Frequently asked questions

Hodlr turns your professional identity into a collectible trading card. Every person who signs in gets a Card, with a public HodlScore built from peer Upvotes (endorsements). You can collect people's free cards, climb five rarity tiers, and — when real payments are live — buy and sell higher-tier editions on the Market.

Tap Sign in with LinkedIn on the home page. That's it — your card and profile are created from your LinkedIn sign-in. You can then add a title, company, a short bio and images.

LinkedIn is how Hodlr verifies that you are a real professional, and it saves you creating yet another password. We use LinkedIn only as a sign-in and identity provider — we never scrape it, and we only receive what you share at sign-in. See our Privacy Policy.

Yes — joining, building your card, collecting free Common cards and browsing are free. Higher-tier editions can be bought and sold on the Market, and right now nothing costs real money yet, because real payments are not switched on (see below).

You must be 18 or over. At this stage Hodlr is available only in the United States, the United Kingdom and France; sign-up from other countries is blocked for now.

No, not yet. Real payments are not switched on, so no charge is taken. You can try the full buy / sell / bid / checkout flow without spending anything. We will clearly announce it before real payments are switched on.

A card is your professional identity as a collectible. It shows your name, photo, title, company and HodlScore. Other people can collect your free Common card, and you can release scarcer editions for others to collect.

Common (free, unlimited), Limited (1,000 per season), Rare (100 per season), Super Rare (10 per season) and Unique (1 per season). The rarer the tier, the fewer editions exist.

The HodlScore is a public reputation score built from peer Upvotes and your activity. It is shown on your card and updates over time. It is for information only — it is not a rating of your worth and not financial advice.

Utilities are perks the person on a card chooses to offer on higher tiers — for example a direct message, a call, or an intro. Only the Subject (the person the card represents) sets them, and they can change or withdraw them at any time.

Your card is yours to control. You set and withdraw its utilities, edit your details and photo, and you can retire the card at any time. A retired card keeps its ownership history (so past trades stay recorded) but loses its utilities.

Yes — edit your title, company, bio and images from your profile whenever you like.

You can retire your card, and you can delete your account entirely from the Service. Deleting removes your profile and card, except for limited records we must keep (such as past trade history). See our Privacy Policy.

Open someone's profile and tap Collect card to add their free Common card to your collection.

On the Market or a profile's "Editions for sale", choose a fixed-price card and tap Buy, or add it to your cart and check out. Right now this takes no payment and moves no money.

A fixed-price listing sells at the price the seller set — buy it now. An auction runs for a set time; the highest bid when it ends wins. You can see the current bid, number of bids and time left before bidding.

Nothing is charged today — real payments aren't on yet. When real payments are live, a sale will carry a 7.5% platform fee and a 2.5% royalty to the Subject, both taken from the seller's proceeds (10% in total). Buyers pay the listed price with no separate buyer fee. Fees are always shown before you confirm.

No. Cards are collectibles and access keys, not investments, securities or financial products. A card's value can go up or down, past activity does not predict future value, and there is no promise of any return. Please collect for the fun and the utility, not as a financial bet.

It is calculated automatically from the Upvotes you receive and your activity on Hodlr. It can rise or fall over time. We do not guarantee its accuracy and may adjust scores affected by manipulation.

An Upvote is a public endorsement of another member. Upvotes are visible by design — who upvoted whom is public — and they feed into the HodlScore of the person you upvote.

Please don't. Fake accounts, coordinated Upvotes, bots and wash trading are against our Terms. We may adjust or reset scores and close accounts involved in manipulation.

Real payments are not enabled yet. We are putting the right payment provider and licences in place first. Until then, nothing money-related in the app takes a real charge.

When real payments are live, payments will be handled by our regulated provider, Mangopay. You will only need to verify your identity (with a government ID) just before your first cash-out — not to browse, collect free cards, or use the app before payments go live.

When real payments are live, the person a card represents earns a 2.5% royalty each time their card is sold on the Market — a way to share in the trade of their own identity. This is not charged until real payments are live.

Your card, display name, title, company, HodlScore and your Upvotes are public by design. Your email address is never shown publicly. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.

You can delete your account from the Service; this removes your profile and card. We keep only limited records we are required or genuinely need to keep, such as past trade history. You can also email admin@stan-friends.com to exercise your data rights.

Email admin@stan-friends.com and tell us what's affected. We review every report and can remove content, retire a card or close the account responsible.

No. We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it with advertisers. We don't run ads or cross-site tracking. See our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Companies have their own pages, ranked by their verified people. Coworkers can lay out their company as an org tree of teams and levels. It reflects the people who have joined, not an official HR chart.

The leaderboard ranks members by HodlScore, with filters by category and sorts for top sellers and trending. It's a quick way to see who's rising.

Email admin@stan-friends.com for anything — general help or questions about your data. We're happy to help.