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 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.

Joining, building your card, browsing and collecting free Common cards are all free. Buying or selling higher-tier editions on the Market involves a real payment, processed securely via Stripe. Fees are always shown before you confirm.

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.

Collecting free Common cards, browsing and building your profile never cost anything. Buying, selling or bidding on higher-tier editions involves a real payment, processed securely via Stripe. Fees are always shown before you confirm a purchase.

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.

Editions are minted per season, so scarcity resets each year. The current season is 2026, which runs from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. The per-tier caps above apply within each season.

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. Payment is taken securely via Stripe when you confirm.

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.

You keep 88% of the sale price every time (a 12% total fee). When you sell your own card (a first/primary sale), the 12% goes entirely to Hodlr. When you resell someone else's card, the 12% splits into a 9.5% platform fee to Hodlr and a 2.5% royalty to the person on the card (the Subject). Buyers pay the listed price with no separate buyer fee, and 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.

Payments are processed securely through our payment provider, Stripe. We never store your full card details. Fees are always shown before you confirm a purchase.

Payouts are handled by Stripe. Before you can sell, you set up payouts once from your profile (Set up payouts) — a quick identity + bank-details check with Stripe (Stripe Connect). You don't need it to browse, collect free cards, or buy.

The person a card represents earns a 2.5% royalty each time their card is resold on the Market — a way to share in the trade of their own identity. It's paid out after the sale settles; you'll need payouts set up to receive it (until then it's held and paid once you are).

Set up payouts once from your profile (Set up payouts), which runs a quick identity + bank check with Stripe. After that, your 88% from each sale reaches your account automatically — there's nothing to claim.

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.