Update from DEGENBID

DEGENBID Week 2: Onchain rewards, better wallets, and a clearer community board

I'm building DEGENBID, a place where crypto communities support token projects together and see the result on a shared leaderboard. Team scores accumulate, while personal scores and reward rights stay with each individual wallet.

This week I focused on making the journey more dependable: updated contracts, automated rounds, verifiable rewards, and mobile wallet recovery.

ONCHAIN FOUNDATION

I updated the core contracts and connected the application to the new deployment. The work covered bid settlement, reward claims, payment recovery, and checks against the reviewed release. Round transitions are now automated, with separate publishing and independent verification for rewards and monitoring for failed or missed runs.

FIRST WEEKLY HOLDER REWARDS

On September 28, the first closed week from the new deployment completed its BID-to-COIN conversion. The independent reviewer verified and activated the holder reward root, making allocated COIN claimable for eligible wallets.

This also exposed a real bug: the reviewer's event query omitted conversion fields, so verification stopped. I fixed the decoder, added regression tests, deployed the corrected reviewer, and confirmed activation against the contract and production API.

The interface distinguishes the current reserve, processing rewards, and claimable amounts. Estimates are not guaranteed payouts; recipients still submit their own claim transactions.

WALLETS AND MOBILE

I added a unified account view with wallet connections, linked addresses, and personal activity history. Users can now start with a Solana wallet, then connect their EVM beneficiary wallet and approve a one-time link with both wallets.

Mobile improvements preserve Solana sessions, restore saved links, and recover approval state after returning from a wallet app. I also separated EVM and Solana sessions more carefully to keep wallet identities consistent.

SOLANA PAYMENTS

I advanced the Relay payment integration. Read-only production probes returned SOL, USDC, and USDT quotes with the expected destination approval, commitment, and bid settlement calls.

A small funded Solana payment remains the next verification step. I will check the destination receipt, Arena credit, Vault accounting, and recovery behavior before treating the complete route as verified.

The latest local changes also prepare and refresh payment routes in the background, avoid duplicate searches, and bound slow requests. Targeted tests and browser checks passed; these route improvements have not yet been deployed.

HISTORY AND SHARING

The board separates the current epoch from all-time ranking. I added an archive of earlier seasons, season replay, share cards, and clearer project information, including token price and market cap. Communities can follow the current competition and look back at previous results.

WHAT I LEARNED

Much of the friction happens between screens: returning from a wallet app, reconnecting after a reload, or understanding why a reward is still processing. A complete journey needs to show what happened and what the user can do next.

NEXT

Verify a small funded Solana payment, release the route improvements after validation, and gather feedback from early communities. I'm especially interested in where first-time users hesitate during wallet connection and payment preparation.

Explore the board, round history, and holder reward status: https://degenbid.fun