Vision & Principles

Positioning

Gatoll is a social-native distribution layer. Its unit of distribution is a shareable link, not a dashboard or a console. A creator posts a Loot the way they post anything else, and the campaign travels through the same social graph as the rest of their content. The reward is on-chain; the reach is social.

This is deliberately different from heavyweight, console-driven airdrop tooling. Gatoll assumes the creator wants to move fast, the participant arrived from a social post, and both sides want the shortest possible path between intent and a settled reward.

Design principles

Light by default. The shortest path wins. A creator should be able to launch a Loot in minutes; a participant should be able to claim in seconds. Concepts stay few, composable, and easy to reason about.

Verifiable, not promised. Anything that touches value lives on-chain. Rewards are escrowed in a contract and released only against a verified claim, so “trust me” is never part of the deal.

Gated, not open. Open-to-anyone claiming wastes budget. Gatoll treats eligibility as a first-class feature: creators set the Gates, such as followers, group members, or allowlists, and only participants who pass them can claim. Passing a Gate is what makes a participant valid.

Trustless settlement, flexible eligibility. Eligibility logic needs Web2 signals and fast iteration; custody and payout must remain verifiable. Gatoll separates the two: a verifier decides eligibility off-chain and authorizes claims with a signature, while the contracts hold the funds and enforce the rules.

Social as the growth engine. A Loot is also a place. Groups and comments turn the campaign page into a community surface, so distribution and retention happen in the same object.

No funds left behind. Anything unclaimed when a Loot ends is recoverable by its contributors, pro-rata. Value is never stranded in a dead campaign; see reclaim.

These principles recur throughout the protocol. When trade-offs appear, such as convenience versus verifiability or flexibility versus trustlessness, Gatoll resolves them through the split between on-chain settlement and off-chain eligibility.