Glossary
A quick reference to key terms used throughout the CryptoTrophy platform.
Organization
An entity (such as a company) that joins the platform to manage its own points system and create custom challenges for users.
Organization Points / Tokens
The unique token issued by an organization that represents user points. Optionally, these tokens can be backed by an ETH vault, giving them underlying value.
Challenge
A competition or activity created by an organization. Users can participate to earn tokens by fulfilling the challenge requirements.
Token Owner / User
A customer or end-user who participates in challenges or holds tokens issued by an organization. Both terms are used interchangeably.
Loot
Tokens awarded to a user for successfully claiming and completing a challenge.
Claim
The act of a user submitting a request to complete a challenge. Based on the associated validator’s result, the user may receive loot (tokens) or not.
Prize Catalog / Rewards
A collection of physical prizes or real-world services offered by an organization. Users can redeem their tokens for rewards, returning the tokens to the organization.
Prize / Reward NFT
A non-fungible token (NFT) issued to a user when redeeming a prize. This NFT certifies the exchange and can be used as proof to claim the physical prize or service.
Exchange
A platform feature where users can swap organization points/tokens for ETH.
Validator
A mechanism (on-chain or off-chain) that certifies whether a user has fulfilled a challenge’s requirements and authorizes the distribution of loot.
Backoffice
The administrative dashboard used by organizations to manage challenges, rewards, validators, and user activity.
Oracles
Third-party services (such as Chainlink) used to securely fetch and verify data from outside the blockchain, supporting off-chain validation and randomness.
Ponder
The real-time blockchain event indexer used to monitor smart contract activity and enable fast, searchable access to historical and live data.
Circuits
Refers to the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) circuits, built with tools like Circom, that enable privacy-preserving challenge validation (e.g., Secret Codes Validator).
Hardhat
A development environment and framework for deploying and testing smart contracts used within the CryptoTrophy project.
Next.js
The web application framework powering the CryptoTrophy frontend and backoffice user interfaces.
IPFS
InterPlanetary File System—a decentralized storage solution for hosting images and other assets associated with organizations, challenges, and rewards.