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Incentive Distribution

Incentive distribution platforms evaluated on whether an outsider can recompute a disputed allocation, who holds the budget and can still edit the list after publication, what has already gone wrong on the machinery, and what is written down about sybil defence.

Ranked here: incentive distribution platforms that run a token or points programme for the budget-holder who signs for it, judged on whether anyone outside the vendor can recompute an allocation. Not ranked here: components and streaming primitives that only move tokens the buyer has already decided to move, personhood providers, detection-only sybil scoring and products that pivoted away.

#1 of 8published ranking
Merkl (Angle Labs)
81ChainChoice Score
Why it leads
Merkl (Angle Labs) scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its recomputable allocation and its incident and operator record.
Show the arithmetic
Best in this ranking on recomputable allocation and incident and operator record
Cost
Not priced · No published rate on this basis
Reviewed Next review by Published Methodology v2026.11.1
How this page is reviewed

Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.

How we review · Review calendar · Corrections log · How we make money

No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 8 products · same inputs, same order

How we review · 8 ranked of 17 assessed · 4 criteria · 0 sponsor weight

How we review
8ranked
17assessed
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Recommendation first, comparison only if needed.
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Personal comparison

What incentive distribution cost you

Your inputs update the cost column. The independent ranking stays fixed.

The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded.

RankProviderBest fitScoreYour cost
1
Merkl (Angle Labs)Offchain reward engine that publishes a...Top ranked
Recomputable allocation — 9/10Trade-off: The friendly docs page and the Terms PDF do not say the same thing about your leftove...
81score
-Not published
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Merkl (Angle Labs) · docs.merkl.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

2
Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups)A pure claim rail: the budget-holder up...
Budget control after publication — 10/10Trade-off: The vendor has told you, in writing and by name, that it is winding down. Since 2026-...
78score
-Not published
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Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups) · docs.sablier.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

3
Boost (Rabbithole)Onchain incentive protocol from Boost S...
Budget control after publication — 8/10Trade-off: You will pay the 10% take more than once on the same money, and the vendor's own two...
71score
-Not published
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Boost (Rabbithole) · docs.boost.xyz. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

4
StreamflowSolana-only distribution rail that take...
Budget control after publication — 7/10Trade-off: The single most annoying thing: everything a budget-holder actually needs to know abo...
70score
-Not published
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Streamflow · docs.streamflow.finance. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

5
HedgeyA free, self-service onchain distributi...
Budget control after publication — 8/10Trade-off: You are buying a rail, not an allocation engine — Hedgey will not tell you who should...
69score
your cost/yr
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Hedgey · hedgey.finance. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

6
Galxe Quest / Business+The volume incumbent: a no-code campaig...
Incident and operator record — 7/10Trade-off: You cannot distribute your own token through Galxe Quest's token rewards. The vendor...
59score
your cost/yr
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Galxe Quest / Business+ · docs.galxe.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

2 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranking blindCommercial terms excludedDated primary sources

Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/28/22/20, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Contract failure: the code holding the funds is exploited.
    Scored by What has already gone wrong on this machinery, and who is actually running it today? · 22% (Merkl (Angle Labs) 8/10, Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups) 7/10, Boost (Rabbithole) 5/10)
  • Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
    Scored by Who is holding my budget, who can still change the list, and what comes back to me? · 28% (Merkl (Angle Labs) 8/10, Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups) 10/10, Boost (Rabbithole) 8/10)
  • Information failure: the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.
    Scored by If someone disputes their number, can anyone outside the vendor recompute it? · 30% (Merkl (Angle Labs) 9/10, Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups) 6/10, Boost (Rabbithole) 6/10)
    Scored by What exactly stops a farm from eating this budget, and what happens when it flags the wrong person? · 20% (Merkl (Angle Labs) 8/10, Sablier Airdrops (Merkle Lockups) 8/10, Boost (Rabbithole) 8/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
10 November 2026
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on recomputable allocation (30), budget control after publication (28), incident and operator record (22), and sybil defence in writing (20). The heaviest is whether someone outside the vendor can re-derive a disputed number: eight of the nine publish no contest path at all, and the one appeal route that exists is an unbounded support ticket the same terms then disclaim. The sybil finding is starker — six of nine market a named defence and none publish a removal count or a sybil report for a real campaign. Advertised integrations are not scored anywhere.

If someone disputes their allocation, can anyone outside the vendor recompute it?
Between funding and claiming, who holds the budget, and who can still change the list?
What has already gone wrong on this machinery, and does the vendor say so on a page it controls?
Current engine lead

The #1 overall and the scoring weights

Merkl (Angle Labs)Data checked Nov 2026
Offchain reward engine that publishes a per-recipient reward file for every merkle root it pushes to a named Distributor contract, opens a 1-2 hour onchain dispute window before rewards become claimable, and takes its 3% out of the deposited budget rather than on top of it.

Offchain reward engine that publishes a per-recipient reward file for every merkle root it pushes to a named Distributor contract, opens a 1-2 hour onchain dispute window before rewards become claimable, and takes its 3% out of the deposited budget rather than on top of it. Strongest on “If someone disputes their number, can anyone outside the vendor recompute it?” (9/10): Merkl publishes each reward file on its status page "so anyone can audit past distributions" and documents "a security window of 1-2 hours following each reward update during which anyone can contest reward allocations made by the Merkl engine". The production engine is closed source. Weakest on “Who is holding my budget, who can still change the list, and what comes back to me?” (8/10): Merkl's campaign-management page states that a campaign manager can "reallocate unclaimed rewards from any recipient address to another address at your discretion" and that the window "ranges from 1 day to 1 year post-campaign". The power is stated in plain language, with no contract-level role reference. Published price: READ ON https://docs.merkl.xyz/distribute-with-merkl/fee-model (fetched 10 November 2026, HTTP 200): "Merkl's fees are deducted from the campaign budget when the campaign starts.

Best forRecomputable allocation — 9/10
Main tradeoffThe friendly docs page and the Terms PDF do not say the same thing about your leftover budget. docs.merkl.xyz/distribute-with-merkl/fee-model tells you 'Campaign creators on Merkl can freely reallocate all unclaimed rewards once their campaign ends'; Art. 4 of merkl-terms.pdf (last revised 13 May 2026) says that if you have not reallocated within a year, 'Angle Labs reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to recover such unclaimed rewards in whole or in part and to reallocate, redistribute, or otherwise apply them as Angle Labs sees fit, including by reallocating them to other Merkl Campaigns, to other Recipients, to operational reserves', and 'The Incentivizor expressly waives any right to claim, recover, or be reimbursed'. Pair that with Art. 3.3 — Merkl may 'pause, suspend, modify, refuse, terminate' a live campaign at sole discretion 'with or without prior notice' — Art. 5.4, which routes every aggrieved recipient's miscalculation claim to you with an indemnity running back to Angle Labs, and Art. 6, which caps Angle Labs' liability at three months of your fees. A budget-holder who read only the docs will not have priced any of that; the one operational chore that prevents the worst of it is a calendar reminder to reallocate unclaimed rewards inside twelve months.
Verify before signupREAD ON https://docs.merkl.xyz/distribute-with-merkl/fee-model (fetched 10 November 2026, HTTP 200): "Merkl's fees are deducted from the campaign budget when the campaign starts. You do not deposit extra tokens to cover them." "Standard campaign fee: 3% of distributed incentives"; "Airdrops: 0.5%, added on top of the distributed amount."; "Encompassing campaigns: 1.5%, added on top of the distributed amount." Degressive schedule: "3% on the first $1M distributed", "2.25% on amounts between $1M and $2.5M", "1.75% on amounts between $2.5M and $5M", "1.5% on amounts above $5M"; "Merkl offers a 25% fee discount when you commit upfront to campaigns distributing more than $500k in total incentives." Vendor example: a 100-token campaign at 3%, "Merkl collects 3 tokens when the campaign starts." Unclaimed rewards: "One year after the campaign's end, if the campaign creators have not previously reallocated rewards and if there remain unclaimed rewards, Merkl reserves the right to reclaim them." Support tiers are priced separately on Merkl Services, not re-read here.
Weighted criteria
If someone disputes their number, can anyone outside the vendor recompute it?30%
Who is holding my budget, who can still change the list, and what comes back to me?28%
What has already gone wrong on this machinery, and who is actually running it today?22%
What exactly stops a farm from eating this budget, and what happens when it flags the wrong person?20%
Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Ranked on four questions: If someone disputes their number, can anyone outside the vendor recompute it? Who is holding my budget, who can still change the list, and what comes back to me? What has already gone wrong on this machinery, and who is actually running it today? What exactly stops a farm from eating this budget, and what happens when it flags the wrong person?

The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing incentives

Is this not just an airdrop tool?
Sending tokens is the easy half and every product here does it. What separates them is what happens when the list is wrong: whether an outsider can recompute a disputed allocation, who is holding the budget between funding and claiming, who can still edit the list after publication, and what stops a farm from eating it. Eight of the nine publish no contest path at all. The single appeal route that exists is an unbounded support ticket that the same terms then disclaim.
Every vendor advertises sybil protection. How do you separate them?
By what is written down and parameterised, not by the adjective. Six of the nine market a named defence, and none of the nine publish a removal count or a sybil report for a real campaign — so nobody in this pool can show you what their filter actually did. The products that score well are the ones where eligibility is criteria you set and can export afterwards, because that is a filter you can defend line by line to a recipient who is angry. A claim to minimise false positives with no number attached earns nothing here.
How much should past incidents matter when picking one?
More than the pool would like. All nine carry a dated discontinuity within the last 32 months — a rebrand, a pivot, an exploit or a change of ownership — so a clean-looking record usually means an untested one. Two have a published, quantified loss of user funds, and the larger of the two is roughly 167 times the size of the other yet appears on none of that vendor's live surfaces. Self-disclosure with a number scores above silence, which is the opposite of how the category markets itself.
Reviewed10 November 2026Method4 criteriaCategoryincentive_distribution
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