Galxe Quest is shutting down. The quest board era is ending
Galxe Quest ends on 5 December, after Intract Quest and Kaito's Yaps closed. What that means for Web3 quest campaigns, and where to run yours next.
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If you run Web3 quest campaigns, the platforms you rented them from are going away. We watched it from close up. The original Domino was an automation layer for quest boards. Teams used it to sync XP into Zealy, check wallets for Galxe credentials and reward Discord activity without a moderator counting messages by hand. We built on top of those boards because that's where the campaigns were.
This year that world broke in two ways. The quest platforms started closing, and AI changed both how people fake engagement and how teams build software. Here's our read of what happened, what we think it means, and what we rebuilt Domino into.
Galxe, Intract and Kaito closed their quest products
Galxe is closing Quest, ID and Passport. On 9 November Galxe announced the end of all three after five years and 36 million users, to focus on its own chain. Projects can't create new quests anymore. Existing campaigns run until 5 December, reward claims close on 15 December, and the site goes read-only after that. Galxe hasn't published a way to move campaign records elsewhere.
Intract Quest closed in January. Its site is now a farewell page.
X stopped paying people to post. In January X banned InfoFi apps, the ones that reward posting, citing "AI slop & reply spam", and cut their API access the same day. Kaito shut down Yaps in response.
The survivors charge more. Since 1 October, Zealy's free plan stops at 100 members, and a board over the cap freezes until it upgrades. AI review of submissions needs the Plus plan, from $359 a month. That's a reasonable business decision for Zealy. It also means a small team running a board on the free plan now has a hard ceiling.
Farming ate the results. When ENSO ran a Zealy campaign before its token launch, about 70% of the 200,000 new wallets it brought in were sybils. Keyrock studied 62 token airdrops and found only 8 of the tokens were up 90 days later. Quests and airdrops still pulled in crowds. Too many of them were bots, or farmers who left with the reward.
AI turned it upside down
Faking got cheap. A bot writes a passable post, reply or quest submission in seconds, as many as you like. That's the "AI slop" X named when it banned paid posting. A follow, a like or a tweet no longer tells you there's a person behind it, so a campaign that rewards them is paying farmers.
Building got cheap too. A team can describe the app it wants to an agent like Claude, Codex or Cursor and have it running the same day. For years the reason to rent a quest board was that building your own was a real engineering project. That reason is mostly gone. You don't have to squeeze a campaign into a platform's templates anymore.
What we take from it
Own the program. A board on someone else's platform can freeze, reprice or close on their schedule, not yours. Now that an agent can build you your own app, there's little reason to accept that. We learned this the hard way. The original Domino ran on top of those boards, and every change on their side became our problem too.
Reward what you can verify. X no longer lets you pay for posts, and AI fakes them anyway. Reward the things that are expensive to fake: a wallet action on your own chain or program, a photo checked against rules you wrote, a friend who signs up and finishes a quest of their own.
Treat points like money. Farmers already do. A reward that pays twice, or a balance that doesn't add up, gets found and drained, usually on launch day. Points need the same care as a payment system: every completion counts once, every balance is an entry in a ledger, and stock you promised is reserved before anyone can claim it.
What Domino is now
You describe the campaign in a sentence, like "a referral race for launch week, with a weekly leaderboard and merch for the top 10". An AI agent builds it as your own app, on your own link and in your branding.
Before any member sees it, Domino's test users play it over simulated days. One skips a day, one taps claim twice. When a balance comes out wrong, the agent fixes it. The campaign goes live when someone on your team approves it.

Your agent starts from one of these starters and changes as much of it as you ask for.
Why not just ask Claude?
You can, and Domino works inside Claude, Codex, Cursor and Gemini. Ask Claude for a quest app and you'll have a good-looking one by tonight. The months go into everything behind it, and Domino already runs that:
- Sign-in. Email, Google, Apple, X, Discord and Telegram, or your own Privy, Dynamic or Para login. Members can link smart wallets and Squads multisigs too.
- About 200 chains. Token balances and NFT holdings on 197 EVM networks, plus Solana and Cosmos. On Solana it also reads stake, your program's accounts and the transactions that call it.
- Activity tracking. Discord and Telegram messages and reactions, YouTube Shorts, TikTok videos and on-chain activity count toward quests on their own.
- Photo review. AI checks photos against rules you write in plain words. Unclear ones go to your team with the reward an approval will grant.
- Payouts. Each completion pays once and every balance adds up. Merch is reserved when someone earns it, so you never promise the last hoodie twice. Discord roles still land when Discord's API has a bad day.
- Approval before live. Your agent builds in test. Someone on your team approves each change before members see it, and can roll it back.
Each of these takes weeks to build, and you find the bugs on launch day. On Domino, the code your agent writes stays short enough to read in one sitting.
Moving a Galxe campaign or a Zealy board
If you're looking for a Galxe alternative before your campaign ends on 5 December, or running a Zealy board that hit the free cap, write to us at support@domino.run and tell us what it does. We'll show you what it would look like on Domino.
For the platforms that still run hosted quests, what they cost and what to do before 5 December, see the best Galxe alternatives.
Building and testing are free. You only pay once a campaign goes live. Start building in Console.
Sources
- Galxe shuts down Quest, ID and Passport, crypto.news, 9 November 2026
- Kaito to sunset Yaps as X cracks down on InfoFi apps, CoinDesk, 15 January 2026
- Intract Quest
- Zealy pricing
- Airdrops in the barren desert, Keyrock
- ENSO customer story
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