HODLCompBuilt for holders, not wash traders.
Recognize the people who show real conviction, gain deeper insight into your holders, and grow a more engaged community. Attract holders, drive meaningful volume, strengthen the community, and build trust.
Live competitions.
Launching is invite-only for now.
To keep HODLComp a platform people can always count on, only verified, trusted wallets can launch competitions while we build the public track record. Approved organizers must also hold $HODL.
Why signing on HODLComp is safe
Short version: HODLComp never takes custody of your funds, and we never ask you to sign a transaction. The only thing we ask you to sign is a plain text message — which is physically incapable of moving your funds.
What we ask you to sign
A short text message like "HODLComp — I am joining the competition… This is a free message signature. It cannot move funds." Your wallet shows you that exact text before you approve. There is no amount, no recipient, and no fee — because it isn't a transaction. It's the same technology as "Sign in with your wallet" used across Web3.
Why we ask at all
It proves you actually hold the wallet you're using — nothing more. That single fact is what keeps competitions fair: it stops someone from entering a wallet that isn't theirs and stealing its on-chain history, its conviction score, or its prize. The signature is the reason the leaderboard can be trusted.
What HODLComp can never do
We never hold your funds. We can't move your tokens. We can't spend your ADA. Prizes are paid by organizers directly from their own wallet to winners — the platform is never in the middle. There is no deposit, no escrow, no approval that grants us access to anything.
Verify it yourself
Don't take our word for it. When the popup appears, read the message — it plainly says it can't move funds. Check that your wallet calls it a "signature" or "sign data" request, not a transaction. Any developer on your team can confirm HODLComp uses CIP-30 signData, which has no ability to transfer assets. Trust, but verify.
You can explore every competition, leaderboard, and the game with no wallet connected at all. You only sign when you choose to join, claim, create, or save a score.
Scoring you can trust.
HODLComp recognizes conviction. You rank up from tokens you buy & holding duration — nothing else.
Hold 50,000 $HODL
That's your key to JOINING competitions. Connecting your wallet to the dashboard is free and open to everyone, whatever you hold.
Join, buy, HODL
Join live competitions to appear on the leaderboard. Buy on a supported DEX. HODL till the end. Buys after the competition starts count, so if you buy and then join, the buys will count.
Conviction
Every token earns credit for each day you hold it. Ranking weight: 70% Conviction | 30% Net Held.
Claim
Eligible participants have 7 days to claim or they forfeit. To be eligible, you must hold the same amount of tokens when the competition ends or greater. The organizer can compensate participants when ALL eligible have claimed.
Five wallets, same competition
A worked example on a 7-day competition, using the real formula: Score = 70% conviction + 30% net held, each normalized against the field (the leader of each part gets the full weight). Conviction is token-days — tokens × days held.
| Wallet | What they did | Conviction | Net held | Score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond hand | Bought 1.0M day 1, held to the end | 6.0M td | +1.0M | 80.0 | 🥇 1st |
| Early + topper | Bought 600K day 1, added 400K day 3 | 5.2M td | +1.0M | 70.7 | 🥈 2nd |
| Latecomer whale | Bought 3.0M on the final day | 1.5M td | +3.0M | 47.5 | 🥉 3rd |
| Trimmer | Bought 1.0M day 1, sold 600K day 5 | 2.4M td | +400K | 32.0 | Ranked lower |
| Round-tripper | Bought 1.0M day 1, sold all day 4 | 0 td | 0 | 0.0 | Off the board |
Conviction is 70% of the score — showing up early and holding wins the race
· Early holder: 1,000,000 tokens × 6 days held = 6,000,000 token-days (the field's max)
· Last-day buyer: 3,000,000 tokens × 0.5 days held = 1,500,000 token-days
Normalized parts (each side divided by the field's leader):
· Conviction share — Early: 6.0M ÷ 6.0M = 1.00 · Last-day: 1.5M ÷ 6.0M = 0.25
· Net share — Early: 1.0M ÷ 3.0M = 0.33 · Last-day: 3.0M ÷ 3.0M = 1.00
Final score = 0.70 × conviction share + 0.30 × net share:
· Early holder: 0.70 × 1.00 + 0.30 × 0.33 = 0.80 → 80.0
· Last-day buyer: 0.70 × 0.25 + 0.30 × 1.00 = 0.475 → 47.5
The last-day buyer wins the size half outright, but conviction is 70% of the score — so showing up early and holding wins the race.
There are two different types of Leaderboards — Competition Leaderboard & HODL Members.
Conviction = token-days (70%)
Every token you buy earns one credit for every day you hold it. Hold 1,000,000 tokens for 5 days and you've earned 5,000,000 token-days. It's that simple.
The key rule: a token only earns credit for the time you actually held it. Tokens you buy on the last day have barely been held, so they earn almost nothing — no matter how many you buy. That's what makes a last-minute whale dump powerless.
Size = net tokens still held (30%)
The rest of your score is simply how many tokens you're still holding at the end. This keeps the competition a real buying race — the more you hold, the higher you score — and it makes sure someone who buys early then quietly dumps can't coast on old conviction.
Honest status & safety
- ✓Connecting a wallet is read-only — it lets us see your public balance to rank you. It can't move your funds.
- ✓We never ask for or hold your private keys or seed phrase.
- ✓Scores are computed from the chain on our server — never from anything your browser claims.
- ✕This is an early version. Compensation is currently sent manually to winners with public transactions; audited smart-contract escrow is the next milestone. Don't treat anything here as financial advice.
Do I need a Cardano wallet?
Short answer: yes — and it takes about five minutes to set up. Here's what a wallet is, why you need one, and exactly how to get started, in plain language.
A crypto wallet is a free app that holds your coins and tokens — think of it as your own account that only you control. On Cardano, the coin is ADA. You'll use ADA to buy $HODL and to join competitions.
HODLComp never holds your funds. Everything you do — joining, holding, getting paid — happens straight from your own wallet. No account, no password stored with us, no middleman. Your wallet is your login.
Joining and claiming only ever ask you to sign a message that proves the wallet is yours. A signature can't move your funds or spend your tokens. You stay in full control the whole time. More on wallet safety →
Set up in five minutes with VESPR
VESPR is a clean, well-trusted Cardano wallet for iPhone and Android. Read each prompt in the app closely and follow it to finish setting up your wallet — especially the part about saving your recovery phrase.
Download VESPR
Get the free app from its official site, then open it and choose to create a new wallet.
Download VESPR ↗Create a wallet
Follow the prompts. VESPR will show you a recovery phrase — a list of words. Write it down and keep it somewhere private. It's the only way to restore your wallet, and no one from HODLComp or VESPR will ever ask for it.
Add ADA to your wallet
Put some ADA in. You can buy ADA on a centralized exchange like Kraken and transfer it to your wallet, or buy ADA directly inside VESPR. ADA is what you'll use to buy $HODL and cover the tiny network fee when you join.
Buy $HODL directly from HODLComp
Once you have ADA, swap it for $HODL right here — no other app needed. Then you're ready to join competitions and climb the leaderboard.
Terms & disclaimers
Please read this before using HODLComp. By using this site you acknowledge everything below.
We never hold or control your funds
HODLComp does not take custody of, escrow, pool, or control anyone's money or tokens. Connecting a wallet is read-only — it lets the site see your public balance to rank you. It cannot move, spend, or access your funds, and we never ask for your private keys or seed phrase. Never share your seed phrase with anyone, including us.
How compensation actually works (no smart contract yet)
In this version there is no escrow smart contract. Compensation funds stay in the wallet of whoever is organizing the competition. To be eligible, a winner must claim within 7 days of the competition ending and still hold their tokens. After that claim window closes, the organizer sends compensation directly and manually to eligible participants from their own wallet — generally within the 14-day compensation period — and the transactions are posted publicly. Status is shown as Pending → Sent; an organizer who hasn't paid after the period is shown as No Compensation, which updates back to Sent if they pay later. Because the platform never holds funds, compensation depends on the organizer following through, and we cannot guarantee it. Only participate in competitions you're comfortable with on that basis.
The $HODL token & investment risk
HODLComp has an associated meme coin, $HODL. Holding it is required to create or join competitions on the platform, but it grants holders no rights, rewards, revenue share, or claim on the platform. Neither $HODL nor participating in a competition is a securities offering, a managed investment, or a promise of profit. Do not expect any financial return. Meme-coin prices are extremely volatile and you can lose everything you put in, entirely independently of HODLComp. See the $HODL page for details.
Not financial, legal, or tax advice
Nothing here is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. You are solely responsible for your own decisions, your own tax obligations, and complying with the laws of your jurisdiction. If you're unsure, consult a qualified professional. Some activities may be restricted where you live — that's on you to check.
Scoring is best-effort and on-chain
Rankings are computed from public blockchain data and credit only tokens bought on a recognized decentralized exchange:
- Snek.fun bonding curve
- Minswap V1 & V2
- Splash & Spectrum
- WingRiders V1 & V2
- SundaeSwap V1 & V3
- MuesliSwap
- VyFinance
- CSWAP
Note that aggregators (hizz.io, DexHunter, and similar) route through these venues, so buys made through an aggregator are generally counted too.
Tokens received by transfer do not count. We work to make this accurate. Data is pulled every 10 minutes and pages refresh every 2 minutes. Rankings and results are provided "as is" and cannot be changed. We are not liable for errors in calculations — this v0 is experimental, to test demand.
Experimental
This is an experimental platform. It may have bugs, go offline, or miscalculate. To the fullest extent permitted by law, HODLComp and its operator are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising from use of this site — and the platform holding no funds is part of how it keeps you protected. Participation in any competition is at your own risk, and the Competition Organizer is solely responsible for compensating eligible participants.
You must be allowed to use this
By using HODLComp you confirm you are of legal age in your jurisdiction and that participating in skill-based holding competitions is permitted where you live.
Track your competitions
Connect a wallet (read-only) to see the competitions you're entered in, your rank in each, your claim status, and compensation from past competitions.
Connect to see your dashboard
Connecting is read-only — HODLComp can see your public balances to rank you, but can never move your funds. Never share your seed phrase.
Results
Every finished competition and whether the organizer compensated its winners. Compensation status is tracked from on-chain transactions — not self-reported. This is the public record that keeps organizers honest.
HODL Leaderboard — ranked by conviction.
| Rank | Holder | Hold Time | Retention | Competitions | Days Held After | Total $HODL | Conviction |
|---|
Grouped by stake key, so splitting a wallet across addresses gains nothing. Kept is the share of everything a wallet ever acquired that it still holds. Click a column to rank the community by that metric. Colored columns are the conviction ingredients; hover any header for a plain-English explanation, or open “What do these mean?” above the board.
Community health
Everything a project needs in one place — with a verification label on every number.Conviction Score.
Every holder is graded on four metrics, each measured against the strongest holder in the community:
Selling reduces your hold time and retention proportionally — sell half and you keep half your accrued time; sell everything and the clock restarts. Buying more never erases what you already hold.
Hold duration is measured from when tracking began for each wallet, so it is never over-reported — long-standing holders may see their figure keep climbing as tracking matures.
The fine print
HODL Dash 🐢
Roll Cardano's real price chart as HODL the Tortle, tucked into a spinning shell — from $0.02 in 2017, up the 2021 peak, through the crash, to today. It's a 3-minute run that speeds up the deeper you go. Double-jump to grab orbs, clear the red bear-market candles, leap over holes and bears, and hit bounce pads to launch sky-high for orb fortunes. Connect a wallet to save your best score and earn the 🏁.
HODL Dash
Jump with Space, ↑, or tap — tap again in the air to double-jump. Hold longer to jump higher.
Grab orbs, ride the bounce pads, clear red candles, holes & bears. 🐢
Connect your wallet to save your score to the leaderboard.
The terrain is a stylized version of ADA's price history — every hill and crash is a piece of Cardano's story. Just for fun: no prizes, no tokens, nothing financial.
Dash leaderboard
Best score per wallet. 🏁 = finished the entire chart.
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Swap
Buy $HODL right here — no need to leave the site. Trading is powered by Hizz.io and happens inside their secure widget; HODLComp never holds or routes your funds.
Why $HODL?
$HODL isn't just a token — it's the token powering the HODL ecosystem.
Built for both sides of a competition.
A competition is a simple deal: your community buys and holds your token, and the people who hold longest and strongest get recognized and rewarded. Leaderboards are public and pulled on-chain so buys/sells can't be altered.
$HODL
Slow & Steady.
What $HODL is
$HODL is purely a community token, used to JOIN & HOST competitions. No rev share, payouts, and there's no staking.
The community hosts competitions
The community hosts $HODL competitions regularly to help give back and reward members for being active and having conviction.
Running HODL Competitions keeps the platform active, volume healthy, and provides a gamified experience. Members with real conviction deserve to be recognized. It's the token's culture in action — the $HODL conviction leaderboard lives on the HODL. page.
No staking, no payouts, no revenue share
To be crystal clear: beyond creating and joining competitions, holding $HODL does not entitle you to anything. There is no staking, no yield, no payouts, no revenue share, and no rewards schedule. It is a meme and a community, not an investment. Treat it as one.
Be careful
Verify the official policy ID through our verified channels before buying, and ignore anyone promising returns — those are scams.
HODL the Tortle
In a world that moves at lightning speed, where fortunes appear and vanish overnight, one humble voice rises above the noise: "Slow and steady… is the only way that lasts."
This Tortle wasn't born from hype or rushed into existence during a bull run. HODL was shaped by hard lessons and years of navigating crypto — watching brilliant projects rise only to fall because they moved too fast and built too thin. Communities got rugged. Trust was shattered by scams. Good people lost everything chasing the next shiny utility token, memecoin, or NFT.
Through it all, one truth became clear: the projects that endure aren't the loudest or the fastest. They're the ones that move with patience and purpose. But even after all the disappointment, something changed everything.
When $SNEK launched, it was different. No overnight hype machine. A true fair launch. Organic community growth. The team didn't just talk — they delivered, and they're still delivering today. In a sea of broken promises, SNEK proved that memecoins could build real culture, real loyalty, and real staying power. SNEK pulled its holders out of the trenches. It restored clarity. It gave back something that had been lost: hope.
That experience didn't create a competitor. It created inspiration. HODL and HODLComp exist because of what SNEK showed is possible on Cardano. SNEK will always wear the crown. HODL's only goal is to add another steady, trustworthy voice to the ecosystem — helping the broader Cardano community the same way SNEK helped so many weary travelers find their way again.
HODL doesn't promise overnight riches or viral pumps. He promises something rarer: a project built with integrity, patience, and the genuine desire to give others the same hope that SNEK gave everybody. In a space full of speed and spectacle, sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is keep moving forward — slowly, steadily, and with heart.
This is more than a token. This is a reminder that crypto can still feel good. That communities can still be protected. That building something real alongside giants is still possible.
Welcome to the slow lane. Welcome to HODL the Tortle. Slow and steady wins the race.
Admin tools
Organizer-only. Your admin key is stored in this browser so you enter it once.
Paste the ADMIN_KEY value from your Railway variables. It's saved in this browser only and sent with each admin action.
Loads live competitions so you can pick one, then writes an exact price (in ADA) into its start or end snapshot. Use this to correct a wrong Price at Start.
Connect a Cardano wallet
Read-only — to show your balance and rank. We can't move your funds.
Supported wallets (Lace, VESPR, Eternl, Turbo Wallet) are detected when installed and connect read-only — signing proves wallet ownership and never moves funds.