next
Creators chain keys into tracks, so a key ring reads like a syllabus anyone can verify.
Later
Hiring teams and grant programs filter by earned keys instead of certificates, and request custom locks for their own stack.
The world it builds
Skill becomes legible without a degree or a big name: anyone with a phone can earn proof of what they can do and carry it everywhere.

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 Skill Mint

Skill Mint turns an NFT collection into a roster of people who proved they can do something, because each piece is minted only after passing your challenge. On someone else's platform, the roster, the mint fees and the reputation of 'the people who passed' belong to them. Own it, and the collection, the challenge, the holder list and every mint fee sit in your wallet under your name.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code.”

The challenge builder handles quizzes and simple onchain tasks without code. You write questions or pick a task like 'deploy a contract' or 'send a transaction on testnet'. Custom challenge logic later may need a developer.

“What if people just copy answers?”

Quizzes can be shared, so do not rely on them alone. Use onchain tasks where the proof is the learner's own wallet action, rotate question pools, and keep the collection honest about what it proves. No system is cheat proof; aim for 'hard enough to be meaningful'.

“Will anyone want to mint?”

Only if the skill matters to them. Skill Mint works best attached to something people already want to learn: your course, your workshop, your community's onboarding. Start with your own students, not strangers.

“Is selling NFTs legal where I live?”

In most places a collectible tied to a learning challenge is fine, but rules differ, especially if you promise returns. Never market it as an investment. If you are unsure, ask a local lawyer before charging.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes. The collection contract deploys from your wallet on the chain you choose, and mint fees go to the address you set. DEPLOYR keeps no admin key.

The million-dollar ladder

Teachers, bootcamps and protocols pay you to run proof-of-skill collections, or you earn mint fees on your own collections. A credential that verifiably means something can be priced higher than a plain certificate. This is a target, not a promise.

$100

$4,500

$20,000

$85,000

First 10 users

10 learners minting your first collection

$10 per mint

Paid cohorts

300 mints a month across 3 collections

$15 per mint

Programs pay you

20 partner teachers or bootcamps

$1,000 per month

About $1M a year

50 partners plus 5,000 learner mints

$1,200 per month per partner, $5 per mint

Partner with protocols that want developers who actually completed their tutorial.
Let employers search the holder roster for a fee.
Run seasonal collections so returning learners have a reason to mint again.
Keep challenges real: the value of the credential is the price ceiling.

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.