About Qadam
Build step by step.
Qadam — meaning “step” in Turkic — is community-governed crowdfunding on Solana. Backers' SOL stays in escrow until the community of backers votes to approve each milestone. Creators get paid for real progress. Backers earn ownership in every project they support.
Why we built this
Traditional crowdfunding has a trust problem. Creators get paid upfront. Backers have no recourse if the project fails. Over $1.7B has been lost on platforms like Kickstarter from projects that raised money and never delivered.
We built Qadam to fix this. Funds stay locked on-chain. The community of backers — not a platform, not an AI — decides whether each milestone has been delivered. Approve releases the next tranche. Reject sends it back. Refund returns what's left.
How it works in four stages
Lock
Backers commit SOL. It enters the campaign vault on-chain.
Hold
Funds wait in escrow. Only the smart contract can move SOL.
Release
Community approves a milestone. 97.5% to creator, 2.5% fee.
Refund
If milestones fail, remaining SOL returns to all backers.
Backers earn ownership
When you back a project, you earn ownership points: points = sol_contributed × tier_multiplier. The earlier you back, the higher your multiplier. The creator chooses the tier structure when they launch. Points give you voting power during the campaign and a share of project tokens when it completes.
Example structure — not a platform default
100%
70%
50%
Each campaign sets its own tiers, multipliers, and spot counts.
Built by
Qadam is built by Khakim from Almaty, Kazakhstan. Supported by Superteam KZ and the broader Solana ecosystem. The project is participating in the Colosseum Frontier Hackathon 2026.
Open source
Qadam is fully open source. The smart contract, backend, and frontend are all publicly available on GitHub. Every transaction is verifiable on Solana Explorer.
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