The Guardians Program
At a glance
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Ranks
67.5M
QOR Pool
6
Regions
SBT
Soulbound NFTs
- Apply, 48h review, 1-week trial, then activated
- Every contribution recorded on-chain
- Rewards from a vested 1.5% allocation
Referral campaign closed
The 27 April to 15 May 2026 referral campaign has ended. View final standings on the leaderboard.
Community leadership, rewarded directly.
Guardians take ownership of community growth, developer adoption, validator operations, and ecosystem research, so the protocol team can stay focused on shipping. No vague tiers. No paid posts. Verified work, recorded on-chain, rewarded in QOR.
Grow the Community
Six regions. Local Captains. Local meetups, translations, and bounties, run by people who actually live in the community they serve.
Attract Builders
Triple-VM. Native EVM, CosmWasm, and SVM. Builders coming from Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana feel at home from day one.
Earn On-Chain Reputation
Every quest completion mints a Soulbound credential on QoreChain. Your work is your portable, verifiable on-chain CV.
Real Graduation Paths
Top Guardians graduate to validators, Council members, or core team. The program is a ladder, not a holding pattern.
Capped slots. Real signal at every level.
Promotion requires tenure, public performance, senior endorsement, and Council ratification. Caps are public. Progression is earned.
Initiate
Cap: 1,000
Entry
Open application, no KYC
Earns
Quest points, conversion to QOR after promotion
Tenure: 6 months minimum to advance
Guardian
Cap: 250
Entry
Promotion from Initiate; proof-of-personhood required
Earns
Monthly QOR allocation
Tenure: 3 to 6 months minimum to advance
Captain
Cap: 25
Entry
Senior endorsement + Council ratification + KYC
Earns
Monthly QOR + Regional Operating Budget
Scope: Lead a region or domain. Tenure: 12 months minimum to advance
Sentinel
Cap: 7
Entry
Council appointment
Earns
Monthly QOR stipend
Scope: Cross-regional, runs cohort vetting and major campaigns
Architect
Cap: 3 (first 24 months)
Entry
Honorary, retroactive
Earns
Sits on the Guardians Council; shapes program governance
Pick the track that fits your work.
Initiates pick one track on application. Guardians and above can hold a primary plus a secondary. Cross-track contribution earns credit in both.
Community
Moderate Discord and Telegram. Run regional meetups, AMAs, and Twitter Spaces. Create threads, memes, and visuals that carry the QoreChain narrative. The volume engine of the program.
Sample monthly duties
- Daily presence in Discord and Telegram
- 1 community event per month
- Weekly activity pulse report
- 4+ pieces of original content per month
Builder
Ship testnet dApps. Contribute example contracts. Run hackathon teams. File high-signal bug reports. The track for developers who learn by shipping, not by writing.
Sample monthly duties
- 1 smart contract or dApp deployed on testnet
- 2+ verified contracts published
- Hackathon participation or organisation
Bridge & Validator Ops
Run validator nodes. Operate bridge watchers across QoreChain's 38 connected blockchain ecosystems. Earn attestation fees alongside QOR. The path into the genesis validator set.
Sample monthly duties
- 99% validator uptime
- Bridge attestations across multiple connected networks
- Light node (SX/UX) operation
- Operations playbook contributions
Research & DevRel
Long-form tutorials. Technical blog posts. Conference talks. Documentation. Active dev-support, on QoreChain channels and across Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, and Move developer communities.
Sample monthly duties
- 1 long-form technical piece
- N dev-support answers (target published quarterly)
- Tutorial reviews and documentation contributions
How rewards work
Each rank has a monthly QOR pool, drawn from a vested 1.5% / 67.5M QOR allocation in our tokenomics. Your monthly QOR equals your points share of your rank's pool that month. Points come from weekly quests, monthly track-specific duties, and quarterly campaigns. Top 3 performers per rank earn a 25% bonus.
Run by the people who live there.
Each region has a Captain and a monthly Regional Operating Budget for meetups, translations, sponsorships, and bounties. We provide the strategy, our Captains provide the local execution.
Western Europe
UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Benelux, Nordics
Eastern Europe & CIS
Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Baltics, Turkey
North America
US, Canada, Mexico
LatAm
Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile
APAC
India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia
MENA & Africa
UAE, KSA, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Simple path, real impact.
Apply
Fill out the form: name, track, region, motivation, references. Two minutes.
Review
48-hour review SLA. Referrals get priority.
Trial
One-week trial on a real task in your chosen track.
Activate
Trial passed? You are an Initiate. Start earning quest points immediately. First QOR distribution lands at TGE end of May 2026.
We are launching the program before TGE. Here's the schedule.
27 April 2026 (TODAY)
- Applications open
- Cohort 1 begins onboarding
- Quest pre-launch starts (off-chain)
May 2026
- Trials, activation, first Captain selections
- Final pre-mainnet readiness
End of May 2026 (Q2 2026)
- TGE and mainnet
- First monthly QOR distribution to active Guardians
- Soulbound on-chain credentials begin minting
June 2026
- Quest engine activates on mainnet
- KYC integration live for Captain rank
- Public leaderboard live at qorechain.io/guardians/leaderboard
Q3 2026
- First Architect-rank appointments
- Guardians Council ratification
- Second cohort opens
Active Guardians earn.
Show up, complete duties, contribute consistently. The more active you are, the higher your points share of your rank's pool. Top performers earn bonus allocations on top.
Inactive? Paused.
Two weeks dormant means status paused. Resume anytime by becoming active again, no re-application needed. After two months of silence, the slot opens. At Captain rank and above, four weeks dormant means demotion to keep the regional ladder moving.
Built so that real contributors win.
On-chain accountability
Every Guardian's track record is on-chain. Soulbound credentials cannot be transferred or sold. Every quest, every duty, every monthly distribution is recorded.
Privacy-preserving proof-of-personhood is required at Rank 2 (Guardian). Standard KYC is required at Rank 3 (Captain) and above, processed via the QoreChain Association in Switzerland.
Plagiarism, sybil claims, or fraudulent work trigger QOR clawback and Soulbound credential revocation. The transparent leaderboard at qorechain.io/guardians/leaderboard makes attempts at fraud visible to the entire community.
Ready to shape the QoreChain community?
Cohort 1 is open. Be among the first Guardians earning QOR while a quantum-safe, AI-native Layer 1 reaches mainnet.
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