🪙 Deposits for Bounty Submissions
To improve the overall quality of submissions, discourage spam or low-effort reports and ensure quality submission from researchers get deserved attention, Cantina now has an option for teams to require a wallet balance (deposit) to submit to their bounties.
💡 Overview
When submitting to a bounty that has this feature implemented, researchers must maintain a minimum wallet balance in their Cantina account.
Each bounty may require a different staking amount, as defined by the bounty creator.
Not all bounties require a deposit.
The bounty home page will clearly indicate when one is required.
Example:
Deposit required: $100
This ensures only serious submissions are made and helps us maintain a fair, high-quality ecosystem.
🧭 Why Deposits May Be Required
As a trial run, we’ve introduced the option of requiring deposits to allow teams to:
Deter low-effort or AI-generated submissions.
Reduce spam and abuse from repeat offenders.
Encourage higher-quality findings and thoughtful participation.
Discourage over-inflated severity ratings on clearly low-severity findings.
⚠️ Note: Deposits will only be slashed in specific cases such as:
Submissions that are clearly low-effort or LLM-generated.
Users repeatedly abusing the system.
Findings where the reported severity is intentionally exaggerated (e.g., calling an informational issue "critical").
Regular rejected findings will not lose their deposit.
💰 Maintaining Your Balance
You’ll need to ensure your wallet maintains enough balance to meet the staking amount for the bounty you want to submit to.
If your balance is insufficient, you’ll be unable to submit until funds are added.
🔧 How to Add Balance
You’ll find your Ethereum mainnet address under the “Account Balance” section.
Send USDC to that address to increase your balance.
Tip: Transactions must be on Ethereum Mainnet and in USDC, not any other token or network.
📉 Slashing & Refunds
Slashing occurs only for low-effort or system-abusing submissions.
Normal rejected submissions do not lose deposits.
You can withdraw unused balances in the future after unlock.
🧾 Example
Valid submission
Deposit refunded
Legitimate but invalid submission
Deposit refunded
Spam/Low effort or AI-generated submission
Deposit slashed
Intentional over-inflated severity on low/informational severity issue
Deposit slashed
Repeat abusive behavior
Deposit slashed & possible account action
In case of any queries please reach out to https://support.cantina.xyz/
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